[Dialogue] Pressure Points and Whistle Points

[Jeanette Stanfield via Dialogue]

The book should be available through Amazon or iuniverse.

Jeanette Stanfield

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Karen Snyder via Dialogue <
dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> George West's book, *Creating Community:  Finding Meaning in the Place We
> Live - A Handbook for Comprehensive Community Development *(2012 Canadian
> Institute of Cultural Affairs) Part One covers the pressure points and Part
> Two is on the Social Process triangles related to the Whistle Points.  ICA
> Canada uses the book in their Community Development course.
>
> Karen
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> On Oct 23, 2014, at 5:58 AM, Randy Williams via Dialogue <
> dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
> Jim,
>
> I can't find anything in the file to send you, but allow me to share a
> thought. We spoke of "whistle points" as those points on the SP, etc. where
> you could "trigger an avalanche."  Likewise, we spoke of "pressure points"
> as those points where, when you apply pressure, you "stop the bleeding."
>  Do both of these not have implications for strategic planning?
>
> In systems theory they speak of two kinds of feedback loops--reinforcing
> and balancing. Reinforcing feedback loops intensify the momentum. Sounds
> like the same effect as whistle points. Balancing feedback loops slow
> things down and stabilize the situation. Sounds like pressure points.
>
> It strikes me that in devising strategies one way to approach it would be
> to discern if the situation, in order to resolve the contradiction, calls
> for a reinforcing approach or a balancing approach, and then choose
> reinforcing strategies informed by whistle points, or balancing strategies,
> informed by pressure points, accordingly. Does this make any sense?
>
> Randy
>
>
> On Oct 22, 2014, at 11:42 AM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <
> dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
> It is about the 0 Whistlepoints . . .  Does anyone have any material on
> them that you can send to me?
>
> Jim Wiegel here.  I want to pull together a small collection of background
> material on the 9 Whistlepoints which were developed out of the Summer 71
> and Summer 72 Research Assemblies.  I believe they may also have been used
> extensively as part of lecture 5 in the original LENS course.
>
>  Jan Sanders did a brief presentation on them at the closing of the Global
> Archives Research Assembly last month.  Embarassingly, I don't have any
> source materials in my files and have been unable to find anything on line.
>
> Jim Wiegel <http://partnersinparticipation.com/?page_id=123>
>
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