<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You can read about a wide variety of leadership roles and skills in <i>The Facilitative Way. </i>The premise of the book is that everyone in the "group" is called to be a leader...assume responsibility for what is happening.<div><br><div>I happen to recommend the book...which is now available again after being out of print for a year.</div><div>Anyone interested can let me know and I'll give you a Discount code to purchase it for $6.95.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm enjoying all the variety of methods conversations...</div><div>Priscilla Wilson</div><div><br><div><div>On May 3, 2012, at 4:43 PM, steve har wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>To my taste nurturing roots and growing new shoots is actually a<br>timely task in the face of a 50 year vision.<br><br>Nurturing roots and shoots for ways of leading in complex situations<br>is a good thing.<br><br>Debating the reliability of ORID with facilitators is like listening<br>to a group of carpenters argue about whether hammers put nails in<br>boards.<br><br>Studying Brian's new version of Chapter 10 would be delightful,<br>especially online with generous hearts and open inquiry<br><br>What new shoots for 50 years?<br><br>Building a house with only a carpenter and a hammer seems silly.<br>Plumbers and Roofers would be good.<br><br>Bending history with only a facilitator role and an ORID conversation<br>seems daunting as well.<br><br>I'm thinking more roles, conversations and tools are needed:<br>Facilitators facilitate knowing<br>Pedagogues and Story-Makers grant being<br>Navigators, Coaches, Mentors cause action outcomes<br><br>Mathews's NRM and Jenkins's 9D book don't only belong to facilitators.<br>Might be a good point of departure for some new thinking.<br><br>Did you read Kaze Gadway's post this morning? She's hard at work in<br>the Being-Doing mode. She is mentoring those indian kids on behalf of<br>the next generation. She's granting new being side by side with those<br>kids. There is no facilitation in sight.<br><br>Not everyone needs to think, be, do it al, all the time either. Seems<br>like it is a time for more appreciative inquiry and more innovations<br>not less.<br><br>--re presuppositions--<br><br>The assertion that ORID is THE way the mind thinks doesn't pass the<br>"no-smiling allowed" test in Buddhist circles. It would be a topic for<br>generous respectful inquiry, maybe a testable hypothesis.<br><br>Heidegger asserted that most people don't actually know much about<br>hammering, especially carpenters, they are just being in the world<br>hammering. Not too much reflection goes on until the hammer hits the<br>thumb for most carpenters. Kind of sets those Cartesian abstractionist<br>back a step or two.<br><br>Carpenters have skillful means they don't need to do an ORID they just<br>have the experience of hammering skillfully. Some people focus on<br>knowing, some on doing, some on doing.<br><br>I assert that the world needs more leadership roles, and facilitators<br>have great skill set. It isn't the only leadership skill set.<br><br>Mathews had a fine insight when he separated out the phenomena of<br>knowing being and doing. What new leadership roles and conversations<br>and skillful means?<br><br>What happens when you take up a practice like facilitating, teaching,<br>coaching, mentoring, story-making skill sets? You practice being<br>skillful until you get it right and you get it automatic.<br> See: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition</a><br><br>If you plot leadership roles on Mathews's NRM triangle as updated by<br>the Jenkins it might look like this<br><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DlNTut28MXqLnv-_Xd2yPoHONBHlOAJLC8AmwL_O2B8/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DlNTut28MXqLnv-_Xd2yPoHONBHlOAJLC8AmwL_O2B8/edit</a><br><br>Seems like some new skill sets might evolve too.<br><br>What do you think?<br><br>Steve<br>_______________________________________________<br>Dialogue mailing list<br>Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net<br>http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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