[Oe List ...] ORID—A “Life” Method

[Don Bushman]

I have found forcing myself to begin each level with the word "What" helps
me do all four levels-
To me Why asks for interpretation--so I ask instead for What did the author
intend, etc.

I also find as Randy suggests our ORID is a recognition of what is already
present. I would bet we could find ORID in Socrates.

I also find the brain research helpful here,

O-the lizard brain is always scanning all incoming information (five
senses) and determines what needs to be paid attention
R-the middle brain attaches emotions to the important information the
lizard brain sends forward
I-the neo cortex makes sense out of our emotional reaction (interestingly
enough it does so to enable us to collaborate more with our community)
D-our heart encourages us to our final choice. (The best way I have of
talking about the spiritual reality/level)

So Objective level gets out *what *we acknowledge is present,
Reflective level gets out *what *our responses are,
Interpretive level gets out *what *sense we make of it all
Decisional level questions get out *what *value we give it.

Of course as Joe Pierce would point out, one can also do an Objective level
ORID, a reflective level ORID, etc. depending on the emotional maturity of
thegroup one is working with.

I would be interested in having a dialog about how Wilber's intevral map
informs ORID conversations.

Warmest regards
Don Bushman

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Randy Williams via OE <
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> In her new book Who Do We Choose To Be: Facing Reality, Claiming
> Leadership, Restoring Sanity, Margaret Wheatley has her own articulation of
> ORID in four questions which she calls an After Action Review. They are:
>
> O—What just happened?
> R—Why do you think it happened?
> I—What can we learn from this?
> D—How will we apply these learnings?
>
> We have always said that our methods are “life” methods,. Therefore, we
> didn’t create them, we discovered them. Each time I come across something
> like this from Wheatley it confirms that they are indeed “life” methods.
>
> I’ve seen other variations of ORID—for example from Peter Senge, in
> Catholic social theory, and even from my old professor of church history,
> Albert Outler. His articulation was, for me, the most memorable, in just
> three, not four,  short questions: What? So What? Now What?
>
> As some of you who also sat with him will recall, Outler was not always so
> concise.
>
> Randy
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