[Oe List ...] ORID—A “Life” Method

[Jack Gilles]

Bill,

My friend Homayun Taba from India made the Conversation Method  into “Well SAID”. S is for the Sensory; see, hear, touch, colors, sounds etc. and A was for Affect. The second level does not have to get people to talk about their emotions directly if that is not comfortable as Epps says. But you can illicit emotional responses with questions such as “Surprise, confuse, puzzle, ring a bell, startle, stand out, unusual, find yourself saying `yes^etc. All of these are affects. 

“We don’t see the world as it is, but as we are”. (Covey)

One can also use Stephen Covey’s terms as a short course. He puts his two fists together and speaks of how we have “stimulus-response”; = “reactive people”, and he then pulls them apart and shares what needs to happen in between,  when you reflect, judge, weigh-up and decide; “responsible people”. The method is really about Freedom and Responsibility, not right or wrong decision. One needs to dialogue with the values one is holding. 

Jack


> On Oct 24, 2017, at 15:10, Bill Schlesinger via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote:
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> I'd ask - as a reflective question - what did it affect?
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> Colleagues,
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> 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?
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> As some of you who also sat with him will recall, Outler was not always so concise. 
> 
> Randy
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