[Oe List ...] ORID—A “Life” Method

[John Epps]

Another version I heard from an IAF Conferece in the UK some years ago:
Facts, Feelings, Findings, Future. The process certainly does not belong to
us, but Brian Stanfield's book "The Art of Focused Conversation" provides a
fine explanation and 100 examples.

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Jack Gilles via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
> wrote:

> Bill,
>
> My friend Homayun Taba from India made the Conversation Method  into “Well
> *SAID*”. *S* is for the S*ensory*; 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> wrote:
>
> I'd ask - as a reflective question - what did it affect?
>
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> 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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