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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hmm. I’d suggest that the R pulling at the patterns that emerge from that which grabs my attention; I see a face, and then recognize who it is in the store. Feelings emerge in the moment, and I try to figure why they’re in this place, and then I decide what to do (greet them? Avoid their glance?) – all happens pretty quick, though…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bill Schlesinger<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OE [mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Don Bushman via OE<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 24, 2017 10:17 AM<br><b>To:</b> Order Ecumenical Community<br><b>Cc:</b> Don Bushman<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Oe List ...] ORID—A “Life” Method<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I have found forcing myself to begin each level with the word "What" helps me do all four levels-<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>To me Why asks for interpretation--so I ask instead for What did the author intend, etc.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>I also find the brain research helpful here, <br><br>O-the lizard brain is always scanning all incoming information (five senses) and determines what needs to be paid attention<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>R-the middle brain attaches emotions to the important information the lizard brain sends forward<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>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)<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>D-our heart encourages us to our final choice. (The best way I have of talking about the spiritual reality/level)<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>So Objective level gets out <b>what </b>we acknowledge is present,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Reflective level gets out <b>what </b>our responses are,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Interpretive level gets out <b>what </b>sense we make of it all<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Decisional level questions get out <b>what </b>value we give it.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I would be interested in having a dialog about how Wilber's intevral map informs ORID conversations.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Warmest regards<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Don Bushman<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Randy Williams via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Colleagues,<br><br>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:<br><br>O—What just happened?<br>R—Why do you think it happened?<br>I—What can we learn from this?<br>D—How will we apply these learnings?<br><br>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.<br><br>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?<br><br>As some of you who also sat with him will recall, Outler was not always so concise.<br><br>Randy<br>_______________________________________________<br>OE mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>