George--
Thanks for the recommendation of
Houle's book on, The Shift Age. Last fall, I wrote a short paper
for the Educational Cooperative that hires me as a Para-Educator in a local high
school. The title is, "The Collapse of the Modern Era and the birth of the
Intuitive Generation." It has been well received locally.
Our school system is doing a
Future Directions study under a professional company that also
gives support on creating public support ad commitment--something I should
be doing for them if I was 20 years younger. Their missing link concerns
Underlying Contradictions.**
They produced a preliminary
document of 7 new directions asking for public input and ranking. I'm doing a
local school survey using this input to pull through the 9 Whistle Points. From
a practical point of view, this document relates better as a postmodern effort
than the Soc. Proc. triangles.
As a comparison, I'm using two
other publications that are doing postmodern analysis. These are the 10
principles of "Burning Man" (thanks to Richard Alton), and the 10 foundations
"Appreciative Inquiry," the work of the Alban Institute.
The one-page chart
is, "The Way To Rebuild Global Society: The 9 Whistle-Points." It
lists the 9 points across the top and that answers the questions of What, Where,
Why, Who, How and When.
It amazes me how our
work since the late 1950's continues to inform my own thinking and gives
shape to my three books as well as the next 5 books ready to be edited.
However, in order to get that done, I've got to stop writing papers and emails.
For what it is worth.
Bill
** Recently, I conducted three Future Direction
Workshops and one Implementation Workshop using Contradiction Analysis. Whenever
I've used this concept, people always find it affirmative. So often this is the
absent--but crucial--step in planning.
Inner Peace,
wes
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Subject: [Oe List ...] Dick West's Book
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Thanks Dick for recommending Houle's
The Shift Age (http://www.theshiftage.com). It is
tremendous and I hope we all read it. It's in the lineage of Toffler and
Naisbitt and strikes me as being on target. I'm reminded of some of the
things we spoke of back in the 60's and 70's as being Global Citizens and the
morphing of institutions, nations and social structures. It would be fun
and insightful to track it through the Soc. Proc. triangles, if someone has
not already done that for us.
"Whatever the problem, community is the answer.
There is no power greater than a community discovering what it
cares about." Margaret
Wheatley
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