Eunice and I use the triangles (social and corporate) mostly in context setting to remind people of the big picture, often along with environmental scanning exercises prior to planning sessions, sometime just as the framework for a conversation.
These triangles are one of the greatest research efforts of OE/EI/ICA and thank God the Jenkins wrote their book, that Clancy and Epps are also published and using them regularly. Sadly still one of the best kept secrets of our modest-to-a-fault culture. ToP as a whole is much more widely known, but we are nearly unknown by many people who know about “Open Space”, the Dialogue Method, World Café, and many other that are in the literature and which pop up quickly in a facilitation search. SO… who among us has the talent and the passion to raise the public profile of Triangles and ToP?! I’ve only done a little in this regard, usually just running off to another program rather than reflecting and sharing insights from the last one. So There. Confession. (what comes after that?)
Ciao, from Roma – back with the UN for two weeks. / Sherwood
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Subject: [Oe List ...] Question about the social process triangles . . .
I got this question from a fellow I know who is intrigued with the Social Process triangles. Any responses?? |