I have found forcing myself to begin each level with the word "What" helps me do all four levels-

To me Why asks for interpretation--so I ask instead for What did the author intend, etc.

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.

I also find the brain research helpful here,

O-the lizard brain is always scanning all incoming information (five senses) and determines what needs to be paid attention

R-the middle brain attaches emotions to the important information the lizard brain sends forward

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)

D-our heart encourages us to our final choice. (The best way I have of talking about the spiritual reality/level)

So Objective level gets out what we acknowledge is present,

Reflective level gets out what our responses are,

Interpretive level gets out what sense we make of it all

Decisional level questions get out what value we give it.

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.

I would be interested in having a dialog about how Wilber's intevral map informs ORID conversations.

Warmest regards

Don Bushman

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Randy Williams via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

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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