I have been exploring Spiral Dynamics for about a week now that I'm reading "A Theory of Everything". Ken Wilbur is moving his ideas toward more specific application and he thinks "Spiral Dynamics" is right on to his image of nested holons. I'm going to explore it more and thanks for the web site. Ken's article is pretty much what he put in the book.
To me it is an elaboration of Harrision's (and Eric Trist's) Reactive, Responsive, Pro-active, Interactive, Inspired. Ken Wilbur's thinking about stages and transformation has got my wheels turning about what "transformation" in organizations really means. There is transformative experience, which may or may not shift the organization to a new stage of consciousness or necessarily create the conditions for the new stage to become an ongoing trait. I agree with Birgitt that that the shift is turbulent and the formal leadership is citical to making it an ongoing trait. There is a translative task that has to "work--be grokked" for the leadership and the organization to sustain the shift. I'm working with a couple of clients in large systems now who have used enough Open Space that I can begin to experience the dynamics there. Spiral Dynamics, as I understand it, helps to clarify metaphors for the coherent states. Larry Larry Peterson Associates in Transformation 41 Appleton Ave., Toronto, ON, Canada, M6E 3A4 Tel:/Fax: 416-653-4829 [email protected] http://www.inforamp.net/~lpasoc * * ========================================================== [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected] Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== [email protected] To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed
