I also think Open Space enables an organization that functions at a blue meme to have a "transformational experience" of a higher one, at least yellow and maybe beyond. This does not mean that they can then function at that level on an ongoing basis. (As Ken Wilbur states)
I just facilitated a 2.5 day event which concluded with Open Space with a church based group of social activists dealing with cutbacks. After clarifying the context and givens together, which may include one major denomination going bankrupt, we then went into Open Space. At evening news they were struggling with finding their path. I use evening news as an opportunity to bring to awareness the discomfort in the room, so that it can be explored in the unconscious overnight and flipped into a topic for breakthrough thinking in the morning. This happened and a critical conversation took place in the morning with most of the group attending. This has been punctuated in the morning by an Aboriginal Christian worship experience. At the closing of the Open Space they all commented how they had experienced breakthrough thinking, collaboration, vision, community and possibility in the midst of cutback.. They collectively experienced yellow (integral) coming out of blue (mythic) organizations. It was a "peak experience". They could then carry the "glow" of this experience back into their business meeting. However, they still functioned as a "blue" (mythic-order) organization when they did the business. They could not sustain that level or even moving to orange or green without more practice. 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
