> For those of you who use both processes - when would you use AI and > when would you use OST?
There is a simplicity to Open Space that makes it my choice whenever a client is ready to go there. Ironically, this is in part because of an observation from David Cooperrider: "...human systems are largely heliotropic in character, meaning that they exhibit an observable and largely automatic tendency to evolve in the direction of positive anticipatory images of the future. What I will argue is that just as plants of many varieties exhibit a tendency to grow in the direction of sunlight (symbolized by the Greek god Helios), there is an analogous process going on in all human systems." (Cooperider, Positive Image, Positive Action, 1990) To me that means that given enough time in healthy conditions (and OS creates healthy conditions), people begin to focus on life giving forces. They do this without all the OD-like complications of AI's 4-D cycle. Having said that, I LOVE the transformative effect I've observed AI can have when people experience an AI interview. So when the time is short or a client isn't ready to start with OS, I introduce AI. I sit very much with the question about AI that Harrison applied when experimenting with OS: what is one less thing to do and have the experience be whole? For me, the 4-D methodology puts the facilitator too much in charge. I want to see the philosophy and practice of AI flourish but without all the fuss. When the appropriate situation arises, I would like to try doing an appreciative interview and then move directly into opening space. Peggy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Quarrington" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 7:19 PM Subject: OS and AI > I am new to AI and am trying to learn more. I am curious about the > relationship between AI and OST. > > For those of you who use both processes - when would you use AI and > when would you use OST? > > Would you start and OST with an AI session or spend one day in AI and > then one or more in OS? > > Sharon > > * > * > ========================================================== > [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, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
