Thank You Audrey Audrey Coward Coward & Associates Consulting Facilitating Individual and Organizational Change 2281F Lakeshore Blvd. W, Toronto, ON M8V 1A6 416-259-6215 www.facilitatingforchange.com
-----Original Message----- From: Lucas Gonzalez [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: help with linking to your article Hi, Audrey! (1) Maybe you want to share this link with the whole list. I'm not doing it myself for fear of *many* people having the same idea! http://www.hsdinstitute.org/about_news.asp click on Patterns, the May 14 edition of their newsletter (2) This is a longer "document address" which may work if it's not broken by the email programs between us: http://www.hsdinstitute.org/e-clarity/asp_news_0004/user_documents/Pract ice%20of%20Peace%20Final.pdf (3) You may also want to share the whole text - it's yours after all! I include it below my signature for your convenience. I hope this helps! Thanks for sharing your review! Lucas === Audrey Coward's book review: The Practice of Peace by Harrison Owen Published by Human Systems Dynamics Institute, 2004 Book review by Audrey Briffett Coward, BA (Ed.) CHRP MS (OD) Harrison defines Peace as the dynamic interrelationship of complex forces (including chaos, conflict and confusion) productive of wholeness, health and harmony. He goes on to state that the practice of peace is the intentional creation of the requisite conditions under which peace may occur. According to Harrison, the core mechanism in The Practice of Peace is selforganization a core practice of what we now call Open Space Technology (OST). Self-organization drives toward peace, and, when freely operative, self-organization generates the dynamic interrelationship of complex forces that produce peacewholeness, health and harmony. Harrison's gift as a story teller, his use of informal words like critters, snake belly low, and metaphors like a skunk at a garden party surprise and delight the reader. The book is filled with easy-to-understand applications of the works of Thomas Kuhn, Ken Wilbur, James Gleick, Stuart Kauffman, and Ira Prigogine, among others. Harrison and others have used OST more than 40,000 times in 83 countries with groups from 5-2000. The book describes the technology in terms that beginners, as well as experienced practitioners, can understand and apply. Harrison provides an easily understood explanation for learning practitioners along with a more in-depth analysis for experienced practitioners. He explores how the power of self-organizing can support the search for peace both in organizations and in our world. According to Harrison, anyone and everyone can set the conditions for peace to self organizegovernments, NGO'S, multi-national organizations, local communities, teachers, farmers and you. How does this work contribute to human systems dynamics, as a field of work? o Both ask us to continue thinking, talking and being together differently, in ways that understand and encourage self-organization. o OST changes our ways of looking at people, systems and processes, and it questions our beliefs about how systems and people grow, change and transform. Indeed, it changes our way of being in the world and the way we do our work. o We have an opportunity to open dialogue so practitioners and theorists can pose more questions, look for points of intersection, and share their discoveries. === that's it! ______________________________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! - 6MB, más protección contra el spam ¡Gratis! http://correo.yahoo.es --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.687 / Virus Database: 448 - Release Date: 5/16/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.687 / Virus Database: 448 - Release Date: 5/16/2004 * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
