Hi Raffi: The Concepts of "Whole Person" and "Whole Person Approach" have been around for some time and are not new (for instance, see http://www.well.com/user/dooley/change.pdf, A Whole-Person/Systemic Approach to Organization Change Management, By Jeff Dooley, copyright 1998), and the same is true with other concepts like "left brain/right brain", "learning styles", etc. Of course, anyone can take a piece from here and another from there and give it a new name, and eventually even trademark it. My only experience attending a Whole Person session was that I was being directed to do this or that, because the facilitator was convinced that this or that would put my right brain at work (which is not neededbecause it is always at work...). But the point is that I don't like being "directed" neither to "direct others". For me, the magic of OST is that the facilitator does not need to direct people (except, eventually, as Harrison recalled, to justify the fee). Just open some space and the whole person will appear and real whole people will direct themselves and do the job. Abraços (this time in Portuguese)
Artur ________________________________ From: Raffi Aftandelian <raffi_1...@yahoo.com> To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Sent: Sun, November 14, 2010 3:23:20 AM Subject: Re: [OSLIST] self-organization and "conscious" Open Space organizations [was OST and PD (Positive Deviance)] Queridos Harrison, Artur, y todos- (...) Artur, I was intrigued in you talking about Whole Person Process Facilitation as a directive process. I see how you can call it that. And as someone who has been using WPPF the past 6 years, I'm excited that the four principles and the Law are invoked- at least the way I was taught- in a WPPF meeting...I don't know of any other meeting method that works within a pre-set agenda that does that. abrazos, Raffi * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
