Replying to LO25230 --
Hi Richard.
I loved your contributions! They are in line with my experience and
thinking. Specifically, the one that hit home is that culture changes
when conversations change. Culture is therefore transformed from the
inside out, not by the surf crashing from the outside in---crashing "on
the rock of the existing culture." I have used the language of systems to
describe this as changing homeostatic patterns of interaction.
Over the years I have witnessed, time and time again, that cultural
transformation happens when individuals create "learning conversations,
learning relationships", a phenomenon that can occur when individuals
grasp that they create their experience, i.e. "stories" of each other.
Further, I have evidence that this transformation "sticks" because, unlike
other other cultural change efforts that require people to change,
learning conversations require that they be true to who they truly are.
Gasp! There are a huge number of healthy folks out there who WANT to be
true to who they are; who want to be seen and heard; who want to see and
hear others; who simply haven't had the understandings and/or the other
where-with-all to make it happen. When it does happen, observable
patterns of interaction change. The culture changes. And above all, the
dormant intelligence and health in the system emerges and begins to take
over.
We are about making those understandings more accessible to folks. Our
latest is a small booklet called Discover Your Stories. You can look us
up at www.learninginaction.com. Thanks again for your comments. They got
this "lurker" off his duff.
Ronald Short
Learning in Action Technologies, Inc.
13807 SE 51st Pl
Bellevue, WA 98006
(425) 641-7246
--Ron Short <ron@learninginaction.com>
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