Hello again Alanna,
By the way, McWinney has also written a book called "Creating Paths of
Change", which is far more accessible and practical. It is somewhat like
the Fifth Discipine Fieldbook. With this book you can construct any change
situation. I use it often to compare my intuition of a situation with the
recipes he supplies. We always agree.
The only problem i have with using McWinney is the way he maps the four
different realities. To describe all most all intentional changes he
introduces four different reality logics (reality doesn't change, we
experience it differently):
The logics we use are
1. Sensory, Red: actions, facts, data, material things, ritual,
authority, S-Sensing
2. Social: Green: feelings, values, what matters, purposes, guides,
compassion, F-Feeling.
3. Unitary: Blue: policies, rules, thruths, principles, order, justice,
T-Thinking
4. Mythical: Yellow: ideas, vision, symbols, meanings, artistery,
wisdom, N-iNtuiting
I see some similarity with the personal types proposed by Jung and used
in the MBTI. The map McWinney proposes look like this:
Un | Se
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My | So
While i draw it like this:
Un | My
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Se | So
As for your project, it seems already a nice journey, a plan for a round
trip:
You seem to start with a facilitative approach, a combination of ideas
(even myths) and feelings, because you wrote "an independent study course
with several other people". Then you travel from feelings to action
(participative movement), as shown by the next part: "in which we hope to
function as an effective learning organization". On the brink of an
unitary position ("organization"), you start to design (moving back
towards sensory again) an interactive (sensory ? social?) holistic
(social, mythical ?) workshop (sensory) for your peers (social). In short:
you want to emerge with a participative resolution for the generation of
solutions to environmental problems. Have a nice trip.
The tools you may want to use are: dialogue, force field analysis, stake
holder wheel, story telling, moving to where it matters (my guess: you'll
like that tool) and resource allocation. I could advise you to search for
a travel companion who is rather unitary (formal, rules, a "classical"
leader (!)) because that may be the weakest point in your approach. Also,
he or she may also be versed in building and maintaining (computerized)
models.
Bon voyage,
Jan Lelie
Alternative Energy wrote:
> I am currently doing a course in Environmental Studies and hope to put
> together an independent study course with several other people, in which
> we hope to function as an effective learning organization and design an
> interactive, holistic, education workshop for our peers.
--With kind regards - met vriendelijke groeten,
Jan Lelie
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