Theory we already know about - The Art of Hosting2024-03-28T20:26:46Zhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topics/theory-we-already-know-about?groupUrl=creating-some-theory&commentId=4134568%3AComment%3A87991&xg_source=msg_com_gr_forum&feed=yes&xn_auth=noPosted by Sarah Bechor:
hello…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2015-12-08:4134568:Comment:1006062015-12-08T09:52:33.842ZRia Baeckhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RiaBaeck
<p>Posted by Sarah Bechor:</p>
<div class="xg_user_generated"><p>hello everybody</p>
<p>i share here an article that inspired me in the work wit AoH</p>
<p>hope it will inspire some of us</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2771495974?profile=original" target="_self">EdithWyschogrod%20%20%20levinas%20and%20derrida.pdf</a></p>
<p>I will be glad to receive your outputs.</p>
<p>all the Best to you</p>
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<p>Posted by Sarah Bechor:</p>
<div class="xg_user_generated"><p>hello everybody</p>
<p>i share here an article that inspired me in the work wit AoH</p>
<p>hope it will inspire some of us</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2771495974?profile=original" target="_self">EdithWyschogrod%20%20%20levinas%20and%20derrida.pdf</a></p>
<p>I will be glad to receive your outputs.</p>
<p>all the Best to you</p>
</div> Thanks Rosa!tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2015-11-29:4134568:Comment:1000962015-11-29T14:09:23.491ZRia Baeckhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RiaBaeck
<p>Thanks Rosa!</p>
<p>Thanks Rosa!</p> Hey Chris... responding to an…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2015-11-28:4134568:Comment:1000922015-11-28T16:06:21.303ZRosa Zubizarretahttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RosaZubizarreta
<p>Hey Chris... responding to an older post of yours on this thread, where you wrote something about it being "interesting to create theory backward from practice"...</p>
<p>I've been reading Donald Schön recently.. (The Reflective Practitioner)... his take on it, is that it's only backward, from the perspective of "technical rationality", in which theory supposedly comes first.... yet in actual practice, we are often engaging in "practical experiments" designed to test our "theories in…</p>
<p>Hey Chris... responding to an older post of yours on this thread, where you wrote something about it being "interesting to create theory backward from practice"...</p>
<p>I've been reading Donald Schön recently.. (The Reflective Practitioner)... his take on it, is that it's only backward, from the perspective of "technical rationality", in which theory supposedly comes first.... yet in actual practice, we are often engaging in "practical experiments" designed to test our "theories in action"... as a result of which, practice often develops beyond the existing theories.</p>
<p>And, it is still very useful of course, to do the work of linking our discoveries in practice, with the existing academic conversations...</p> Thanks Chris...and I'm happy…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2014-02-22:4134568:Comment:892522014-02-22T00:35:50.455ZJuanita Brownhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/JuanitaBrown
<p>Thanks Chris...and I'm happy to talk with you in more depth about all of this, anytime!</p>
<p>With best wishes,</p>
<p>juanita<br/> <br/> <cite>Chris Corrigan said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topics/theory-we-already-know-about?groupUrl=creating-some-theory&commentId=4134568%3AComment%3A89250&xg_source=msg_com_gr_forum#4134568Comment89250"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Gold mine! Thanks Juanita!</p>
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<p>Thanks Chris...and I'm happy to talk with you in more depth about all of this, anytime!</p>
<p>With best wishes,</p>
<p>juanita<br/> <br/> <cite>Chris Corrigan said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topics/theory-we-already-know-about?groupUrl=creating-some-theory&commentId=4134568%3AComment%3A89250&xg_source=msg_com_gr_forum#4134568Comment89250"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Gold mine! Thanks Juanita!</p>
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</blockquote> Here is a good outline of Bob…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2014-02-22:4134568:Comment:892512014-02-22T00:26:33.248ZChris Corriganhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/ChrisCorrigan
<p>Here is a good outline of Bob Marshak and Gervase Bush's theory of dialogic organization development. I'm currently finishing up a chapter on containers for a forthcoming book on this stuff. </p>
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<p><a href="http://www.gervasebushe.ca/DODTOP.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.gervasebushe.ca/DODTOP.pdf</a></p>
<p>Here is a good outline of Bob Marshak and Gervase Bush's theory of dialogic organization development. I'm currently finishing up a chapter on containers for a forthcoming book on this stuff. </p>
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<p><a href="http://www.gervasebushe.ca/DODTOP.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.gervasebushe.ca/DODTOP.pdf</a></p> Gold mine! Thanks Juanita!tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2014-02-22:4134568:Comment:892502014-02-22T00:24:45.864ZChris Corriganhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/ChrisCorrigan
<p>Gold mine! Thanks Juanita!</p>
<p>Gold mine! Thanks Juanita!</p> Hi everyone,
You all might wa…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2014-02-21:4134568:Comment:892462014-02-21T23:24:55.467ZJuanita Brownhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/JuanitaBrown
<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>You all might want to take a look at my doctoral dissertation which has lots of theory references from the fields of consciousness, strategic planning, living systems etc. around why this "stuff" works!</p>
<p>Here's the dissertation attached.</p>
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<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>You all might want to take a look at my doctoral dissertation which has lots of theory references from the fields of consciousness, strategic planning, living systems etc. around why this "stuff" works!</p>
<p>Here's the dissertation attached.</p>
<p></p> I just started reading the bo…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2014-02-12:4134568:Comment:886752014-02-12T08:19:33.754ZRia Baeckhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RiaBaeck
<p>I just started reading the book <em>Design in Nature</em>, by Adrian Bejan and J.Peder Zane. He/they state that there is a 'constructural law' throughout nature, which explains why and how design emerges without an intelligent designer. His definition:</p>
<p>"For a finite-size flow system to persist in time (to live), its configuration must evolve in such a way that provides easier access to the currents that flow through it."</p>
<p>more quotes:</p>
<p>"Everything that moves, whether…</p>
<p>I just started reading the book <em>Design in Nature</em>, by Adrian Bejan and J.Peder Zane. He/they state that there is a 'constructural law' throughout nature, which explains why and how design emerges without an intelligent designer. His definition:</p>
<p>"For a finite-size flow system to persist in time (to live), its configuration must evolve in such a way that provides easier access to the currents that flow through it."</p>
<p>more quotes:</p>
<p>"Everything that moves, whether animate or inanimate, is a flow system. All flow systems generate shape and structure in time in order to facilitate this movement across a landscape filled with resistance (for example, friction). The design we see in nature are not the result of chance. They arise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow in time."</p>
<p>"Flow systems have tow basic features (properties). There is <em>the current</em> that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and <em>the design</em> through which it flows."</p>
<p>This got me thinking... what is the current that is flowing when we design AoH processes? is it exchange? is it meaning? is it knowledge? ??? I guess this is what we call the 'it'???</p>
<p>and what we call 'works', might be that we come up with a design that is close to a natural design, where the flow gets easier????</p>
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<p>Will post this also on the 'it' and 'works' thread.</p> Chris, I still have a list of…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2014-01-14:4134568:Comment:880552014-01-14T16:26:47.516ZRia Baeckhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/RiaBaeck
<p>Chris, I still have a list of email names and addresses of AoH practitioners who where interested in research some years ago - shall I invite them over to this theory creation thread (by email); would that be a good move??</p>
<p>Chris, I still have a list of email names and addresses of AoH practitioners who where interested in research some years ago - shall I invite them over to this theory creation thread (by email); would that be a good move??</p> Just chucking stuff at the w…tag:artofhosting.ning.com,2014-01-13:4134568:Comment:880482014-01-13T20:48:53.495ZChris Corriganhttp://artofhosting.ning.com/profile/ChrisCorrigan
<p><br></br> Just chucking stuff at the wall right now and seeing what sticks...!</p>
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<p>Building theory backwards from practice is interesting...!</p>
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<p>I am in a conversation today with colleagues refining a participatory leadership program we have been offering for the past few years and we are having this conversation here too...it feels slippery as do all learning journeys in their early stages...but "whay does it work?" is a good question. It leads me to thinking about "What…</p>
<p><br/> Just chucking stuff at the wall right now and seeing what sticks...!</p>
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<p>Building theory backwards from practice is interesting...!</p>
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<p>I am in a conversation today with colleagues refining a participatory leadership program we have been offering for the past few years and we are having this conversation here too...it feels slippery as do all learning journeys in their early stages...but "whay does it work?" is a good question. It leads me to thinking about "What is 'it'?" and "What does 'working' mean?"</p>
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<p>We are hoping to bring some graduate students on board with us for the next cycle of cohorts and see if any of them are interested in a longer term look at the emerging theoretical basis for the work. </p>
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<p>Any goo dgraduate thesis out there that we need to know about? There are already some good paers gathered here: <a href="http://artofhosting.ning.com/page/research-papers" target="_blank">http://artofhosting.ning.com/page/research-papers</a></p>
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<p><br/> <cite>Rosa Zubizarreta said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topics/theory-we-already-know-about?groupUrl=creating-some-theory&#4134568Comment88033"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Chris, I'm finding myself irresistibly drawn to this inquiry you have started...and at the same time, also somewhat reticent to post anything, given all of the different things that people can mean by "theory", and divergent perspectives of what qualifies as "theory"...</p>
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<p>so, that said, one of my favorite books that I find helpful in understanding "why participatory processes work", is David Rock's "Your Brain at Work". He's looking at a lot of recent brain research on how quickly the shift from "creative brain" to "defensive brain" can happen… as well as, the major differences between the two states, with regard to complex problem-solving. So from that perspective, creating a space where people feel safe (appreciated, heard, welcome, etc. etc. etc.) is a huge factor in creating a space where people will be able to engage creatively with complex problems (er, challenges… :-) </p>
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