{"id":1263,"date":"2010-07-13T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2010-07-13T00:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T04:00:41","slug":"group-learning-marking-evolutionary-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/group-learning-marking-evolutionary-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Group learning – marking evolutionary time"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was pointed to Michael Herman\u2019s\u00a0Open Space World<\/a>, and his introduction to his\u00a0Open Space group learning methods.<\/a> We exchanged a couple emails and it occurred to me there\u2019s a simple way to combine his and my learning process models, his using the four organizational dimensions of\u00a0purposes, actions, stories & structures<\/strong> and mine as the dimension of\u00a0natural progress in time<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Michael,<\/p>\n

Thanks, that was a good intro. Might this be a cool way to link our models??
\n\"time
\n <\/strong><\/p>\n

Treating time as a fifth dimension of organization (how your four dimensions ofpurposes, actions, stories & structures add up), and mapped as the sequence ofobservable changes in the form of energy flows that correspond to\u00a0essential stages of successful eventful learning.
\n\"Open<\/p>\n

If these two models<\/strong> refer to broad teachable patterns of the same physical reality, they must connect something like this I think.
\n____<\/p>\n

The narrative:<\/p>\n

After groping in the dark to find a starting point for your education, learning can expand itself, taking off by leaps and bounds, until changes of scale present unexpected choices of kind. Do you overreach or adapt, presenting a natural point of changing values. The added value of using knowledge to expand knowledge changes to added value in perfecting knowledge, finding a way to integrate with a new environment full of others, all now meeting the same new challenge of finding new values on changing scale.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same for personal, community or societal affairs, at limits to growth the new task is to simplify and perfect your way of fitting together with others, reducing complications rather than adding to them, being born into a new body, experiencing a change of form and coming together as a whole.<\/p>\n

Because it takes time to develop energy systems, and they need \u201ca little push\u201d at changes in direction, these become the basic \u201cevolutionary clicks of time\u201d for organizational learning: germination, development, integration. They\u2019re three quite different forms of productive energy use, and needed in sequence, to create wholes that approach perfection.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not easy to imagine, especially for a creature accustomed to using information as its guide, that set up all its information models, resources and systems without any plan for a \u201cchange of values\u201d toward becoming whole. That evolutionary \u201cclick\u201d at the peak of one\u2019s power is in part losing interest in the quest for power.<\/p>\n

So\u2026 some unfamiliar kind of intuition and method is needed, like groping in the dark again, but this time with partners.<\/p>\n

____<\/p>\n

For reference, this way of linking the internal organization of a system to how it changes form over time is also the subject of a web page for scientists I did a couple years ago.<\/p>\n

With\u00a0PICS<\/span> (Projecting Images of Complex Systems)<\/a> I was suggesting ways to discover elements organization or learning strategies found in one natural system to experiment with in others.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was pointed to Michael Herman\u2019s\u00a0Open Space World, and his introduction to his\u00a0Open Space group learning methods. We exchanged a couple emails and it occurred to me there\u2019s a simple way to combine his and my learning process models, his using the four organizational dimensions of\u00a0purposes, actions, stories & structures and mine as the dimension … Continue reading Group learning – marking evolutionary time<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}