Fwd: [DialogueMapping] Re: Wanted: Dialogue/Issue Mapper to Map on-line Global...

[Jack Park]

The original context for this message is Jeff Conklin asking for help doing an issue map of this blog post on climate change:

http://dialoguesonglobalwarming.blogspot.com/2014/06/first-10000-and-1000-challenges.html

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Date: Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 5:03 AM
Subject: Re: [DialogueMapping] Re: Wanted: Dialogue/Issue Mapper to Map on-line Global...
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A robust platform for systems thinking and design thinking in groups that has been used in the global sustainability arena has been reported in Systemic Practice and Action Research: 25(2):171-193. 

....  A Systems Approach for Engaging Groups in Global Complexity: Capacity Building Through an Online Course,  T Flanagan, J McIntyre-Mills, T Made, K Mackenzie, C Morse, G Underwood and K Bausch, 2012.

 

A workbook for the online method can be found here:  http://www.globalagoras.org/publications/a-democratic-approach-to-sustainable-futures/

 

For an application that digs deeply into the content, the following monograph might be of interest

http://www.globalagoras.org/publications/monograph-series-a-social-systems-approach-to-global-problems/v1-strategic-articulation-of-actions-to-cope-with-the-huge-challenges-of-our-world-today/. 

 

The task that you are engaging is quite difficult, as I am sure you realize.  If participants are to hold confidence in any collective understanding or decision two things must be assured:  1) all of the relevant ideas have been included, and 2) all of the relevant relationships among ideas have been considered.  If either of these conditions are not met, participants will hold weakly to any recommended outcomes because they will sense -- if not explicitly recognize -- that the conclusions can be compromised by not knowing what we do not know.  This isn't an unusual predicament, but it seemed worth adding in the context of the effort.

 

t. flanagan

 

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