>Because of my multi-disciplinary background, I have begun to work on a
>program that addresses change without upsetting the apple cart. I use the
>metaphor of the theater as a structure to create a fantasy environment
>where there is permission to drop "real" beliefs and try on new ones, just
>like new roles or characters.
>
>This idea is so revolutionary and I am so unknown, I am feeling rather
>frustrated in its development. I know how important it could be. I want
>to learn more of what is going on in the world regarding ways to shift
>organizations and I also am looking to align myself with an organization
>that I might fit into while it develops.
>
>I am very happy to be a part of this group and look forward to learning
>and contributing.
Diana Mordock writes about the metaphor of the theater. This relates to a
form that I have beeen studying and beginning to implement as a change
process - improvisational acting. Improv training is clearly a place to
explore various levels and aspects of personal and group narrative or
mental models, while trying on new ways of being with yourself and others.
I am scheduled, in May '97, to deliver my first training using improv as
the core learning practice. This will be based on analogizing the basic
action positions of improv to three models of taking
authority/authorizing. Certain other established improv conventions
concerning the area of Status and Story - as formulated by Keith Johnstone
- will also be used. I'm very excited about this opportunity as it is a
chance to bring to life a key organizational and interpersonal concept -
influence/authority/power in a way that people will, hopefuly, 'get' in
their minds and bodies. I hope to tune participants in to the
micro-process of influence as a meditator might bring his/her attention to
the process of inhalation-exhalation. This kind of work also related to
the whole area of personal and organizational creativity, as improv
confronts one with the moment of creative truth and what happens when the
individual and the group encounter it.
--Rich DiNapoli ReDiNapoli@aol.com
Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>