In the Spring of 2005, I was working with a group of med school department chairs on a really thorny issue: how to objectively allocate research space to investigators. In one of a long series of meetings that was progressing along the usual frustrating lines it suddenly occurred to me that they were fully justified in being hard to get along with - they had a stake in the outcome and I didn't. I later made a call to someone (who would subsequently become my mentor) and asked for advice on training in facilitation.
On her recommendation I went to the IAF Conference in
In the Fall of 2006, after more training experiences including one with the Grove, I began to try to make some kind of sense of what was going on. In assembling the graphic above and collecting all the names and phrases that I had run into, I began to see that I was moving back into creative opportunities that I had not seen since leaving the School of Design at NC State in 1976. I also saw what I was feeling: ideas, questions and challenges are spiraling out faster than they can be managed and sorted through.
We'll see if this blog helps.
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