Can "Encounter" Fundamentally Transform How We See and Interact with “The Other”?
Barry Oshry is a pioneer in the field of human systems thinking. His life’s work has been to empower individuals and organizations by transforming system-blindness into system-sight. The educational programs he has developed include The Power Lab, the Organization Workshop on Creating Partnership, and the When Cultures Meet Workshop. In 2013 he launched The Worldwide Week of Partnership, during which Power+Systems trainers across the globe conduct pro bono partnership events for educational, charitable, advocacy, and service organizations in their local communities. In 2015 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Organization Development Network. Barry is the author of The Systems Letter, Seeing Systems, Leading Systems, In the Middle, The Possibilities of Organization, and Context, Context, Context. He is also a playwright whose stage productions include “What a Way to Make a Living,” “Hierarchy,” “Power Play,” and “Peace.”
Can "Encounter" Fundamentally Transform How We See and Interact with “The Other”?
Progress in any system sometimes depends on uncharacteristic action. But people, leaders, managers and workers have preferred patterns of behavior, things they like to do, things they avoid, and things they do because they are required by the rules of the game, the systemic imperatives.
In this article the author explores the wisdom that comes from accepting our nature as systems creatures, and from viewing our human interactions through the lens of an organic systems perspective.
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