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Recommended Reading
The Power of Spirit: How Organizations Transform
by Harrison Owen
Berrett-Koehler, 2000
ISBN 1-57675-090-6For those of you who already know the power of Open Space Technology and have been using it in their work as a way of facilitating complex human endeavors, Harrison Owen's new book adds a new dimension to understanding this powerful organizational tool. For those who are new to the process, this book explains the process and gives examples of how it has been used as well new applications. Owen, the originator of Open Space Technology that is now being used by organizations throughout the world, suggests that the process may be especially useful to "those who have come to realize that the Spirit in their place of work, to say nothing of their own spirit, is getting a little tattered, showing the early stages of what I call Soul Pollution."
The book begins by discussing "chaos and the end of control as we knew it," moves to proposing how the "journey of transformation" can work in organizations by describing the processes involved, and ends with a discussion of "cultivating spirit, or the care and feeding of the interactive organization."
Educators will find this book a valuable guide on the administrative level, for faculty meetings or retreats, to facilitate site-based management, or with groups of students in the classroom or student government or projects. It is engaging reading and offers practical tools appropriate even on the individual level.
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