Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.95.970203091819.56092A-100000@hector.NMSU.Edu> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 09:23:13 -0700 From: JC WANDEMBERG <mailto:juwandem@NMSU.EDU> Subject: Moving forward To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Caro Joaquim and all I thought this note might be of interest. It is a little excerpt from Diemer & Alvarez (Journal of Forestry, Nov/95) about the Search Conference (SC) and Participative Workshops (PDW) =========================================================================="A MODEL FOR PARTICIPATION Funtowics and Ravetz's "post-normal science" argues for the utility of participative processes within uncertain and volatile fields--like modern forestry policymaking (1992). The model presented here is in accord with their conclusion that abstract knowledge and ecological knowledge are both essential in confronting conflict. This approach to participative action--local or global-- focuses on the capacity of both scientists and lay people for ecological adaptation. Familiar "participatory" methods stress involvement as a means of encouraging public buy-in to plans created by experts. In contrast, this two stage model [SC & PDW] entails concerted actionproposed and implemented by "learning/plnanning communities" committed to attaining shared objectives. During the first stage, the search conference (SC), strategic plans are generated; during the second stage, the participative design workshop (PDW), the correlation between effectiveness and organizational structure is explained and a participative organization is created (see Emery 1993).
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Following the SC, the PDW addresses the question, "How can we best organize ourselves to realize this shared vision or strategic plan?" The SC provides the context for planning; however, it does not --and cannot-- deal with the structure of the larger permanent working environment. All organizations explicitly or implicitly have some form of design --based either on bureaucratic or participative-democratic principles. Establishing, managing, and implementing plans require organization and understanding of organizational design principles. The PDW provides the this understanding--illustrating the divergence among organizational designs and examining those divergences in behavioral terms". ..> ===========================================================================
I hope this excerpt sheds some light over a constructive path we might be able to take.
Best regards,
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