Links to LGI pages
On this page you can find links to consultancies that work with LGI and to pages on Open Space and Future Search.
Consultancies that work with LGI
Vaughan Consulting Group
Vaughan Consulting Group helps organizations create strategic visions supported with commitment and passion and help companies create organizational structures that are participative and self-managed. Using cutting-edge large group intervention strategies, such as search conferences and participative design workshops, Vaughan aims to create a sense of community in which employees are highly motivated to achieve a shared vision.
On this website you can find general information about large group interventions and an overview of some possible large group methodologies (e.g. search conferences, participative design, open space technology). Click here.
Mediated Solutions Incorporated
MSI has experience managing large group intervention disputes including poisoned work environment and government consultations. For example, in the role as mediation service provider for the Walkerton Compensation Plan, MSI has designed, convened and facilitated various multi-party interventions between employees and management to address poisoned work environments, and sexual harassment situations under the Human Rights Code. These cases involved 25 to 400 employees in private and public professional settings.
Colosseum
The Colosseum mission is to raise the profile and understanding of how leaders and managers can best facilitate the never ending change processes within their organisations. Their expertise is in five main areas: OD, Change management, LGI, Conflict resolution/mediation, Management development and training Colosseum works with LGI and provides some general information about it such as: the purpose of GI, their key assumptions, and their methods.
The PAR group (Dutch website)
PAR (Participatory Research) is de naam van een interdisciplinaire groep onderzoekers die zich bezig houdt met strategische probleemoplossing en organisatieverandering. Het gaat daarbij om zogeheten 'messy problems' in organisaties. Problemen die complex zijn, en waarover binnen een (management)team duidelijk verschillen van opvatting bestaan, niet alleen over wat het probleem is, maar ook over de vraag óf er eigenlijk wel een probleem is. Verschillen van perceptie en belangentegenstelling verhinderen een organisatie vaak om een probleem goed in kaart te brengen en tot robuuste oplossingen te geraken. Beslissingen die genomen worden, kunnen dan ook vaak op weinig draagvlak rekenen. De PAR groep heeft een aantal (large group) interventiemethoden tot haar beschikking die juist in deze situaties hun nut kunnen bewijzen.
Links to pages on Open Space
Places on the internet where you can read and learn more about Open Space:
- The page on Open Space by Barry owen provices many publications that can be downloaded
- Wikipedia gives a description of Open Space Techology
- The Co-Intelligence Institute works to further the understanding and development of co-intelligence. They also provide a page on Open Space
- Open space world is a website devoted to Open Spage Technology
- Cris Corrigan calls himself a facilitator of conversation in the service of emergence. His website has a page on Open Space with resources for practitioners .
- To subscribe to the 'Open Space Listserve', click here.
Links to pages on Future Search
- For more information about Future Search, its principles, methodology, and applications see Future Search.net.
- f you are interested in Future Search, you can join the Future Search Network. This network is created for those who want to encourage cooperative planning anywhere in the world.
- On the website of consultant Michael Pannwitz you can read more about Future Search and Open Space.
- The Co-Intelligence Institute works to further the understanding and development of co-intelligence. Their page on Future Search provides some useful information.
- Click here for a conversation with Marvin Weisbord on Future Search.