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Fresh Insights From Barry Oshry
THE SOUND
OF THE OLD DANCE SHAKING
(reprinted from SEEING SYSTEMS)
A Systems
View of Performance Evaluation
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Systems
are not simply collections of individuals,
they are patterns of relationship-
Top/Bottom,
Ends/Middle,
Provider/Customer,
Dominant/Dominated.
We exist only in relationship-
sometimes on one side,
sometimes on the other.
We dance in relationship,
and in the dance,
we grow apart from one another-
becoming the Burdened
and the Oppressed,
the Unsupported
and the Torn,
the Judged
and the Screwed,
the Righteous
and the Wronged.
We dance
without seeing the dance.
On the inside
there is no dance,
only our feelings,
our beliefs-
so solid,
so sure,
"Reality,"
the way things really are.
Can we change the dance?
Maybe,
maybe not.
Maybe we will go on dancing
to the end of our days-
not seeing one another,
not loving one another,
misunderstanding,
hurting, and destroying one another.
Or
maybe we will see the dance.
And maybe we will stop the dance.
And maybe we will create a new dance.
But first, there will be the sound of the old dance shaking.
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Insights From Barry Oshry In Our Archives
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Only Connect
A Systems View of
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Sound of The Old Dance
Shaking
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