1984
Meeting Focus: a Checklist
Towards Transformative Conferencing and Dialogue
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Summary
Below are listed, in no particular order, different aspects of focus or processes which tend to occur when a meeting is in focus.
1. Category transformationA condition of focus should permit a reordering of the categories governing the meeting (or the organization of its subject matter) into a less procrustean pattern corresponding more appropriately to the reality encoded.
2. Organizational transformationIn a condition of focus the organizational units or sub-divisions whereby it has been brought about can be reformed into a pattern more appropriate to the functional categories.
3. Problem sensitivity (resolving power)a condition of focus permits problems (otherwise considered identical) to be appropriately distinguished.
4. Problem subtlety
certain all-pervading subtle problems can only be detected in a condition of low "noise-level" characteristic of focus.
5. Stabilized overviewfocus is a necessary condition for a stable overview of the meeting's domain (possibly as a meta-dimension) otherwise viewed as a multi-facetted image.
6. Contribution of the seemingly irrelevantonly in a condition of focus can the contribution of otherwise "irrelevant" resources to the balance of the whole be understood.
7. Hospitable to divergent perspectivesa condition of focus is hospitable to overwise "divergent" perspectives.
8. Sensitivity to new optionsthe reduction in "noise-level" associated with a condition of focus permits new options and directions to emerge.
9. Transformation of collective self-awarenessthe condition of focus facilitates the emergence of a collective sense of identity at a new level of integration and immediacy.
10. Transformation of personal awarenessa condition of focus enhances the processes of personal transformation in each participant and in relation to the here-and-now.
11. Energy containment and releasea focused configuration is able to contain and anchor the synergy normally dissipated during a meeting (possibly as a temporary state of enthusiasm or euphoria).
12. Emergence of simplifying perspectivesa condition of focus enables simpler descriptions of complex conditions to emerge, possibly as appropriate metaphors.
13. Empowermenta condition of focus empowers the meeting to act at a new level of significance in the light of emergent values.
14. Riska condition of focus, because of the radical nature of the transformations which are then feasible, is also a condition of high risk. Such risk is a necessary "investment" (in the sense of "nothing venture; nothing gain").
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