[Dialogue] Fw: Looking for the Wave Process

Tue Feb 14 12:26:43 EST 2006

We used this process during a Session (presbyterian church) retreat last fall, using a big diagram of the wave and posting events under each of the phases.  We posted it on a large bulletin board for our congregational annual meeting for review and also made a replica for our annual report.

Ellie Stock, St. Louis

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From: Janice Ulangca <aulangca at stny.rr.com>
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Subject: [Dialogue] Fw: Looking for the Wave Process

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From: Sherwood Shankland 
To: 'Janice Ulangca' 
Cc: 'Shankland, Eunice (FIDP)' ; MirjaH at aol.com 
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:46 AM
Subject: RE: Looking for the Wave Process

Janice could you forward this to Kevin or others?

Janice and colleagues - both uses of the wave are valid, but quite different. 

The four-part construct, developed by Mirja Hanson - is a tool for Trends Analysis: Boundary, Emerging, Established and Fading (are the four categories that I find most useful) - to help analyze the current situation and to anticipate the environment into which an organization will be operating. This tool can be linked to scenario planning or as a back-drop to visioning and goal-setting. 

The two-part construct is essentially a force-field analysis tool with supporting and resisting factors in opposition to a stated vision or set of goals."Given our desired future.what factors support our efforts and what factor with resist us as we move forward?" This can be done as a conversation to lift out the key factors to keep in mind, or in a full blown workshop (as nicely described by Sunny Walker below). 

In Peace, Sherwood
Sherwood Shankland
703-503-5457
 -----Original Message-----
From: Janice Ulangca [mailto:aulangca at stny.rr.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 8:19 AM
To: Sherwood Shankland; Eunice Shankland
Subject: Looking for the Wave Process

Here are some messages that include your contributions. ... 
Best to you both,
Janice

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Started Monday, Feb. 13, Australia time:
Colleagues
Martin Butcher, an avid ToP/ICA enthusiast based in Melbourne would like to use the Wave Analysis process in his PhD thesis and wants to know how to reference it. I don't recall the process being described in any of the ICA related books. The process is part of our ToP Facilitative Leadership Program here in Australia and is described in the manual but he would like to know if it has been published in some article or book.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Kevin Balm
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I first ran into the Wave from Mirja Hansen also (the one with 4 categories - Horizon, Emerging, Established, Dying hence HEED this before the strategic planning begins), also called the Paradigm Wave or Paradigm Inventory (i.e. "what's happening now, big picture, in your paradigm or worldview -- can be specific to an organization or an industry for example). I don't know the original source. The other I've always called "Current Reality" and got it from Eunice Shankland. I've used it a lot and wouldn't call it a light touch on underlying contradictions, but rather an addition to. I use the assisting forces (a workshop on left side of wall grouped by similar advantage) to help groups see what they have going for them, what they can build on, in moving toward their vision. The resisting forces (a workshop on the right side of the wall, actually about 2/3 - 3/4 of the wall and the rest of the wall for assisting) is a straight out contradictions workshop. Some cards fall in the middle (both assisting and resisting, just like the center of the wave, creating turbulence). I find this wave especially helpful with groups who are down in the dumps about their possibilities.

Sunny Walker
Institute of Cultural Affairs, Denver
303-671-0704
swalker at ica-usa.org 
Releasing the capacity to create positive, sustainable futures in every individual, organization, & community
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Kevin, 
There is a diagram in an issue of 'IMAGE" Jan-March 1981 - pages 10-11 (from the journal "IMAGE is a quarterly publication prepared by the research staffs of The Ecumenical Institute and The Institute of Culturals.")

It is describing the process for the second day (determining direction) of the Global Symposium on Human Development July 4-6 1980. 

If you have a copy of this 'Image' journal you can find it or I can find a way to scan it.  And there is a short description of the process.
There may be other articulations around that others know about. 

Elaine Richmond

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I think the WAVE goes back quite a few years, as Richmond's mentioned in the IMAGE article. I got the procedures that Shankland's wrote in 1995 via Sunny. The WAVE procedures I have were transcribed in 1995, called WAVE for Influencing Factors Workshop. The note I have says the procedures were written by Euince and Sherwood Shankland, Fairfax, VA, 1995.

I believe the workshop Mirja did was a bit different and done at the 2nd IAF conference in Dallas/Ft. Worth in 1996.

Beret  (Griffith)

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