MAP2 Year 2 Terms

Question 1

Groups form … [why?]

Answer 1

to satisfy aims.

(“Conclusion” of Study 23)

Question 2

Any concern for leadership must first be aimed at the group in which one seeks to transact to … [what?]

Answer 2

gain access and help.

Question 3

The work that extends and transforms meanings over time

Answer 3

Practice

Question 4

The deliberate, repetitive, consistent, activities that continually and routinely produce the objective results and consequences on which we rely

Answer 4

Practices

Question 5

Continuously emergent: ___
Valued for routineness: ___

Answer 5

Practice, practices

Question 6

It is practices that generally characterize the sphere of ___.

Answer 6

inter-actions (i.e. cause and effect narrative)

Question 7

The degree of “leadership” one enjoys in a group is in large part determined by the degree to which one can continually hold consequential ___ and satisfy the specific ___. This almost certainly includes the reorganization of ___.

Answer 7

roles,
aims of the group,
the group experience as a whole

Question 8

Leadership is ___. It requires a continual construction and reconstruction, organization and reorganization of experience.

Answer 8

an educative process

Question 9

The Current produces ___, [which is] is judgement without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire people, an entire nation, or the entire human race. Unchecked and left to grow, the Current establishes experience that is difficult to confront in the face of consequential situations.

Answer 9

common sense

Question 10

A fundamental reorientation in context from ___ to ___ is required for anyone who seeks to hold roles of leadership in social groups.

Answer 10

‘a leader’ to ‘emerging leadership’

(“Introduction” of Study 23)

Question 11

We exist in a converging/emerging, dynamic, ever-changing, integral whole, naturally.

Answer 11

Yup. That’s just nicely put.

Question 12

What exists, exists in relation to everything else. For everything else or anything else to be possible and/or available we need to be open and present to, and become aware of, those things found in other places and times. … [see] everything, every “thing,” as having its being only within its unfolding relations to its surroundings…

Give an example of how to observe this in nature.

Answer 12

We can “see” in the uneven shape and distribution of one tree’s branches and foliage, how it has grown in relation to its close neighbors; or how, in the rings in its trunk, we can “see” the good summers and bad winters it has weathered.

Question 13

___ as coordinated action: ___ ___ are the grounding work we have in place to produce the educative environment needed for leadership to emerge.

Answer 13

Narratives, Transactional narratives

Question 14

Narratives are carried by ___.

Answer 14

Dialogue (what people say to one another, is a form of exchange)

Question 15

Transactional narratives lay the groundwork for cooperation in seeking a ___ as transactions arise in our environment.

Answer 15

meeting of the minds

Question 16

We notice that people tend to rely heavily on a particular set of linguistic distinctions or patterns when engaging in transactional dialogue. We have organized them in four particular categories:

Answer 16

high-concept/descriptive, constructive, sustaining, and deconstructive.

Question 17

A dialogue of ideas, ideals, and possibilities

Answer 17

high-concept/descriptive dialogue

Question 18

A high-concept/descriptive conversational style requires no ___

Answer 18

proof, evidence, or substantial validation

Question 19

People who have a habit of using lots of ___, utilize [high-concept/descriptive dialogue].

Answer 19

analogies, parables, allegory, etc.

Question 20

When [high-concept/descriptive dialogue] ___ it loses its meaning and relevance, often becoming high-cost and laborious on the listeners.

Answer 20

ceases to be an exchange

Ex: “It is difficult to tell whether people who utilize this kind of dialogue are actually going anywhere or want something or are actually saying something specific when they are conversing in this style. It is our observation that in many cases they don’t know either. It is as if the people who rely on high-concept/descriptive dialogue are entertained by what they have to say and are seemingly talking at you—rather than conversing with you. People who rely heavily on this style tend to interrupt others often and will move on to another high-concept before any certainty or objective is ever reached.”

Question 21

When used effectively, high-concept/descriptive dialogue can be powerful. It offers ___. It can be highly educative when it is relevant and meaningful to the purpose and concern of the listener.

Answer 21

a view of difficult constructs and abstractions

Question 22

Constructive dialogue seeks to create and progress toward ___.

Answer 22

a purpose

Question 23

People who traffic in constructive dialogue are seeking to reach a ___ for what might be possible or to co-create from mutual intention, and in many cases, produce agreement and/or commitment to act in concert toward an objective or goal.

Answer 23

meeting of the minds

Question 24

Mature use of constructive dialogue is a cooperative and co-constitutive commitment to reach a meeting-of-the-minds in ___.

Answer 24

each move or phase of a transaction

Question 25

“Here the participants build on each other’s contributions, as one might say, the conversation ‘goes somewhere.’ There is learning, creativity, and possibly . . . ___.”

Answer 25

delight

:)

Question 26

In attempts to move conversations toward a specific objective or goal, it is inevitable that questions and even disagreement will arise. This is typically the first clue that some common ground will need to be reestablished, and that is accomplished through the use of ___ (telling a story) or by referring to the ___ of situations already known to the parties involved, the strategic use of ___ dialogic devices including questions, and grounding scenarios of ___/familiarity.

Answer 26

high-concept dialogue,
common sense,
degenerative,
maintenance

Question 27

The transactional narratives are not built to ensure that every invitation, presentation, or contract is accepted. They are not built to ensure that every person keeps their promises, does the work, and reports their metrics. They are not built to guarantee that we get everything we want, every time. They are built to ensure that ___ is possible and that each party to the transaction is ___.

Answer 27

a cooperative, co-constitutive meeting of the minds,
playing their cooperative and co-constitutive role

Question 28

Most of our daily dialogue would be considered ___.

Answer 28

sustaining/maintenance dialogue

Question 29

In the same way that we might refer to the objects that give us a sense of permanence in our world, this is this kind of dialogue that gives us a sense of ___.

Answer 29

consistency and objective grounding

Question 30

On the surface, it may seem as though this kind of conversation is a “waste of time in the organizational setting, [however] it is in just such conversation that participants are assured of their ___, forge ___, create ___, and otherwise contribute to a positive morale”[ii] that is essential to maintain social order. We must be able to count on the objects and sustaining narratives if we are to ever trust that we are avoiding the continual threats of our environment.

Answer 30

good standing, friendships, trust

Question 31

Dialogue used in maintenance will be woven in and around dialogue of construction/generation as well as deconstruction/degeneration. It is needed to ___ the often hot and all-too excitable moments in transactions, and it is needed to ___ the often negative and confrontational moments in transactions that turn degenerative.

Answer 31

cool off, warm up

Question 32

Maintenance dialogue is a kind of grounded, familiar, and ‘real’ dialogue that produces narratives of ___ environments.

Answer 32

stable

Question 33

Dialogue of maintenance, like labor, will ___ if one is not careful.

Answer 33

degenerate over time

Question 34

A scenario of sustaining dialogue requires an ever-growing system of structures and practices that battle the continual onslaught of movement and progress that confront it each day. Avoiding change is hard work and it is expensive. … Maintenance/sustaining dialogue has its place in specific areas of each transaction, especially where work and action move from tactics into implementation. Just do not get too comfortable— ___ is on the way.

Answer 34

change

Question 35

The conversational scenario of skepticism, radical standardism, proof, devout preservation, testing, judging, and of questioning the validity or value of the other dialogic scenarios relies on ___.

… threads of rational thought, accurate thinking, the pattern of inquiry, and the scientific method …

Answer 35

degenerative/deconstructive dialogue

Question 36

If constructive dialogue moves conversations ___ —deconstructive/degenerative dialogue moves transaction ___.

Answer 36

forward, backwards

Question 37

Deconstructive dialogue is the style of choice for those who are seeking to avoid ___, preserve ___, and keep ___ in place.

Answer 37

change, standards and structures, systems

Question 38

This is different than maintenance or sustaining dialogue which seeks to simply satisfy a status quo—that is, resist ___. On the contrary, deconstructive/degenerative dialogue produces ___ and confronts situations directly and is often done so in an imposing, confrontational, and often biologically impactful way.

Answer 38

movement, movement

Question 39

narrative is carried by dialogue and even more so ___

Answer 39

in the response

Question 40

An utterance only comes into meaning through [a] co-active response. An utterance only becomes blame or criticism, for example, by virtue of how it is supplemented in the utterance that follows. In this sense, every turn in an ongoing dialogue offers a choice-point. Whatever has been said, the next speaker has options to ___.

Answer 40

create its significance

Question 41

The important point is that any conversation is not ___; participants always have a choice of ___.

Answer 41

a fixed scenario,
whether and how to play