Becoming a community of "generative interviewing" practice

"Generative interview" is a dialogue practice that brings forth the highest future possibility, out of the interviewee's personal sense of connection to the whole and his/her creative impulse. More than a one-way interview, it is a practice of co-creation that uses the power of generative listening, or "listening from the emerging field of the future."

For more on "generative listening," you can download the introduction to the forthcoming book on THEORY U: Leading from the Emerging Future, by Otto Scharmer, MIT, from htt://www.ottoscharmer.com .

There are many excellent examples of generative interviewing, or as Scharmer calls it "dialogue interviews," here:http://www.dialogonleadership.org/.

To become a community of "generative interviewing" practice, the best place to start is a practical set of 1-2-3 steps:

1. Think of whom you want to interview and why

2. Get intimately familiar with the "generative interviewing" resources of the CI Convergence site

3. Ask here the questions, the answers to which could make your interview of higher quality

I will do the same.

Regarding the "generative interviewing resources," I hope that when we'll document our experience and learning, they will grow into a an interactive, participatory knowledge base. For now, they consist only of:

- MIT lecture notes of Otto Scharmer on "Dialogue Interviews," in the "Teaching Materials: Leadership Lab for Corporate Social Innovation" series: http://cic.evolutionarynexus.org/node/270

- the generative interviewer's traning notes, attached to this post (compiled from Scharmer's leacture notes and Generon's Change Lab Filedbook) attached documents and one file

- Generative interviewing principles and guidelines (attached)