Re: Resistance to change LO619

Michael McMaster (Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 29 Mar 1995 15:55:26 GMT

In LO563 message <950327225713_63327792@aol.com> Dmweston@aol.com writes:
"There is no such thing as resistance to change."

The perspective she offers of using what appears to be resistance as a
source of information, as an opportunity to listen, as an opening for
dialogue to discover what is possible, or missing or wrong. If we
consider that there is no resistance then we can see what is missing in
ourselves or what is missing in the education and development needed for
something to happen.

Another perspective on the same statement "There is no such thin as
resistance to change" is to consider who is making the statement. I have
never heard myself say, "I resist change." I have never heard anyone say
about themselves, "I resist change." I have said and heard others say, "I
don't like that." or "I don't think that's right" or "That doesn't suit me."

As soon as I began to see that _I_ never resisted change, it was easy to
see that the phenomenon was one that appeared only when the one
identifying resistance wanted something to change, "knew" they were right,
and found another who didn't want to do it.

It was this position that helped me to be able to take the first one
suggested by Diane. Namely, that I could listen and hear the information
in what I'd labelled resistance only when I could see that it didn't exist
as such and that I was the one who had labelled it that way.

-- 
Mike McMaster      <Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk>
    "Postmodern society is the society of computers, information, scientific
knowledge, advanced technology, and rapid change due to new advances in
science and technology."          Postmodern Theory, Best & Kellner