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Genograms, Will Sargent, Pondering Satir
Tuesday, November 9, 2004

It was an overcrowded room that housed Jerry's organizational mapping workshop today. It was another walk down memory lane for me: organizational mapping is an exact replica of the family genogram exercises I learned in graduate school. In an earlier conversation with John Suzuki, a long-time intuition of mine was affirmed: families and organizations are very similar. Thus, approaches that were developed for families can often be applied to organizations. Jerry's organizational mapping exercise drove that point home for me.

Staci and I stuck around tonight to mingle with AYE folks. I was surpised and excited when who should appear, but Will Sargent, yet another online acquaintance who I had wanted to meet, but had not expected to see at AYE. We had an excellent evening of drinks and dinner, and even managed to not bore my wife to death with techno-babble.

Back at the hotel, I find myself wondering what Virginia Satir would think of the state of her art 12 years after her death. It's hard for me to judge, since I have studied relatively little of her work compared to many people here at AYE. What I wonder about, though, is whether there has been a significant progression of her work since her death. Clearly, many people in the field of software development find value in Virginia's work, but is Virginia the end? Or are people open to other areas of family therapy that might apply to software development?

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