Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change: A Third Edition

LEVELS OF SYSTEM

Gestalt as a holistic theory realized that for every OD conflict, problem, or situation, there are multiple levels of system. For example:

• Intra-personal—consciously or unconsciously, what and/or how I think in relation to different life situations, often referred to as the stories that we carry from all of our life experiences;

• Inter-personal—consciously or unconsciously, what we respond to and/ or how we respond to each other;

• Small group—consciously or unconsciously, what we choose to respond to and how we choose to respond to each other or to conflicts, problems, or situations of the group; and

• Organization—consciously or unconsciously, what we as an organization choose to respond to and how we choose to respond ...