this paper is by Hanns Meisner
The Learning Institute for Social Innovation (LISI), an emerging change technology, builds on three theoretical and practice orientations: social inclusion of Persons with Developmental Disabilities (IDD), Organization Development (OD),
and Social Innovation (SI). These change orientations are woven together in the
LISI design. The LISI intention is to facilitate a dialogic space2
focused on creating opportunities for inclusion of traditionally marginalized people through right
relationships3
, and evolving inflexible, one-size fits all program-based services to
individualized support. LISI is purposed to nurture an emergence of innovative
social arrangements more attuned to promoting relational forms