Dear Harrison,
its stories like yours that bring light into the world.
I remember another story you told in this context about a colleague from
a famous consulting firm that came up to you and said something like:
"Harrison, if this spreads, practically all consultants would be out of
jobs!"
Which fits into the saying that says:
"Everyone with a clear head and a good heart can facilitate os events."
I have met a number of folks with a clear head and a good heart
facilitating an os event without ever having been in a training, maybe
they had a look at your book. After a while they might have discovered
that it is pretty simple but not easy and started their career as
facilitator...
hugs from Berlin
mmp
Am 03.04.2023 um 16:51 schrieb Harrison Owen SR:
Funda -- Interesting question and my answer now is the same as it was
in Goa -- Most organizations would rather not talk about it for a
simple reason. If what happened in Open Space actually happened much
of what they are doing under the heading of management, training,
organizational development is questionable and maybe worse. For
example, Boeing Aircraft was the site for some 450 OSTs that I know of
-- but when I had occasion to visit the OD office, they never heard
about OST. Seems that the people who facilitated the OS's were all
managers moving major projects and no help needed. OST could be very
hazardous to the job health of a lot of people. Best not to spread it
around. Truthfully nobody has a clue about how many OS's have been
done. Wild guess might be a million and in some surprising places. For
example, my daughter who ran a multi national, multi million dollar
program in Thailand hired a consultant to put together a three day
show and tell conference-- the last day was in Open Space. When it was
all over the consultant approached my daughter to find out her
reaction, particularly to the Open Space. As they were talking his
eyes went down to her name tag and he noticed that her name was Owen.
Embarrassed, he asked, "Are you...?" My daughter said "Yes, he's my
father."
Harrison
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 9:09 AM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Funda,
questions keep the LIST thriving,
I am animated by questions.
Why?
Easy, they are simply fun and further our craft and keep the
spirit expanding.
Post your Goa (2004) question again at our WOSonOS in Berlin later
this year.
They need ongoing reflection.
And here are my questions:
Who knows how often OST is used in the World?
Who has deposited the OST events they facilitated in the Open
Space Worldscape created by 12 facilitators living in Berlin in 2003?
https://openspaceworldscape.org/
Presently, 821 events have been posted in two decades that were
sponsored by 594 organisations and facilitated by Teams with 389
different folks, including 201 pages with 10 items per page
including grand photos such as this one
https://openspaceworldscape.org/resources/1751-021-jpg
and facilitated by 43 different facilitators that deposited the
events they facilitated, see here
https://openspaceworldscape.org/roles/2-facilitator
Ok, 43 facilitators deposited events they facilitated... and are
there not thousands of us?
There are more than 500 in the World Map, how come there are not
thousands? See here
https://www.openspaceworldmap.org/
You posted more questions such as
--- "wait for "Self Organization of the Systems by Itself?""
(do they not selforganize by themselves all the time?)
--- "it has the potential to solve many problems we face today
(that's what I think)"
(is "solving problems" what OST is about?)
Lets have more questions and post them at the WOSonOS in the fall
or wherever they need to be voiced.
Greetings from Berlin
mmp
PS: I would love to see who will be in Berlin at the WOSonOS23.
How about posting your attendance on this LIST? Why? How about
answers to that question.
Ok, here I go.
I signed up, paid the fee, will get housing near the venue so that
I can take a nap wherever and avoid the hilarious activities at my
home about an hour away using public transportation.
Am 03.04.2023 um 12:16 schrieb Funda Oral via OSList:
Dear Harrison and OST Colleagues,
This is a great story. However, I ask the same question I had
asked in GOA at WOSONOS
several years ago:
"Why is OST not used more often everywhere in the World? although
it has the potential to solve many problems we face today (that's
what I think)
Are we going to wait for "Self Organization of the Systems by
Itself?"
Is there anything we could do "more or less"?
Or maybeOST is highly demanded and I am not aware of this.
Have a nice week,
Funda Oral
https://www.linkedin.com/in/funda-oral-55822159/
Le dim. 2 avr. 2023 à 21:00, Harrison Owen SR via OSList
<[email protected]> a écrit :
Phelim McDermott just opened a 2 1/2 hour production in NYC
which he calls the "Tao of Glass." You can see a review in
the New York Times. In its world, the production is a
triumph. Bravo for Phelim! But that is not why I am posting
this note.
Phelim has always been entranced by the music of Glass -- but
that attraction was enhanced by Phelim's connection to an
American psychologist, Anarnold Mindell -- who spoke (wrote)
at length about something he called "Deep Democracy." A
friend of Arnolds, and a very early Open Spacer. Anne
Stadler, introduced him to Open Space as a break out of Deep
Democracy. Arnie obviously passed that thought along, and
Phelim got hooked. Small World!
Harrison
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