Hi Harrison, > Doing an Open space is one thing, but > building upon that experience in an ongoing way to the profit and betterment > of the organization/group is the next level up, as far as I am concerned. I > am not talking about, “becoming an Open Space organization” if only because > I sincerely believe that all organizations are already there.
I share the notion that the whole world basically is self-organizing. But taking that to the final logical conclusion, we also need to say that every single conference, every single meeting is an "Open Space". And while there is something to it, I don't find this to be a very helpful notion. While it's true that the whole world is self-organizing, it also seems very obvious to me that very different things happen once we deliberately open the space for this self-organization to happen, instead of deciding to impose a limiting structure. So much different, in fact, that I dread conferences that don't make that space. So I find value in only labeling those conferences and meetings as "Open Space" where there is deliberate action taken to open the space, and I'm assuming that something similar holds true for "Open Space organizations". Cheers, Ilja * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
