Yes, and play is fun. Play is invigorating. Play brings action. Play
brings movement. Life is action. Life is movement!
An entertaining example of play ... action and movement from some
surprising players, in open space:
http://youtu.be/Iqmba7npY8g
"Let us play"...
On 1/11/14 3:03 PM, Harold Shinsato wrote:
Harrison,
I was going to ask you to say more about "High Play", but it was easy
to learn more about your ideas here with a quick google search. From
http://www.openspaceworld.com/Opening%20Space%20for%20The%20Question.htm.
The emphasis is mine.
High Play denotes the manner in which the people involved approach
their task -- playfully. Quite often play is understood to be a
trivial incidental compared to the real business of living. I
think this is a profound error. Play for me may be the most
serious (important) of our many undertakings. The importance of
play derives from the fact that when we experience reality in
different and unexpected ways, *we seek to understand (develop
knowledge about) **our new experience by telling likely stories,
or in more formal terms, creating theories*. We take the available
evidence, combined with our prior experience and try to construct
reasonable explanations for the newly observed phenomenon. Almost
inevitably our first attempts are flawed, and it is often the case
that there are as many theories (stories) as people telling them.
If everybody treats their version as the "gospel truth" it is not
long before the dead hand of dogma descends, and the search for
understanding degenerates into a fight amongst ideologues. On the
other hand, when people treat their new adventure in a playful
fashion, there may well be serious competition, but there is also
deep respect for the "opponents," and a real joy in the game. In
Open Space it is very common to see the game of knowledge building
played with real skill and enjoyment -- even by people who have
never done anything like that before.
I really like the presence of "real joy in the game" of finding the
best likely stories (theories). I also love the value you express for
"deep respect for the 'opponents'".
Game on!
Harold
On 1/11/14 11:58 AM, Harrison Owen wrote:
Harold -- I like your last line,"If we can hold our theories in the
same fashion as "a likely story", maybe we'll start being able to
tell better stories (theories)." Actually, my words for this are High
Play. I've found that good theory building is best done playfully,
which does not make it a trivial activity, but it does guard against
dogmatism. Good theory, playfully created, and playfully held is
always open to revision -- or just plain discard.
Harrison
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Harrison,
It seemed like you were having a problem with understanding when you
wrote the following:
"When I was confronted with what was happening in Open Space (25
years ago) it made absolutely no sense to me at all. And what makes
no sense does not lend itself to understanding. I "knew," as did
everybody else of my age, background and training -- that what seemed
to be taking place in Open Space simply could not happen.
Organization was something that we created, managed, and controlled."
There are so many theoretical frameworks that have begun to embody
the more adaptive systems thinking required maybe not to fully
understand, but to start to improve our models of organization not
something as something we impose - but something that we can nurture,
cultivate, or just open ourselves to experience.
It seems like this thread has been about understanding
self-organization. I love that you brought something from Quantum
Mechanics that "somebody's formulation was good, but not crazy enough
to be true." This reminds me of the Tao Te Ching. The Tao that can be
spoken is not the true Tao.
It reminds me a lot of what you wrote in Spirit, and which you
mentioned in your TED talk. Story tellers don't tell the truth. But
in the story, truth emerges. Probably between the words.
If we can hold our theories in the same fashion as "a likely story",
maybe we'll start being able to tell better stories (theories).
Harold
On 1/10/14 5:08 PM, Harrison Owen wrote:
Harold -- I have no problem with "understanding." Good and useful
enterprise. Question is: Understanding of what? And in what frame
or context. I think we have come to a point where we "understand"
Jthat there are multiple logics, each appropriate to different
senses of reality. Newtonian Physics really does work. AND
Quantum Mechanics was/is crazy. In fact one of the framers of
Quantum Mechanics (Heisenberg I think) remarked that that
somebody's formulation was good, but not crazy enough to be true.
Or something. I think we may be at a similar paradigm/shift
point. We'll see how it all turn out.
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