And here is a song I wrote about that space…which is written about a piece of land on the island where I live, but stands for all the moments we are perched in Open Space…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zFGoGyTjlE <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zFGoGyTjlE> Thanks for the reminder Jeff! Chris > On Oct 20, 2014, at 9:34 PM, Jeff Aitken via OSList > <[email protected]> wrote: > > While tangential, it may be useful to remember that Harrison's own first > definition of Open Space was not the methodology we know. > > Rather it refers to the mysterious place in a journey of transformation - for > the individual, for the organization - 'between what was and what might > become.' (In 'Spirit: Transformation and Development in Organizations' 1987.) > > While the methodology showed up in 1985 to later become a powerful means to > support individuals and organizations 'across the open space' it was not > mentioned in the book. > > 'For the organization standing at the edge of open space with a full > realization that the old way isn't working anymore, and the new way has yet > to be found, the primary issue is the passage through that Open Space, and > the articulation of a new story... a new way of being there. ... It would not > be stretching a point to understand the process at hand as a dramatic event > or sequence of events, with the leader as director or conductor...' > > The job of the leader is 'leadership by indirection, which orchestrates a > new, positive story, created so far as possible out of the existing elements > of mythos, which captures and excites the organizational Spirit, and focuses > it in productive directions.' > > And so we give thanks for Open Space Technology, which helps make all that > work SO much easier. > > Jeff > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Jeff Aitken > Date:10/20/2014 8:21 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: Harold Shinsato ,World wide Open Space Technology email list > Subject: Re: [OSList] Earliest known reference to {holding the space} > > Brilliant work Harold. I also was thinking about the famous pediatrician and > therapist Winnicott and his theory of the mothering 'holding environment' in > which children develop. As the child grows, the space being held grows too, > tho not named that way specifically. > > Another child therapist Sandner literally talked about an Open Space held by > the mother role along similar lines. He once came to a talk by Harrison. > > Nozick reminds me of good old Werner Erhard saying we are a 'clearing' in > which bodymind and the world show up. Influenced by Heidegger et al. > > Which takes us to the Kabbalist notion of 'tzimtzum' as the ein sof gets > lonely and contracts so that a space appears for a universe to emerge. Jewish > people who follow torah are rereading the first chapters of genesis this > week. But that's another story. > > Jeff > > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Harold Shinsato via OSList > Date:10/20/2014 1:40 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: World wide Open Space Technology email list > Subject: Re: [OSList] Earliest known reference to {holding the space} > > Hi Jennifer! > > Thanks for referencing such a great research tool. I looked at all the books > listed from 1900-1981. Check this out! > > Nothing before '51, and over half of the 342 references were from 1951-54. > There was a dark age of holding space from '55-'70, with no references. And > of the 342, over 96% treated "holding space" as a noun, rather than a > process. They are about physical containers for stuff, livestock, or > prisoners. > > Below I list the exceptions - some of which seem to hint at the way "holding > space" as an element of facilitation, though none do so directly. The Leibniz > and Kant papers were interesting in that they peered into the concept of > space itself, holding the concept if not actual space. Very interesting is > that the military concept of "holding space" related to the Vietnam war > starts to come close to the facilitation sense, but the last one by Robert > Nozick seems to come the closest. > > 1953 - Princeton Alumni Magazine - "holding space" for slots in a talent show > at Princeton. > > 1971 - The New Yorker Volume 46, Part 7 - page 85 - "Farther toward Green, a > young woman named Vaughan Kaprow, shivering in the evening cold, began > holding space for another organization that had a special greeting for Billy > Graham — the Pasadena Women's Liberation Group." > > 1973 - A Paper about Leibniz's Philosophy which looks at space differently, > "holding space to be relational." > > 1973 - the Michigan Library talked about "holding space" for sign ups for > tickets (flights to New York), similar to the holding space for slots in a > talent show in 1953. > > 1976 - Ecology - Volume 57, Issues 1-3 - Page 286: "Porter (1974) speculated > that the high degree of coexistance on Caribbean reefs is due to a "balance > of abilities" divided among the Caribbean corals, such that no one species is > competitively superior in acquiring and holding space." > > 1976 - The Philosophy of Kant Explained - Page 89 - "It is thus obvious that > we can only explain how we can have legitimate a priori synthetic judgments > in geometry by holding space as..." > > 1977 - Object Relations Family Therapy - Page 72 - " the family therapist > gets transference information from the interactions in the shared holding > space of the family." Still a noun. > > 1977 - All quiet on the Eastern front: the death of South Vietnam: "Time was > a secondary dependent variable, a function of our success in winning and > holding space." > > 1978 - BBC transcript - Many reasons why: the American involvement in Vietnam > - "it's because you're holding this space in the territory of the rural > areas. Also you're holding space in another sense altogether" > > 1979 - Arts Magazine - Volume 53, Issues 6-8: "Moss now opens wide gaps in > the grid, erasing large segments of the retaining wall that had been holding > space 'back'. A new spontaneity and elasticity develops between color and > field: an energy." > > 1981 - Kant and the Transcendental Object - "And to all these impressive > reasons for holding space and time to be phenomenal, Kant adds the further > reason that there are a great many axiomatic principles which govern things > in space and time, which are not logically necessary, since ... > > 1981 - Robert Nozick: Philosophical Explanations Page 83 - " The word "I" > might be the marker for the blank, holding space in which the self can > appear." > > Regards, > Harold > > On 10/20/14 7:41 AM, JenniferHurley-HFA via OSList wrote: >> If Google Scholar is any indication, the usage, at least in print, seems >> fairly recent: >> https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Holding+space&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CHolding%20space%3B%2Cc0 >> >> <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Holding+space&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CHolding%20space%3B%2Cc0> >> >> Jennifer Hurley >> Hurley-Franks & Associates >> 267-971-4598 >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Oct 20, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Daniel Mezick <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>> This is extremely helpful, Jennifer! Thank you >>> >>> On 10/20/14 9:14 AM, JenniferHurley-HFA wrote: >>>> I have no idea about the earliest usage, but it's a phrase often used by >>>> Quakers. >>>> >>>> Jennifer Hurley >>>> Hurley-Franks & Associates >>>> 267-971-4598 >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On Oct 19, 2014, at 7:33 PM, Daniel Mezick via OSList >>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Since July 2011, I continue to wander, searching for the earliest known >>>>> reference to the term "holding the space." 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