Hi Kári,
The various components of the origin story of OSLIST retold these past
several weeks are very interesting.
Googling "Anne Stadler Spirited Work" sent me here:
http://www.collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/stadler_reflections.htm
A very interesting quote is located there:
" We learned that conflicts or resistance were a signal of something new
wanting to happen..."
Daniel
On 11/1/14 12:55 PM, Kári Gunnarsson via OSList wrote:
As I have been told, the Os-list was prompted by Peggy Holman
http://peggyholman.com/ and set up in 1996 by Murli Nagasundaram as a
discussion list for the conscious self-organizing system and the Open
Space Institute.
Original there where two themes for the list-server
"How do I keep this going?"
and
"How do I bring this into my organization?"
There is also some connection to organizational learning; creating
communities for learning and action; inspired, high performing
learning organization; leadership and management; to stay aware of
what has heart and meaning; changing the world; it also has connection
to Anne Stadler Spirited Work.
Here is Anne Stadler Open space Primer ...
http://www.donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Open-Space-Primer.pdf
On 1 November 2014 13:03, Alan Stewart via OSList
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<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
G'day Dan and All
In your response of 21 Oct 2014 to my post***Re: [OSList] Respect
in Self-Organizing Systems *you muse:
"I often wonder what the primary task of the OSLIST group is."
Having been a group member for about 20 years and having attended
five WOSonOS
I have a 'take' on this matter.
This derives in part from a statement of Pablo Picasso that:
"Our meaning in life is identifying our gift,
Our purpose in life is giving it away."
I tend to paraphrase this as '... our gifts ... is giving them away.'
One of the gifts I note in relation to 'the primary task of the
OSLIST group' is that of knowing of the principles and practices
of OST by the group members and our giving them away,
professionally and personally.
In my case the 'beginning' gift arrived, in 1994, totally
unexpectedly, in the post in the form of Harrison's original book,
about which knew nothing. I had occasion to experiment with the
process, as a speaker scheduled to present a few days later had
withdrawn. Which I did, after reading the book swiftly - and on
observing the response was forever hooked!
As my 'take' is quite long and somewhat personal I would not wish
to foist it on the LIST. And so I invite anyone who may be
interested in this to contact me. Whoever does ... <smile>
Incidentally, yesterday I facilitated a one day conversation for
the Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce
<http://www.australianchurchesrefugeetaskforce.com.au/>. This has
been established by a group of the biggest church denominations in
Australia to care for the wellbeing of asylum seekers and
refugees. This event was held in Adelaide at their second annual
get together and was to converse about their priorities in the
coming year. Several participants had previous experience of the
value of OST for such a purpose, which is why it was chosen. The
concluding consensus -- in my understanding - was through it this
time they had accomplished what they wished.
Looking forward
Go well
Alan
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