John: I read the same piece in Capra and had similar thoughts. Thanks for expressing them so well. I've tried to express organizational structure as a pattern of relationships or processes of relating. Certainly Open Space is bounded and there is an emergent "structure" in an event. Ongoing Open Space in an organization is about the emergent structures and processes becoming the norm rather than the exception. We try to "hard-wire" relationships and processes when organizational charts or process charts are developed. I think I need some pattern and sense of relationships. I also need Open Space where those patterns are emergent. I am getting more comfortable living in emergent process, but I do like to have my lights come on and the computer work-some things need to be hardwired. In an organization, less and less needs to be.
Larry
