Birgitt wrote: "A few meetings focused on the use of Open Space Technology for reconcilliation with Aboriginal peoples, the details of which were almost identical to the conversations I have been in here in Canada regarding the use of Open Space Technology for reconcilliation with indiginous peoples here."
Birgitt, will you say more about this please? My dissertation research is on the topic and I'm interested in stories, contact persons, & good thinking about why Open Space works in such situations (from modern AND indigenous perspectives). Birgitt wrote: "Doing an Open Space meeting is an "intervention" into the natural way of things. So, if the natural way of things is self organizing, why do we even do Open Space? Harrison has pointed out that we do it to create the conditions for self organization to be possible. So...if that is so, maybe we are not about naturally being a self organizing system????" Here my hunch is that Open Space is a rediscovery of our natural self organizing. I love the fact that Open Space is rooted in several indigenous traditions and practices. To me it's as if indigenous science is sneaking into modern organizations under the guise of leading edge management. Of course Open Space does not encompass more than a fraction of the complexity and power of indigenous science (nor do we claim it does). But it's a welcome return to our inner knowing that we are woven into the universe. Jeff
