G'day All I'm finding open space has hit me right between the eyes in the last four months. I'm taking initiative wherever I want to lately and am not waiting for permission; wherever that was meant to come from anyway! I'm actually doing what I want to do. Is that OK? I mean I thought I was meant to do eveything I didn't want to do!
The big thing is I'm not intervening anymore. Getting out of the way is so freeing. I feel all my life I've been trained to get IN the way! Although I do miss out on that exhausted feeling. I know this may sound like I'm a babbling convert here, but quite honestly if this is living open space long may it continue. All the best Mike Copeland -----Original Message----- From: Chris Corrigan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 14 June 2003 5:17 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: "It always works" - revisited again Judi observed: > Interestingly some students who wanted to do home study and write exams > found the course a challenge as they had to be there. One woman who had a > challenging illness found the course challenge and yet chose to stay with > it. So, the format isn't for everyone -- quite frankly I also like that > part of that -- more of those who "choose" to be there. Of course that is true of everything. I often get that as a response from Open Space participants that didn't enjoy the process. I sometimes ask what it was about other processes they DID enjoy. An interesting conversation follows. Sometimes I hear about tables, but often I hear about "standard" conference or meeting settings that are more "comfortable." This is a huge learning moment. We are then able to talk about exactly what does happen in those other processes, and just where they work, and where they don't. At the end of the day, it often ends up that Open Space is not better or worse than anything else. Different for sure. Different isn't for everyone, and it sure shakes the foundations. OST is not a process for those who want to sleep through work or use the word "should" a lot. Isn't it interesting how some people respond to challenges like they are external threats, and others embrace them as the internally motivated learning opportunities that they are? Chris --- CHRIS CORRIGAN Bowen Island, BC, Canada http://www.chriscorrigan.com/osweblog [email protected] (604) 947-9236 * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html ############################################## This e-mail (and attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. ############################################## * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
