I wonder if you could help me edit a short passage on what Open Space does. The context is a circle of 4 misunderstandings/conflicts between professionals and policy capital advisers who I hope will one day get over their command & controls:
1) European Knowledge Management Policy Makers who don't understand that virtual inter-networking is to be a people freedom - how you square the value of your lifetime multiplying what you do for real with what you can learn and respect by being virtually mentored worldwide 2) Professions that have become rabid at separating their own business case leaving humanity to take the hindmost- starting with mass media communications professionals whom after 21 years in their global midst I rate worst of all at promoting humanity (ie I am a brand architecture expert but I 90% agree with Naomi Klein of No Logo and all the deep democracy challenges she tries to report from the grassroots up. I completely disagree with The Economist's Pro Logo even though my father edited there for 40 years... & today's head of the EU having once -a quarter century ago- having translated The Coming Entrepreneurial Revolution into Italian)) 3) Low awareness of the messy humanly innovative ways to use email needed to connect the disconnected, and to make 4 degrees of separation evaporate 4) Never having heard or done open space before, being scared of such minimalist facilitation. In this context , here is my first short write up of open space - I realise it needs lots of editing -------------------------------------------------- Open Space - gateway tool to real time, real place Open Space technology (link 4 webs of osworld and PoP) permits every human to make the most of their time. Systemically it is also the simplest tool people will have for communally valuing the dynamics of Conflict, Change and Chaos. Each of these 3 C's is depressingly misunderstood whenever our human race forgets its essential collaborative spirit - what made us better at value multiplying than those species we call animals. For example, when you bring people together in conflict, you have a very deep situation and lots of highly passionate perspectives. If you can resolve this is in a way that openly engages everyone in the prospects of a better future than the conflict ridden past, you have started one of the most valuable collaborative initiatives that anyone involved could possibly have spent their time on. It is terrifying how systemically immature our current understanding of conflict is both in commercial business contexts and human policy ones of places and environments. Equally if we can openly go beyond this barrier, the prospects for the human race's innovative diversity may become wonderful at every locality worldwide. If you want to see emerging messy collage in its emerging messy state (I'm not clever at html) but take a look at http://www.knowledgeboard.com/community/zones/sig/kmei.html thanks chris macrae, [email protected] ps trying to open space the readers of this European Union web in 2004 (crossing a lot of fingers) * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
