I'm with you, Pat... including OST facilitators modeling trust in the people (and their processes) AND the Principles/Law giving them 'permission' them to trust themselves... Support on both ends - which, for some with 'baggage', represents a challenge.
Best wishes, Glory ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Black" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 10:08 AM Subject: Re: OSLIST Digest - 12 Mar 2005 to 13 Mar 2005 (#2005-71)
I don't have any experience working in a corporate environment but have more than thirty years of experience doing community organizing and grass roots political organizing. I am not sure my experience can be transfered to a corporate setting but here goes. I have found when people come together as a group for whatever passion, they carry with them baggage from past encounters, past experiences. I find that the baggage profoundly affects their ability to trust themselves and therefore, others in the group. For me the brilliance of Open Space is that it provides a very simply structure for people to use so they can just operate in trust with themselves. The structure directs them to look inward, measure their own response to the experience and act accordingly. Simple guidelines allow individuals to know what is right for them. If it is right for the individual it is right for the group. People trust themselves and can then operate in trust. Pat Black Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:35:21 -0500 From: Harrison Owen <[email protected]> Subject: Principles, Process, and People What is becoming clearer to me as this conversation moves along is that = my initial discomfort with the "Trust the Process" frame of mind has = nothing to do with either the process (whatever that process might be) or the principles which under lie it. Rather it is my concern that we have = placed our faith in arbitrary abstractions at the expense of some very concrete realities - The People. In a word, process and principles become = primary, and the people are left in second place.=20
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