On another thread, I wrote that OS evokes the following thought in me 'That it a way to peace, where we submit to the power of self- organizing'.
That does not make a facilitator into God, but if humans are vice-regents of God on Earth, then the ideal facilitator tries to develop as many attributes of God as possible, staring with compassion - perhaps, maybe? I guess the Godly attribute of compassion might make our inner space grow Masud On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:20:24 +0400, Raffi Aftandelian <[email protected]> wrote: > >And later it dawned on me: I have for a while thought of OST being a >very fast means of humans consciously recreating all of nature's >processes in a bounded environment (think the biosphere experiment). >And this led me on to the aha...if the facilitator is opening a space >for nature to happen, then the facilitator is...God! > >What does God do to make grass grow? Nothing. > >I am curious what others think of this God model of facilitation. I >almost shared this "model" with this participant, but my instinct got >the better of me. That is not the thing you should EVER, probably, >tell someone interested in OST. > >That realization is something people need to come to themselves. It's >just downright scary for one thing. > >And this brings me to the how of holding space. Of course, for each >person God is/acts/is called something different, so the nature of >that held space will be different. > >People's thoughts? > >Raffi > * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
