Harrison, your description of community and genuine community resonates with me. Open the space and allow communities to form.
In particular I found your following observation interesting because I've also encountered similar preconditions. "Perhaps even more remarkable, Genuine Community appears even under the most stressful and conflicted situations - to the point that it almost seems that the greater the initial conflict and stress the deeper and more profound the Genuine Community. And nobody does a thing - it just happens." >From a complexity perspective I thought this might be described with reference to adaptive tension. Just like Bernard cells emerge as the liquid's temperature is raised, so might communities arise when there is a need to adapt. Regards Shawn ------------------------------------ Anecdote Pty Ltd Shawn Callahan Principal sh...@anecdote.com.au tel: +61 3 8300 0747 fax: +61 3 9383 6274 mobile: +61 410 346 343 www.anecdote.com.au ------------------------------------ * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
