Hi Jack,
I appreciate your comments.
Most likely the reason I can't find OST limitations to write about is
because OST supports the process rather than cutting across it.
So, if OST is done in a way that doesn't cramp the group's style, and
if space is made, there are most likely no cons.
I certainly don't want to fabricate cons either.
But I am interested in hearing about the issues others at the
conference (and on this list) have had when experiencing OST, if they
wish to bring them forward.
My second paper at the conference will be about high and low dreams -
a paper related to Process Oriented Psychology (Arnold Mindell and
colleagues).
So I am aware of the benefits of not just focussing on the positives
of a situation.
Thanks for your tasty response,
Allison.
On 22/11/2005, at 2:29 PM, Jack Ricchiuto wrote:
Allison,
A second vote to lovely Lisa’s suggestions.
If part of your presentation is a compilation of this community’s
opinions, I’d like to opine on the case that there are no cons for
me in open space.
I’m not saying this prescriptively or dogmatically, but
experientially.
I’m not even speaking for all those who have shared open space with
me over the last decade or so – this is “just” personal experience.
Not everything has easily quantifiable cons, for example things
like: optimum connectivity in social networks, ecological
resilience, communal forgiveness and trust.
So I’m not inclined to fabricate cons because I’ve been assigned to.
I just don’t see the outcomes of open space as downsides or “waste”
in the process, especially given my deep commitment to ecology
where “there is no waste in nature.”
Open space is a natural process where, as another eco-mantra has
it: waste=food.
There are certainly limitations to open space. The wrong people
tend not to show up. Things tend not to start or stop at the wrong
times ... And so on.
Thanks for inviting this conversation.
Jack
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