On 3/20/06, Chris Corrigan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > IN a conversation today, one man said that he wanted to try Open Space > simply as a way to have all the parts of the system understand each other. >
Chris, if the man who said this is your client and if this is his genuine desire, I think this could be a transformational OS event. How could an OS held with the intention of having 'all the parts of the system understand each other' not succeed?! Almost nothing resolves conflict better than the transformational power of truly listening to one another. An invitation to an event held with this intention, wow! The invitation could invite people to listen and understand their colleagues, the school system, the problems from multiple perspectives. There would be highs, there would be lows, happiness and sorrow, and transformation. Such an event could easily result in some actions and changes wtihin the school system. . . but part of your job, Chris, would be to help the client see that having people shift their perceptions of the system is WOW! a great result all by itself. My first reaction to your inquiry, chris, was "do a practice of peace". At the Seattle PoP event in November 2003, our invitation intentionally invited people working to resolve conflict and we spent 2.5 days listening. All kinds of action plans emerged and some significant projects exist in the real world now because we sat and listened to each other's experience of conflict. Any system would benefit from this kind of event. Could a local school board hold an OS event with the intention of practicing peace together? Sure, why not?! I have been puzzled for sometime that OS practitioners have not begun to offer 'practice of peace' events to clients. Anyway, here are my thoughts, a little jumbled but I'm taking it easy this morning. -- Warmly, Tree Fitzpatrick Hearthkeeper * * ========================================================== [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
