Aart, I really enjoyed meeting you. And some of the words and stories from our Goan conversations found their way here. There was much richness and more importantly, honesty there.
I am not sure that when we enter the space without thoughtfulness and grace that the space collapses onto itself. I have seen so many juicy examples of people, some of them really respected here, doing the darnedest things, calling it Open Space Technology, and it all, well, working. And would you believe it, Aart, somehow in all the messiness some people got so turned on that they went on to space-hold and did a pretty good job of it without the juiciness because they had a pretty darned good mentor: me <toothy grin>. Some of the juiciness I've witnessed: 1. not walking the circle 2. telling people they're going to be part of a really kewl process called os 3. going from session to session telling people it's time to move on and my personal favorite- 4. deciding which reports should go into the proceedings. I thought it was soooo kewl when my report did not make it into the proceedings. I guess I'm just not forward-thinking enough to do os this way. <grin> add your own? warmly, raffi * * ========================================================== 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
