It is nice you all want to be so 'free form' about things and
'believe' that humans just 'self-organize'.
My experience has taught me that leaning to far in this direction
actually creates a lot of dissonance for people and leads to spaces
with negative energy.
Having a person or better a group of people taking responsiblity for
holding the space creating a nest if you will... within which people
feel safe to 'open up' and explore with each other possibilities....
out of this space this nest is born new action and activity.
At this time on our planet we need to be as intentional and catalytic
as possible in creating space for new possibilities of our
civilization to emerge....being passive and hoping that people
conditioned the way they are in our current culture will some how
'magically' 'awake' and 'self-organize' is to me hopelessly naive.
Diffusing the simple tools and 'rules' or principles and practices
is one of the things that could make the most difference at this
time on our planet.
My experience is that professional communities (that is people
coming together to use this methodology in peer-to-peer professional
network (outside 'AN' organization) settings) seeking to take action
together learn the way OST works and take to it....it becomes the new
norm -the shared way of doing things together that they work on. It
lets all the passion talent and energy come forward and the people
who are interested find each other because there is enough
structure ... just enough that it is functional and effective for
them to spend their time in the space together. THIS IS important.
I somethings think people undervalue peoples time and energy by all
this 'it just happens' talk....well if you help it happen and you
follow some simple steps it is like 10x better. THAT MATTERS for the
state of the world and to respect peoples time and energy for showing
up.
On May 30, 2007, at 4:19 PM, openspacekorea wrote:
great! i agree with your point 100%.
thank u...
Love and Peace,
park
From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Ralph Copleman
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: "rules" and self-organization
One way to test what is essential (what Artur termed "micro") and
what is not would be to open some space without mentioning either
the four principles or the law of two feet. Or anything else.
If self-organization occurs in os, would not the "space" still
"open" without things we have come to believe are essential? I'm
betting it would, or at least could. Perhaps all we need is a room
and a theme and a wall. Maybe some tea and coffee. How free are we?
Picture it. You're invited, so you show up because the theme
interests you or you know the inviter. You get there, see the
theme statement on the wall, and nothing but a circle of chairs.
Nothing. Not even a facilitator. Others arrive. The only things
you share at this point are your presence and your presumed
interest in the theme.
If self-organization is real, is not the space already open? It
may take longer, but might relevant, useful conversations begin?
I think the facilitator meets our need for an authority figure (a
perfectly natural, good thing, most of the time), and the ideas
about feet, insects, etc. a minimal unifying structure (think of it
perhaps as curbs to a boulevard?) that steer us into an opening, a
place we have agreed, by showing up, we want to be. OS in action
resembles self-organization, but it isn't the pure thing. (Not
that it really matters. I love it simply because it’s the best way
I know to show people what evolution on Earth is really like. And
it produces great results for my clients.)
One more rumpled notion occurs this morning... What about the
storytelling role, the thing we do as facilitators to connect
people entering an open space to a greater whole? I know this is
important, but is not the facilitator simply reminding people of a
story they already know, deep down? If self-organization/evolution
is real, it’s been working far longer than humans have even been
around. Might we not trust this process? How far can we go?
Ralph Copleman
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