Interesting. Kaliya, I think you've just articulated the problem I have
with the way many BarCamps are run. Eventually, they could hit on a
safe, welcoming way to run them... then again, with revolving leadership
and volunteer effort, they may not.
For example, the guys in the TorCamp community are puzzling over why the
women don't show up and when they do, they seldom initiate a session...
this last time, after two women had specifically invited many other
women to attend, there were only a handful, and I was still the only one
to lead a session. When the women talk among themselves (ourselves)
about what's going on, the term "pissing contest" has come up a couple
of times, followed by "we're not interested". TorCamp seems to have
become a group run by male geeks for male geeks... and it's working
fine. For the make geeks. They perceive the lack of balance, but so far
don't seem to believe that invitation and facilitation could make a
difference.
If they want the kind of diversity that made TorCamp so exciting at the
start, the application of a few time-proven patterns could perhaps help :-)
I'm puzzling over how to introduce these... because it's being organized
by a clique, it's hard to have influence on the planning.
I can be patient for a while yet, lol, and meanwhile, I'll do OST as
close to home as I can and hope someone notices :-)
deb
Kaliya Hamlin wrote:
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
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*Ralph Copleman
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*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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