Hi friends, I'd like to develop... A JOINT VENTURE PROPOSAL: GAIA Academy of Open Space institutes- a fairly gLocal WE (who we are, I believe) ;-) Chapter 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ COLLABORATING WITH COSMIC URGE ETERNALLY SELFORGANIZING TOWARD ONE LIFE A GAIA Academy (Glocal Academy Initiative Allies) that will expand our horizens by finding Gaia consciousness allies in helping our unflagging Human quest toward ever-emergent "Imperial Society of Living Peace" where all life is open and thrive with vitality. Chapter 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I BELIEVE This learning academy can center around our OS (Open Life Space) and other life opening practices which have been leading groups of all types toward highly adaptive living system- an amazingly highperforming (selforganizing) system. I anticipate that this venture might give us increased level of leisurely yet structural opportunities to share all learnings of selforganizing nature of life from our OS, creative OS mixed programs, and our friends who have been learning in other walks of life (they might or might not happen to step into the selforganizing world of OS). Chapter 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HERE and NOW I have started co-working with a bi-weekly newspaper: SCT (Seoul Culture Today) that reports/highlights lives from cultural angle. This media and our friends from previous/on-going OS events will become hosts who will invite other friends from various walks of life. Faculty members can work either online or offline. Each faculty member decides her/his compensation to meet her/his own needs. And let the markets/learners decide. Certificate of GAIA partnership (or gLocal partnership) I'd like to incubate this idea before launching this venture. Chapter 4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEEDED -Ideas for a Launching Event: a WOW event ;-) -Ideas for Initial Curriculum: Knowing-->BEING<--Doing -Faculty compensation rationale -Ways of collaborating with what is there already or emergent in terms of resource people, technology, logistics Chapter 5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PREREQUISITE Each faculty MUST have experience in OS as participant/facilitaor at least (?) times. (Alternative: GAIA partnership (or gLocal partnership) Certificate, Recommendation letter from Gaia partners: Gandhi, Einstein or OS old timers (we know who they are...;-) ) Your idea will help this venture find its way to life. ;-) With deep love and appreciation,
S Spark Open Space Institute of Korea, Open Quest Squad 3rd Fl., Samkyung Bldg., 372-10, Seokyo-dong, Mapo-gu, 121-210, Seoul, Korea sp...@openspace.kr Phone: 82-2-353-6356 Mobile: 82-10-7247-0636 www.OPENSPACE.kr LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU Harrison- http://www.openspaceworld.com/index.htm OS World in USA- http://www.openspaceworld.org/ "High Play, High Learning"-> High Performance _____ From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Harrison Owen Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:26 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: [OSLIST] Opening space 24X7 --Wave Riders Unite! Several days ago I sent a note to what I thought was going to be a small group of friends, inviting thinking about opening space every day, what that might mean, and how to accomplish all that in specifics. In effect, I was taking off from my book "Wave Rider" which is my best shot on the subject to date -- with the expectation that there is much more "out there" in terms of ideas and actions. Along the way I did suggest that OST (as the meeting approach) might be getting in the way of the larger discussion. Even worse, I facetiously (jokingly) invited everybody to join "The Imperial Society of Wave Riders!" Well you can imagine the uproar this caused. Here I am suggesting that we eliminate OST and become imperialists! Not a good day -- but I do think the proposed discussion has merit. In fact from where I sit it may just be the most important discussion we could have. Given the state of the world (no need for detailed analysis) superior human performance achieved in a peaceful fashion seems like a very good idea. Or put another way how do we find the intelligence and energy to deal with the massive issues we face without killing each other? I believe that the 25 year Open Space experiment has clearly shown that superior performance in a peaceful manner can be achieved any time we open space. It may not be perfect, but it works better than just about anything else, and for sure it is a lot less work. The reason for all this is that we are not really doing anything. Rather, we are inviting the system (business, family, organization) to do what it can do all by itself. Self organize. We are just helping people to notice that -- and when they do magic seems to happen. Peace and high performance show up. If we are honest about it, I think we might realize that OST is in some real ways a fraud and a joke, at least it becomes all that if we take credit for the power and effect of the process, and the special way that we might "do" it. Rather like taking credit for the power and effect of gravity -- which will continue no matter what we do! Anyhow, I believe the community that gathers here online (and anybody else who cares to join us) is uniquely positioned to engage in this discussion not just at a theoretical level but at a very solid practical level. We have the shared experience of hundreds of thousands of Open Spaces. And we have something else -- the shared experience of life in our community. As the world might see it the "Open Space Community" is a pretty strange thing. It has no boundaries, no formal organization, leadership, or corporate status. Membership is pretty much whoever shows up -- and the party has been going on for 25 years. Odd but very effective. Indeed there are multiple formal organizations in the world who with might greater effort have accomplished substantially less. Think about it! Multiple Global and regional meetings. A world wide reach. More training programs than you can name. And absolutely nobody is in charge. There has never been a Business Plan, and if a budget exists it has never been found. Is it all just a gossamer dream, a fanciful delusion, or something much deeper and more important? I vote for the latter. I think this is a conversation that needs to happen, not to the exclusion of all others, but this is where my passion is. Anyhow I invite you to share and think about our common experience -- and let our experience be our guide. As a starting point we might just begin with invitation. What would happen if all our projects began with invitation as opposed to assignment? Harrison * * ========================================================== 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 * * ========================================================== 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
