Well said.
I've facilitated four OS Experiences and participated in many more at an annual retreat. I love OS becasue it helps people find each other via similar interests, values, situations, etc. I am amazed at how potential is latent in every situation but, due to a lack of facilitative process, we may miss each other. I also love practicing OS in my daily personal life. I am eager to see you soon. Nancy Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:08:46 -0800 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Wave Riding in the New Year To: [email protected] I have more experience operating in a self-organizing world than in OS - after all it is where I live all the time. This holiday season, I am in a particularly reflectivce mode - wondering about the arcs and troughs of the last year and decade more intentionally than in years past. I haven't read Wave Rider yet, so I will respond to this from the perspecive of OS and what it teaches about wave riding. OS holds a lesson for me riding waves of the larger world and maybe even universe. Any OS event can be seen as a microcosm of the larger world. Every day-to-day encounter adding up to one large OS. Interestingly, while it is easier to learn the principles of OS for an OS event, for me, it seems a more natural thing to apply those principles in a worldly or universal context than - perhaps this is because the illusion of control is easier to accept as real when less is going on. I usually think of OS as a method for convening and talking about what matters most to the participants, and indeed, it can be that. But more importantly perhaps, it is also an invitation to take care of yourself and take responsibility for what you give and what you take, and let everyone else do the same. Thanks Raffi and Harrison for the questions. Happy 2010 to all. Lucy Lucy Garrick NorthShore Group Business/Organizational Consultant/Coach http://www.northshoregroup.net Ph: +1*206-335-5635 Time zone: PDT/GMT -7 Blog: Global Outlook From The North Shore Twitter: NewsAboutChange On Dec 31, 2009, at 6:19 AM, Harrison Owen wrote: Raffi asked some provocative questions about Wave Riding -- and I don't know that I have the answers, but I do know a good question when I see one. While I think we have learned a great deal about operating in a self organizing world from our collective experience with open space, that is, after all, a rather limited situation. So the question is out there -- what do we know about operating/navigating in a self organizing world that may be different from our experience in OS? Or is there any difference -- it is just bigger. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA Phone 301-365-2093 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) * * ========================================================== [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 * * ========================================================== [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 * * ========================================================== [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
