I love it when a plan comes together! Or maybe better - I love it when thinking converges. Pat Black's posting about Sugata and the Hole in the Wall crowd set the stage. Sugata, of course was not doing an Open Space - it was even better. He was being open space. I just loved his repeated phrase, "And then I left" Been there. And I felt a real shift in the way he was working and thinking. He did not start with a fixed notion of an institution/organization in which he was opening space and moving to self organization. Quite the contrary -- his starting point was all open space in which self organization was the only way. His contribution was finding ways to be supportive and be nutritive in that environment.
In a very different realm I felt that Stella Duffy was doing the same sort of thing, or close to it. She may have used Open Space (formally speaking) - but at a deeper level it seemed that she had come to realize that theatre (like all the rest of life) is open space and self organization rules. Her contribution was to explore and create better was of being in that space. (Stella beat on me if I am presuming too much J) What I really love is the switch. It is all open space (self organizing) and how do we maximize our life and contribution, as opposed to an alternative view which presumes that it is all rigid structure and pre-organized into which we are trying to introduce a little air. Very different starting points which I find very exciting. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA Phone 301-365-2093 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== 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
