Queridos todos, I'm cross-posting a message that Birgitt Williams wrote to the Genuine Contact list today in response to a request for examples of Conscious Open Space Organizations.
I thought with the topic of self-organizing systems popping up again, I'd share this here. Perhaps, with us re-re-re-re-re-visiting the topic of self-organizing systems and Conscious Open Space Organizations (Interactive Organizations?), the conversation may take a new turn? Who knows, stranger things have happened on OSlist... abrazos, raffi Dear Alexander, Warm greetings! I will get into this discussion a bit. From my perspective, there are a few things to consider. I don't give out the contact info of organizations that we are working with, as there are many people who are doing research now on such methods. We had one client some time ago who stopped using us as consultants because of too many inquiries. Another consideration is that when we developed the Conscious Open Space Organization, we never postulated that it was a self organizing system. Open Space Technology, when I learned it, did not include the concept of the self organizing system and at the time the emphasis was on spirit. The concept of the self organizing system attached to OST came much later...maybe around 1996. And finally, at the request of our clients, we stopped calling this type of organization a COSO. The concept of the COSO was that members of the organization would be Conscious of where the space was open in an organization and where it was not open, thus not wasting time to change what was not open but using their consciousness of where it was open to be innovative in that arena. Unfortunately, according to ourclients, the staffs chose to emphasize everything as open, causing a lot of mayhem. And so, sometime last year I sent a proposal to the Genuine Contact Co-owners for a vote to change the name...and so it is now changed to the Genuine Contact Organization. Birgitt * * ========================================================== 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
