Michael -- I have long suspected (and may have said) what you are observing. Though I would perhaps put it a little differently. It is not so much that Self Organization is genetically encoded in us, which is doubtless true if we, like everything else, seem to be a product of that marvelous force, but also that the RESPONSE to self organization is encoded -- which seems, more often than not, to look a lot like Open Space. One might say, the default setting for human organization is the circle. And once in a circle, things just flow from there. We call it Open Space, in West Africa they call it Palaver, in Southern and Eastern Africa the name is, Indaba. And the Norwegians have a name...
I suppose you could think of all this a just some historical trivia, but I think the point goes deeper. If nothing else it should remind us that we did not invent Open Space; it's been there all the time traveling under other names. Along the same line, it should remind us as well that we do not "do" Open Space -- The truth is "it does us." I think there is also a strong caveat (warning) here that when we pass over the circle as the basic organizing pattern for humanoids, in favor of other arrangements of our own devising, strange and usually suboptimal things happen. When we think we do the "organizing" and force everything into our pattern (usually a hierarchy), it may look pretty on paper, or gain a prize in an academic contest (a degree) -- but at the end of the day our design comes in a very poor second to the elegant, primal form: The Circle. The lesson? It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature. Or something. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) Camden, Maine 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 (summer) 207-763-3261 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael M Pannwitz Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 7:35 AM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] New on Open Space in Norway ...same goes for good old germanic Thing...probably a precursor of the Stammtisch!!...however usually in the open and under a tree (see also baraza, Kenian name for old tribal way of meeting which translates into "sitting under a shady tree") and limited to men...and I am sure there are other cultures, in fact it would not surprise me, if it had not been part of all cultures... when I originally ran into OST (Harrison Owen and Romy Shovelton facilitating a "training" on OST in 1996) it struck me so deeply that now I am convinced that whatever selforganisation is it is genetically encoded in the primitve part of my brain (neocortex)... how about you all? greetings from Berlin mmp On 12.06.2012 15:12, Mikk Sarv wrote: > Good luck, Hege! > > You can tell people, that old Nordic /ting /was basically same as Open > Space. > > With greetings from Estonia, > > Mikk > > > On Jun 12, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Hege Steinsland wrote: > >> Hello >> I am happy to have had Thomas Herrmann as a coach and teacher in Open >> Space facilitation, and just started to practice. I m really exited >> where this will lead, and look forward to learn more about the tools >> an practice in the weeks and months to come. >> >> All the best >> from >> >> Hege >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe > send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org -- Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany ++49-30-772 8000 [email protected] www.boscop.org Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 388 resident Open Space Workers in 66 countries working in a total of 142 countries worldwide: www.openspaceworldmap.org _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
