"our current discussion of Gaming (Game theory, Finite and Infinite
Games, etc). [...] I still don't understand how it advances our
understanding of our world as encountered in Open Space, and more
specifically, how it enables me to more effectively navigate that world
for myself, and with others, who may choose the journey."
There are two beautifully contradictory answers to this:
1) It makes no difference.
2) It makes worlds and worlds of difference.
I experience much truth in both answers. And looking at those "answers"
as conversations, there are many more questions in each answer. Are both
conversations truly welcome?
Let me speak to conversation one. People encountering Open Space for the
first time don't need more than those 10-15 minutes to be invited to
play in it. In fact, adding much more to those minutes usually starts
crowding out the voice of the new person being invited in.
What about people wanting to facilitate Open Space? There are multiple
books. Multiple trainings. Does one really need more than the
description of OST on wikipedia to do it? If that becomes an excuse for
not setting up an Open Space that's ready to happen - then I say the
answer is No No No! You're ready, you can do it, you can learn as you go.
I'm sure I could go on and on with scenarios where more than the basics
is not helpful.
That said, I'm still wishing there were more space for conversation 2.
Hey, maybe I'm hallucinating, but it's persistently feeling like the
people in conversation one are saying "You shouldn't be in conversation
two". Psychological safety? I'm not feeling it.
Harold
On 10/24/13 2:38 PM, Harrison Owen wrote:
Anne -- I noticed your pebble! And I think you are dead right.
Magnificent, complex, living systems simply defy capture in a single
frame. It isn't their problem, it is the problem of our language...
always too small to do the job. But I don't see that as a "problem"
either. For me it is really an opportunity and an invitation to keep
framing and reframing. It just gets richer, and the conversation
continues. I think we only get in trouble when we (whoever "we" is)
get stuck in the "one right way" syndrome. Even controversy is
valuable, if only because it offers the chance to refine our pictures.
And best of all, allows us to hold several pictures at the same
time... especially when they are contradictory. Sort of the Wave and
Particle kind of thing. It is always tempting to ask which one is the
right one? And the answer is clearly, Both. It just depends on how you
are looking at things. Marvelous!
All that said, I do have to confess to being a died in the wool,
American Pragmatist. I can usually always see the value of somebody
else's picture, but then I have to ask -- What does it do? What does
it do to enable me to perform some needed function, understand my
current reality with greater clarity, get on with the business, so to
speak. I also find it useful to combine pragmatism with a good dose of
Occam's Razor -- AKA The Law of Parsimony. There are lots of ways of
describing the "law" -- but it could be, "How can you say the most
with the fewest words?"
I suppose that is just academic obfuscation... but it does have a lot
to do with our current discussion of Gaming (Game theory, Finite and
Infinite Games, etc). I know a fair amount of the literature, have
used the approach in multiple situations creating policy and
practice... and I still don't understand how it advances our
understanding of our world as encountered in Open Space, and more
specifically, how it enables me to more effectively navigate that
world for myself, and with others, who may choose the journey.
Doubtless this is a case of the hardening of the senile
neuro-pathways, but that is where I is.
Thanks for the Pebble!
Harrison
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Harold Shinsato
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http://shinsato.com
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