Smiling back at you, Bhav!
After reading page 15 I felt that open space the way I practice and
understand it goes way beyond "light structure". In addition, I keep
trying to stay in the practice of "doing one less thing" after each os
event I am involved in. Furthermore, I feel that 99% of structure in os
events is selforganized by the assembled system.
Thinking back 18 years, thats 1996 when I began to work with os, I
remember how I quickly abolished my original habit of having small
posters in the break-out sessions with notes on the various roles that
could/should be filled for the group work... and how I gradually got rid
of all references on how to interact (in page 15 a number of guidelines
are mentioned that seem to come out of the "in the know" stance).
Perhaps I am missing something here when I keep thinking that OST needs
neither "light structuring" nor is a "container". I do pay attention to
the space in reference to fresh air, daylight, luscious food,
professional PAS, etc but not to the style of communication... in fact,
I can easily imagine and have experience the value of interruption,
persuasion, disrespectful language, questions of all kinds, etc. In my
experience, the system/participants appear to quickly establish the kind
of communication they need to work on their issues. No training required.
I am very curious what the things are that you and the others listening
in have cancelled/dropped/removed from your repertoire... or added... in
facilitating os events.
Have a great weekend
mmp
On 28.02.2014 14:08, Bhavesh Patel wrote:
Hi Friends,
I was reading the attached article and loved the way they articulated
'open space' and wanted to share it with you below. The whole article is
attached.
Smiles Bhav...
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*Page 15*
I want to use the term ‘light structuring’ to make a contrast with forms
and practices that could be described as already knowing and already
fixed. What I am calling light structuring gives more space for
emergence and improvisation (see, for example, Barrett, 2006; Clegg,
Kornberger and Rhodes, 2005; Weick, 1998) or unfolding. One might say
that light structuring makes space for 'being in the now' rather than
‘in the know’. I see light structuring, in this sense, as an important
aspect of dialoging and participatory ways of knowing. Light structuring
might mean that participants are invited to try to follow certain
guidelines that help them to learn whilst practicing what Isaacs called
the ‘collective discipline’ (Isaacs, 1993) of dialogue. These usually
include guidelines such as: do not interrupt, do not attempt to persuade
others, use respectful language, ask questions only for clarification,
listen to your listening and so on (e.g., Chasin, Herzig, Roth, Chasin,
Becker and Stains, 1996).
Such ‘minimal’ or ‘light’ structures help to block or interrupt already
solidified patterns and, in this way, can help to open up new
possibilities and what I have called ‘soft’ self-other relations. The
idea is to provide enough but not too much structure: to provide a
container, so to speak, that invites and supports the gradual emergence
of slow, open, coherent, in-the-present-moment performances. In this way
it becomes possible to be ‘relationally responsive’ (McNamee, Gergen and
associates, 1999) to whatever comes up in any particular moment and
possible to make space and be open for multiple, ongoing, local realities.
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