The Singing Revolution is a great film that documents change through self organization. In this case about the events in the late 1980s in Estonia
Chris -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Harvest Moon Consultants Facilitation, Open Space Technology and process design Check www.chriscorrigan.com for upcoming workshops, blog posts and free resources. > On Jul 17, 2014, at 9:27 PM, Michael Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > > Last night I watched a film called The Dallas Buyers Club. It won a couple of > Academy Awards last year. It tells the story from the mid 1980s about how > groups of people living with AIDS self organised themselves to source and > experiment with various 'unauthorised' treatments. This fringe work > ultimately shaped more mainstream treatments. Over breakfast this morning I > was thinking about it some more and thinking what a powerful example it was > of a self-organising system. There was a complex/wicked problem, a few people > stepped forward combining passion and responsibility and invited other people > to join them. > > Then I started wondering what other movies give such good illustrations of > the power of self organisation. When we try to tell others about the > self-organising principles of OST it is usually easiest to tell stories and > movies are a form of story telling. > > I accept that if we live in a self-organising world then all movies will > illustrate self-organisation in some way. However, I suspect that some films > illustrate it more clearly than others. What movie would you point to as > vividly illustrating the power of self-organisation, and why? > > Michael Wood > Perth, Western Australia > _______________________________________________ > 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
