Jeff, many thanks learnt so much ! Am curious to find out are about "way finding" and the "fourfold practice", look forward to practicing!
Shobha Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 17, 2014, at 3:10 AM, "Jeff Aitken via OSList" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was in grad school in 1988 - the first year of a new MA program called > organizational development and transformation, at CIIS in san francisco. > Colleagues brought back photos and excited stories from an open space > symposium called OT, held that summer in San Diego. The next February - my > birthday weekend - Antonio Nunez had invited Harrison to offer two days in > open space at CIIS. > > I loved facilitating open space, but my attention was taken by several > experiences as a participant in 3-4 days of open space (such as other OT > symposia.) I began to track the internal and external learning journey of the > individual in the context of open space and the location where it took place. > > This became a PhD dissertation as I learned about indigenous practices like > "wayfinding" for negotiating a path thru complex situations, paying attention > to cycles, protocols, sychronicities, etc; and U shaped creation stories; and > the designs of ceremonies in which everyone gathers at the closing for a > "return and giveaway" of their learnings and legacies and medicines, for the > good of all. > > It's been a lovely winding road, and I am most interested in the individual > and collective leadership capacities that can be cultivated in open space as > a practice for, and of, life in a community. I like the "fourfold way" of > Angeles Arrien and the "fourfold practice" of the Art of Hosting as rubrics > for this multi-dimensional capacity development. > > Gratitude for our community. > > Jeff > California > > _______________________________________________ > 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
