Hello all: I have troubles with this ListServe business...too iterative
and sequential. So bear with me please.
Re. Paul's offering: YES! If you mean we need to BE emergent and
experimental...I agree... totally.
Let's BE experimental: expand on "what works"? As well as re-member our
roots/lineage. "Re-member", meaning put together. This is a collegial,
collaborative effort....NOT an heroic journey [?].
Personal story: (which you can skip if you want)
>;-)
I was attracted to OST because it reminded me of the "Boids" simulation.
(That was based on a few principles that had nothing to do with "flocking",
but that actually simulated birds "flocking".) I felt that OST was THAT for
"self-organizing systems".
Also for me, OST is a technology for expressing the essence of a group's
"calling"....whether that group is a person, family, a small town, a
corporation...whatever. A person? how could a person be a group? Well,
it is: a group of cells, energies, organs, etc. etc. So early on, I
started living OST, because I believed in the fractal theory, and I noticed
that opening 'inner' space first, produced more lasting results than simply
opening marketplaces.
I also noticed that whatever happened was actually provisional...if
resistance arises, then open more space right where the resistance IS.
(Thank you, Arny Mindell and Processwork.)...and something else emerges.
So I also noticed that emergence and therefore "learning" are key essences
of OST.
So I am interested in
What have we learned about the essence of opening space? Here is one of
my observations:
1. A full-blown emergency/crisis shows us that opening space is robust
and practical:
eg. re-designing the ATT building for the Atlanta Olympics, 3 days long;
eg. redesigning the doors produced for Boeing airplanes (OST Held in two
locations simultaneously, involving the whole value chain in both places,
linked by phone and internet, 3 days long.)
eg. designing an inter-disciplinary scientific culture and practices at
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 2 days plus followups.)
There are other such stories.
They are not heroic nor dependent on a super-human. They reveal what is
actually present *all the time*, but is obscured by our own needs,
distractions, fears.
What do these examples have in common?
They're focused on practical challenges/opportunities;
it's an "Impossible" situation; practical solutions can't manifest
iteratively; the need is urgent, therefore need for control must be
suspended; all hands are essential for successful practical outcome; the
"future" is right NOW! and finally...
the facilitator has tried to address his/her own fears and needs for
control, opened his/her inner space to allow whatever needed to happen to
emerge--and it DID!
Question?? Are these stories are the new "normal" if we could step out of
our own fears and needs and realize that??
Hypothesis: The "field" ("out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing,"
(rumi) and we humans have what is needed IF we open the space and allow
this to reveal itself.
Re. HHO's insistence on actually being an OS organization: I agree.
That's why I co-founded Spirited Work. I wanted to learn from experience
of sustainable OS, rather than in successful events.
One example we could learn from:
Anil Sachdev who is the Founder of the School of Inspired Leadership
(SOILIndia) has used open space ever since 1991, a few years after it was
brought into the "mainstream" at the "Business of Business is Learning" OST
gathering in Goa India. I have worked with him all those years. We can
both confirm that opening a marketplace is only one way of opening space.
There are many iterations of the fundamental form. The principles and law
are robust and permanent features of the cultures of all the organizations
he's founded.
And what we did in SW is similar to what Daniel is doing.
At SW, the OST marketplace happened every quarter. AND like his
initiative, whoever came were the "right" people. Our governance patterns
and forms emerged. We lived OS while we were together and in-between in
our own workplaces. Each of us learned at whatever level we needed to
learn. For me, it was from "inside" to "outer". (ala Chief Phil Lane Jr.
"Start from within, work in a circle in a sacred manner, develop and heal
ourselves, our relations, and our world".)
To HHO I'd also say: "Whatever happens is the only thing that could." So
don't get frustrated.
Circling back to Paul with whom this note started, in the citations I have
identified, we realized at the outset we were not "repeating" the past.
Nor were we "burning it up". We were honoring its *essence* in the
present, in the simplest most refined ways that were called for
*now...*Appropriate
technology applied Just-in-Time >;-)?
Love to all! Anne
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