Happy birthday to you, Harrison, the power of self-organization and OPEN SPACE was my guidance and is the future of our children and grand children. Thank you for all the experiences. I wish you a lovely Martini evening, ingrid
Ingrid Ebeling, EBUS Institut für Entwicklungsberatung und Supervision Systemische OE-Prozessberatung und -Designs Executive-Coaching • Großgruppen-Interventionen Am Alten Gehäge 6 • D- 30657 Hannover fon +49-511-336 03 30 • fax +49-511-336 03 47 mobile +49-172-5145179 [email protected] • http://www.institut-ebus.de <http://www.institut-ebus.de/> > Am 02.12.2015 um 17:24 schrieb Harrison Owen via OSList > <[email protected]>: > > Great to see you. And I do like your take on “authority.” But I think you > would concur that your version is hardly the standard/colloquial one J > > ho > > Winter Address > 7808 River Falls Drive > Potomac, MD 20854 > 301-365-2093 > > Summer Address > 189 Beaucaire Ave. > Camden, ME 04843 > 207-763-3261 > > Websites > www.openspaceworld.com <x-msg://39/%20www.openspaceworld.com> > www.ho-image.com <x-msg://39/www.ho-image.com> > OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > OSLIST Go > to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > <http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org> > > From: OSList [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Rosa Zubizarreta via OSList > Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 8:44 AM > To: Harrison Owen; World wide Open Space Technology email list > Subject: Re: [OSList] What's authority got to do with Open Space ? > > dear Harrison, > > Happy Birthday!!! > and thank you for so much... > > including, your ever-invigorating invitations to think further! > > I have a very different read of Daniel's choice of words than you do... > If we realize that the key root of "authority" is "author", > > then each of us, by nature and definition, > is the "author" of our own experience. > > And so reconnecting with our own authority, > is what OST is all about... > > as you put it, > "we are simply inviting people to be fully who they already are". > > So in the Group Relations work, > we are not choosing to explore "authority" in order to appeal to business > people.. > > we are exploring it, we are reclaiming it, > because at heart, > > just like "myth" being deeper than truth, > our own authority > is where it's at... > > with much love, > > Rosa > > > Rosa Zubizarreta > > meet me at my DiaPraxis website <http://diapraxis.com/> > and on my Listening Arts blog <https://rosaz.wordpress.com/> > > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Harrison Owen via OSList > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > Dan – Given the way you define authority (formal and informal) it does seems > to give a view point from which to observe the function of folks in Open > Space. It also has the advantage of “sounding like” normal corporate usage. > “Authority:” who has it, who doesn’t, who is pretending... That is the > corporate story as lot of people might see it. And if you are trying to > trick a Greeks, you probably need to speak Greek. > > But there is a danger. “Triggering,” as you say. When you use a loaded, heavy > word in a new and different way, particularly a way that is essentially the > opposite of general usage, there is the danger of being misunderstood. > Sometimes you just have to run the risk if no other word really quite does > it. Such was the case with “myth” in my work. In popular discourse, “myth” > basically means “lie,” “untruth,” “fabrication,” etc. In my work, and I > believe classically, myth is deeper than truth. It underlies truth. It > creates the environment in which truth can be perceived as true. At least > that is what I’ve always said, along with multiple others, Joseph Campbell, > for example. > > So I guess my question is, Why do you feel you have to use “authority?” I > would judge that your answer might be somewhere here.... “The context is the > use of Open Space in a large business enterprise, convened with intent to > explore the potential for making a very big, very complex enterprise-wide > change.” > > If this is right, there is implicit in your quest an assumption (I think) > that you/we are somehow bringing Open Space to the corporate world and > “scaling it up.” I have no question that the very idea of Open Space > represents the worst nightmare of the majority of corporate execs. I equally > have no question that if these same execs hope to maintain their current self > image and job description (he/she who is in control), the use of Open Space > is about as likely as an immediate, unassisted flight to the moon. Can’t > happen. > > It might seem, therefore that if we are in the Open Space Business, we are > pushing a product that has all the popularity of a putrefying skunk. Small > market! > > Then again the situation changes rather radically if it actually turns out > that the executives in question really don’t have any choice. Even worse, > were it to turn out that the corporate world (indeed the world itself) is > massively different from what they presume. In the world I experience, all > systems, including all human systems are self organizing. Should that > actually be the case, the notion of “bringing Open Space (self organization)” > anywhere is a little ridiculous. One might say fraudulent – right on a par > with selling the air we breathe. The idea of becoming self organizing just > does not make any sense – we are, by nature and definition, self organizing. > The fact that many people don’t know this, refuse to recognize it, or are > just doing it badly – doesn’t change a thing. But it does change the nature > of our job. Rather than selling, bringing, providing... anything, we are > simply inviting people to be fully what they already are. And at least from > where I sit, Authority, as we used to understand it (formal and informal), > doesn’t really have a lot to do with things. It represents a problem up with > which I shall not put (thank you Winnie). Rather have a nap. > > Harrison > > Winter Address > 7808 River Falls Drive > Potomac, MD 20854 > 301-365-2093 <tel:301-365-2093> > > Summer Address > 189 Beaucaire Ave. > Camden, ME 04843 > 207-763-3261 <tel:207-763-3261> > > Websites > www.openspaceworld.com <http://%20www.openspaceworld.com/> > www.ho-image.com <http://www.ho-image.com/> > OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > OSLIST Go > to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > <http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org> > > From: OSList [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Daniel Mezick > via OSList > Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 6:13 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [OSList] What's authority got to do with Open Space ? > > What's authority got to do with Open Space ? Apparently nothing at all, at > least on the surface... > > Wait. Once we peek under the surface, what do we actually find? > > This completely heretical essay attempts to answer at least part of that > question. > > The context is the use of Open Space in a large business enterprise, convened > with intent to explore the potential for making a very big, very complex > enterprise-wide change. > > {Please note, the word "authority" might trigger feelings of: soul-sucking > bureaucracy, unfair and illegitimate leadership hierarchy, and the like. Some > "triggered" readers may want to opt-out of continuing at this time...) > > Authority Distribution in Open Space: > http://newtechusa.net/agile/authority-distribution-in-open-space/ > <http://newtechusa.net/agile/authority-distribution-in-open-space/> > Open Space is a most interesting format for "gathering,", also known as > "meeting." > > What exactly is going on in Open Space? > > <image001.png> > > -- > Daniel Mezick > Culture Strategist. Author. Keynoter. > (203) 915 7248 <tel:%28203%29%20915%207248>. 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