Hi Harold, Glad to hear you remember me!
Thanks for offering space for my question, and I would like to change it a bit from what you wrote... *Does the "question approach" work in every culture or is it culture specific?* Many approaches/methods like AI, AoH, etc, put a lot of emphasis on the questions and the design of questions. A question can be an invitation to explore, however invitations can exist without questions right? A sideways on this is that I have an ongoing 'wondering' about whether Open Space the Method (*not the great on-going Open Space that Harrison often refers to*) has some cultural bias to it as well... however everytime I bring this up I am quickly explained/lectured/told that it doesn't!!! Smiles Bhav... On 7 January 2016 at 18:48, Harold Shinsato <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Bhav! > > It sounds like you've started an interesting inquiry around inquiry > itself. I'd like to open space for your answers as well as the other > responses from Harrison & Michael P. - so we (and all the elders) can best > "sit" the question. > > Here's Bhav's question in brief: Do western style questions work in every > culture as an approach? > > I'll open it a bit more: What culture assumptions do we bring to our > requests, inquests, inquiry, 'quest'ions, that might help or hinder the > authentic opening of space? > > Harold > > P.S. Of course I remember you Bhav. I remembered you before I met you - as > your influence preceded your presence at least in my time-space-continuum. > Thanks for reentering it here on the OSList. > > On 1/7/16 4:14 AM, Bhavesh Patel wrote: > > Hey Harold and World, > > Merry Orthodox Christmas from Moldova where it has been snowing all day!!! > > Your question triggered a different kind of questionING in me. Personally > I find questions/inquiry and Rilke's 'Live the questions now' approach > very useful. > > *However my increasing sensitivity to culture makes me wonder whether this > approach works for everybody, or whether it is a cultural thing, fitting > more an inquiring Western culture? Sometimes do we overemphasise this > approach, use it in a kind of universal way?* > > I have my own answers/experiences to the above questions but of course > won't share them because you asked for questions! > > > Smiles Bhav... > > p.s. Harold, we met at the WOSonOS in London and talked a bit about > complexity and Cynefin... > > > > > -- > Harold Shinsato > [email protected] > http://shinsato.com > twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush> >
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