Dear Bhav,
when I use the "quickly explained/lectured/told"-approach I often find
that I didn't sit the question but jumped up to get that nasty question
squashed.
Perhaps it has to do with being suspected to be "biased" on this or on
whatever.
To me it seems clear that nothing comes out of nothing. So, if something
emerges it has come from a place or source that has all kinds of
cultural and other characteristic backgrounds, roots, etc. This then
assumedly also applies to OST (and, by the same token, to "the great
on-going Open Space that Harrison often refers to").
In my practice I am simply amazed how OST "works" regardless of what
setting it is used in (language, culture, class, religion, what have
you)... so maybe its heritage is trans-cultural, trans-whatever you add
here. If that is its bias, good enough for me. It simply would mean that
this is a unique characteristic of OST. To me that would be the second
unique characteristic of the approach, the other being its focus on
consciously relying and being in love with the force of selforganisation.
Cheers from Berlin where we had enough snow again to get out our
neighborhood machine to have some exercise early in the morning
mmp
On 08.01.2016 10:19, Bhavesh Patel via OSList wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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...
--
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[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
http://shinsato.com
twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush>
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