Hi Chris,
Since the thread is about helping the OSI-US find "mission questions",
rather than answering the questions, I would encourage and invite you to
reflect on these questions in separate threads to make the reflections
easier to see and connect with via the subject line.
I look forward to your reflections!
Thanks!
Harold
On 7/19/16 11:13 AM, Chris Corrigan wrote:
I like your questions Paul. They’re interesting! Can I add some
reflections on them?
On Jul 19, 2016, at 7:06 AM, paul levy via OSList
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Harold
A few more questions ...
Warm wishes
Paul
Why are we still calling OST a technology ?
Still called a technology because it’s cheeky. That’s my take anyway.
Why is the LAW of two feel a law ?
Law because, like the law of gravity it seems to be fundamentally
inviolable. So it’s helpful to acknowledge it. You could probably
acknowledge the law of gravity too, if you wanted to remind people not
to drop their stuff. But at least acknowledging the law of mobility
helps people understand why folks wander off during sessions.
If the "principles" are not prescriptions but descriptions why are
they called principles ?
Principles don’t have to be prescriptive to be principles. These four
principles seem to capture four things (or five) that work about open
space. They are provocative and interesting and disruptive to normal
meeting procedures. And I have done many Open Space meetings without
talking about them at all.
How can it possibly take 2 days to "teach"
OST and why would anyone ever want to teach it anyway ?
It doesn’t take two days to “teach" Open Space Technology. But to
spend two days with other practitioners who are learning, thinking
about, and trading ideas on using OST seems to accelerate people’s
practice and use of the process and the underlying view of the world
that it encapsulates.
Open Space Technology is not “teacheable” but it is learnable. How’s
that for a provocative proposition?
Why do OST "elders" on the OS list keep advocating dogmatic views
about OST? (Oh yes you do)
Who are these “elders" of which you speak?
What if one less thing to do was facilitation ?
Yup.
How could OSI begin a humble inquiry into new and valuable ways of
opening space? And learn from them ?
This is a really great question. Juanita Brown has convened a
conversation on “the central garden” of participatory methods that is
just such a humble inquiry. So humble that it has been approached
slowly and quietly, and I’m sure she would welcome many others
joining. She’s been at it for a while:
http://www.theworldcafe.com/more-from-juanita-brown/
What questions do we need to ask that cannot be formed into latinised
words and phrases ?
This one:
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7FF2/production/_90345723_mediaitem90345722.jpg
Where is open space technology when the world needs to open space
most - right now ?
It is right here where it has always been. And I think there is a
lot of space being opened in the world right now, in all kinds of ways.
Opening space is not a guarantee of peace and good times. When space
opens so too does authentic human voice. People that have been silent
claim sound. People that have been displaced look for a new home.
People that have been backed into corners clamp down on control and
fear. Does the world need open space most now? Or has open space
given us the world we live in now?
We have no guarantee of safety in this world. And when space open for
some, others who didn’t ever realize they were taking up so much,
suddenly start getting quite worried. It’s nice to imagine the tables
being turned over, unless one of the tables is mine.
Chris
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