Oh myy, sorry for keeping you awake Michael :). Thanks for your reflections. I think we agree on most re OST but for sure there is a lot to talk about.
Now I'll go to Pilarne -a great outdoor art excibition. http://pilane.org/ -some people on this list know the place from the Genuine Contact Summer Academy some years back. That's open space, for sure! Hugs Thomas Skickat från min iPhone > 18 juli 2017 kl. 00:38 skrev Michael M Pannwitz <[email protected]>: > > I am not at all sure what "we are". > > I wonder whether I can be sure what my focus as facilitator in the OST > context is. > So far, I felt my focus was to assist the sponsor in finding out whether an > OST event is in order for whatever it is that he/she wants to do. The > straightforward approach was to take a look with him whether the 5 or so > prerequisites for an OST event are in place. > When that is the case and the event is decide on, the sponsor opens the space > for the event to take place. I have never heard a sponsor talk about > "emergence". Sponsors always wanted that some headway is made in a wicked > situation for which nobody had a solution so far. > Considering that the force of selforganization is always active but sometimes > pretty cramped (when various kinds of controls are exerted) it appears to me > to be less a question of "setting the stage for selforganization" but being > aware that it has its stage, albeit very small at times, and that it can do > better by having a bit more time and space to unfold on its stage. > Focusing selforganization seems to me more in the direction of controlling > selforganization and that is probably impossible. Even less possible seem to > me any attempts to have bumblebees feel more empowered to do what I might > think they ought to do. Its just as futile as working on empowering other > human beings, especially facing the fact what a hard time I have to empower > myself. > > Yes, I also see/feel/notice/ etc. lots of unexpected and thrilling stuff > while meandering through an OST event picking up coffee cups or taking a nap, > oblivious to what direction things go and happily appreciating seeing folks > follow their passions in structures and processes they themselves create in a > fashion that no number of facilitators could. > > Sleepless in Berlin and finding it great to be tickled into this dialog. > > cheers > mmp > > > >> Am 17.07.2017 um 23:27 schrieb Thomas Herrmann via OSList: >> Exactly! >> We are but an instrument assisting the sponsor to open space for emergence. >> We set the stage for selforganization to happen with a bit more directed >> focus and bumblebees feel more empowered to flap their wings, stirring >> energy, creating disturbances and they also contribute with their wisdom. >> Crosspollination happens while I pick coffee cups. And I get paid for it! >> Wohooo >> Thomas >> Skickat från min iPhone >>> 17 juli 2017 kl. 22:36 skrev Michael M Pannwitz <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Learn to Open Space for Cross Pollination in Groups? >>> >>> And here I keep thinking that >>> >>> 1) facilitators dont open space, sponsors do >>> 2) facilitators introduce OST, humbly >>> 3) if things go as they seem to always go, space and time expand a bit for >>> the force of selforganisation to do its stuff. >>> >>> And, my experience, bumble bees do their pollination stuff between groups >>> as they flit around from group to group often strategically as is the habit >>> of bumble bees, there is nothing random about them... and thats a >>> predictable side effect of selforganisation. >>> >>> Why should a facilitator get involved to bother about cross pollination and >>> how could she be if completely occupied with doing nothing to get out of >>> the way of the good old force, bless her. >>> >>> Greetings from Berlin >>> mmp >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Am 17.07.2017 um 14:47 schrieb Thomas Herrmann via OSList: >>>> *Dear friends in Open Space* >>>> Doris Gottlieb, Anna Caroline Türk and myself welcome anyone interested to >>>> learn about working with Open Space Technology to join us in September >>>> 6-8. 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