Great to hear from you Rob... and yes indeed - maybe those in Melbourne - anyone who cares to - might let me know of their interest in a Yum Cha...
I can do the usual organisings once we find a suitable day... Please send me an email off-list and I can co-ordinate. Warm regards, Andrew On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 5:46 PM, R Chaffe via OSList < oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > Chris > Yes we do miss our dear friend yet our very conversation draws the essence > of our being with Fr Brian so he lives in us and our conversations. So as > we are potentially drawn into conflict we also can open our space and give > room for Brian and so many others to join us. > > You may recall the experiments where rat colonies are given no boundaries > and an abundance of food then either the space or the food become > restricted to the point that the participants attack each other as they > seek to survive. Somewhere on the continuum there is a pint where the > observer may say conflict begins. > > What have we learnt? We might say that conflict is a condition that is > resident in all and depending on the “importance” to the individual of the > environment/conditions etc and their ability to survive. > > When we invite others to join our conversation how they respond will > greatly depend on the importance of the conversation is to them, we might > call it passion and in our terms passion is moderated by responsibility so > we have a new issue responsibility! Responsibility to who or what? > > Consequently we define boundaries some may be stated others may be > unwritten rules that are the community norms. One way to express > dissatisfaction with a conversation is to withdraw, the law of mobility (my > paraplegia heightens my awareness of the privilege of walking). > > Peter Sandman says that effective conflict resolution happens when the > risks and the level of outrage are balanced. He has been involved in some > of the worlds greatest man made disasters, a hot bed of conflict. So what > happens when the situation is right for the possibility of resolution? > Someone issues an invitation and regardless of if they follow the “rules” > they open the space. > > Conflict may be expressed both by outrage or hazard. I believe that this > may be a simplistic way of seeing the world/system around us yet it gives > us a pathway to understanding why people come and why people go, it depends > on how they see themselves in the system and how it might impact on their > survival (our friend Maslow and others all point to survival as the issue > that will provoke greatest interest). > > Resolution of conflict begins with the ability to listen to the other > point of view. We can say our ability to stop and give space to ourselves > and others. > > Opening space, creating space, seeing space is about stopping. It is > about breathing in harmony with those around us. It is about holding back > the “walls of the rat colony” for a moment so that we can think and listen > to others. Open Space technology is one way we can do this as a process. > The space must be created to allow us to hear, to let new ideas to grow, to > explore the whys, what’s etc > > As Fr Brian seeks out another red he prompts us to to the same and that is > to live to the fullest each moment we have and there are times to get > involved and times to walk away, times to just sit and times for > enthusiastic engagement with others. It mostly depends on the space we > need at moment. > We could explore Fr Brian’s relationship with his authorities and how that > conflict was managed but that is for another day. > > Regards > Robert > > PS Andrew and others please find time later this month for some YumCha in > memory of our dear friend. I will be undergoing further treatment so > cannot join you in person. > > > On 5 Feb 2018, at 3:38 pm, Chris Corrigan via OSList < > oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > > I’ve been really enjoying this conversation. > > I have indeed been part of conflict resolutions where there was > constrained space to move. Mediation on a job and litigation as well as > restorative practice (conflict resolution circles). I believe that working > with constraints is a high art of leadership. And even in Open Space there > are still constraints. I certainly just advocate for being honest about > what those are. We can have governing constraints (like rules, i.e. the > meeting will end at 5pm) and enablisgin constraints, like the principles > and the law of two feet. But nothing ever happens without a container. > > So given that, how we work with constraints and build a container > matters. I have run Open Spaces where there were fewer degrees of freedom > than others (of course participants could always call whatever conversation > they wanted to, but the management of the organization got to define areas > they could resource and act on). > > The original question was about Dave Snowden’s criticism of how the law of > two feet operates in spaces where conflict is important. This can mean any > kind situation where a group of people needs to hear a contrary point of > view in order to act wisely. In many places these days, folks just walk > away from people who’s opinions they find odious. This kind of conflict > avoidance creates massive division and “echo chamber’ behaviour. Even > calling an open space meeting is a kind of narrowing of the constraints and > degrees of freedom such that people need to encounter one another. > > For innovation work, testing, criticizing and breaking new ideas is an > invaluable part of the creative process. Working away on one’s own without > dissenting points of view can create something that is vulnerable to the > myriad blind spots that we operate from. > > Conflict is not a bad thing. Working well with time and space as > constraints helps us to collectively move through it. Sometimes that means > opening up that time and space and sometimes it means narrowing it down. > > I also miss Father Brian in these kinds of conversations. I suspect he’d > say something like “it’s all good” and then give a little wink and a smile. > > > Chris > > On Feb 4, 2018, at 12:04 PM, Birgitt Williams via OSList < > oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > > Dear Colleagues, > I am interested in questions, and how people get wrapped up in answering a > question, without first giving some discernment to whether or not it is the > right question. Oh...I miss Fr. Brian Bainbridge when I get to thinking > like this....he would have been a great one to have this conversation with. > As I understand it, the question was stated as one to look at whether Open > Space assisted in avoidance of conflict. > > My question, the one that I believe is more to the heart of the matter is > 'have you ever been part of successful movement with conflict resolution > when the space wasn't open?'. > > For any conflict, inter-personal, intra-personal, larger scale, conflict > doesn't have successful movement if there is no space for the movement, no > space for the re-framing.that is needed for healing. Conflict is not in > short supply in this world. Let us use any processes that we can to be of > service to our fellow humans to move beyond the stuck energies of conflict. > > Blessings, > Birgitt > > > > On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:50 PM christopher macrae via OSList < > oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > >> 3 comments which may sound contradictory and reveal my own need to action >> learn >> >> 1 harrisons' books eg practice of peace explain that an intention of Open >> Space is to free people who are all trapped by the same conflict to move >> beyond it - creating more space than top-down rules or historiic cultural >> misunderstanding had previously allowed - this always seems to me to be >> what is happening provided the facilitator is experienced >> >> 2 however what happens when people are no longer together in the space; >> are actions and post conflict innovations unstoppable?; here what bothers >> me is that there is no complete database of success stories- or if there is >> please given us one bookmark; i mean something that is an updating index >> not just this listing - a "good food guide" review format to open space so >> to speak >> >> 3 i wonder if anyone has experienced deep democracy which i believe was >> innovated by myrna lewis in south africa- this starts with a somewhat >> different process purpose ; it aims to identify opposng sides and then get >> them to debate what with all their energy but no violence what is their >> absolute minimum demands in a proposed solution which will make them unite >> with the other sides >> >> while 3 sounds a valid idea frankly it puts even more burden of the >> faciltator (or indeed the spirit of the space) and who actually sponsored >> the event - the very few deep democracies I have participated in did not >> have outcomes that i trusted even though I was there more as an observer >> than one of the interested partners >> >> just my 3 cents worth ; ultimately the catch 22 seems to me to be that >> unless hehre is already enough community to be the sponsor , the after-the >> space motivations of the sponoir come back into play- so how one deals with >> that is what I dont understand? >> >> chris macrae www.BRI.school <http://www.bri.school/> >> >> Who's fanning Chinese solutions to sustainability:1) by country,2) valu... >> ?<a href="http://www.chinathanks.com/1977">Entrepreneurial World's >> Greatest CASE : CHINA 2017-1977</a> worldwide... >> <http://www.bri.school/> >> >> >> > >> > On 30 January 2018 at 23:07, Daniel Mezick via OSList < >> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> >> wrote: >> > I am hearing this pointed criticism from some quarters: That OST >> actually encourages conflict-avoidance via the Law of 2 Feet. 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