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Paul Levy
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2019, 18:23 Amanda Bucklow via OSList, <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Harrison,
>
> I am with you. I don’t care for either certification or accreditation - it
> means nothing. White coats and Jack Nicolson are what comes to my mind and
> in truth the systems are run by the inmates! I would be very disheartened
> if OS succumbed to the myth of certification. OS is a process and like the
> process of baking bread it has essential ingredients (people, commitment
> and good will) and many recipes (their contributions).
>
> I hope you are in your summer palace! Maine if I recall. Feasting on
> lobsters perhaps?
>
> my very good wishes to you...
> Amanda
>
> On 2 Aug 2019, at 15:36, Harrison Owen via OSList <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> I must say that every  time I hear talk about “certification” I do have to
> smile. My immediate association is with locked facilities and men in white
> coats. Years ago it became very clear to me that any sort of
> Certification/accreditation didn’t make much sense. OST is free. Always has
> been. I particularly loved Chris’s story about Open Space in the prison.
> Truly, anybody can do it, and I hope they do. It  is just like breathing…
> and equally essential for life, I think.
>
> ho
>
> *From:* OSList [mailto:[email protected]
> <[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Amanda Bucklow
> via OSList
> *Sent:* Friday, August 2, 2019 9:51 AM
> *To:* World wide Open Space Technology email list
> *Cc:* Amanda Bucklow
> *Subject:* Re: [OSList] The Triumph of Truth Over Error...Chime in if
> that's OKAY with YOU? What do you say we raise some SERIOUS money
> OFFICIALLY training and certifying ALL the GOOD SPIRITS among us mortals to
> become CERTIFIED OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGISTS???
>
> Dear Marai
>
> I make the distinction between Certified (in the US sense) and Accredited
> as follows:
>
> Certified would be
> 1. State sponsored with legal status as in a certified accountant. In the
> UK in order to produce statutory accounts for the Inland Revenue you need
> to be ‘certified’ by a recognised body. The most common is Chartered
> Accountant which is the status conferred by the Privy Council and
> 2. there is a system of regulation which deals with disciplinary action
> the outcome of which is legal binding. This means your ‘licence’ to
> practice, and therefore you ability to earn your living, may be revoked or
> restricted in some way.
>
> Accredited would be
> 1. Trained by an organisation holding themselves out as qualified to train
> but not independently verified as competent to do so
> 2. A much shorter training, possibly non-standard and subject to the
> perceptions of the market as to quality, and
> 3. either no regulation or very light-touch regulation by a membership
> body, for example.
>
> The first invites the public to have confidence in the ‘certification’ and
> to rely on it. The second requires the consumer to make a judgment
> supported by more thorough research or recommendation.
>
> I do hope that is not too much information :-)
>
> kind regards
> Amanda
>
>
> On 2 Aug 2019, at 12:36, Marai Kiele via OSList <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear Amanda,
>
> Could you help me understand what for you the difference is between a
> certification (in the US sense) and an accreditation?
>
> I know there is a cultural difference (years ago I learned from a British
> colleague that in the UK „certified“ means ‘certified insane’ as you are
> saying).
>
> So you use the word „accredited“. I believe in the US they use „certified“
> for that very situation. True?
> (by the way here is a non-native English speaker from Germany asking).
>
> And I like your quote with your three distinctions.
>
> Marai
>
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>
>
>
> Am 02.08.2019 um 12:25 schrieb Facilit8 via OSList <
> [email protected]>:
>
> Dear Mark
>
> For me there is only one case for certification and that is ‘certified
> insane’. The rest is an illusion of certainty which is the very antithesis
> of Open Space at least as I experience it.
>
> I appreciate your enthusiasm for the business opportunity and for
> practitioners. I have found that the OSList and the wonderful discussions,
> which are both challenging and respectful, to be the very best professional
> development and better than any ‘regulation’ I have experienced in any
> profession bar none. Wise folks here share and repeat the simplicity of
> what we do in service of others.
>
> As I say to my student mediators: “your training means you understand the
> goals and theory and your accreditation means I think you are a safe pair
> of hands. Now, you turn up, pay attention and ‘be’ a mediator. There is no
> certificate for that.”
>
> Greetings and warm wishes from a lovely sunny Hove (south coast England)
>
> Amanda
>
> Amanda Bucklow
> Independent Commercial Mediator
> Https://amandabucklow.co.uk <https://amandabucklow.co.uk/>
> 07976 924995
>
>
> On 1 Aug 2019, at 20:35, Mark Carmel via OSList <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear World Wide Open Space Technologists,
>
> ALL we have to do ONLY requires a collective DECISION.
>
> Here is the question:  Are you IN or out?
>
> Mark Carmel
> Wannabe Certified OST
>
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