Mark Sheffield talks a lot about clean language This message has been sent from my mobile device and therefore may be somewhat wonky.
Barry Owen Real Estate Strategist Principal Broker & Founder Pareto Realty, LLC 4004 Hillsboro Pike B234 Nashville, TN 37215 http://BarryOwen.us On Sun, Sep 29, 2019, 12:38 PM Jake Yeager via OSList < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've sensed that there is a relationship between Clean Language > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Language> and Open Space, but I > wasn't sure what it was. They are definitely similar in construction: > minimalist and precise. But I felt the relationship was deeper than these > characteristics. Then, I came across a passage in an Open Space case study > called We Passed the Flowerpot from Lap to Lap: Using Open Space to > Create a Learning Communit > <https://www.openspaceworld.org/files/tmnfiles/learning.htm>y by Sara > Halprin and Herb Long. In the study, two students who participated in a > three-weekend course that was conducted in Open Space capture their > experience as thus (emphasis mine): > > "The course was to be about learning and development, so what did we learn > and how do we learn? We learn by exploring. We learn by listening. We learn > through our families, our culture and our experiences. We learn by taking > risks and stretching our minds. It is a lifelong process and a spiritual > process. *What we discover as we go along is that much of what we think > we need to know, we actually have inside ourselves already. The trick is to > accept ourselves and to look inside ourselves to find the teacher within* > ." > > That the client discovers answers within is a key aspect of Clean > Language; however, I never considered it as so for Open Space. But, I now > see how Open Space also encourages introspection. In Open Space, > participants have no recourse to authority; instead, they must rely on > themselves. Similarly, in Clean Language, the client cannot garner > expertise or advice from the practitioner. Therefore, in both modalities, > the participant must learn self-reliance, and to rely on one's self means > to look within for answers. And I think this might be the deeper > relationship that I sensed! > > Just a thought. Would love to hear what other's think. > > Much love, > Jake > ________________ > > When the mind is quiet, the sun of your heart will shine once again, and > you will be free of problems. > - Robert Adams <http://www.robert-adams.info/> > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
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