Thanks Peggy,
I associate the current realities to the first time we saw the image of our 
blue green orb hanging in space.  Our home.  Our Earth, there is only one of us 
in the solar system.  The image was passive and the threats etc did not 
immediately hit home.  Now we are all vulnerable, the whole world to an 
organism that kills.

The response is interesting to follow as well as lead.  As a family we have now 
celebrated a 40th and a 10th birthday, Easter Day had the whole family together 
reaching out to each other.   My Doctors and Specialists are using Skype, zoom 
etc to consult saving heaps of time and money.  We are exploring ways of 
conversing with each other as well as encouraging participation.  The last zoom 
meeting had over 460 participants and I heard every word and could ask 
questions via email it was like a personal interview with the Federal Minister 
for Health.

Now my family is adapting to school at home.  Very much a new learning 
environment.  My family have set up school spaces and really have adapted very 
quickly.  

As we try things to explore the chaos and develop responses in complexity I 
would rather learn than liable actions because of the newness and completeness 
of our responses.   Spiral Dynamics gives us some clues as to how the changes 
might develop as w again strive for that self organising, self actuating  
structure.   

It seems to me right now there are many bees and butterflies along with highly 
energised groups living out the Open Space principles.  How good is that!  



Regards
Rob

> On 17 Apr 2020, at 7:25 am, Peggy Holman via OSList 
> <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Thanks for opening this conversation. I’ve been thinking about something 
> similar, with a slightly different emphasis. I’ve been struck by how 
> frequently I’m hearing “we’re all in this together”. So I’ve been thinking 
> about how it is a time of both personal responsibility AND a sense of the 
> greater good that has never existed in my lifetime. (We’re about the same 
> age.) Even talk of sacrifice. Something I recall my parents talking about 
> from their youth in World War 2.
> 
> Something that has intersected this mulling has been watching the amazing 
> amount of constructive journalism happening right now. Practical, responsive, 
> listening to the questions from the public. And, of course, the generosity of 
> people self-organizing to help others.
> 
> One last element in my thinking about this: "tend and befriend" rather than 
> "fight or flight.” In brief, in 2000, a woman psychologist looked at the 
> research that led to coining the phrase fight or flight to characterize human 
> response to threat or stress. Turns out, like much of that early social 
> science research, it was done primarily with men. The psychologist, Shelley 
> Taylor, working with a team of women, found women tended to respond 
> differently. They took care of the vulnerable and worked together.
> 
> With nowhere to run, I see much of the response to Coronavirus following the 
> pattern of tend and befriend. It’s a trend I’d sure like to see made 
> conscious and furthered. I wrote a 2-minute piece about it: 
> https://medium.com/@PeggyHolman/journalism-that-tends-and-befriends-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-1ec800ccf9ad.
> 
> I think fighting and fleeing less and tending and befriending more 
> encompasses both personal responsibility and the common good.
> 
> Be well and stay sane,
> Peggy
> 
> 
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>> On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:40 PM, Michael Herman via OSList 
>> <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all, 
>> 
>> I had a thought recently that might be interesting here, and that maybe you 
>> can add on to, as a story and conversation here.  And then in the world.  
>> This overlaps with some other recent threads, too, I think.  
>> 
>> As background, I'm exactly old enough that the moon landing is, as best I 
>> can tell, my oldest memory.  I've seen pictures of stuff that happened 
>> before, but I clearly remember the space toys being given away at gas 
>> stations, our family buying our first color TV, and (just like now) keeping 
>> our distance... in that case we were supposed to stay six feet from the new 
>> set.  
>> 
>> From that global moment came all kinds of "big blue marble" photos, Bucky 
>> Fuller's "Spaceship Earth," and other images.  Now we had a picture of "all 
>> in this together" where "all" really was every human.  And then, a few 
>> decades later, we've created a global network, a global economy, and global 
>> epidemics.  Not everyone made a direct, conscious connection about those 
>> images from space, but somehow we all grew up participating in the creation 
>> of these global structures and phenomena.
>>  
>> Now I think we might have a chance to accelerate our swing back, to the 
>> micro, the local, the individual in equally strong, long-term ways.  It took 
>> us a while to get there, but the message coming clearer now is "wear a 
>> mask," for instance, "to protect others..."  And inside of that, this seems 
>> like a visceral reminder that "what you, the little individual does -- does 
>> matter."  It matters with masks and the virus, but it can be, and I hope it 
>> will be, quickly translated to the plastic we use, the miles we drive, the 
>> other things we purchase and reinforce with our money, the way we manage 
>> emotions in groups, and so on.  It matters for everyone to manage their own 
>> "stuff," their own behavior, purchases, words, and other choices.  
>> 
>> This is what I hope we might be learning, anyway.  And within all of the 
>> possibilities, choosing to take responsibility for one's own experience, 
>> actively choosing to be learning and contributing, seems to me about the 
>> best choices we could focus on, each of us, individually and personally.  
>> What we've been saying all along, in various ways, that individual agency 
>> and actions matter, seems more important and understandable that ever.  
>> 
>> This makes me curious if and how what is happening now with the virus and 
>> what we've all been teaching and practicing and inviting "in open space," 
>> might shape the world over the next few decades.  I wonder what kind of a 
>> world might emerge from increasing awareness of personal agency, 
>> responsibility, learning and contributing, in meetings and everywhere else.  
>> 
>> This is one good thing I have imagined could emerge from this.  This is the 
>> view I'm testing as I watch the news and talk with clients these days.
>> 
>> What do you think might come out of the current situation, on any scale?  
>> 
>> And is there anything else to do about helping it along, for now, wherever 
>> we are?  
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
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>> 
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