Re: [OSList] Skye Just feel the need to say the obvious

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Somehow this passed me by. Would have been a great loss. Skye – You got the 
nail dead center! Thank you.

 

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Dear Skye, 

 

I am just reading this now. I will be printing this, bringing copies to New 
York. The gift of your words and the lifetime of wisdom and discernment behind 
them brought tears to my eyes and awe in my heart.  

 

Thank you...

Suzanne




Suzanne Daigle
Open Space Facilitator
NuFocus Strategic Group

FL 941-359-8877
Cell: 203-722-2009
www.nufocusgroupusa.com
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Twitter @Daiglesuz

 

 

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Skye Hirst via OSList 
 wrote:

New mind for New Government By and For the People

What is happening and how?

Winning, at all costs, to what end?  What mediates such excess, and drive?  The 
answer is lots of people who care about something other than JUST winning.  
When there are people with lots of money who want more of lots of money, when 
the ends justify the means, we get a fools game like we’ve witnessed in the US 
Congress.  We can point to that set of events and say how is this happening?  

A world breaking down

Constellations of events have converged to create a world that doesn’t work, a 
world that breaks down trust, hope, morale and ethics agreements of centuries 
in the making. For example; rule of law, checks and balances between branches 
of government, rules against nepotism, no conflict of interest in leadership 
roles, regulation where the masses are protected against the control of the few 
(monopolies) control of public air ways (FCC), and communication rights (TV, 
Radio, Cable and now Internet), Protection of Environment for all (EPA) to name 
but a few.

Totalitarianism in the making

When there is no one to do the protecting, when the police and military become 
those in charge with no counter balance of justice or consequence, when 
leadership is singularly driven by acts of self-aggrandizement, using money, 
legal minds who can work around the laws, and psychological trickery to 
manipulate people vulnerable to advertizing, persuasion by distractions, 
anxieties and fears, then you have what we have today, a totalitarianism in the 
making.  The people who are participating unwittingly in this making are like 
fools in play land; US Congressional players with their hands in the pot 
grabbing what greed wants as the system falls apart. 

Becoming a counter balance

Maybe a new idea is to wake up, to re-member – by being an active counter 
balance, an antidote, to provide energy for new direction, actually, with 
renewed capacity, to be a government by the people, and for the people.  Can 
there exist a government such as this?  Even if the American ideal was just 
that, an experiment in the making, can what was put in place by founding 
fathers be re-invented with new minds that have deeper understanding of how 
life works, how consciousness creates structures from spirit of intention, from 
highest values of inclusion, valuing life-itself as highest value, (inalienable 
rights)?  To make choices that are life-giving, that grow, not kill, that 
support, not constrain, that free, not entrap, that create hope, trust, and 
working together towards what works for the whole good of life-itself in which 
we all share.  

Growing a New Mind

How this can occur, many here know already, is best exemplified by Open Space 
Technology.

Harrison Owen put a name to this living process he describes as Open Space 
Technology. Over twenty years ago, he began to talk of this universal process 
that goes on in nature, plays out over and over again when certain conditions 
arrise. People closest to the work to be done, people most impacted by what 
needs to change, come together, sit in a circle, listen to their own passions 
and knowing and find ways to act with new awareness. Through listening, being 
responsible for what needs to happen, plans for actions emerge. Often action 
begins immediately in times of crisis. Leaders emerge around projects and work 
to be done. Hearts and minds are changed with new ways of knowing the situation 
at hand reveal.  Movement towards harmonization happens with no controllers, no 
force required. 

This is a dynamic inherent in life where people are driven by intentions for 
life, liberty, and freedom to pursue one’s happiness, to follow one’s 
“self-law” (acts of autonomy,) while doing so in collaboration with others 
doing the same, like cells in our bodies.   

I like how In Open Space 

Re: [OSList] Skye Just feel the need to say the obvious

[Suzanne Daigle via OSList]

Dear Skye,

I am just reading this now. I will be printing this, bringing copies to New
York. The gift of your words and the lifetime of wisdom and discernment
behind them brought tears to my eyes and awe in my heart.

Thank you...
Suzanne

Suzanne Daigle
Open Space Facilitator
NuFocus Strategic Group

FL 941-359-8877
Cell: 203-722-2009
www.nufocusgroupusa.com
s.dai...@nufocusgroup.com
Twitter @Daiglesuz


On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Skye Hirst via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> *New mind for New Government By and For the People*
>
> *What is happening and how?*
>
> Winning, at all costs, to what end?  What mediates such excess, and drive?
> The answer is lots of people who care about something other than JUST
> winning.  When there are people with lots of money who want more of lots
> of money, when the ends justify the means, we get a fools game like we’ve
> witnessed in the US Congress.  We can point to that set of events and say
> how is this happening?
>
> *A world breaking down*
>
> Constellations of events have converged to create a world that doesn’t
> work, a world that breaks down trust, hope, morale and ethics agreements of
> centuries in the making. For example; rule of law, checks and balances
> between branches of government, rules against nepotism, no conflict of
> interest in leadership roles, regulation where the masses are protected
> against the control of the few (monopolies) control of public air ways
> (FCC), and communication rights (TV, Radio, Cable and now Internet),
> Protection of Environment for all (EPA) to name but a few.
>
> *Totalitarianism in the making*
>
> When there is no one to do the protecting, when the police and military
> become those in charge with no counter balance of justice or consequence,
> when leadership is singularly driven by acts of self-aggrandizement, using
> money, legal minds who can work around the laws, and psychological trickery
> to manipulate people vulnerable to advertizing, persuasion by distractions,
> anxieties and fears, then you have what we have today, a totalitarianism in
> the making.  The people who are participating unwittingly in this making
> are like fools in play land; US Congressional players with their hands in
> the pot grabbing what greed wants as the system falls apart.
>
> *Becoming a counter balance*
>
> Maybe a new idea is to wake up, to re-member – by being an active counter
> balance, an antidote, to provide energy for new direction, actually, with
> renewed capacity, to be a government by the people, and for the people.  Can
> there exist a government such as this?  Even if the American ideal was
> just that, an experiment in the making, can what was put in place by
> founding fathers be re-invented with new minds that have deeper
> understanding of how life works, how consciousness creates structures from
> spirit of intention, from highest values of inclusion, valuing life-itself
> as highest value, (inalienable rights)?  To make choices that are
> life-giving, that grow, not kill, that support, not constrain, that free,
> not entrap, that create hope, trust, and working together towards what
> works for the whole good of life-itself in which we all share.
>
> *Growing a New Mind*
>
> How this can occur, many here know already, is best exemplified by Open
> Space Technology.
>
> Harrison Owen put a name to this living process he describes as Open Space
> Technology. Over twenty years ago, he began to talk of this universal
> process that goes on in nature, plays out over and over again when certain
> conditions arrise. People closest to the work to be done, people most
> impacted by what needs to change, come together, sit in a circle, listen to
> their own passions and knowing and find ways to act with new awareness.
> Through listening, being responsible for what needs to happen, plans for
> actions emerge. Often action begins immediately in times of crisis. Leaders
> emerge around projects and work to be done. Hearts and minds are changed
> with new ways of knowing the situation at hand reveal.  Movement towards
> harmonization happens with no controllers, no force required.
>
> This is a dynamic inherent in life where people are driven by intentions
> for life, liberty, and freedom to pursue one’s happiness, to follow one’s
> “self-law” (acts of autonomy,) while doing so in collaboration with others
> doing the same, like cells in our bodies.
>
> I like how In Open Space Technology we can re-member and experience the
> process of growing this *new mind for government for the people, and by
> the people *every time we participate in it.
>
> There are a few things to point out here that seem to occur naturally,
> obvious, as they may be to many reading this.
>
> 1) There is *passion* around an issue that draws people together in
> physical or digital space and time.
>
> 2) An *urgency* to action exists.
>
> 3) An *invitation is extended* to all those stakeholders who have a stake
> in that 

Re: [OSList] Skye Just feel the need to say the obvious

[Tricia Chirumbole via OSList]

Thank you for this timely and inspiring reminder! I am sharing it around
and meditating on it :)

On Tue, December 26, 2017 6:48 am, Skye Hirst via OSList wrote:
> *New mind for New Government By and For the People*
>
>
> *What is happening and how?*
>
>
> Winning, at all costs, to what end?  What mediates such excess, and
> drive?  The answer is lots of people who care about something other than
> JUST
> winning.  When there are people with lots of money who want more of lots of
> money, when the ends justify the means, we get a fools game like we’ve
> witnessed in the US Congress.  We can point to that set of events and say
> how is this happening?
>
> *A world breaking down*
>
>
> Constellations of events have converged to create a world that doesn’t
> work, a world that breaks down trust, hope, morale and ethics agreements
> of centuries in the making. For example; rule of law, checks and balances
> between branches of government, rules against nepotism, no conflict of
> interest in leadership roles, regulation where the masses are protected
> against the control of the few (monopolies) control of public air ways
> (FCC), and communication rights (TV, Radio, Cable and now Internet),
> Protection of Environment for all (EPA) to name but a few.
>
>
> *Totalitarianism in the making*
>
>
> When there is no one to do the protecting, when the police and military
> become those in charge with no counter balance of justice or consequence,
> when leadership is singularly driven by acts of self-aggrandizement,
> using money, legal minds who can work around the laws, and psychological
> trickery to manipulate people vulnerable to advertizing, persuasion by
> distractions, anxieties and fears, then you have what we have today, a
> totalitarianism in the making.  The people who are participating
> unwittingly in this making are like fools in play land; US Congressional
> players with their hands in the pot grabbing what greed wants as the
> system falls apart.
>
> *Becoming a counter balance*
>
>
> Maybe a new idea is to wake up, to re-member – by being an active counter
>  balance, an antidote, to provide energy for new direction, actually,
> with renewed capacity, to be a government by the people, and for the
> people.  Can there exist a government such as this?  Even if the American
> ideal was just that, an experiment in the making, can what was put in
> place by founding fathers be re-invented with new minds that have deeper
> understanding of how life works, how consciousness creates structures from
> spirit of intention, from highest values of inclusion, valuing life-itself
> as highest value, (inalienable rights)?  To make choices that are
> life-giving, that grow, not kill, that support, not constrain, that free,
> not entrap, that create hope, trust, and working together towards what
> works for the whole good of life-itself in which we all share.
>
> *Growing a New Mind*
>
>
> How this can occur, many here know already, is best exemplified by Open
> Space Technology.
>
>
> Harrison Owen put a name to this living process he describes as Open
> Space
> Technology. Over twenty years ago, he began to talk of this universal
> process that goes on in nature, plays out over and over again when certain
>  conditions arrise. People closest to the work to be done, people most
> impacted by what needs to change, come together, sit in a circle, listen
> to their own passions and knowing and find ways to act with new awareness.
>  Through listening, being responsible for what needs to happen, plans for
>  actions emerge. Often action begins immediately in times of crisis.
> Leaders
> emerge around projects and work to be done. Hearts and minds are changed
> with new ways of knowing the situation at hand reveal.  Movement towards
> harmonization happens with no controllers, no force required.
>
> This is a dynamic inherent in life where people are driven by intentions
> for life, liberty, and freedom to pursue one’s happiness, to follow one’s
> “self-law” (acts of autonomy,) while doing so in collaboration with
> others doing the same, like cells in our bodies.
>
> I like how In Open Space Technology we can re-member and experience the
> process of growing this *new mind for government for the people, and by
> the people *every time we participate in it.
>
> There are a few things to point out here that seem to occur naturally,
> obvious, as they may be to many reading this.
>
> 1) There is *passion* around an issue that draws people together in
> physical or digital space and time.
>
> 2) An *urgency* to action exists.
>
>
> 3) An *invitation is extended* to all those stakeholders who have a stake
>  in that passion and that urgency.
>
> 4) People *sit in a circle*, metaphorically or in real space-time
> reality, take time to pause, reflect on reason for coming together, what
> brought each to this moment and time.
>
> 5) The *circle is open* for people to begin their quest to find
> questions, answers, and debate, 

[OSList] Skye Just feel the need to say the obvious

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

*New mind for New Government By and For the People*

*What is happening and how?*

Winning, at all costs, to what end?  What mediates such excess, and drive?  The
answer is lots of people who care about something other than JUST
winning.  When
there are people with lots of money who want more of lots of money, when
the ends justify the means, we get a fools game like we’ve witnessed in the
US Congress.  We can point to that set of events and say how is this
happening?

*A world breaking down*

Constellations of events have converged to create a world that doesn’t
work, a world that breaks down trust, hope, morale and ethics agreements of
centuries in the making. For example; rule of law, checks and balances
between branches of government, rules against nepotism, no conflict of
interest in leadership roles, regulation where the masses are protected
against the control of the few (monopolies) control of public air ways
(FCC), and communication rights (TV, Radio, Cable and now Internet),
Protection of Environment for all (EPA) to name but a few.

*Totalitarianism in the making*

When there is no one to do the protecting, when the police and military
become those in charge with no counter balance of justice or consequence,
when leadership is singularly driven by acts of self-aggrandizement, using
money, legal minds who can work around the laws, and psychological trickery
to manipulate people vulnerable to advertizing, persuasion by distractions,
anxieties and fears, then you have what we have today, a totalitarianism in
the making.  The people who are participating unwittingly in this making
are like fools in play land; US Congressional players with their hands in
the pot grabbing what greed wants as the system falls apart.

*Becoming a counter balance*

Maybe a new idea is to wake up, to re-member – by being an active counter
balance, an antidote, to provide energy for new direction, actually, with
renewed capacity, to be a government by the people, and for the people.  Can
there exist a government such as this?  Even if the American ideal was just
that, an experiment in the making, can what was put in place by founding
fathers be re-invented with new minds that have deeper understanding of how
life works, how consciousness creates structures from spirit of intention,
from highest values of inclusion, valuing life-itself as highest value,
(inalienable rights)?  To make choices that are life-giving, that grow, not
kill, that support, not constrain, that free, not entrap, that create hope,
trust, and working together towards what works for the whole good of
life-itself in which we all share.

*Growing a New Mind*

How this can occur, many here know already, is best exemplified by Open
Space Technology.

Harrison Owen put a name to this living process he describes as Open Space
Technology. Over twenty years ago, he began to talk of this universal
process that goes on in nature, plays out over and over again when certain
conditions arrise. People closest to the work to be done, people most
impacted by what needs to change, come together, sit in a circle, listen to
their own passions and knowing and find ways to act with new awareness.
Through listening, being responsible for what needs to happen, plans for
actions emerge. Often action begins immediately in times of crisis. Leaders
emerge around projects and work to be done. Hearts and minds are changed
with new ways of knowing the situation at hand reveal.  Movement towards
harmonization happens with no controllers, no force required.

This is a dynamic inherent in life where people are driven by intentions
for life, liberty, and freedom to pursue one’s happiness, to follow one’s
“self-law” (acts of autonomy,) while doing so in collaboration with others
doing the same, like cells in our bodies.

I like how In Open Space Technology we can re-member and experience the
process of growing this *new mind for government for the people, and by the
people *every time we participate in it.

There are a few things to point out here that seem to occur naturally,
obvious, as they may be to many reading this.

1) There is *passion* around an issue that draws people together in
physical or digital space and time.

2) An *urgency* to action exists.

3) An *invitation is extended* to all those stakeholders who have a stake
in that passion and that urgency.

4) People *sit in a circle*, metaphorically or in real space-time reality,
take time to pause, reflect on reason for coming together, what brought
each to this moment and time.

5) The *circle is open* for people to begin their quest to find questions,
answers, and debate, resolve, and emerge with insights, actions for dealing
with the situation at hand.

Self-knowing actions

With minimum structure, no controls other than “self-knowing, self-law
actions” work gets done, plans made, spirits lifted, collaborations
generated, teams organized, leaders show up, a swell of possibility or
confrontation with “oh shit we don’t have