Peggy's- OS for "bad" purposes

[Lisa Heft]

I love this conversation.  Many thanks to you, Peggy.

If we are not to judge people and are supposed to just let
them 'be' in Open Space -- create space for them and get out
of the way -- then it seems to me we really cannot judge
whether something they do with this is good or bad.  Here we
are assuming that gang-does-this.  Open Space creates space
to do deeper thinking and communication, along with a lot of
work.

In my discussion facilitation with gang members (after a
theatre-in-education play on teen homophobic hate violence)
we got to deeper levels, shared confidences, inside truths,
ahas, and other amazing things that I fully expected.  Seems
to me that whenever you treat people with respect,
especially if they don't feel they get any, they blossom
(grow and expand).  And of course, it's important to create
a safe space with your every action and word.

So those gang members communicated on a deeper level with
themselves and with others that day.  Sort of like what
happens in Open Space.  So after that facilitated
discussion, can they use that deeper knowing for 'bad'?  I'm
not sure they can.  They can stuff it back in, but they
cannot manipulate 'knowing'.

I would l-o-v-e to give gang members the Open Space
experience.  Sign me right up.

Lisa

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