A Question about self-organizing systems

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Doris,

I had not read your last paragraph, before going back to your posting
after sending mine.

Your wrote there of "creating that environment"

I think, the environment (for whatever system you can think, exept
perhaps the universe as a whole, and what is this?)  is already
there, we are "modulating" it, "enriching" it, "creating
fluctuations" in it, "gestalting" it (p.ex. to gestalt 'temporary
bubbles of freedom' was, what I tried to do when I worked as a
teacher in schools)

My impression is, a facilitator (or OD consultant ...) is a kind of
temporary in-between-agent, supporting the re-arrangement of the
system with its self, its elements and its environment.

I am quite shure, that we do not create anything (separable from our
clients, from the environment),

but I even think, the way we influence is not so much the way of
giving pills or surgery to an ill person,

but the way indian food nourishes in an equilibrated way (insofar we
are cooking advisers, giving hints to better mixtures of the subtle
ingredients who change the taste and equilibrate the system)

and/or the way homeopathy improves the general response of a person
or animal to its inner & outer environment: it has no real scientific
ground (insofar cou could call it a "swindle") but my brother, who is
a veterinary would not give it to his clients, if its effects would
only depend on a "belief-system"

and/or the way "acupuncture" does not really change anything but
opening channels, improving the flux of energy which the body
produces and distributes in a far too subtle way to be positively
influenced by artificial external "creations"; it is more a kick for
the system to jump in one of its other potential realizations,
unfolding a potential already here, but not yet fulfilled.

and/or the way Aikido, Judo etc. try to come to the unity of
body-head-and soul and then react intuitively to the fluxes and
refluxes of energy between persons & environment and do not try to
invest their energy against the other's, but use the energy of the
other (system) to improve/relax the general situation.

(I would be happy to learn about other metafors)

so:

co-creating perhaps
but mainly beeing
alert and present
I think
i feel

Bernhard
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01.02.2002 at 07:55:42 (GMT/UT + 02:00)

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