OSO and chaordic commons

[Peggy Holman]

Oops...talk about a teaser!  My finger hit the send key way too soon.  I'm
giving this another try....



Ah, the need for real examples!  A while back, Sharon Quarrington said:

> I would love to hear how a group that uses OST as part of a chaordic
design goes.

Jeff Aitken recently offered:
>YET it's SO much easier to let the open space become visible FIRST, and
THEN learn how to get out of its way.



Over the last 4 years, Spirited Work has been growing a learning community
using Open Space as it's form.  There is a quarterly gathering, once a
season, using Angeles Arien's archetypes as the lens for exploring spirited
work.  During that time, this gathering has moved from a "program" with 4
sessions to an ongoing community that happens to get together 4 times a
year.  In year 3, a group of people posted a session in the marketplace to
put a purpose and principles on paper.  Over the course of the year, their
work was posted and discussed as a marketplace offering.  Now there is a
document, called "Community Understandings" that grew out of the desire of
some folks in the community to put our way of being together on paper.

Seeing the governance evolve has been quite exciting.  Originally, 4
conveners opened and held the space.  The Whidbey Institute managed the
material needs.  Now, a group of Stewards have taken responsibility for
everything, spiritual and material -- convening, finances, housing,
registration, etc.  I have found the Stewards group to be the "intensive" as
whatever is up for the community shows up big time when the Stewards come
together.  The amazing part is that we are taking on whatever issues and
foibles arise in a respectful, loving way.

So, there's a taste of how a chaordic organization begins to grow.

Peggy


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