AW: Four way translation of open space

[Catherine Pfaehler]

Dear Chris, most valuable thoughts, need only a bit of digesting and
shortening... keep going! Catherine

Catherine Pfaehler
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macrae
Gesendet: Samstag, 27. Dezember 2003 11:00
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Betreff: Four way translation of open space

I wonder if you could help me edit a short passage on what Open Space
does. The context is a circle of 4 misunderstandings/conflicts between
professionals and policy capital advisers who I hope will one day get
over their command & controls:

1) European Knowledge Management Policy Makers who don't understand that
virtual inter-networking is to be a people freedom - how you square the
value of your lifetime multiplying what you do for real with what you
can learn and respect by being virtually mentored worldwide

2) Professions that have become rabid at separating their own business
case leaving humanity to take the hindmost- starting with mass media
communications professionals whom after 21 years in their global midst I
rate worst of all at promoting humanity (ie I am a brand architecture
expert but I 90% agree with Naomi Klein of No Logo and all the deep
democracy challenges she tries to report from the grassroots up. I
completely disagree with The Economist's Pro Logo even though my father
edited there for 40 years... & today's head of the EU having once -a
quarter century ago- having translated The Coming Entrepreneurial
Revolution into Italian))

3) Low awareness of the messy humanly innovative ways to use email
needed to connect the disconnected, and to make 4 degrees of separation
evaporate

4) Never having heard or done open space before, being scared of such
minimalist facilitation.

In this context , here is my first short write up of open space - I
realise it needs lots of editing

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Open Space - gateway tool to real time, real place

Open Space technology (link 4 webs of osworld and PoP) permits every
human to make the most of their time.

Systemically it is also the simplest tool people will have for
communally valuing the dynamics of Conflict, Change and Chaos.

Each of these 3 C's is depressingly misunderstood whenever our human
race forgets its essential collaborative spirit - what made us better at
value multiplying than those species we call animals.

For example, when you bring people together in conflict, you have a very
deep situation and lots of highly passionate perspectives. If you can
resolve this is in a way that openly engages everyone in the prospects
of a better future than the conflict ridden past, you have started one
of the most valuable collaborative initiatives that anyone involved
could possibly have spent their time on. It is terrifying how
systemically immature our current understanding of conflict is both in
commercial business contexts and human policy ones of places and
environments. Equally if we can openly go beyond this barrier, the
prospects for the human race's innovative diversity may become wonderful
at every locality worldwide.

If you want to see emerging messy collage in its emerging messy state
(I'm not clever at html) but take a look at
http://www.knowledgeboard.com/community/zones/sig/kmei.html

thanks
chris macrae, wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk
ps trying to open space the readers of this European Union web in 2004
(crossing a lot of fingers)

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