Unintend Consequences, Collateral Damage and Truth Telling

[Douglas D. Germann, Sr.]

Harrison--

 << Last thought. I don't think I was describing a new way to conclude and
 << Open Space. If anything it was more about kick starting the whole
 << operation with a radical re-opening of Space. It was also about giving
 << everybody the clear opportunity to make their own choices in a way that
 << placed the responsibility for that choice totally on them.

OK, I see how it was opening a whole lot more space, a radical re-opening.
And placing that responsibility for choice was the crux of that act of
opening space. And trust.

Yet there is a lesson here, a deeper one I can almost put my finger on.

It might have to do with your half-way measures. It certainly has to do
with trusting the people who came (the right people) to make the decisions,
the choices that the organization/situation needs, that Harrison or whoever
is holding space needs, that the world needs, that the evolution of
humanity needs. And helping them see that not only are they trusted, but
that that trust is well-placed: in short, they are able, and in fact they
are the only ones who can get them out of the despair in which they find
themselves.

So the radical (re-)opening of space might be the next step to the whole.

There is something here, and we are learning not a technique as I posited,
but something much larger. What is it, anyone?

                              :-Doug.
                              Seeking people making change.

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