Open Space and Open Forum? OST and processwork

[Harrison Owen]

Arnold Mindell always works too hard. But then again, he has been doing the
"Open Forum"" for a long time, and I am sure it works for him. - And yes it
is true (with OS) - just read the book, and Do It! actually, a lot of people
have never read the book, just Done it - and guess what? Works.  Don't take
me wrong. A. Mindell is a marvelous person, major player, who has done
marvelous work. But I still think he works too hard. Anne Stadler, sometime
visitor to OSLIST, old Open Spacer, friend, colleague and student of A.M (
and definitely and old friend and colleague of mine) could fill in some of
the pieces - if we could get her to answer her mail. Anne????

 

Harrison

 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Raffi
Aftandelian
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 1:33 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Open Space and Open Forum? OST and processwork

 

Dear openspeisery,

Right now I'm in the middle of participating in a workshop being led by
people that I have been dreaming of seeing for 10 years. Arnold Mindell
(originiator of process work) and his wife and partner are leading a
workshop entitled "Magical Paths between worlds". This workshop, as I
understand, reflects Arnold's efforts in tying together physics, psychology,
and shamanism.

 

Why do I mention this here?

 

In one of his books,
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1571742301/qid=1083519235/sr=
1-6/ref=sr_1_6/002-5718921-5764021?v=glance&s=books> The Deep Democracy of
Open Forums: Practical Steps to Conflict Prevention and Resolution for the
Family, Workplace, and World, I believe he mentions OST as a follow-up step
to using Open Forums. An Open Forum, quite briefly, for those who may not
know (I have only read about this, never been to one) is a way of holding a
meeting with a large number (or not very large number) of people who are in
profound conflict (quite literally in a space ready to kill each other) and
using what Mindell calls a semi-linear process to facilitate large group
transformation. OST is mentioned as a potential follow-up step after an Open
Forum. He essentially suggests what you, Harrison, suggest people do with
OS: read the book and try it. That's something of a simplification, of
course, he suggests that people first try leading mini-Open Forums (10
people participating for example).

 

I intend to (haven't had the chance yet to ask Arnold and Amy about whether
there is an Open Forum community real or virtual or not. But, for now I just
wanted to put this question out there. Are there folks who have lead an Open
Forum? Used OST (or some other large group intervention) as a follow-up
step? 

 

My attempts online to find out about a regular application of Open Forums
hasn't yielded any results.

 

I know there are some folks on list (hi Kenoli!) who have at minimum
experienced processwork. Your thoughts, knowledge, etc. on this would be
much appreciated!

 

Thanks,

Raffi (Aftandelian)

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