"Planned happenstance. . ."

[Harrison Owen]

David McKay wrote: "The article also pulls from the research the qualities
in a client which best predispose them to taking advantage of serendipity.
That may be the most applicable to folks here -- as Open Space seems to rely
on planned happenstance."

Isn't it interesting how everything has to be fitted into "the plan," even
if planning had nothing to do with whatever is going on? Or maybe more
accurately, "planning" as the intentional human act, was only one of a
myriad of factors creating the present moment. For me Open Space is not too
far from stopping to smell the roses, allowing the present moment to appear
as it is, no longer covered by all the might-have-beens, could-have-beens,
or should-have-beens -- plans. Many take open space, and the experience of
open Space, as a strange new reality. I guess my experience is diametrically
the opposite. Everything is Open Space, but that fact is obscured by a whole
mess of exogenous lay-ons. All the plans. 

Harrison



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