OSLIST Digest - 12 Mar 2005 to 13 Mar 2005 (#2005-71)

[Pat Black]

I don't have any experience working in a corporate environment but have more
than thirty years of experience doing community organizing and grass roots
political organizing.  I am not sure my experience can be transfered to a
corporate setting but here goes.  I have found when people come together as
a group for whatever passion, they carry with them baggage from past
encounters, past experiences.  I find that the baggage profoundly affects
their ability to trust themselves and therefore, others in the group.  For
me the brilliance of Open Space is that it provides a very simply structure
for people to use so they can just operate in trust with themselves.  The
structure directs them to look inward, measure their own response to the
experience and act accordingly.  Simple guidelines allow individuals to know
what is right for them.  If it is right for the individual it is right for
the group.  People trust themselves and can then operate in trust.
Pat Black


Date:    Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:35:21 -0500
From:    Harrison Owen <hhowen at comcast.net>
Subject: Principles, Process, and People

What is becoming clearer to me as this conversation moves along is that =
my
initial discomfort with the "Trust the Process" frame of mind has =
nothing to
do with either the process (whatever that process might be) or the
principles which under lie it. Rather it is my concern that we have =
placed
our faith in arbitrary abstractions at the expense of some very concrete
realities - The People. In a word, process and principles become =
primary,
and the people are left in second place.=20

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