Subject: Principles, Process, and People

Glory Ressler on.the.edge at sympatico.ca
Mon Mar 14 07:26:20 PST 2005


I'm with you, Pat... including OST facilitators modeling trust in the people
(and their processes) AND the Principles/Law giving them 'permission' them
to trust themselves...
Support on both ends - which, for some with 'baggage', represents a
challenge.

Best wishes,
Glory

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Black" <patblack at paulbunyan.net>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: OSLIST Digest - 12 Mar 2005 to 13 Mar 2005 (#2005-71)


>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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