What Have we Learned (continuing)

Thu Mar 31 21:01:59 PST 2005

harrison, et al
thanks for the opportunity and context to add something to -what we have
learnt-
and
this passed between helen and i yesterday and i don't think it needs any
modification for this worthy thread( other than the bracketed additions)
daniel lebel
westport NZ
and
interspace
----- Original Message -----
From: Helen Patterson
To: lebelland
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: today

Hi Daniel

Cool to hear of part one of your interplay with deconstruction, creation,
and open space....
perhaps the manifestation of the power, the dream, the love.
Looking forward to more......

I am very well.
Presently sending out letters for the upcoming COSO workshop in Wellington
in May, proof reading the updated manuals for the GC program, contributing
to the developing GC website.

Mushrooms growing, raining, dentist tomorrow, tree chopper tomorrow and more
proof reading tonight.

E-see you soon
Warm regards
Helen

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: lebelland
  To: hp at paradise.net.nz
  Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:45 PM
  Subject: today

  i shaved and cut my hair and opened space for a group in westport and it
was good

  it has been a very physical recent period which has seen myself buying an
old house in town and with Niko, (my son) dismantling it piece by piece to
bring it home with a view to using this resource to further the development
and growth of lebelland( our life) on the westcoast

  it's being fantastic and the deconstruction part of it is not quite
finished but soon it will be
  Not the least of what makes it fantastic is working with Niko which is a
continuous pleasure.

  interspace( coso) grows, it  keeps opening space with new people naturally
and playfully.  Time passes and we become more and more at ease with this
'work', dragging in  increasingly disparate and obtuse justifications for
being there at all................and  just keep breaking down those
barriers to peoples not believing they are the power, the dream and the love
inside themselves

  someone just came to talk and im sending this as part one
  one part of contact with you
  and trusting you are well

  more to come
  D

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at comcast.net>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:09 AM
Subject: What Have we Learned (continuing)

Thank You Chris and Christy! I love it when we get a little alliteration
going here!!!  And with that Thank You comes a continuing invitation to
everybody else to share what they have learned. Christy said, "I like how
this thread has become a deep slow stream braiding through all the rest." I
agree. No wine should be poured before its time. Slow and easy. That is what
makes this continuing item GOOD! And you might have thought I that I would
just back off on this one????    Never!  OS on its 20th deserves your very
best!!!

Since threads have a way of disappearing in this wonderful forest of ideas,
which is OSLIST, I will take this opportunity to repost my original
invitation with updates. Just in case anybody wonders what it is all about!
:-)

The Invitation

In 1985 the first Open Space happened in Monterey California. This year (in
case you haven't noticed) is 2005. In short OS has been around for 20 years
(not counting the 14,000,000,000 years previously). So what have we learned?

My hope would be to inspire/goad/embarrass/encourage each one of you to
reflect on the past 20 years (or at least that part of the 20 years in which
you participated in the OS community) - and offer up your understanding of
what you, personally, have learned - about Open Space, yourself in Open
Space, about organizations in Open Space.

Although it is doubtless Politically Incorrect - I suggest a rule for our
discussion. Pretend this is a closing circle, and we are passing the Talking
Stick. Take a moment, maybe even a LONG moment (days/weeks) to reflect on
what you have learned, and then talk as long as you want. And not just the
"good stuff" - the pain and disillusionment as well, if that is your story.
You have the stick! And please NO COMENTARY! I suggest that we just let this
roll without response - just like a Closing Circle.

There is no rush to completion, and I believe you will find that creating a
considered response will be a rich and rewarding opportunity. As they say -
"We've come a long way, Baby," and remembering just how far and how deeply
we have traveled will be a rich moment indeed. For newcomers and old hands
alike, observations on our personal experience can only enhance our
collective wisdom, I believe. For my part I have opened a space on
openspaceworld.com as the temporary archive for our thoughts. You can check
it out by clicking on http://www.openspaceworld.com/os%20learning.htm

I look forward to whatever comes next as a birthday present from each of us
to all of us, after 20 years.

Harrison

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