leverage points & Control --I wish I had it

[Harrison Owen]

Wendy -- the principles were not (as is usually the case) worked out in advance as prescriptions of what ought to happen. Rather they were observations by myself and many others as to what actually did happen. The same would be true with the Law. Not an "ought" but an "is."

Is this right? I don't know, but that is the way it happened. Whenever I say Principles and Law -- I always smile, because I know it/they are not what people usually expect.

Harrison


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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wendy Farmer-O'Neil 
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 7:58 PM
  Subject: Re: leverage points & Control --I wish I had it


  Hmmm...this is interesting...

  I guess I made an assumption somewhere along the line here, that the actual
  principles of OST were freedom, self-organization, responsibility, caring,
  maturity, invitation, positivity, productive chaos, self-authorship,
  etc....And that the things we call "The Principles" and stick up on the wall
  are actually just part of the container we create to hold chaos at a
  manageable level for productive self-organization.  Let me clarify a bit...I
  think I am seeing "The Principles" as what we use to inspire confidence in
  the process for the participants...most of whom have never encountered OS
  before and find it a bit unsettling at first.  They need some reassurance
  that what is happening is normal, okay and will work--in order to relax and
  give it try.  In this regard, I think a certain amount of prescription would
  be okay, if not perhaps even necessary?  I may be completely wrong.

  This leads me to wondering...How would things change if we just had the Law?
  Not that i'm suggesting this at all...it just makes me go hmmmm....

  And yonder bi-furcated post-metamorphosis caterpillar with the ricepaper
  fans causes updrafts of great significance in the Easternmost Orient once
  again...
  Well...that is how Bi-Coloured Python Rock Snakes always talk.
  O Best Beloved...
  Wendy

  PS, Harrison:  I'll bring my Kipling to Halifax if you'll bring yours...;-)

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Masud Sheikh" <masheikh at COGECO.CA>
  To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
  Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 3:40 PM
  Subject: Re: leverage points


  > Harrison Owen <hhowen at comcast.net> wrote:
  >>Actually, I don't think it is as much of an "assumption" as a blinding
  > flash of the obvious. Those  who came are the only ones there! And the
  > reason they are there is that they cared enough to come. That does not
  > make all those who didn't come bad, immoral, or terrible -- but the fact
  > of the matter is that they didn't care enough to come. Now maybe the next
  > time they would feel differently -- care more. Make the necessary
  > arrangements, or sacrifices!  But for this particular Open Space -- those
  > who care came. And CARING is the sole criteria for entry. That alone makes
  > them the "right people." No Caring -- no come...
  >>
  >>And why would this be true? Well, I think Open Space is all about passion
  > and responsibility. And if you don't CARE -- no passion, and little hope
  > of accepting responsibility. Who on earth would take responsibility for
  > something they don't care about?
  >>
  > We have been through this before, Harrison. I find it judgmental (being
  > judgmental myself, I know judgment when I see it :-)) How about changing
  > it to: "Those who felt invited, came"?
  > Masud
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