What increases the likelihood of action?
Zelle Nelson
zelle at knowplacelikehome.com
Fri Nov 11 11:13:54 PST 2005
Wow Peggy!
Words and ideas have sprung from your fingertips...
Sparking a few thoughts of my own.
In opening the space, once I've expressed the 4 principles and the law,
explained how it will work, what might happen, as I'm inviting people to
post topics, at the end I almost always say something like, "I've talked
for far too long. This is your meeting, your opportunity to talk and to
listen. I'm stepping out of the way and you are now responsible for what
happens next." I believe I witnessed Harrison using such a phrase in
opening the space at one time or another.
I really like the idea of stating that the time is now theirs, it's
their meeting to do with it what they will. It has always been their
meeting, but sometimes people don't see that they have the law and their
own passions and responsibility in every moment. Sometimes it helps to
notice/remind people of the present reality.
I love the idea of speaking about love.
One thing I noticed the other day. We had the tv on in the background -
I think the show is called starting over and a person on the show talked
about essentially sometimes we need space:
"time to repair and prepare"
She also talked about how it's good to cry when you "cry with an agenda".
Sometimes Open Space is just that "time to repair and prepare", "time to
cry with an agenda" and that's plenty of action in and of itself.
I remember seeing on the list at one point the metaphor of holding your
hand closed over something, once you've grabbed it. If your palm is
facing down and you open your fingers what you grabbed onto is lost. But
turn your hand over, palm up and open your hand, you are still holding
something, but it is supported and free. - I also thought of the
butterfly metaphor. A butterfly is something that can land and rest on
your open hand, and it can fly when it is ready. But try to close your
hand over the butterfly, to hold it, you ruin its wings and it can no
longer fly.
We also love re-opening the space for action going forward.
Thanks so much for your great contributions!
with grace and love,
Zelle
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Peggy Holman wrote:
> And you thought I was done! Here's the next installment.
>
> I find myself still mulling what it takes to increase the likelihood
> of life after an event. What sparks the energy for action? In other
> words, to the extent that process matters, what are the elements of
> great process?
>
>
>
> I mentioned some of what I believe makes a difference in my last message:
>
>
>
> * Framing the Law of Two Feet as taking responsibility for what you love
>
> * Using silence in the collective during morning announcements and
> evening news
>
> * Taking time and inviting diversity
>
>
>
> As I've continued thinking about this, I'd add a few others, mostly
> reaffirming "old friends" that seem worth making explicit:
>
>
>
> * Setting bold intention. The more ambitious the purpose, the more
> the potential energy to transform it contains. It may seem obvious,
> but I often find myself coaching sponsors to be daring. Questions
> that inspire, enliven, wake people up are the ones that bring out
> creativity and excitement.
>
>
>
> * Welcoming wildcards. Think of it as extreme diversity. Harrison
> calls it welcoming the stranger. It is often the people who seem
> least like they belong who bring the unexpected perspective that
> causes a breakthrough. It happens all the time in OS's about youth.
> Adults are ALWAYS amazed at what young people bring to the mix.
>
>
>
> * Welcoming all aspects of participants. I learned this more deeply
> from Tova Averbuch earlier this year. It is an important variation of
> welcoming the stranger. To be willing to dive deep, people need to
> feel welcome. At the Kaleidoscope Café, this lesson came clear on the
> second day. There was a strong leaning in most of the participants
> towards the role of the heart. Several people, who brought a strong
> orientation towards collective intelligence, weren't feeling
> particularly welcome. In opening the space on this day, Tova Averbuch
> did an incredible job of making room for the head and the heart. This
> created an opening in which those feeling isolated found ways to
> express what they were experiencing, bringing themselves more fully
> present and providing the whole gathering with the gift of a more
> whole sense of itself. It enabled insights and conversations that
> took us into places we might not have otherwise been able to go.
>
>
>
> * Invoking the spirit of the work. Setting the tone as the space is
> opened is an art. Also at the Kaleidoscope Café, I experienced one of
> the most powerful invocations ever. On the second day, preparing the
> stage for Tova to do her magic, a young musician at the gathering
> turned us all into rhythm instruments, standing up, tapping on our
> bodies to create a quiet background beat as Maria Scordialos rapped
> her invocation, daring us to go deeper, to experiment as we did our
> work that day. The result was that virtually every session took an
> approach that went beyond words in some way. It led to some amazing
> breakthroughs.
>
>
>
> Sidebar story: I got a new insight into how ideas move to action
> discovered because we began the session by toning together! I never
> would have used this approach for this topic without the powerful
> invocation that morning to boldly experiment, to dive deep. The
> toning became a breakthrough metaphor for the underlying pattern of
> idea to action: it starts with an intention - a call, and a few
> voices are attracted. Sometimes there are missteps, wrong notes.
> Yet, when there's a conviction to stay with the call, at some point
> individual voices are attracted and cohere into a whole and action
> becomes visible. We experienced this pattern on multiple levels: the
> toning, the way the group formed (after posted time, one person came,
> then another, when the third arrived, it became a session), our
> exploration of the topic itself.
>
>
>
>
>
> Right timing. One environmental factor that strikes me as important
> is right timing. What is the state of the situation? Has there been
> time and energy invested already, just no clear answers emerging? Is
> it a whole new subject? I think in many of our most complex issues
> over the last few years, incredible work has been done, lots of
> creative answers identified, yet nothing quite taking root. In these
> cases, because the ideas are ripe for harvesting, enabling the system
> to talk to itself could be just the ticket to generate coherence.
>
>
>
>
>
> * Preparing the field. Being mindful of the "container" we create
> for the work is perhaps one of the most important and subtle jobs of
> an OS practitioner.
>
>
>
> My understanding of the nature of "containers" for the work we do has
> evolved hugely through the years. I used to think of the container as
> a bowl, with sides that protect, creating a sense of safety through
> its form. I think most of the change processes out there do create
> bowl-like psychic structures (picture two hands cupped, as if to hold
> water), lots of safety, some room for the unknown and very constrained
> space. I think as OS practitioners begin, they often hold on pretty
> tight, creating bowl-like spaces. I know I did. These spaces are
> serviceable but not nearly as juicy as taking that next step into the
> "field" (picture two hands together, flat and open). This is a gift
> of Open Space, to offer a container open to the air, the mystery. The
> theme of the OS bounds the space, trusting participants to care for
> themselves, each other and the whole. In every OS in which I've been
> part, people have collectively lived up to this expectation.
>
>
>
> Here's the edge of my own learning: I think the work of the OS
> practitioner who wishes to support action beyond an event learns to
> release the container into the hands of the participants. When action
> continues, it is in part because the container has been internalized,
> becoming a web of connections among participants. They now hold their
> own future. I think that is why re-opening space for coherent action
> on the last day of a multiple day open space is so powerful. It is an
> explicit invitation to take ownership of what's next. There's a
> coherence that comes of the web weaving itself. Clearly, this can
> happen without the OS practitioner knowing any of this, but I think
> the more we are mindful of giving away the container itself, helping
> it morph into a web, the more we increase the potential for follow on.
>
>
>
> Our job is to hold lightly and then let go, releasing the fate of
> those we've been serving into their own hands.
>
>
>
> We talk so much about holding space, I'm particularly interested in
> thoughts about this idea of releasing space.
>
>
>
> So, that seems a good place to end these reflections and ask what you
> think.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net>
> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Deep Democracy..and concious social action
>
>
>> Goodness Peggy -- enough good stuff here for several weeks' serious
>> thinking. But did you have to do it all at once? I felt pretty well
>> stuffed,
>> but the meal is delicious. Thank you!
>>
>> Harrison
>>
>> NEW EMAIL ADDRESS!!!!
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>> Harrison Owen
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Peggy
>> Holman
>> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:44 AM
>> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>> Subject: Re: Deep Democracy..and concious social action
>>
>> Hi all. I'm plugging back in on this thread after more than a month
>> away...
>>
>> It caught my eye because I am in the midst of witnessing remarkable
>> post-OS
>> follow up work from multiple gatherings.
>>
>> It started with the International Practice of Peace conference in
>> 2003...what came out of that?
>> * Global Citizen Journey, which is in the midst of building a
>> library in
>> the Niger Delta with a delegation of 20 US folks and 20 Nigerians.
>> * Youth for a New World - a Burundi/US partnership that has launched
>> multiple projects and raised a remarkable about of money in a short
>> period
>> of time
>> * Practice of Peace in New Mexico
>> * indirectly, the OS with 2,100 Colombian street kids
>> and I could go on...a group of us interviewed about 25 of the 130
>> participants. Many had projects that were either inspired or
>> strengthened
>> by being at PoP. 100% of those interviewed said they were changed
>> by the
>> experience.
>>
>> Recently, I've been part of three long (3+ days) OS's -- the
>> Evolutionary
>> Salon, the Kaleidoscope Cafe (this was an intriguing hybrid, with an
>> emergent OS core), and the biggest test -- an OS with 30 no-nonsense
>> journalists. Each left passionately engaged people and projects in
>> their
>> wake.
>>
>> (An aside on the journalism OS...we convened a conference call 3
>> weeks after
>>
>> the gathering. Of the original 30, three-quarters of them were
>> either on
>> the call or let us know they definitely want to be on future calls.
>> About
>> 1/3 are actively engaged in preparing for two projects that grew out
>> of the
>> gathering. Mind you, these are BUSY people, with full time jobs in a
>> SERIOUS industry! And still, they're staying involved.)
>>
>> What's going on? What is sparking all of this energy for action?
>>
>> I think there are several things feeding this. One is the times --
>> as with
>> the journalists, the more things fall apart, the more urgency. In other
>> words, the context is changing. I think that's why the journalists
>> are so
>> hungry for the connection to others. More than any other group I've
>> worked
>> with, I get the feeling that these folks have no where to turn for a
>> ray of
>> hope. Now they have each other and they're committed to maintaining the
>> connections.
>>
>> I also think there is a quality of how more and more of us are using
>> OS that
>>
>> makes a difference. Three aspects I think are making a difference
>> for me:
>>
>> 1. Defining the Law of Two Feet as "taking responsibility for what you
>> love". I no longer talk about the Law of Two Feet as passion and
>> responsibility. While basically equivalent, there's something very
>> powerful
>>
>> about this framing -- it is highly actionable for both individuals and
>> groups. I have seen it literally change lives as people make it their
>> mantra and follow it well beyond the event. I had one participant
>> tell me a
>>
>> story of how it turned her from feeling like a helpless victim
>> nursing her
>> wounded ego in a corner to stepping in with full voice into the place
>> she
>> felt called to be.
>>
>> 2. Using silence in the plenary. Morning announcements, evening
>> news, I
>> always begin with silence. This is really subtle and yet I know it
>> matters.
>>
>> It seems to connect people with themselves, each other, and the whole.
>> Seeing 2,100 street kids, who were perceived as having virtually no
>> discipline, be silent together was deeply profound. From this small
>> collective act, they seemed to gather strength. I could sense them
>> savoring
>>
>> it. I know it blew their teachers' minds!
>>
>> 3. Time and diversity. These old friends really matter. Two and a
>> half
>> days or more. Time to cook is so vital when dealing with complexity.
>> PLUS
>> bringing together unlikely mixes of people -- the whole system --
>> prepares
>> the soil for the unexpected. The more creative the definition of the
>> system
>>
>> the better! At the journalism OS, there were the usual suspects --
>> print,
>> broadcast, new media, editors, writers, bloggers, publishers, media
>> activists, educators. -- and others. Perhaps the most important
>> participants were the wild cards -- a college senior majoring in
>> journalism, a wall street analyst. They brought perspectives and
>> ideas that
>> aren't normally part of the conversation.
>>
>> I think these three aspects bring qualities to the work of creating a
>> fertile field that up the likelihood for good things to happen. I'd
>> say the
>>
>> first two create a quality of consciousness that matters. A lot.
>>
>> In my reading 300+ messages tonight, a favorite was this line from
>> Raffi:
>>
>>> ...OS is one of the greatest ways of
>>> tricking somebody into developing a spiritual practice. To do this work
>>> well there is no other way. And sometimes that's scary.
>>>
>>> Grounding. grounding. grounding.
>>>
>>
>> I know that's true for me. OS as a spiritual practice.
>> Harrison....did you
>>
>> know right from the start?
>>
>>
>> As I've been working to understand the underlying patterns at play, my
>> colleague, Tom Atlee, and I have put something together that I find
>> useful.
>> Good process awakens consciousness -- individually and collectively. It
>> also activates systems -- affecting both individual and collective
>> behaviour
>>
>> and structures. How? What Tom pointed out to me -- there are lots of
>> people
>>
>> working to awaken consciousness, with some effect. And there are
>> lots of
>> people working to change systems, also with some impact. Mostly, these
>> folks don't interact; in fact they often don't get along! What good
>> process
>>
>> (think OS) does is address both consciousness and systems -- the
>> inner and
>> outer for individuals and the collective. By doing this, dramatically
>> better outcomes in both consciousness and systems occur. OS does it so
>> elegantly that it happens without most of us even knowing that's what is
>> happening.
>>
>> I think the more we as practitioners work with this underlying
>> dynamic --
>> through continually inviting people to take responsibility for what they
>> love, using silence, inviting diversity and making time for the work, we
>> increase the likelihood for radically improved results. We literally
>> liberate the human spirit! And the connections people make with each
>> other
>> and their ideas create a field that sparks amazing energy and action.
>>
>> So, Chris, while 100% won't be changed, with a little mindful
>> practice, we
>> are in the midst of a fomenting revolution.
>>
>> from somewhat overcast (but too dark for it to matter at the moment)
>> Seattle,
>> Peggy
>>
>> ________________________________
>> Peggy Holman
>> The Open Circle Company
>> 15347 SE 49th Place
>> Bellevue, WA 98006
>> (425) 746-6274
>>
>> www.opencirclecompany.com
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net>
>> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 1:30 PM
>> Subject: [OSLIST] The Sales Person's Holy Grail
>>
>>
>>> Chris wrote: "Nothing de-energises my 16 hour days as an open networker
>>> more
>>> than to spend my time connecting someone who appeared to come out of an
>>> open
>>> space saying the number 1 humanitarian change that matters to them is X
>>> ....only to find later that the open space person is no longer that
>>> interested in the cause."
>>>
>>> Chris my friend -- if you ever manage to find, or better yet invent,
>>> the
>>> answer to your prayers -- you will instantaneously become a
>>> multi-billionaire. For you will have unearthed the Holy Grail of every
>>> Salesperson on the planet: identifying and holding dedicated, committed
>>> customers at close to the 100% level. Sure you can raise your
>>> chances and
>>> narrow the odds, but as all sales people know, lots of shoe leather
>>> on the
>>> pavement comes with the territory. Sorry for the 16 hour days!
>>>
>>> Actually, I think OS does quite a bit to advance your interest and
>>> narrow
>>> the odds. At the very least you can be reasonably well assured that
>>> anybody
>>> who cares enough to come presumably cares something about the issue at
>>> hand
>>> (whatever that might be). And of that total group, some smaller subset
>>> will
>>> care enough to raise some aspect of the issue at hand -- and if they
>>> raise
>>> it with passion, focus, logic, and commitment, you may well have your
>>> man/woman. And you haven't done a thing but watch. I'd call that pretty
>>> energy efficient! -- But of course, that person may turn out to be a
>>> fraud.
>>> You just can't tell, but the odds are tilting more in your favor. :-)
>>>
>>> Sorry to go on so -- but the focusing/narrowing that occurs
>>> naturally in
>>> any
>>> OS is something I find that many people miss. Amidst all the
>>> effusion of
>>> ideas, energy -- to say nothing of chaos -- a rather precise process of
>>> self-selection and identification is going on. For a client
>>> interested in
>>> identifying potential leadership, taking note of who steps forward to
>>> claim
>>> their passion with responsibility will produce a short list of likely
>>> candidates. It may not be perfect, but it is surely a good place to
>>> start.
>>>
>>> Harrison
>>>
>>> NEW EMAIL ADDRESS!!!!
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>>> Harrison Owen
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris
>>> Macrae
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 2:00 PM
>>> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>>> Subject: Re: deep democracy
>>>
>>> Harrison -regarding missed points love all
>>>
>>> REphrasing my question : what more could be done at the space or while
>>> people
>>> are in its vicinty to work out how deep each person's deepest cause
>>> is? On
>>> globalsiation causes such as here
>>> http://www.valuetrue.com/home/community.cfm?
>>> startrow=4&intClassID=-1
>>>
>>> I don't ask because I am capable of following up each cause but
>>> because I
>>> have
>>> over 12 years logged up many people across world networks who are.
>>> Nothing
>>> de-
>>> energises my 16 hour days as an open networker more than to spend my
>>> time
>>> connecting someone who appeared to come out of an open space saying the
>>> number
>>> 1 humanitarian chnage that matters to them is X with the person amongst
>>> the
>>> 2000 I know from conversastions over a decade to be most committed
>>> to that
>>> cause only to find later that the open space person is no longer that
>>> interested in the cause. I agree people may good naturedly
>>> over-commit to
>>> all
>>> sorts of good stuff when with kindred spirits without fully
>>> reckoning how
>>> much
>>> time it will take. But I would like some way whilst we are all
>>> there in
>>> real
>>> time and real space of working out who is most deeply committed.
>>> Suppose
>>> there
>>> are 100 activists there, I would rather have left the open space
>>> finding
>>> 10
>>> that really had mentioned their number 1 cause for life than 50 great
>>> causes
>>>
>>> but not knowing who will be a cause holder for what. It's like some
>>> gigantic
>>>
>>> game of snap, where OS seems to me to miss a trick!
>>>
>>> ------------
>>> Chris, I think you still are missing the point, at least my point. The
>>> core
>>> issue, as I see it, is not OS as a method, but rather the passion of
>>> the
>>> people involved which might lead them to follow through on their
>>> commitments,
>>> or at least apparent commitments. People make choices with their
>>> time and
>>> their lives. What may seem critical at the moment will often become a
>>> minor
>>> concern when seen in the larger scheme of things. And maybe more to the
>>> point,
>>> what you may deem to be critical, may not appear in the same light to
>>> others.
>>> And by the same token, your schedule for follow through may not be
>>> theirs.
>>> Of
>>> course we could, can and do extend the possibility for action
>>> electronically
>>>
>>> and with follow on gatherings. In effect we can and must make every
>>> effort
>>> to
>>> keep the space open. But at the end of the day, and indeed on every
>>> day --
>>> it
>>> is the peoples' choice.
>>>
>>>
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>From Fri Nov 11 21:04:49 2005
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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:04:49 +0100
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Hello list!<br>
We had a very nice, not to say wonderful, stammtisch in Uppsala.
Because of you Raffi I brought my camera - and, then, because of me, I
forgot to take any pictures! We were five persons, with an interesting
diversity. When it comes to generations - one was my 19 years old
daughter, now a student. Not arriving with me, coming out of her own
free will!<br>
<br>
I don´t know if anyone noticed, but I announced the first Uppsala
stammtisch just a few days before the date, 5 september. It was an
impulse, but an impulse I had been pregnant with for a longer time
then. Of course I got scared...and of course, I had good reason! A few
people mailed me, public or not, telling me that they appreciated the
initiative, but unfortunately they could not do it with this short...I
understood, and still I hoped that somebody would have the time and
energy. <br>
<br>
I showed up, right time and place - and nobody else. I struggled.
Practiced. Practiced the principles, the law, the self-empathy (from
Non Violent Communication) , the "<i>I feel a little embarrased and
vulnerable, and I know that partly it is my grandious Self playing with
me, and that I should be acceptant and that I am not ridiculous at all,
but ......!!!!</i>" - and then came my PARTICIPANT, a little late, all
the way from Stockholm!!! (Thank you, Joachim, I don´t think you are on
this list yet.) And I shared it, and we had a nice time.<br>
<br>
And now, after the second time I really feel that a stammtischspace is
on its way - as a raft on a river. If I didn´t knew better I would now
quote from a swedish poet...<br>
<br>
Things like this gives me inspiration and trust. And wings, so today I
came into a very fast inner decision process (again!) which ended up in
my registration for PoP in Berlin in the end of november. <br>
A real life story from Uppsala, Sweden<br>
yours<br>
Agneta Setterwall<br>
<br>
<br>
Agneta Setterwall wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid4368C888.4080607 at telia.com" type="cite">Dear list
<br>
Now it is time again! On monday 7 november at Katalin 19.00. Katalin is
a nice pub close to Uppsala station. It takes 40 - 50 minutes with
train or bus from Stockholm central station. My mobilenumber is 0046
(0)70 687 00 95, my home number 0046 (0)18 32 16 14. This is the second
stammtisch in Uppsala, and I have reasons to believe we will be more
then two persons (as we were the first time...).
<br>
<br>
yours
<br>
Agneta Setterwall, Uppsala, Sweden
<br>
<br>
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