The Pros and Cons of OST

[Allison & Jim Baensch]

Hi Jack,
I appreciate your comments.
Most likely the reason I can't find OST limitations to write about is  
because OST supports the process rather than cutting across it.
So, if OST is done in a way that doesn't cramp the group's style, and  
if space is made, there are most likely no cons.
I certainly don't want to fabricate cons either.
But I am interested in hearing about the issues others at the  
conference (and on this list) have had when experiencing OST, if they  
wish to bring them forward.

My second paper at the conference will be about high and low dreams -  
a paper related to Process Oriented Psychology (Arnold Mindell and  
colleagues).
So I am aware of the benefits of not just focussing on the positives  
of a situation.
Thanks for your tasty response,
Allison.



On 22/11/2005, at 2:29 PM, Jack Ricchiuto wrote:

> Allison,
>
> A second vote to lovely Lisa’s suggestions.
>
> If part of your presentation is a compilation of this community’s  
> opinions, I’d like to opine on the case that there are no cons for  
> me in open space.
> I’m not saying this prescriptively or dogmatically, but  
> experientially.
> I’m not even speaking for all those who have shared open space with  
> me over the last decade or so – this is “just” personal experience.
> Not everything has easily quantifiable cons, for example things  
> like: optimum connectivity in social networks, ecological  
> resilience, communal forgiveness and trust.
> So I’m not inclined to fabricate cons because I’ve been assigned to.
> I just don’t see the outcomes of open space as downsides or “waste”  
> in the process, especially given my deep commitment to ecology  
> where “there is no waste in nature.”
> Open space is a natural process where, as another eco-mantra has  
> it: waste=food.
> There are certainly limitations to open space. The wrong people  
> tend not to show up. Things tend not to start or stop at the wrong  
> times ... And so on.
>
> Thanks for inviting this conversation.
>
> Jack
>
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