OST and complex problems

[Harrison Owen]

You might tell your friend Dave Pollard - Right On! But you might also
suggest to him (quietly) that he may be working a little too hard. Just do
the Open Space, and all the rest will follow. But I am curious about one
thing. On Day I of his "program" we start with:  "Training: in Open Space
method and practices, complexity theory, frames and capacities" - WOW! And
all that in 15 minutes?

 

Harrison

 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris
Corrigan
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 3:39 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: OST and complex problems

 

At <a href="http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2006/02/06.html">How to Save the
World</a>, my friend Dave Pollard, who is not an OST facilitator but is
learning and thinking a lot about it,  is looking at using leading edge
thinking on social networks wisdom of crowds and Open Space Technology to
find ways to address complex problems.  He paints a picture of how a summit
leveraging theory produced by George Lakoff, James Surowicki and Dave
Snowdon can address issues like global warming: 

Conceptually, this seems to me to be an ideal melding of the best of social
Complexity Theory, Open Space Technology and the Wisdom of Crowds
principles, and bringing in learnings from Lakoff's Frames theories and
Freakonomics methodology, to provide a means by which intractable problems
could be addressed in a flexible, constructive, and yet highly disciplined
way, so that a broad and deep understanding of the issue could emerge, and
where resolutions that might never be revealed in more traditional
'problem-solving' venues might be identified and pursued by those
'responsible', in a self-organizing and very fluid and dynamic setting. 


Visit <a href="http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2006/02/06.html">Dave's
site</a> and join in the conversation.

Cheers, 

Chris

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CHRIS CORRIGAN
Consultation - Facilitation
Open Space Technology

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