Keepin' Busy
Marei Kiele
MareiKiele at web.de
Sat Jan 14 15:02:00 PST 2006
"Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net> schrieb:
Marie I can understand your feeling that my conversation about self-organization may seem a tad technical, and that for some of us (most of us?) the experience of Open Space is intensely personal. But I guess where I am coming from is a (growing) conclusion that we live in a self-organizing world which has certain operative forces and mechanisms and how we feel about all that is to some extent a different issue. The analogy for me would be the force of gravity, which effects, in one way or another, just about everything we do (at least in this physical realm). If I see a beautiful woman and run towards her, that probably has a lot to do with my heart, but the fact that I am running and not flying (like a bird) has everything to do with gravity.Got you, Harrison!Here we go with different languages and someone from Germany misunderstanding the exact meaning of 'operative power' and the difference between "the power of open space is" and "the operative power in open space is". Seems to me we may mean the same thing, in the end. Would it be right to say that the operative power of Open Space is self-organization like the operative power of a car is the engine or am I still missing something? If this comparison is possible than to me what I described, the end of pretending and controlling in Open Space, is getting of the breaks and have something really going. All energy used in the best way. It's creating a life nurturing instead of a life depleting climate as Birgitt puts it.To me it is important to understand that much of what we take to be wonderful and magic in Open Space is still magic and truly wondrous AND is all very much part of a larger process which was here long before Open Space and would continue to exist were Open Space (Technology) to vanish. This thought also extends the magic to every day life, or if you like, makes it very clear (to me) that Open Space is a 24X7X365 business. Yes it is true that we may intensify/focus the experience when we do an Open Space but we could do the same thing every day of our life.Would be stupid, somehow, to get off the breaks doing an event and afterwards live one's everyday life standing on the breaks again all the time, wouldn't it?As F.M.Alexander, developper of Alexander-technique, said: "If you stop doing the wrong thing, the right thing will naturally happen by itself." I believe that when we don't live it every day we force ourselves into doing "the wrong thing". Not referring to any external right or wrong which to me does not exist. But doing "the wrong thing" by being different from what and who we truly are. And this creates all kinds of illnesses. Cancer in the body of one person, war in the body of whole nations. In dealing with clients and other such people, I start from the position that doing an Open Space is nothing strange, new, or different. It is all Open Space. It is all self organization the problem is that we ordinarily just dont do it very well. What happens in an OS event, I think, is that we do what we always do, but now with clearer focus and intention and so it works a lot better and feels a lot better.I agree. And I believe we ordinarily don't do it well because we act based on different assumtions. For me the magic of Open Space lies in a bunch of people commonly changing beliefs ~ and by that experiencing a new reality ~ a reality being much more creative, efficient and healthy than what occured before. I came to understand Open Space Technology as a practice of healing or better of creating circumstances for self-healing of an organism / organization. In Germany more and more people look for alternative ways of healing because it is getting obvious how average western medicine is failing in creating health. Health insurrances are starting to pay costs for homoepatic treatments over here, which they would have strongly refused some years ago.I am looking for developments like this to refer to. For talking with people and giving them an example they can use to deeper understand the benefits of Open Space. And I use these developments to strengthen my believing in open space being used, accepted and appreciated in a fundamental way.One day it will be like travelling is for us, today. We are not afraid anymore to reach the end of the world and than fall down from earth, when flying to another continent. Instead it's the most normal thing in the world that we fly around the globe. So one day, not too far from now, it will be the most normal thing to live in an open space kind of way. And no one is going to wonder or write any mails about it anymore :)As for where my heart is relative to my client, I guess the answer is that I am of two hearts (two minds) and I will let you know when I figure it out. It is also true that this particular client situation will demand everything I have and a lot more. The good news is that I will grow with the occasion. The other side is that there will doubtless be moments of pure terror and no small amount of pain. The thought has occurred to me that maybe at the age of 70, I dont need to take that sort of trip any more. But I have never been very good at avoiding such opportunities before, and I see no reason to expect that prudence and sanity will suddenly be mine.Harrison What a pity that I live so far away. I would very much enjoy to join and lower the average age of the team members :) Warmly, Marei
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