France OST Training

[Raffi Aftandelian]

Hi Diane and fellow space-holders!

Thanks for the announcement about the French OST workshop.

Your use of the word "innovative" in describing OST caught my eye. I
would venture that if OST is now drinking age in all countries where
drinking is permitted, that perhaps it is no longer an "innovative"
approach.

I'd also venture that words like "innovative" and "new" are what I
call FIV-infected- "flatland immunodeficiency virus" positive. They
harken to a two-dimensionality of TV, advertising, etc. I'm not sure
they're about Spirit. (Go Ken!)

OST, as I understand it, has always been around, maybe we just didn't
notice it. Harrison with the help of a thousand or so people did the
noticing work for us.

My hope is that more of us will start describing OST as a useful
routine.

On the other hand, calling it an "approach" is right on (hence
FIV-negative). If the name of our now is "emergence" the implications for the nature of the tools
we use is huge. I experience our social tools as melting, as fluid, and as
what arises in the moment. "Approach" and "attitude" reflect that.

My term for these approaches that act, talk, walk, and smell like
tools but are really approaches is "non-tools." Kind of like
"unconferencing"?

My hope is that we will soon call our OST learning workshops (if we
feel that people must learn in a workshop setting; which many I
understand rightly have their doubts about) "remembering playspaces." Do I
have the courage now to call what I offer a "remembering playspace"? Don't
know.

Let's keep turbocharging the granularity,
raffi

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