innovative organizations--and community

Mon May 29 02:04:00 PDT 2006

 Frank, thank you for your wonderful webpage. I have bookmarked it and am looking forward to visiting every now and then and finding more and more treasures. I havn't put my attention to living in a community yet, as it seemed to far away from what I see around me, but reading about your vision makes it be closer and more achievable to me also ~ so I will include it in my wish-list, set an attention and attract this into my life sooner or later.

Additionally, virtually I already experience being part of such a community on this list ~ hey, I am back into reading emails after having deleted the last 500+ because of feeling totally overwhelmed. And the moment I deleted my whole "os-list to be read later" folder I felt wonderful. And am now able to enjoy these conversations again.

With joy and appreciation,
Marei

PS: Where are you located, Frank? I couldn't anything about you on the page.

PPS: What does commoikos mean?

 "Frank Deitle" <mailto:commoikos at gmail.com> schrieb:
> Mark and OS friends,
> 
> I was going thru the some unread OSLIST emails today and discovered
> this gem in Mark's wonderful post about "living an open space life."
> 
> "Anne Stadler suggested that the next experiment should be an
> intentional community based on "Living in Open Space".  So she founded
> the "Spirited Work Community" in 1999.  With that, our focus (Anne and
> I) changed from predominantly organization-oriented OS to
> community-oriented OS."
> 
> I'd like to hear more about the Spirited Work Community and open space
> intentional communities in general. Ever since I discovered OST (or
> did it discover me?) this year from the wonderful Lisa Heft, I have
> fantasized about what a large-scale residential intentional
> community/ecovillage/sustainable human settlement would be like if it
> was visioned, organized, planned, executed, maintained, and governed
> in Open Space. What kind of crazy, wonderful creature would that
> become? What kind culture would emerge out of that? Are other people
> out there thinking about this sort of thing? How do you see it
> unfolding/coming about?
> 
> I recently started to build a website to explore my own
> conceptualizations of such an endeavor. It is very much in its early
> stages of development. It very well may be entirely naive. All I know
> is that I can't stop thinking about it. The website is:
> http://commoikos.googlepages.com.
> 
> Peace,
> Frank Deitle
> 
> 
> On 4/28/06, Mark R. Jones (AT&T) <mailto:mark_r_jones at att.net> wrote:
> >
> >  Hi Glory.
> >
> >  The beauty of the work back then was that I was fully-embedded in
> > organizations in senior management roles.  As part of a commitment Anne
> > Stadler and I had made to exploring what it meant to "live our lives in Open
> > Space", I had decided to experiment with leading and managing my
> > organizations "in Open Space".
> >
> >  This meant that along with doing on average bi-weekly OS events for various
> > organizations — for-profit and non-profits — I conducted my leadership
> > teams, program and project teams, and Lean Kaizens (12 per week on average
> > across my "span of control"), staffs, and work groups in Open Space.  I
> > carefully and subtly trained my staff and organizations to function in Open
> > Space.
> >
> >  Some cool observations from the experiments:
> >    *  With teams conversant in trying to "Live in Open Space", I found that
> > I and they could convene
> >        profound and productive "spaces" as short as fifteen minutes, and as
> > long as several months
> >        — yes, in corporate settings
> >    *  In 1997 I blended "Living in Open Space" with principles from Buddhist
> > living to build a
> >        team (and set of organizations) that could eliminate a "$3million" a
> > day production problem.
> >        It took about six weeks for folks to really get it — and when they
> > did, they not only solved the
> >        production problem but innovated a set of processes and tools that
> > are still in use today
> >    *  In 2000, I tried the blended approach in the bowels of the US
> > Government.  About three
> >        to four months into the experiment, a Government manager exclaimed
> > that "we" had been
> >        doing that "Open Space stuff".  I had never used the term "Open
> > Space" in that setting.
> >        Apparently folks got curious about what they were experiencing in the
> > daily life of the
> >        organization and started to research what it might be.  And
> > discovered that in fact we had
> >        been conducting our work in Open Space.  This came as quite a
> > surprise to some of the "OD"
> >        folks who had  "made up their minds" about things like OST and AI —
> > without ever (knowingly)
> >        participating in them.
> >    *  Working with the CEO (who was my boss) from my previous company, my
> > job was to infuse
> >        and embody a ""Living in Open Space" practice into our work force,
> > and particularly our
> >        executive decision-making processes (think "off-sites").  I watched
> > as this contributed
> >        to our financial success as an organization, and allowed me the
> > financial option to "retire"
> >        from the "rat race" and explore living my life in Open Space in the
> > service of the transformation
> >        of consciousness.  Which is what I do nowadays !
> >
> >  In the seventies I spent five years living in an intentional community
> > (7x24 residential community).  We did not "Live in Open Space" -- yet the
> > experience profoundly positively shaped my life.  I had an extended family
> > that had experimented with convening itself ala OS-like Law and Principles
> > for a number of years.  Anne Stadler suggested that the next experiment
> > should be an intentional community based on "Living in Open Space".  So she
> > founded the "Spirited Work Community" in 1999.  With that, our focus (Anne
> > and I) changed from predominantly organization-oriented OS to
> > community-oriented OS.  And I drastically reduced the pace and my
> > involvement in OST events.  This experiment led us to India in 2001, and
> > later again in 2004 with an expanded configuration that included Peggy
> > Holman.  The 2001 trip brought about the establishment of the Radiant
> > Networking" experiment — which continues to this day, and shapes the work
> > and participation of Anne, Peggy, and myself (individually and
> > collectively).
> >
> >  In the nineties, the "pace" was exciting and profoundly meaningful to me.
> > And eventually, I felt that I had pretty much "mined the goodies" — I was no
> > longer being surprised and growing from the experiments.  The results were
> > always positive and always the same — which was good — but I needed to find
> > the next learning and growth edge.  I kept notebooks to track and map my
> > experiments.
> >
> >  My experimental trajectory regarding Open Space progressed from Item-1 to
> > Item-8:
> >     (1)  OST for the increased effectiveness of individuals
> >     (2)  Living in OS for the evolution and transformation of individual
> > consciousness
> >     (3)  OST for the increased effectiveness of groups and organizations
> >     (4)  Living in OS for the evolution and transformation of organizational
> > consciousness
> >     (5)  OST for the increased effectiveness of communities
> >     (6)  Living in OS for the evolution of collective ("Community")
> > consciousness
> >     (7)  Living in OS as an integral wellness practice for the
> > transformation of (individual and
> >           collective ) consciousness — Self | Other | The Whole
> >     (8)  Radiant Networking — Practices of Peace — Integral Wellness
> >
> >
> >  "Pace" drove both Anne and I to our explorations of what I call
> > "efficiency":
> >      What is the minimum necessary but sufficient gentle structure upon
> > which we can hang things ?
> >
> >  Harrison sometimes frames this as "what is one less thing to do?"
> >  Peggy sometimes frames this as "what is the basic underlying pattern?"
> >  Tom Atlee sometimes frames this as discerning "pattern languages"
> >  Anne has taken this to the simple inquiry of "what is optimal . . . "
> >
> >  Based on conversations that Peggy, Tom, Chris Corrigan and I have had — I
> > suspect that the more one mucks — with intention and intensity — with Open
> > Space, the more Open Space becomes a "life practice" for everyday living and
> > community.  And one becomes even more appreciative of the experience — thus
> > the more deeply and pervasively one mucks with it.  Nowadays, I rarely refer
> > to Open Space Technology, for me Open Space has simply become a way of
> > living.
> >
> >
> >  Thanks for the compassionate and inviting asking !
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark R. Jones
> >  Chief Executive Officer
> >  The Sunyata Group
> >  The Integral Wellness Group
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  PO Box 58788
> >  Renton, Washington
> >  USA 98058-1788
> >  Phone:      425-413-6000
> >  e-Mail:      mailto:sunyata at att.net <mailto:sunyata at att.net>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  On 4/27/06 6:41 PM, "Glory Ressler" <mailto:on.the.edge at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Me too, Mark - I'd love to hear a story that reflects your
> > experience/learning associated with the intense pace and # of sessions....
> >
> >  Best wishes,
> >  Glory
> >
> >
> >
> >  ----- Original Message -----
> >
> >  From:  Tree Fitzpatrick
> > <mailto:therese.fitzpatrick at gmail.com>
> >
> >  To: mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> >
> >  Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 9:21  PM
> >
> >  Subject: Re: innovative  organizations
> >
> >
> >  Wow, Mark Jones, you did more than two open space events per  week one
> > year!
> >
> >  I am impressed.
> >
> >  Has anyone else on this  list had such a pace?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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