A Capital Idea
Justin T. Sampson
justin at krasama.com
Fri Feb 9 12:16:22 PST 2007
On 2/9/07, douglas germann <76066.515 at compuserve.com> wrote:
> Opening space means that whatever happens happens, whoever engages
> engages, and when it gathers and disperses is the right time. The true
> open space, in Buber's terms, would be the going out into the community
> from the meeting to meet others and more, not the gathering itself. This
> is how we meet the world and enlarge it. The gathering itself bends in
> upon itself and becomes egoic, small-group-self-centered, and closes up.
> When we turn to face out from the circle, this is the opening.
This reminds me of an old koan... "A man visits a Quaker meeting for
the first time. After sitting in silence for several minutes, he turns
to his neighbor and asks, 'When does the service start?' to which his
neighbor replies, 'After the meeting.'"
Cheers,
Justin
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>From Fri Feb 9 20:32:28 2007
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Justin--
I love it!
Thanks!
:- Doug.
> "A man visits a Quaker meeting for
> the first time. After sitting in silence for several minutes, he turns
> to his neighbor and asks, 'When does the service start?' to which his
> neighbor replies, 'After the meeting.'"
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>From Sat Feb 10 10:17:49 2007
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When Brendan noted the response of the Psychology Professor to Open Space, I
guess my response was a little flip - but it was very serious. I think it
would be really fascinating to know more specifically what the good
professor noticed and, even more interesting, why he thinks it happened.
"therapeutic properties of
this process' evidenced by, in his words, 'the positively healthy dynamics
so unexpected in such a meeting of highly disparate interests'...." - are
definitely words to conjure with. I don't think this is about "validating"
open space - but rather coming to see how others view os from the vantage
point of their own discipline. So Brendan - do you think you could entice
the Prof into something more?
Harrison
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