SV: Open Space -- A Quiet Revolution

[Brendan McKeague]

At 02:58 AM 10/02/2007, Thomas Herrmann wrote:
>The idea was to engage the Universities in this area to design and offer
>this training - in cooperation (walk your talk). After having one-to-one
>talks with the Universities they were a bit hesitating. Most didn´t really
>see a point in cooperating with others...


This is true down-under Thomas - as you suggest - 
the competition for recruitment of fee-paying 
students is pretty intense these days - and we 
have five Universities located in the Perth 
area...this is not an area where cross-boundary 
collaboration is frequently seen...often the 
opposite where each tries to gain some competitive advantage over the others.
However, I think that the potential power of Open 
Space can challenge some of this competitive 
culture and provide an opportunity to reap the 
rich benefits of collaboration....one of these 
universities (benefiting from a recent visit by 
Larry and Beckie Peterson at the end of last 
year) is beginning to experience the power of 
such collaboration within its own boundaries 
where, for the most part, a silo mentality 
dominated - maybe, when the fear has been 
overcome and the benefits are experienced, this 
will expand further to include others.....that is 
my hope - methinks that this is also about the 
'practice of peace' - becoming excellent in one's 
field need not be at the expense of diminishing 
the efforts and gifts of others.
Cheers
Brendan

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