hierarchy...was report from the field

[Michael M Pannwitz]

Dear Raffi,
I am for introducing weightiness as a category for establishing 
Hierarchy in the os community. Love those quakers! If you all agree this 
would put me way up there at 98 kg.
Have a grand weekend
Greetings from Berlin picking red currants on a hot summer day...I can 
tell you that the fat berries count up to a kilo much faster than the 
skinny ones
mmp

Lets continue this discussion in San Francisco with all them heavyweight 
  present at the next WOSonOS

Raffi Aftandelian wrote:
> Greetings friends and colleagues--
> 
> Harrison you wrote:
> 
> "The other day I got a note which said in part, "I was surprised to
> find out that there was a hierarchy in the OST community and everyone having
> a specific place to hold, voices are not equal and politics prevails in
> certain circuits  Just the same old same old... I'm not sure this is what
> you envisioned with OST." I have no idea what the specific circumstances
> were, and less interest in finding out. But presuming that we have the
> creeping tentacles of elitism sneaking in - a good dose of the Law of Two
> Feet and a clear recognition of the Universal License of Open Space
> (everybody has one by birth) should do the trick. Or something."
> 
> I would love to hear more from the person who wrote about hierarchy in the
> OST community. What is meant by "hierarchy" here?
> 
> Isn't there hierarchy everywhere? Is it a bad thing? The question is what
> kind of hierarchy do we have in the OST community? Is it a hierarchy that
> feeds us, strengthens us? And how do we choose to engage with it as a
> community? Do we create the spaces to talk about the power differentials
> within our practitioner community in a way that, well, builds more capacity
> within us?
> 
> Quakers, for example, acknowledge that voices are not equal within the life
> of a Monthly Meeting. They have the concept of "weightiness" or a "weighty
> Friend."  In other words, these are the elders within the Quaker world.
> 
> And doesn't the OST world have its elders and sages?
> 
> I, too, have heard (and thought) that the OST community is the "same
> old...," - heck, some of that "same oldness" shows up on the list from time
> to time- *and* I do not know of a more generous, welcoming, inspiring
> facilitation community. We either choose to engage with the OST community as
> it is, or...well exercise the law of two feet.
> 
> 
> Raffi
> 
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