"rules" and self-organization

Kaliya Hamlin kaliya at mac.com
Wed May 30 17:57:33 PDT 2007


It is nice you all want to be so 'free form' about things and  
'believe' that humans just 'self-organize'.

My experience has taught me that leaning to far in this direction  
actually creates a lot of dissonance for people and leads to spaces  
with negative energy.

Having a person or better a group of people taking responsiblity for  
holding the space creating a nest if you will... within which people  
feel safe to 'open up' and explore with each other possibilities....  
out of this space this nest is born new action and activity.

At this time on our planet we need to be as intentional and catalytic  
as possible in creating space for new possibilities of our  
civilization to emerge....being passive and hoping that people  
conditioned the way they are in our current culture will some how  
'magically' 'awake' and 'self-organize' is to me hopelessly naive.

Diffusing the simple tools and 'rules'  or principles and practices  
is one of the things that could make the  most difference at this  
time on our planet.

My experience is that professional  communities (that is people  
coming together to use this methodology in peer-to-peer professional  
network (outside 'AN' organization) settings) seeking to take action  
together learn the way OST works and take to it....it becomes the new  
norm -the shared way of doing things together that they work on.  It  
lets all the passion talent and energy come forward and the people  
who are interested find each other because there is enough  
structure ... just enough that it is functional and effective for  
them to spend their time in the space together.   THIS IS important.  
I somethings think people undervalue peoples time and energy by all  
this 'it just happens' talk....well if you help it happen and you  
follow some simple steps it is like 10x better.  THAT MATTERS for the  
state of the world and to respect peoples time and energy for showing  
up.






On May 30, 2007, at 4:19 PM, openspacekorea wrote:

> great! i agree with your point 100%.
>
> thank u...
>
> Love and Peace,
>
> park
>
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of  
> Ralph Copleman
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:12 PM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: "rules" and self-organization
>
> One way to test what is essential (what Artur termed "micro") and  
> what is not would be to open some space without mentioning either  
> the four principles or the law of two feet.  Or anything else.
>
> If self-organization occurs in os, would not the "space" still  
> "open" without things we have come to believe are essential?  I'm  
> betting it would, or at least could.  Perhaps all we need is a room  
> and a theme and a wall.  Maybe some tea and coffee.  How free are we?
>
> Picture it.  You're invited, so you show up because the theme  
> interests you or you know the inviter.  You get there, see the  
> theme statement on the wall, and nothing but a circle of chairs.   
> Nothing.  Not even a facilitator.  Others arrive.  The only things  
> you share at this point are your presence and your presumed  
> interest in the theme.
>
> If self-organization is real, is not the space already open?  It  
> may take longer, but might relevant, useful conversations begin?
>
> I think the facilitator meets our need for an authority figure (a  
> perfectly natural, good thing, most of the time), and the ideas  
> about feet, insects, etc. a minimal unifying structure (think of it  
> perhaps as curbs to a boulevard?) that steer us into an opening, a  
> place we have agreed, by showing up, we want to be.  OS in action  
> resembles self-organization, but it isn't the pure thing.  (Not  
> that it really matters.  I love it simply because it’s the best way  
> I know to show people what evolution on Earth is really like.  And  
> it produces great results for my clients.)
>
> One more rumpled notion occurs this morning...  What about the  
> storytelling role, the thing we do as facilitators to connect  
> people entering an open space to a greater whole?  I know this is  
> important, but is not the facilitator simply reminding people of a  
> story they already know, deep down?  If self-organization/evolution  
> is real, it’s been working far longer than humans have even  been  
> around.  Might we not trust this process?  How far can we go?
>
>
> Ralph Copleman
>
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