FW: Is Anybody Home?

[Harrison Owen]

From: Michele Frankel [mailto:frankelmichele at googlemail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:45 AM
To: hhowen at verizon.net
Subject: Re: Is Anybody Home?

 

Well I work in an educational environment and have not had any time to read
books or search the internet. And I am sympathetic.  I exported Women and
Peace form a N. England conference to London about 30 years ago. Furthermore
I am currently getting funding to take educational issues into the theatre. 

 

What would help me, since I prefer social interaction, is to know where in
London , or nearby I could go for a direct experience/ training for all of
this.

 

30 years ago a magaizine called Fortean Times was only purchasable if you
knew the right people. Now you can buy the mag in major newsagents. MY
QUESTION - HOW CAN YOU MAKE OS easily accessible for those with limited time
? 

 

Michele

 



 

On 10/10/07, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote: 

Presumably, everybody is busy with useful stuff or just taking a nap (:-)),
but it seems a while since I heard from all my friends. Personally, I have 
come back south from my summer abode in Maine and have started on the
Winter's chores. Not that it is really like work, but I find myself thinking
a lot about where OST has taken me. At the simplest level OST as become a 
marvelous natural experiment probing a very different understanding of the
capacity of human beings for productive and fulfilling work, and the way we
might approach the work that we do. Several years ago I wrote a book, "The 
Practice of Peace," exploring the work of Peace Making. Currently on my desk
is another effort looking at the ways in which we have sub-optimized and
underestimated the capacity for superior performance. Whether this actually 
turns into a book or not, remains to be seen, but the interest is there. And
then there is the marvelous opportunity to do an OS with a large software
company designing a new major product line. I think we could learn just how 
ineffective we have been in this area, and how one might radically raise the
level of performance. And I am wondering what you may have discovered???

For example, we have used OST quite a bit in an educational environment 
apparently to good effect. But then my question is what have we learned
about the nature of education and how we might do it better. And of course,
here in the US we are totally enmeshed in the Political Season and I wonder 
what we may have learned about the political process, and how to do it
better and more effectively. . . Just Wondering.

Harrison

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