OS Training

[Lisa Heft]

Hello, wonderful Gerard --

(Gerard had asked if there was a training in the autumn in Northeast America)

It is not exactly Northeast America...and it is not exactly
autumn...however...

I am offering an
Open Space Learning Workshop
December 19-21, 2008
San Francisco, California USA

If this might be a fit for your colleagues' needs please feel free to
invite them to contact me.

Lisa

Lisa Heft
Opening Space
lisaheft at openingspace.net
http://www.openingspace.net

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>From  Sun Oct 21 20:36:06 2007
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Subject: Re: Naming the tension
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Craig--

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 11:32 +0000, Craig Gilliam wrote:

> Does the same principle apply to OS.  When we put a "handle" on it,
> when we "name it," on one hand, we might be making it easier for
> people to deal with it, but also by naming it are we removing some of
> the power and creative voice trying to emerge?  By naming it, we might
> be making it smaller to alleviate anxiety, but might that be robbing
> the group of growth, and the issue of its mystery?


I think you are on to something, Craig. I also agree that naming can be
used to break an impasse. Harrison's "Vagueness...creates a lot of space
and people fill in the blanks as only they can do" I think may be the
answer to the implicit "How" question. Is there another way? Maybe
noticing what is going on in some cases pulls the group in the wrong
way?

That then brings us to Sandra's reminder of the principle of observer
participancy, to which I can hear the man in the hat saying something
like "At some point you just have to throw caution to the wind
and...open some more space!"

Does this extend our learning?


Harrison--

<<Oh yes – The People. Can you really trust them? My experience is that
you don’t have much choice, and one thing you can trust is that given
the space The People will make choices that they perceive to be life
enhancing.>>

In this I am hearing complexity. We want to think we can control the
group, clamp down on them as you say, but people are more complex than
that. Even "life enhancing" is much more complex than we know.

			:- Doug.

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>From  Sun Oct 21 21:00:14 2007
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Niko--

Oh! No, *not* stupid! There is no such thing as a stupid question, let
alone a stupid OS-Lister! <grin>

It is exactly the kind of question that leads to more understanding for
all of us. Niko, thank you for asking it!

				:-Doug.

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 21:55 +0000, niko lebel wrote:
> Thank you all.
>  
> I see now..
>  
> (stupid me) 
>  
> niko
> 

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