AW: Be prepared to be surprised?

[Stanley Park]

Hi Marei,
 
Thank you for your thoughts and feedback.
 
Your intro to Otto's work is great and lovely, for I started reading
"Presence" for which he participated as one of the 4 co-authors. I feel like
a kind of synchronocity. ;-)
 
I would also hope for having this kind of conversation associated with
everyday practice of living a passionate and responsible manufestation of US
(humankind as a whole).
 
See you in SF.
 
Wish your day of Peace
 
park

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 09:42:10 +0100, Marei Kiele <mareikiele at web.de> wrote:

>Hello Park,
> 
>thank you for sharing your thoughts, I enjoy that twist very much. 
>I will try it out as my motto of the day, today. I will also try it out in
my next OST facilitation.
> 
>Just recently I read something from Otto Scharmer called Theory U ~ there
he mentions different ways of listening (see below).
>Seems to me that your way to introduce the “Be prepared…” invites for
Listening 4, creating the kind of conversation that I personally enjoy most.
Listening in this way I find myself and others saying something we have not
thought or said before ~ entering a new dimension.
> 
>By the way I hope for these kinds of conversation at OSonOS in San
Francisco! I intend to be back after two years of absence J
> 
>>From a sunny morning in Bielefeld, Germany,
>Marei
> 
>Slowing Down to Understand
>At its core, leadership is about shaping and shifting how individuals and
groups attend
>to and subsequently respond to a situation. The trouble is that most
leaders are unable to
>recognize, let alone change, the structural habits of attention used in
their organizations.
>Learning to recognize the habits of attention in any particular business
culture requires, among
>other things, a particular kind of listening. Over more than a decade of
observing people’s
>interactions in organizations, I have noted four different types of listening.
> 
>Listening 1: Downloading
>“Yeah, I know that already.” I call this type of listening
“downloading”—listening by
>reconfirming habitual judgments. When you are in a situation where everything
>that happens confirms what you already know, you are listening by downloading.
>
>
>Listening 2: Factual
>“Ooh, look at that!” This type of listening is factual or object-focused:
listening by
>paying attention to facts and to novel or disconfirming data. You switch
off your
>inner voice of judgment and listen to the voices right in front of you. You
focus on
>what differs from what you already know. Factual listening is the basic mode of
>good science. You let the data talk to you. You ask questions, and you pay
careful
>attention to the responses you get.
>
>
>Listening 3: Empatic
>“Oh, yes, I know exactly how you feel.” This deeper level of listening is
empathic
>listening. When we are engaged in real dialogue and paying careful attention,
>we can become aware of a profound shift in the place from which our listening
>originates. We move from staring at the objective world of things, figures, and
>facts (the “it-world”) to listening to the story of a living and evolving
self (the
>“you-world”). Sometimes, when we say “I know how you feel,” our emphasis is on
>a kind of mental or abstract knowing. But to really feel how another feels,
we have
>to have an open heart. Only an open heart gives us the empathic capacity to
connect
>directly with another person from within. When that happens, we feel a profound
>switch as we enter a new territory in the relationship; we forget about our own
>agenda and begin to see how the world appears through someone else’s eyes.
>
>
>Listening 4: Generative
>“I can’t express what I experience in words. My whole being has slowed
>down. I feel more quiet and present and more my real self. I am connected
>to something larger than myself.” This type of listening moves beyond the
>current field and connects us to an even deeper realm of emergence. I call this
>level of listening “generative listening,” or listening from the emerging
field of
>future possibility. This level of listening requires us to access not only
our open
>heart, but also our open will—our capacity to connect to the highest future
>possibility that can emerge. We no longer look for something outside. We no
longer
>empathize with someone in front of us. We are in an altered state. “Communion”
>or “grace” is maybe the word that comes closest to the texture of this
experience.
> 
>Source: Otto Scharmer, Executive Summary: Theorie U
>Further information: www.theoryU.com 
> 
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>Von: owner-oslist at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
[mailto:owner-oslist at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] Im Auftrag von Stanley Park
>Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Februar 2008 19:05
>An: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>Betreff: Re: Be prepared to be surprised?
> 
>Doug,
>
>My understanding is that any genuine transformation can take place only
when it comes from  deeps of one's being.
>
>In that context, I think I was trying to turn "Be Prepared to Be
Surprised!" into "Be Prepared to Surprise Yourself!"
>
>This turns me from "a passive waiting" mode to "passionate, yet responsible
waiting" mode both from the view point of practitioner and participants.
>
>Actually I found myself being surprised by observing both those who seemed
genuinely excited (surprised) and not: I learn from both instances and
assume that participants will do the same. Surprise may come from both the
unknown (anyone or the mystery) and myself.
>
>Being a novice user of the technology, I may try this as one of
para-phrases of the original.
>
>In a quiet solitude of late night in Seoul,
>
>Peace
>
>park
>
>
>douglas germann 쓴 글: 
>Stanley--
> 
>Can you say a little more, please? It sounds inviting and delicious!
> 
>>>From snowy South Bend.
> 
>                             :- Doug.
> 
> 
>On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 03:21 -0700, Stanley Park wrote:
>  
>In the begining of propagating Open Space (Technology), there were some
>worries among us that people might not be surprised. Yes. Some were suprised
>and some not. :-)
> 
>I used to say "I follow the OS text."
> 
>Now, it has dawned on me that I can say "It also indicates that you migyht
>be the only one to surprise yourself and everyone else." Then, it may
>contribute to turning the phrase into "The Law of Two Feet," which turns
>expectation coming from 'without 'into 'within.' The net effect of this
>seems as obvious as the powerful as 'The Law ~,' carrrying a slight nuance
>of paradox. Has anyone tried this context?
> 
>>From Wintry Seoul,
> 
>Peace
> 
>park
> 
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