What I love most about OST (was Re: [OSLIST] Origins of "one less thing" and "letting go"

Wed Jul 29 15:28:26 PDT 2009

Artur - I love you! You got it!! It is all Open Space - unless you want to
work terribly hard. Just think of one more thing NOT to do!!

Harrison 

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Subject: What I love most about OST (was Re: [OSLIST] Origins of "one less
thing" and "letting go"

Hi people:

It is interesting, but the thing that I most love about OST has much to do
with "one less thing"...

OST is, as far as I know, the only methodology where the facilitator has to
create a certain number of previous requisites, do a concise opening, and
then let the people do their own work. This assumes that one believes in the
people in the room to do the job and gives them all the power to
self-organize. And it works every time!

When I compare OST with all the other "facilitation" methodologies that I
have studied, what most impresses me is that in all the others the
facilitator (or a lot of facilitators) has (have) the central role.
He/she/them is everywhere, doing all the sorts of things, (unconsciously)
letting people to "understand" that without him/her/them (the facilitator(s)
they would not be able to do the job.

That is also the reason I have difficulty in understanding how the some
people that facilitate OST, can also facilitate more formal/control_oriented
methodologies. Ora why must we add other things (like a "warming up" up or
AI session at the beginning) to something that is already perfect. Add one
more thing only disempowers people. Discover one more thing not to do - that
is the real job of the facilitator preparation!

And, of course, all this has everything to do with Taoism and very little to
do with normal western thinking that is our biggest enemy when trying to
facilitate OST - to forget and bypass the paradigm in what we have been
educated, I mean, indoctrinated. We must also let go of that!

Artur

PS: In what concerns your PS, Harrison, "no comments!"

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 --- On Wed, 7/29/09, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

From: Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Origins of "one less thing" and "letting go"
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 11:34 AM

I love it! "Thinking of one less thing to do" is a throw-away I have used
for years. I've called it the "design principle for OST." If it turns out to
be Taoist that will be superb. Some kind of channeling, I would guess. 

Harrison

PS - Artur I also wrote the Wiki article, now several times revised by
whomsoever. More channeling?

ho

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