FW: Towards fewer training wheels
Harrison Owen
hhowen at verizon.net
Sat May 30 11:20:00 PDT 2009
I like it! Pretty soon there will be nothing left "not to do" -- we just go
to work!!
Harrison
Harrison Owen
7808 River Falls Drive
Potomac, Maryland 20854
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Hi--
Rereading in Wave Rider, I noticed Harrison's formula for the care and
feeding of self-organizing systems: Gather in a circle,... and ending
with Get to work.
It may be the germ of nurturing self organizing is in that last
phrase.
That is, do we move closer to no training wheels if we say: Open Space
is simply people getting to work.
(Also notice the double entendre here: in American idiom, getting to
means not only "moving into the phase of," but also "Oh, boy! I finally
have my wish!")
:- Doug.
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>From Sat May 30 14:53:58 2009
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Harrison--
Thanks!
:- Doug.
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 14:20 -0400, Harrison Owen wrote:
> I like it! Pretty soon there will be nothing left "not to do" -- we just go
> to work!!
>
> Harrison
>
> Harrison Owen
> 7808 River Falls Drive
> Potomac, Maryland 20854
> Phone 301-365-2093
> Skype hhowen
> Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com
> Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org
> Personal website www.ho-image.com
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> -----Original Message-----
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> germann
> Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 11:02 AM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Towards fewer training wheels
>
> Hi--
>
> Rereading in Wave Rider, I noticed Harrison's formula for the care and
> feeding of self-organizing systems: Gather in a circle,... and ending
> with Get to work.
>
> It may be the germ of nurturing self organizing is in that last
> phrase.
>
> That is, do we move closer to no training wheels if we say: Open Space
> is simply people getting to work.
>
> (Also notice the double entendre here: in American idiom, getting to
> means not only "moving into the phase of," but also "Oh, boy! I finally
> have my wish!")
>
> :- Doug.
>
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>From Sun May 31 12:51:18 2009
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Hi--
A quote you might enjoy pondering vis-a-vis open space:
I had always had (previously) a rather naïve and totally
inaccurate view of the human body as a kind of bag, loosely
filled with organs, tissues, nerves, and so on.... But seeing
the MRI cross-section of the human neck makes it clear that it
is, internally, a wondrous structure of carefully constructed
coherent form, interlocking, overlapping, and richly woven, so
complex and beautiful geometrically that every space, every nook
and cranny have not one, but multiple functions, and participate
in the form of several, multiple, coherent geometric structures.
Christopher Alexander, The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art
of Building and The Nature of the Universe, Book One: The
Phenomenon of Life, p 141.
:- Doug.
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>From Sun May 31 13:40:08 2009
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Subject: The void
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Hi friends--
More from Christopher Alexander, things which have resonance with open
space:
In the most profound centers which have perfect wholeness, there
is at the heart a void which is like water, infinite in depth,
surrounded by and contrasted with the clutter of the stuff and
fabric around it.
....
On an intimate human scale we find the same in SITTING CIRCLE
(p. 857), where the circle itself, and the empty space at the
heart of the circle, are small scale manifestations of the void
at work. Small caps in original—a reference to A Pattern
Language.Christopher Alexander, The Nature of Order: An Essay on
the Art of Building and The Nature of the Universe, Book One:
The Phenomenon of Life, p 222-225.
:- Doug.
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Hi friends--<BR>
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More from Christopher Alexander, things which have resonance with open space:<BR>
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:- Doug.<BR>
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