On "Failure" / Coaching

[Michael M Pannwitz]

Dear Ilja,
I fare well with the notion that at its core all groups, organisations 
and systems are selforganizing or, to say it differently, are os-groups, 
os-orgs and os-systems.
At the same time we have devised devillishly ingenious structures in 
groups, organisations and systems to keep self organisation contained, 
restricted, boarded in, etc., or, we have done everything to prevent the 
os organisation to unfold.
Open Space Technology is a procedure, method, approach...that always in 
my facilitation experience with 167 events in the last 14 years expands 
the space for the unfolding of selforganisation or the os-org.
Still its just a method and, I think, only works because 
self-organisation is active and os-orgs are there (sometimes hard to 
see, I agree). There is no way to organise self-organisation no matter 
what method or to create an os-organisation no matter what tool...and 
there is no need to do it because it is already there.
This notion helps me a great deal in staying relaxed in my facilitation 
work knowing from experience that selforganisation will unfold because 
it is there already. Now, its unfolding is enhanced, if the 5 or 6 
prerequisites we always talk about are in place.
And one of the tasks with a potential client, sponsor is to take time 
with him or her to reflect on the prerequisites...its all on the part of 
the client/sponsor to do that, they have to be clear on whether the 
prerequisites are sufficiently in place and they have to convince me 
that it is in fact so before we start thinking of a contract.
(I always have a contact meeting, no fee, no obligations on either side, 
talk about the prerequisites, dont decided anything, sleep twice and 
then have a phone call or an email to see whether os is what is wanted).
Greetings from Berlin
mmp

Ilja Preuß schrieb:
> Hi Harrison,
> 
>> Doing an Open space is one thing, but
>> building upon that experience in an ongoing way to the profit and betterment
>> of the organization/group is the next level up, as far as I am concerned. I
>> am not talking about, “becoming an Open Space organization” if only because
>> I sincerely believe that all organizations are already there.
> 
> I share the notion that the whole world basically is self-organizing.
> But taking that to the final logical conclusion, we also need to say
> that every single conference, every single meeting is an "Open Space".
> And while there is something to it, I don't find this to be a very
> helpful notion.
> 
> While it's true that the whole world is self-organizing, it also seems
> very obvious to me that very different things happen once we
> deliberately open the space for this self-organization to happen,
> instead of deciding to impose a limiting structure. So much different,
> in fact, that I dread conferences that don't make that space. So I
> find value in only labeling those conferences and meetings as "Open
> Space" where there is deliberate action taken to open the space, and
> I'm assuming that something similar holds true for "Open Space
> organizations".
> 
> Cheers, Ilja
> 
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