OST & Scientific Method

[Harrison Owen]

Juan - I would not hold my breath. To the best of my knowledge, the academic
community has totally avoided Open Space, even though there have been
multiple OS held within the sacred walls of Academe. Just two weeks ago I
helped the Arkansas State University to get on with their Strategic Plan.
The lack of scientific evidence did not seem to bother them much. Of course
you could offer him the opportunity for an academic scoop, if he has the
courage. After all when you have done something in excess of 100,000 times
in 140 countries, over 25 years - one might suspect that something useful
has been going on. All without benefit of the wisdom of academia. Maybe
someday they will catch up?

 

Harrison 

 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of JL Walker
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 12:10 PM
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Subject: OST & Scientific Method

 

Dear Friends

 

Yesterday I shared a coffee with a colleague who is one of the greatest
exponents of positive psychology in Chile. My interest was to motivate him
to know how is that an open space experience brings out the best of a human
being and thus allows for experiencing many of the theoretical concepts that
he manages. Great was my surprise when he said he was not interested in
anything that was not strictly and rigorously related to the scientific
method and that before he can accept my invitation, he first needed to know
some scientific publications which demonstrate "objectively" the benefits
and results of the methodology.

What would you respond to him? What are the sources or scientific research
on Open Space to which we could refer him?

I know that this issue has been discussed here in some way before, but I
would love now that you could refresh my memory and my knowledge in all of
this matter.

 

Hugs,

 

Juan Luis

 

PS: I know also that Frederik Wortmann from Boscop in Berlin is working just
now on his thesis with this optical, but I don't know about the details and
his results.  

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