self organized learning

[Pat Black]

I agree Harrison it is brilliant.  And when I referred to open space
learning I meant it in the broadest of ways.  i meant it in the way where we
are a drift in a sea of knowing not what and open to all the possibility of
interaction and relationship.  I also love seeing the expression of what we
all hold dear, spoken as action as it is in the video.  We often look for
concrete expressions of action as in plans and task lists when we look to
quantify the importance of the kind of meeting space that open space
permits.  I most often think that a true expression of what we hope has
happened can't be quantified in that way.  The expression we really hope for
is one that transforms how each of us does all the different work we do.
 Expressions where evidence of the "tool" is at work fashioning all the
actions that come from our movement through our lives.  We share a dream for
this.  I am glad that it touched you.
Pat

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

>  Pat – Much more than fascinating, it is absolutely brilliant. Truly it
> brought tears to my eyes arising in part because of the consummate
> simplicity of the learning experiment and its powerful result – but even
> more because it epitomizes precisely what I believe we as a community should
> be about. And it is not just about the education of children, important
> though that may be. The possibilities are larger involving virtually every
> aspect of the human endeavor. We have had the privilege of witnessing the
> power of self organization at work doing things that most of our fellows,
> who have not had that experience, will consider to be impossible. Open Space
> may have provided the door way through which we might  consciously enter the
> self organizing world. But that is simply a beginning and the best is yet to
> come. The first step is to push beyond the narrow focus on OST as a method
> or “tool” – to begin to apply the central understandings to the vast array
> of human undertakings – finance, marketing, food production, scientific
> research, and on and on. Each application will be different and
> experimental, even as the video you posted was different and experimental.
> And we cannot do it alone, but we can be a powerful yeast that raises up
> some marvelous new loafs of bread. I confess that over the past few months
> as I have been reading OSLIST, I have totally enjoyed the warmth of the
> community and our willingness to support each other as required – holding
> space for a venture. But I have also longed for something more and deeper.
> And Pat, I think you might just have opened a way. Thank you!
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> Here is a link to a TED talks video that describes open space learning.  It
> is pretty fascinating.
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> Pat Black
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> http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
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