[OSList] Poke the Open Space Box
doug
os at footprintsinthewind.com
Wed May 18 19:16:13 PDT 2011
Suzanne--
Your mention of the hero's journey set my heart on something I wrote a
couple of days ago, triggered by Rumi:
empty-making & whole-making
these are all we sell here
muddle & community
hero/ine going out coming back &
finding the boon for the community in
the community
most folks don't have either
zig & zag each and both help the
line remember it is one
:- Doug.
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 09:13 -0400, Suzanne Daigle wrote:
> Harold,
>
> Your post has been on my mind a lot...Your question: "What's the path
> to abundant full time Open Space living?" and then your comment "I've
> been wishing I could do this full time - go out - get clients - and
> facilitate OST conferences full time - but Seth's quote kind of threw
> that back at me".
>
> All I can say Harold is to follow your passion. In many ways it is a
> hero's journey, a journey that does not have the security, the
> predictability, the stability and all that a traditional "abundant
> full time job or career might have". For me, Open Space is the
> pathway that opens up space to transform how we do work, how we
> experience life, how we are together, together. There is nothing that
> compares. I know I could be accused at times of being a "one trick
> pony" but how can I dismiss the depth, the possibilities, the layers,
> the hope, the transformation, innovation, creativity, peace,
> performance and all that Opening Space invites in our lives. It is a
> way of being much more than a process of doing.
>
> As I reflect on my corporate career, I can feel and taste the
> possibilities of what Open Space invites. It invites EVERYONE to
> participate and engage, to contribute and make a difference. To be
> themselves without holding back. Wow! And as I think of you Harold,
> your depth, your commitment and contributions to this community, I
> think to myself, lucky client who would have you to Open Space. What a
> gift knowing the results and outcomes in productivity, high
> performance and high engagement that could occur.
>
> As a community, I feel us to be on the edge...on the edge of so many
> possibilities. The World today is a very different place: in business,
> in politics, in education, in finance, environmentally, etc. Or
> perhaps it's not that different at all, it's just our perception that
> has changed and perception is everything. It's a lot.
>
> The opportunities to be opening space abound. Some days I feel like a
> shoe salesman seeing
> so many people around me with no shoes, not even knowing what shoes
> are and I think of the "repetitive patterns" of how they work and live
> that aren't working anymore. I then think to myself "if only they had
> shoes aka Open Space" and therein lies the entrepreneur magic inside
> of me. In those times, I feel myself to be a business owner, a
> scientist and an inventor -- imagining the path of how I can help
> people discover how life could be better if only we could open space
> and introduce a few principles of living.
>
> At this stage, rather than writing a book, I feel myself wanting to
> write a marketing campaign not to sell somebody on something but to
> speak in a language where people are, a language of need and
> possibilities that is familiar. A language that invites a relationship
> with clients, a language that does not talk about Open Space but that
> is all about Opening Space in different ways so we can get different
> results.
>
> So Harold, I thank you for posting this. It made me realize again
> that time is "awasting" and that I have important work to do if I am
> to go for the whole enchilada, as Harrison told me in a recent post.
> It means being smart and strategic, thinking like an entrepreneur,
> knowing what I'm good at and going for it.
>
> I'm imagining there are lots of Wave Riders out there like you, like
> me who are not shy about announcing that making a sustainable living
> doing what we love to do is indeed a noble and worthy goal. And
> "abundance" seems like a darn good word because it is through
> abundance, sharing, helping each other, contributing back to this
> community that abundance happens and multiples.
>
> So Harold, keep simmering your dream and let me know if I can help in
> this trail blazing, wave riding adventure that we call Open Space
> which is really nothing more than opening space in our lives so that
> "people can be helping people" in business, community and in life.
>
> Suzanne, invigorated and energized about the future
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Harold Shinsato <harold at shinsato.com>
> wrote:
> I just read this in Seth Godin's latest tract - "Poke the
> Box". I've heard occasionally that some folks are having
> trouble making ends meet as Open Space Technology
> facilitators. Yet others seem to be doing ok. I've been
> wishing I could do this full time - go out - get clients - and
> facilitatre OST conferences full time - but Seth's quote kind
> of threw that back at me.
>
>
> "My friend Jessica wants to be a conference organizer. You can
> hire her and she'll sweat every single detail of your event.
> Give her the attendee list, the venue, and the agenda, and the
> conference will go off without a hitch.
>
> "The problem with this plan is that it involves being picked
> by the event promoter. If she gets picked often, it's a fine
> living. If she can negotiate a fair payday, it's a fine
> living. But Jessica must pitch the promoter, hat in hand.
>
> "So... why not be the promoter, the initiator, the one in
> charge and responsible?"
>
> - Seth Godin, Poke the Box, p. 25
>
>
> This sounds a lot more like the spirit of OST than going out
> looking for clients who want to do OST events. This is very
> personal for me as Missoula BarCamp's OST event happens on
> Saturday. I went out and just got it started - but it's not
> exactly a money maker at this point. But what Seth says, just
> initiating cool OST events, sounds a lot more juicy than
> trying to pitch OST facilitation.
>
> Any enlightenment anyone? What's the path to abundant full
> time Open Space living?
>
> --
> Harold Shinsato
> harold at shinsato.com
> http://shinsato.com
> twitter: @hajush
>
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> Suzanne Daigle
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