[OSList] [aoh] protestors and process people on Wall Street

Fri Sep 30 06:57:02 PDT 2011

Is it not an amazing time. 

The consciousness of democracy seems to be bursting forth with expressions of invitation, emergence, and wholeness. In some regions, with great pain. In others, with a welcomed vibrancy akin to the dawn of a new day.

Species wide learning manifesting -- that is the story I tell myself. From a much quickened consciousness shift.

Appreciating our friendships and colleagueships here.

Greetings from Utah.

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On Sep 30, 2011, at 5:13 AM, Helen Titchen Beeth wrote:

> Oh wow, Benjamin, what lovely germs you're germinating here!
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> They spark off some questions in me, too... 
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> I've noticed that when a group shares an aligned intent (doesn't have to be - can never be - identical, just resonant rather than fragmented) things can get done without any overt coordination. People just see what needs doing from their perspective, and they do it. They tell others what they're doing, and people see what others are doing, and the information gets passed around quite synchronistically so people know what they need to know.
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> What seems important is processes whereby groups can keep coming together to sense what's changing and shifting through their action (and the responses of the environment/context) and continue to keep their shared intent aligned. So there can be an ongoing 'story field' that's constantly fueled as the actors move away from the fire into action, then return with the next installment of the story to share.
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> So inspiring that all this collective learning is happening in hotspots all over our world, and being shared back into the middle. In so many different ways.
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> We don't have to design it. It's happening now. We just have to witness it, perhaps discern some patterns and articulate them back into the system so that we become more conscious of what we're doing, and can experiment with the next level.
> 
> Species-wide learning is now possible.
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> :-D
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> h
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> On 30 Sep 2011, at 12:53, Benjamin Aaron Degenhart wrote:
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>> Hi there,
>> 
>> indeed a dance of the masculine and the feminine. let's continue, here's maybe a more masculine one again :) i am hearing a need for effective and agile ways of processing information in a big group and converge into quick collective decisions in response to acute challenges... the community building/bonding is already in place and ideally get's nourished and strengthened by the ways used to move as a whole body 'intellectually'. 
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>> i am intrigued by the way Tom puts it: "the evolutionary pressures to develop new forms are intense". 
>> Walking through the morning-sunshine of Oxford i remembered a few pieces in resonance with this that i'd like to offer as potential crystallization points of some new forms... these are not ready-to-implement-tools but thoughts to play with. maybe someone IN the actual heat of the physical reality of this can see if any of it makes sense. maybe not (yet), that's fine too.
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>> - - here's [http://wp.me/pyPX5-1D] a piece on convergence involving systemic voting (people giving negative votes on options, the options with least negative votes win), collectively choosing a voice for the system (on 1-2-3 everyone points on the person they think will speak this inquiry/decision in the best way as a voice of the whole system, person with most fingers pointing at them gets to speak. alternatively also the person with least fingers or other configurations) and finding missing voices (a ball is thrown from person to person and three persons have the chance to speak, they shall only do so if they feel they hold important voices of the system).
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>> - - consciously working with leadership-pathways, rather than "leaders" [http://wp.me/pyPX5-fF]. The choice/evolution/iteration of these pathways could be wrapped around the challenge faced? Like finding the narrative from the group that works best in the light of this.
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>> - - finding new ways of using the body as a communication instrument? [http://wp.me/pyPX5-eR] imagine you'd have identified a few voices of the system that represent the spectrum of the opinion-landscape around a subject... then these voice-holders take a posture and so does everyone else. Now in slow-motion you morph your own posture towards the postures of the voice-holder that you feel aligned with... [http://wp.me/pyPX5-7j/#posturemorph]
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>> - - i would love to find a way to move on practically with this one as i sense so much potential, but i have no clue about a next step. Seeing a group as a social processor...  a group of 50 contains 1225 different possible subgroups of two people. it also contains 19600 different possible groups of three people and so on. A group of 50 people indeed has a total of 2^50 = 1.126 quadrillion different possible subgroups of different sizes. What if there's a way to leverage this abundance very consciously and strategically to process information and hold as much complexity as possible as a whole group... [http://wp.me/pyPX5-aD]
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>> 
>> joyously,
>> 
>> Benjamin Aaron Degenhart
>> KaosPilot Team16
>> 
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>> On 30 September 2011 09:13, Helen Titchen Beeth <helen.titchen.beeth at mac.com> wrote:
>> Thank you, Brigitte! You totally rock!
>> 
>> I think this might be the voice of the feminine speaking through you. If it is, then it is important to acknowledge that there is also a need for what the masculine does - which includes strategizing and lofty inquiry. It is when BOTH are present that we humans are at our best, don't you think?
>>  
>> :-D
>> 
>> helen
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>> On 30 Sep 2011, at 00:59, Brigitte Kupfer wrote:
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>>> 
>>> "............ that an overarching strategy (a framework) is needed by which to unite and focus peaceful people, organizations, and institutions to participate in peaceful, transformation of unilateral power."
>>> Yes, David, I agree. But I think this framework is not coming from any of our maps, AoH etc.
>>> This framework has always existed and is already there. "We the people" are reconnecting to it. 
>>> "The HEART is where the revolution begins" -And if we don't trust our hearts and the collective force which is only accessible through our hearts, then "The HEAD is where the revolution ends". 
>>> .......and we'll repeat - repeat - repeat. 
>>> "The map is not the territory". 
>>> What about expecting the unexpected? 
>>> What about imagineering new formations which don't come from us "the experts" and our maps. 
>>> What about taking a moment before rushing into action and asking again what is needed from us right now. 
>>> This is a crucial moment for all "warriors of the heart".
>>> Becoming the "I" of the storm - becoming the "eye" of the heart.
>>> Or as Vaclav Havel puts it:  "to live in harmony with the 'voice of being' as I understand it within myself" . 
>>> 
>>> It Is I Who Must Begin
>>>  
>>> It is I who must begin.
>>> Once I begin, once I try --
>>> here and now,
>>> right where I am,
>>> not excusing myself
>>> by saying things
>>> would be easier elsewhere,
>>> without grand speeches and
>>> ostentatious gestures,
>>> but all the more persistently
>>> -- to live in harmony
>>> with the "voice of Being," as I
>>> understand it within myself
>>> -- as soon as I begin that,
>>> I suddenly discover,
>>> to my surprise, that
>>> I am neither the only one,
>>> nor the first,
>>> nor the most important one
>>> to have set out
>>> upon that road.
>>>  
>>> Whether all is really lost
>>> or not depends entirely on
>>> whether or not I am lost.
>>>  
>>> ~ Vaclav Havel ~
>>> 
>>> Trusting we'll hear the "voice of being" within ourselves while doing our work 
>>> My best wishes	to all
>>> Brigitte
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>>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Dave Cooper <dave.cooper at shalommakers.com> wrote:
>>> Greetings Sandy and all,
>>> 
>>> In response to Sandy's request, I expect that there are some "experts" among
>>> the masses of people who are organizing. I hope that from the "ethnographic"
>>> work of people who are experts in their own communities will connect with
>>> the emerging relational power that is building into a national and worldwide
>>> Movement.
>>> 
>>> Some years ago, I stated to a friend,  " America needs a Movement in which
>>> the organizing organizations organize to transform dominating power and with
>>> it the culture that clamors after and clings to it". It seems that the
>>> non-hierarchical consensus-based processes among the demonstrators that
>>> Sandy mentioned are an attempt at overcoming unilateral power. However, like
>>> Sandy, I agree that some structure is needed to avert chaos that could erupt
>>> into and create an inhospitable and unproductive environment.
>>> 
>>> What I am witnessing (perhaps you too) and mapping is a mostly peaceful
>>> Movement toward relationship-centric, equity-forming, common good of
>>> proportions that boggle my mind and imagination. People are resisting
>>> dominating unilateral power; resisting the chasm between wealthy and
>>> poverty-stricken; resisting the prescriptions that come from organizations
>>> and institutions that for too long have suppressed and oppressed them.
>>> 
>>> Moreover, I agree with Sandy that an overarching strategy (a framework) is
>>> needed by which to unite and focus peaceful people, organizations, and
>>> institutions to participate in peaceful, transformation of unilateral power.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Warmly and with expectant hope,
>>> 
>>> Dave
>>> 
>>> Rev. N. David Cooper, MDiv, MSW, CPM
>>> Shalom Makers
>>> P.O. Box 61
>>> Doswell, VA 23047
>>> 
>>> c. 804.614.6254
>>> e. dave.cooper at shalommakers.com
>>> w. http://www.shalommakers.com
>>> w. http://www.communitiesofshalom.com
>>> @shalommakers and @communit_shalom on Twitter
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: aoh-bounces at list.artofhosting.org
>>> [mailto:aoh-bounces at list.artofhosting.org] On Behalf Of Sandy Heierbacher
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 11:50 PM
>>> To: AoH List; oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
>>> Subject: [aoh] protestors and process people on Wall Street
>>> 
>>> Hi, Open Space and Art of Hosting friends!
>>> 
>>> I wanted to send a quick message out to both the OSlist and the AoH list to
>>> see if any process experts in these communities are working with the Occupy
>>> Wall Street folks who are doing direct action in NYC right now.
>>> 
>>> We had a thread on the NCDD Discussion list today (I'm the director of the
>>> National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation, if you've not heard of NCDD)
>>> about the timely opportunity to provide real assistance and advice with
>>> process to these activists.  Additional occupations (as they're being
>>> called) are being planned for DC, Boston, and other locations I believe --
>>> and I wanted to check in with the Open Space and AoH communities to see if
>>> process folks were already involved (if so, let's talk about how NCDD
>>> members might be able to help you out, and stay informed about what you're
>>> doing).
>>> 
>>> The Occupy Wall Street folks are an intentionally leader-less,
>>> self-organized group.  Open Space and Art of Hosting-style processes seem
>>> like the best fit for helping them stay that way, continue to give all
>>> protestors a voice and to move more quickly to jointly-identified outcomes.
>>> 
>>> For those of you who may not be too familiar with what's going on in NYC
>>> right now, here's an interesting part of the listserv thread I mentioned
>>> (this segment is written by Tom Atlee):
>>> 
>>> NCDDers in NYC might find the occupier community (they call themselves
>>> "Occupy Wall Street") a challenging, exciting context to work in.  Process
>>> is being evolved on the spot.  The occupiers were using a traditional
>>> consensus process, but the police forbade microphones.  So they developed a
>>> fascinating "human microphone" system where the speaker says a few words and
>>> the crowd repeats what was said (which allows those in the back to hear).
>>> (You can watch all this on streaming videos!)  But that increases the
>>> already extensive time needed for consensus (checking for concerns, etc.),
>>> so the police have started issuing demands that must be met within 5-15
>>> minutes, which the crowd can't respond to fast enough without formal
>>> leaders, which they don't want.  The evolutionary pressures to develop new
>>> forms are intense.  What comes out of that could be very good, very bad, or
>>> something else...
>>> 
>>> If an NCDDer joined them and created a self-organized "Talk to the Others"
>>> working group, something might happen along the lines you're thinking,
>>> Stephanie.  But there's no one in charge to talk to about getting other
>>> protesters to join in Activity X.  It is a self-organized system, for better
>>> and/or worse.
>>> 
>>> If you/we want to do something more planned, best to start now planning for
>>> the parallel occupation of Washington DC by hundreds/thousands of
>>> progressive protesters that is about to hit the city on Oct 6
>>> http://october2011.org.
>>> 
>>> For info on Occupy Wall Street, here's some fascinating links:
>>> http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/7468-occupy-wall-street-
>>> take-the-bull-by-the-horns
>>> http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/64-64/7564-the-w
>>> hole-world-is-watching-nonviolence-at-liberty-plaza
>>> http://www.truth-out.org/occupywallstreet-more-hashtag-its-revolution-format
>>> ion/1316784846
>>> http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/chris-hedges-occupy-wall-street-is
>>> -where-the-hope-of-america-lies/
>>> http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2011/09/20/police-occupy-wall-s
>>> treet-9-20-2011/
>>> http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/785
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Sandy
>>> 
>>> Sandy Heierbacher
>>> Director, National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD)
>>> email:  sandy at thataway.org (switching to sandy at ncdd.org)
>>> website:  www.ncdd.org
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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