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[doug]

Agnetta--

A human condition...about which to talk again and again. What do you say
when the issue comes up with the sponsor in planning for the OST?

			:- Doug.





On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 10:19 +0100, Agneta Setterwall wrote:
> I do not trust people if they say there is no distrust. Os at least, I 
> am very suspicious.
> 
> I think the good thing is to be explicit about it, to take it for 
> granted as a human condition. And then talk about it again and again and 
> built our fragile moments of trust and bridges of compromises.
> 
> And of course I, as most people, I love the moments of trust!
> 
> Agneta
> 
> doug skrev 2012-02-24 03.34:
> > Harrison and Kerry--
> >
> > (Wonderful to see you back on the list the last few months, Kerry!)
> >
> > Peggy Holman in her Engaging Emergence has hinted (maybe she said it 
> > outright) that a little bit of distrust can actually help the Open 
> > Space, equating it to just so much more diversity, if I recall.
> >
> > Comments on distrust among the participants as a good thing?
> >
> >             :- Doug.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 02/23/2012 05:27 PM, Kerry Napuk wrote:
> >> Hi Harrison
> >>
> >> Enjoyed your analogy of teaching someone to fish in lieu of handing them
> >> a fish.  It certainly is applicable to the failures of traditional
> >> foreign aid.
> >>
> >> Yeah, Open Space is easy.  I facilitated my first group with 175 people
> >> in an old tram works in Glasgow for the entire theatre sector of
> >> Scotland.  My training was reading your Handbook and a weekend course in
> >> OD.  But, like most simple things, you can spend your life working on
> >> it.  So, simple it is, but practising and perfecting it is an art.
> >>
> >> I now have done over 100 events with a bit more than 7,000 participants
> >> and I still am amazed at large group energy and dynamics.  It sure beats
> >> facilitating top teams in organisations who, agree a vision and
> >> strategy, then watch it fail when they try to cascade it downwards.
> >> Nobody buys in, because they were not a part of its creation.
> >>
> >> It is far easier to get the whole system in one room and let people
> >> commit at the point of participation.  After all, what more can you ask
> >> than an organisation creating the space where people totally equal
> >> contribute and participate on a level field.  Nobody is in control and
> >> nobody can influence outcomes.  So, there can be no stacked deck or
> >> hidden agendas.
> >>
> >> That is yet another thing so brilliant about Open Space, you can seed
> >> the field with grass and players far faster than any other large group
> >> process.  Flexibility is the hallmark of Open Space, along with its
> >> complete bottom up self organisation driven by motivation and action
> >> through _*passion* _(care enough about something to stand up in front of
> >> everyone with your burning issue) *_and responsibility_* (care enough to
> >> lead a group and do something about your passion.)
> >>
> >> Simple it is, but you can spend a life time working on it.  In this
> >> respect, Open Space has a Zen like quality.  Practise, practise, polish,
> >> polish.
> >>
> >> So, thank you Harrison for your laziness and penchant for martinis.  You
> >> have done well.  And we all can attest to your generosity as David
> >> Osborne discovered.  You gave your creation to the world without strings
> >> and without royalties.  Bravo!
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Kerry
> >> Edinburgh
> >>
> >>
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