[OSList] Less that Open Space

[Suzanne Daigle]

Laughing out loud Gray...and still chuckling as I type this!

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Gray Miller <graydancer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Over the 30 or so Open Spaces that I've facilitated, there have been
> occasional organizers who have asked about changing this or that part of
> the process. They are always with the best intentions.
>
> Now, when someone wants to change something, I tell them that it's kind of
> like having a car that works reliably, so let's improve it by adding a
> washing machine.
>
> You can do it. And it still might get you somewhere, but probably not
> quite as smoothly as it did before.
>
> Plus, your clothes are likely to smell funny.
>
> Gray
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> On Feb 26, 2012, at 11:39 AM, "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Suzanne said –“I have also seen participants who shared that they were at
> an Open Space event before and that it looked nothing like the one they may
> have just experienced now.”****
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> The sad tale of OS that wasn’t. We’ve all heard it before, and doubtless
> there are dozens more that we will never know about. And it is too bad –
> but I sincerely doubt that there is a single thing to be done about it,
> save making sure that whenever we open space everybody gets the whole
> enchilada. No amount of training, pleading, legislation, certification,
> authorizing, monitoring, mentoring – will do a bloody bit of good, I think.
> Somebody is always going to look for a “better” way – a little addition, an
> added technique, a subtle control – whatever. And maybe they will find it,
> God love’em. In the meantime, and with all charity I have to admit – I
> can’t be bothered. At the end of the day Open Space is going to be just
> fine. Not because we have protected it but simply because it works all by
> itself, as it has for millennia.****
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