[OSList] New on Open Space in Norway

[Harrison Owen]

Michael -- I have long suspected (and may have said) what you are observing.
Though I would perhaps put it a little differently. It is not so much that
Self Organization is genetically encoded in us, which is doubtless true if
we, like everything else, seem to be a product of that marvelous force, but
also that the RESPONSE to self organization is encoded -- which seems, more
often than not, to look a lot like Open Space. One might say, the default
setting for human organization is the circle. And once in a circle, things
just flow from there. We call it Open Space, in West Africa they call it
Palaver, in Southern and Eastern Africa the name is, Indaba. And the
Norwegians have a name...

I suppose you could think of all this a just some historical trivia, but I
think the point goes deeper. If nothing else it should remind us that we did
not invent Open Space; it's been there all the time traveling under other
names. Along the same line, it should remind us as well that we do not "do"
Open Space -- The truth is "it does us." I think there is also a strong
caveat (warning) here that when we pass over the circle as the basic
organizing pattern for humanoids, in favor of other arrangements of our own
devising, strange and usually suboptimal things happen. When we think we do
the "organizing" and force everything into our pattern (usually a
hierarchy), it may look pretty on paper, or gain a prize in an academic
contest (a degree) -- but at the end of the day our design comes in a very
poor second to the elegant, primal form: The Circle. The lesson? It's not
nice to fool with Mother Nature. Or something.

Harrison

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Subject: Re: [OSList] New on Open Space in Norway

...same goes for good old germanic
Thing...probably a precursor of the Stammtisch!!...however usually in the
open and under a tree (see also baraza, Kenian name for old tribal way of
meeting which translates into "sitting under a shady tree") and limited to
men...and I am sure there are other cultures, in fact it would not surprise
me, if it had not been part of all cultures...
when I originally ran into OST (Harrison Owen  and Romy Shovelton
facilitating a "training" on OST in 1996) it struck me so deeply that now I
am convinced that whatever selforganisation is it is genetically encoded in
the primitve part of my brain (neocortex)...
how about you all?

greetings from Berlin
mmp



On 12.06.2012 15:12, Mikk Sarv wrote:
> Good luck, Hege!
>
> You can tell people, that old Nordic /ting /was basically same as Open 
> Space.
>
> With greetings from Estonia,
>
> Mikk
>
>
> On Jun 12, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Hege Steinsland wrote:
>
>> Hello
>> I am happy to have had Thomas Herrmann as a coach and teacher in Open 
>> Space facilitation, and just started to practice. I m really exited 
>> where this will lead, and look forward to learn more about the tools 
>> an practice in the weeks and months to come.
>>
>> All the best
>> from
>>
>> Hege
>>
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