[OSList] New on Open Space in Norway

[Michael M Pannwitz]

right, Harrison, its the response!
And part of the response, coming with it: I have known this, this is 
part of me, I stop in awe...yes, the default setting.
And all the stuff thats bugging me, making me small, cringe thats the 
control mode...
thanks
and you others?
mmp

On 13.06.2012 14:41, Harrison Owen wrote:
> 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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>
> ...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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