[OSList] Beginnings, Middles and Ends... Where are we?

[Arno Baltin]

Dear OS listeners and sepeakers,

I am glad for so many responses and elaborations to my question on
differences of Opening Space and creating a structure. Mikk's poem was most
easy to grasp. I feel at home with his last statement:

Opening Space is giving birth. It offers for Spirit a new body/structure to
go on with dance.


What I probably underestimate and where my question is rooted is, that I
still consider OS more of a technique than life itself.

Or how Harrisson has put it:

What starts out looking like just another approach to better meetings or
group technique subtly morphs into the story of the cosmos (self
organization). And we really don’t DO anything at all. We simply offer an
invitation, and then get out of the way.

Or to put it another way using Juan Luis words:

"...structures of management are always part of the map and the structure
of the principles and the law of OS is always part of the territory.

And Michael's way of saying it that  the "principles" are not "rules",
rather  "Facts of Life"

In a way I still have understanding of opening space as scaffolding, not as
releasing the Spirit.

So thank you everyone for responding. I can see the long way to go.

Wish you good Spirit and Body,


*      Arno *


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