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

[Chris Corrigan]

Arno. 

One of my favourite "open space" happenings was the singing revolution in Estonia. Of course not a single Open Space Technology meeting was held but the while thing had the flavour of Open Space: high levels of passion, complexity, diversity and urgency and principles like whoever comes and whatever happens and when it starts and ends. And mostly it was powerful because people joined passion and responsibility and net the situation with good timing. In those years thy discovered another truth about themselves perhaps, that despite 1000 years of colonization, Estonians weren't slaves after all!

That is what it means to see the patterns of Open Space out in the world. Wherever it happens is the right place. 

Chris

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CHRIS CORRIGAN
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On 2012-11-25, at 12:57 AM, Arno Baltin <arno at tlu.ee> wrote:

> 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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