[OSList] Peggy plus OST Linkedin Comment

[Phelim McDermott]

Chris

I agree with you. I'm fine with the critique. Different strokes for different folks. 

I think the difficulty is what you pinpoint. It's hard to reply and have a constructive conversation when it's not directly addressed to myself and the hosting team and seems like a veiled passive aggressive attack especially considering how it is being disseminated with provocative headlines of the "can you handle criticism" kind. 

I wonder what the intention behind the communication is? 

I also think this raises the issue of what WOSonOS is....

Is it a celebration and a meeting of a community who share? Not just an open space event but the creation of a welcoming gathering space in which people work on being a community and honour the history of the event. Or on the other end of the scale is it where we come and check out how other people "do or facilitate open space" and critique and score it? 

I know that WOSonOS is not an open space event for a client And Personally I'm in for celebrating diversity of style in event and facilitation. It was one of the reasons we were encouraged to invite by the international OS community we are a theatre company and our event had small touch of that style...  if only a touch. 

And Paul if you're on the list I would love to engage in a conversation about this. 

Love 
Phelim 

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On 20 Oct 2012, at 21:23, Chris Corrigan <chris.corrigan at gmail.com> wrote:

> The critique in the article is fine. And the subsequent link Phelim sent along is fine too. Paul's tone is a bit jarring and his argument isn't helped by making a lot of generalized statements. Also he critiques WOSonOS in a way that makes it hard to separate his critique if the event from a critique of the team, even though he later clarifies that he wasn't critiquing the facilitator. It's tricky to make a forceful and powerful critique without it seeming personal.  
> 
> My response to these posts is that Paul is right in substance. In general my take in things is that the Law of Two Feet applies. If you are not learning or contributing find some way or some where that you can. That's what makes things better. Obviously expecting others to change the way the way a process seems too dependant on them is rational madness. 
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> On 2012-10-20, at 5:09 AM, "alan at alanhalford.com.au" <alan at alanhalford.com.au> wrote:
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>> Just spent a delicious  three days co-learning with Peggy Holman here in Perth then I read this - 
>> So, what's possible now?
>> http://rationalmadness.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/the-tragic-re-imprisonment-of-open-space/
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>> take care out there
>> alan 
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