[OSList] A story of leadership that connects to Open Space

Sun Oct 28 17:24:22 PDT 2012

I believe that it is a story of an emergent new reality:

OST has created Silent Deep Spring of Soul that is Open and Liberated
Leadership of Humanities. ;-)

spark
2012. 10. 29. 오전 4:35에 "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net>님이 작성:

> Reading Suzanne's words (well spoken as usual) caused me to think of a
> conversation I had been having with a colleague about all the "stuff"
> (meteorological, political, social, and geological) that seems to be coming
> down at the moment - and how despite everything I found myself being quite
> (perhaps perversely) optimistic. Somehow that conversation seemed to fit
> with the one Suzanne has initiated. But you can judge...****
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> I totally agree that going the way we are going, we are headed down the
> tubes. And doing more and better of the same old thing  will assure that
> result. But from where I sit, the present moment is both critical and
> positive. Indeed it is predictable and necessary. Using a short hand I am
> sure you will understand, we have become addicted to the necessity for
> control, which we can never achieve - hence the exhausting sense of failure
> and pessimism. Even worse, the very attempt to achieve control is the
> source of most, if not all of the personal and organizational pathologies
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> I think we have learned that when dealing with addictive behavior (control
> in this instance), the only way up - more often than not - is down. To hit
> bottom, which has the positive effect of introducing some radical honesty.
> To switch metaphors: We come to understand that the light at the end of the
> tunnel IS the train. I think this moment of radical honesty is close upon
> us, and while it is definitely scary, painful and destructive it is also
> the first critical step towards a transformational journey. Short take is
> that we have to lose our lives in order to save them, as Christians might
> say. Or for the contemporary biologist, chaos is the fertile field of new
> life. No chaos, No life. Definitely awesome, but the good news is that
> finally (or soon) we have reached the end and before us lie some wonderful
> possibilities, should we choose to accept them.****
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> This story is as old as the cosmos, and has been told and retold in many
> ways. Four thousand years ago it was The Dance of Shiva, the Yin and the
> Yang, Marduk and Tiamat - today the story is retold in modern scientific
> terms: Emergence, self organization, Complexity Theory. But it is the same
> story, I think. Admittedly it can be pretty grim, both in the telling and
> (worse) in the experience. All that said, I find it useful to remember,
> especially on dark days - just how amazing it is that after all the
> catastrophes, actual and potential -- we humans are still here to complain
> about how badly things are going. And oddly, or perversely,  I am actually
> quite optimistic.****
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> A major source of my optimism comes from what has become a marvelous 27
> year natural experiment with self organization in Human Systems. The
> findings to date, at least my findings, go something like this. First: All
> human systems are self organizing. Not just a little bit, only on the edges
> - but through and through, top to bottom. Second: When allowed (permitted,
> invited, encouraged) to operate in their naturally intended fashion, the
> results can be truly mind-blowing, including massive increases in
> productivity, harmonious interaction of previously conflicted parties, and
> as a final benefit, people actually have fun, in the best and deepest sense
> of the word, fun. Third: Any attempt to organize such self organizing
> systems (an oxymoron at best) almost inevitably results in the radical
> decline of productivity, combined with all the pathologies we love to hate,
> including low morale, broken communication, frenetic lifestyles, burned
> out, broken, sad people. Forth: Since self organization is a naturally
> occurring phenomenon, not unlike Gravity, the "fix" has nothing to do with
> creating new processes, teaching new tricks - and everything to do
> remembering who and what we are: Self organizing. My Buddhist friends might
> say, "Finding our original face." It is really very simple, but it does
> require no small amount of un-learning and not doing. ****
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> You will not be surprised to learn that the "Natural Experiment" is Open
> Space Technology. As with all natural experiments, it wasn't designed as
> such (controls, reporting procedures, etc.) in fact it wasn't designed at
> all. On occasion people will say that I created it, which is rather a
> laugh. As I have come to understand OST it is simply self organization at
> work. And to say that I created self organization is a bit of a stretch.
> Truthfully I really just stumbled upon it courtesy of two martinis (True!).
> But over the years and around the world we have seen multiple examples of
> the sorts of things I described as my second finding (above). Single
> instances would have been interesting, but over time the numbers have
> become overwhelming. Nobody really knows, least of all me, but a fair guess
> would be 200-300,000 iterations in 136 countries over 27 years. Not every
> instance is massively dramatic, but there is a pattern, and in a curious
> way it (OST) always seems to work given the necessary preconditions and
> following a very simple procedure: Sit in a circle, create a bulletin
> board, open a market place of ideas, and go to work. Fifteen minutes for an
> introduction, 20-30 minutes of issue identification, a little more time to
> straighten out the details and have cup of coffee - and groups up to 3000+
> will go to work. Every time and productively so. Would that I could have
> designed such a thing. It would be a wonder and so would I! But knowing
> what you know about the power of self organization, the results we have
> experienced should come as no surprise.****
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> *From:* oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:
> oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] *On Behalf Of *Suzanne Daigle
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 28, 2012 8:55 AM
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> Greetings
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> Today... Sunday and the forces of nature are upon us.  Earthquake in
> Hawaii, fortunately the Tsunami warning is now lifted; Hurricane Sandy, a
> super storm heading up the North Atlantic coast; and Typhoon Son-Tinh
> lashing Asia with winds and flooding.   Add to this the political fire
> storms in the US with an upcoming election  and a world that is in the
> midst of great change on so many fronts, well we've got ourselves an
> amazing brew with the type of chaos that Wave Rider and Open Space
> Technology are ready-made for.  Yes indeed it seems that the world is
> waiting for an unleashing of leadership on many fronts. What a precious
> gift we have, those of us who have been introduced to the beautiful
> technology of Open Space!  A gift that invites one and all to roll up their
> sleeves and pitch in on the stuff that needs to be done, that we can all do
> together, using the law of 2 feet and 5 life-honoring principles in a
> spirit of shared joy, purpose and support.
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> If I was inspired this morning it's because of an article I read in the
> New York Times, a story of a great hero woman who lived in Maine, not far
> from Camden where Harrison lives in the summer.  She wrote a book called
> Silent Spring -- a book that changed the world.  It is a story of courage,
> of conviction and caring passionately about something, taking
> responsibility, making a difference and unleashing one's own leadership.
> It's a story about "coming home to oneself" the same coming home that
> people often describe that happens to them after being introduced to Open
> Space.
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> So wherever you are whether it be Sunday morning, afternoon or the next
> day, I offer you this link thinking that you will also see the wonderful
> story behind the story.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/business/rachel-carsons-lessons-50-years-after-silent-spring.html?_r=0
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> It's the life tale of a great woman, Rachel Carson who researched and
> wrote a seminal book Silent Spring that became the genesis for the
> environmental movement. It's also a story about the unleashing of personal
> and collective leadership that reminds us of the potential that lives
> inside each of us, regardless of age, background, socio-economic level,
> status, education, gender or race.
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> *A beautiful article to inspire us as we plan into our WOSonOS 2013 event
> in Florida. In the end, what we are planning is a simple affair. What is
> not simple however are the beautiful emergent conversations and possible
> actions that will ensue as we invite our OS community to imagine what's
> possible that would inspire which goes beyond a single event or just a few
> days. *
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> In the end, the dream is to imagine more and more people being introduced
> to Open Space. Sharon Joy Kleitsch, a community connector and a member of
> our planning team, has already started igniting the buzz in the Greater
> Tampa Bay area and St. Petersburg Florida where our event will be held,
> talking about us, this wonderful gang of Open Space folks from all over the
> world who are doing amazing things through this work.
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> Just as Phelim and the team inspired many to the importance of Theatre in
> Britain in a Road Show series of Open Space events, I imagine in our own
> way that more people will have the opportunity "to experience" Open Space
> because of our upcoming event.The dream is that mainstream folks from all
> walks of life use Open Space to open spaces everywhere to make their world,
> our world a better place.
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> Feeling the gratitude of something much bigger than a Sunday morning cup
> of coffee,
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> Suzanne
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> Suzanne Daigle
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