[OSList] Wave Riding in OZ

[Chris Weaver]

Thanks Harrison and bravo Michael Wood.  I love this story too.
Will someone define Waveriding for me as cited here?
Chris


On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Hege Steinsland
<steinslandhege at gmail.com>wrote:

> Wow. I just love this story. And I´m so glad every time I hear about open
> space and self organization used in the church. I´m trying to make this
> possibility known in the church of Norway as an approach that can make
> people less stressed out, more happy and more concerned with the really
> important things in church and life :-) I love this Dean, that have made
> the wisdom in the principles and the law a way to live and work.
>
> I`m looking for more shared experience with story-telling. How to invite,
> who to invite, do you still need an sponsor and how do you frame it? I wold
> love to learn from others experience here.
>
> I would also love her more about Michael and Brendans program. Is it an
> training program in Open space for clergy?
>
> All the best fro
> a cold and windy night in Norway.
> Hege
> 22. nov. 2013 kl. 21:44 skrev Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net>:
>
> Our friend, Michael Wood, dropped me a note with a wonderful story. By all
> rights I should have asked him to share, but the story is so good, I just
> couldn’t wait, and Michael, if I need to apologize, please consider it
> offered. J
>
> So it is all about Wave Riding in OZ with a most unlikely set of
> characters. Anglican (Episcopalian) clergy! Being one of those, I can tell
> you from personal history and experience that there are few groups in this
> world more staunchly conservative and resistant to change. This is not
> surprising as we have had many hundreds of years to perfect our stance, and
> in an odd sort of way, we do it rather well – staying exactly the same.
> Thank you. The thought that such a group could find meaning and purpose in
> the arcane art of Wave Riding is marvelous...not to say mind blowing!
>
> And to all you folks who may wonder whether or how traditional sorts in
> business and government might respond to opening a little space and hopping
> a wave I can tell you that stranger things do happen. Case in point. And
> actually, those business and government folks are just pussy cats and late
> comers when it comes to resistance to change.
>
> But enough of that. On to the story... (with many thanks and apologies to
> Michael)
>
> “Over the last few months it’s been fun to support some Anglican Church
> folks (lay and ordained) in Brisbane get into Waveriding  mode (Brendan
> McKeauge has also been working with some Catholic Education people in
> Brisbane), and I have another program in February. As you know, clergy
> generally and certainly Anglican clergy, were taught the intricacies of
> control. Now, increasingly  they know it doesn’t work. If they don’t know
> it, then a lot of them are moving into internal melt down as the external
> system of the church unravels around them. Fortunately a few of them are
> recognizing that control doesn’t work and it’s some of those guys and gals
> that I’ve started to work with, sharing OST and Waveriding principles and a
> bit of work with Talking Circles. They’re lovin’ it. Saying they’re feeling
> revitalised already.
>
> It’s early days of course and plenty of potential to be swamped by the
> existing culture. But so far I’ve worked with 30 people, 45 by the end of
> February. They are keen to support each other and have already started to
> do things differently, and see the world differently. On the third morning
> of our time together, after they’ve actually experienced a couple of days
> of self-organised action learning,  I invited them to reflect on the
> question, ‘was Jesus a Waverider’? Then the pennies start to drop at a
> really deep level. When we drop it down to that level I hope it will help
> them to hang in there with the living experiment. No longer just a passing
> ‘fad’ about how to run a meeting,  but a more profound way of going with
> the flow of reality.
>
> The primary sponsor in Brisbane, Peter Catt is the Dean of St. John’s
> Cathedral in Brisbane. He has been the local champion and sat in on the
> first program. In the closing circle Peter said,*‘some people ask me how
> I can be Dean in a place the size of St. John’s and look so relaxed all the
> time [I’d been thinking precisely that]…it’s because I believe that reality
> looks like that [pointing to the four principles and one law on the wall].
> I think the definition of wisdom is to run with the way the world actually
> is, and stupidity is to fight against it’*.  Sums it up pretty well
> doesn’t it.”
>
> And don’t you just love Peter Catt, The Dean!
>
>
> Thank You Michael!
>
> Harrison
>
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