[OSList] OST / Gaming

Tue Oct 22 07:29:26 PDT 2013

Hi, Dan,

Although there was a time in my life when I would not even say the word "spiritual," I would now say that OST is effective because self-organization is effective, and that self-organization is definitely a group spiritual practice!

Linda

Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:40:30 -0400
From: dan at newtechusa.net
To: oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
Subject: Re: [OSList] OST / Gaming

    Jenifer,

    Yes, and if you feel claustrophobic *reading* about Agile, let's
    imagine how claustrophobic the people inside these 'agile'
    organizations feel...

    ...when they are told by an entirely well-meaning authority,

         that they must "do" something, and even "be"
    something...entirely unfamilar...without their explicit consent.

    Is this or is this not the definition of a closed space? 

    And finally, my favorite question: Is OST actually a group-spiritual
    practice?

    Dan

    http://newtechusa.net/agile/spirit/

    We all want rapid and lasting Agile adoptions.
    The Open Agile Adoption technique (OAA) can help. The OAA
    technique is drawing deeply from the book SPIRIT by Harrison Owen.
    It’s an amazing and even essential book for any person who is
    serious about achieving a rapid and lasting Agile adoption. In a
    very real sense the book SPIRIT by Harrison Owen, first published in
    1986, is the first (and perhaps the only) book written on how to
    achieve a rapid and lasting Agile adoption.

      "...I have written this book for friends and colleagues, known
        and unknown, who find themselves in the midst of a transforming
        world, and are resolved  to look beneath the surface to the
        underlying source of change. This source, which has become
        manifest in the form and structure of our organizations, I call
        Spirit." – Harrison Owen, Prologue, SPIRIT: Development and
        Transformation in Organizations. (Circa 1986)

    www.OpenAgileAdoption.com

    http://www.infoq.com/articles/open-agile-adoption-1

    http://www.infoq.com/articles/open-agile-adoption-2

    On 10/22/13 8:14 AM, Jenifer Toksvig
      wrote:

      Re: [OSList] OST / Gaming
      Harrison,
            you said:

            >> ...  our conversation always seems to have (must
            have?) some frame of reference with certain metaphors and
            images. [...] It is not so much about right or wrong but
            rather capacity to communicate. <<

            It’s all about Story, yes, absolutely. I was just saying to
            Dan in an email that I had never heard of Agile until this
            conversation, so I went to read all about it... and then had
            to stop reading about it because, as a story, it makes me
            feel claustrophobic. Especially as a story that is being
            linked to OST.

            OST is my guide in so many ways. It’s my comparison story:
            the thing against which I find myself measuring life stuff.

            - because it’s not a story. Oddly, I think I made that
            strong connection with OST because it seems to me that it is
            just how things are, rather than how anyone might want to
            say things are. Which is not that odd at all, actually, now
            I come to think about it.

            Although I am not in any way religious, perhaps those who
            are feel the same way: that their belief system is not a
            story, but the core truth of the world. It seems strange to
            me that they wouldn’t challenge it to make sure it isn’t a
            story in disguise, though. I challenge OST every day.

            In fact, maybe that’s what I mean by ‘comparison’. I don’t
            measure life against it, so much as measure it against life,
            and I am continuously delighted to find that it is simply a
            description of how life happens, nothing more and nothing
            less.

            How wonderful, how refreshing to find a true *description*
            in a world full of takes and truths.

            When I write stories, I think the characters already exist
            in the place of potential, and all they do is choose me to
            be their conduit onto the page; I’m the right conduit for a
            specific few. I am not at all surprised that OST chose you.
            Thank you for being open to being chosen, and for staying
            open when you recognised it for what it was.

            Jen x

            Jenifer Toksvig

              www.acompletelossforwords.com

              The Copenhagen Interpretation

              www.thecopenhageninterpretation.co.uk

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