[OSList] Organising a Buddhist Way

[David Osborne]

I love this Bhavesh, thanks for sharing.

David


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Bhavesh Patel <bhavmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Friends,
>
> I was reading the attached article and loved the way they articulated
> 'open space' and wanted to share it with you below. The whole article is
> attached.
>
>
> Smiles Bhav...
>
> ---------------------------------------
> *Page 15*
> I want to use the term 'light structuring' to make a contrast with forms
> and practices that could be described as already knowing and already fixed.
> What I am calling light structuring gives more space for emergence and
> improvisation (see, for example, Barrett, 2006; Clegg, Kornberger and
> Rhodes, 2005; Weick, 1998) or unfolding. One might say that light
> structuring makes space for 'being in the now' rather than 'in the know'. I
> see light structuring, in this sense, as an important aspect of dialoging
> and participatory ways of knowing. Light structuring might mean that
> participants are invited to try to follow certain guidelines that help them
> to learn whilst practicing what Isaacs called the 'collective discipline'
> (Isaacs, 1993) of dialogue. These usually include guidelines such as: do
> not interrupt, do not attempt to persuade others, use respectful language,
> ask questions only for clarification, listen to your listening and so on
> (e.g., Chasin, Herzig, Roth, Chasin, Becker and Stains, 1996).
>
> Such 'minimal' or 'light' structures help to block or interrupt already
> solidified patterns and, in this way, can help to open up new possibilities
> and what I have called 'soft' self-other relations. The idea is to provide
> enough but not too much structure: to provide a container, so to speak,
> that invites and supports the gradual emergence of slow, open, coherent,
> in-the-present-moment performances. In this way it becomes possible to be
> 'relationally responsive' (McNamee, Gergen and associates, 1999) to
> whatever comes up in any particular moment and possible to make space and
> be open for multiple, ongoing, local realities.
>
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