[OSList] Respect in Self-Organizing Systems

[Harold Shinsato via OSList]

Daniel,

The primary task of the OSLIST group might best be pondered by looking 
at the closest thing we have to a charter on the OpenSpaceWorld.org wiki:

http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?EmailDiscussionGroups

Here are the first words [clear action verb fragment emphasis is my own]...


The OSLIST worldwide email list ... is a list for Open Space 
practitioners and friends from everywhere (really)... perhaps the most 
active and easiest place to *connect with the living Spirit of Open 
Space and the OS community*.

[omitted administrivia links]

 From the very beginning (1985), Open Space Technology has been free and 
freely available. But there is a cost -- that *we freely share what we 
are learning*. The mechanisms of sharing are multiple including training 
programs, public presentations, private emails and most especially in 
the online community known as the OSLIST.

The substance of *what we share* on the OSLIST is diverse: technical 
"How to..." *questions, philosophical meanderings, and deep feelings 
from the heart*. And in many ways, the deep feelings are the most 
important. It is from those feelings that we learn who we are, what we 
are doing, and what the true value of this work might be. If Open Space 
and the OSLIST were simply a technical approach to better meetings, then 
we might avoid both the philosophy and the feelings. We have discovered, 
however, that "OS as meeting methodology" is but a tiny part of the 
reality.

     Harold


On 10/20/14 8:40 AM, Daniel Mezick via OSList wrote:
>
> I often wonder what the primary task of the OSLIST group is.

-- 
Harold Shinsato
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