[OSList] Inviting non-invitation

Mon Aug 31 16:09:52 PDT 2015

Chris...

That's a pretty awesome summary !!!

David

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Chris Corrigan via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Self organization works by a combination of attractors and boundaries.
> Attractors are things that draw components of a system towards themselves
> (gravity wells, a pile of money left on the ground, an invitation).
> Boundaries (or constraints) are barriers that constrain the elements in a
> system (an atmosphere, the edges of an island, the number of syllables in a
> haiku)
>
> Working together, attractors and boundaries define order where otherwise
> there is chaos. We can be intentional about some of these, but not all of
> them. Within complex systems, attractors and constraints create the
> conditions to enable emergence.  What emerges isn’t always desirable and is
> never predictable, but it has the property of being new and different from
> any of the individual elements within the system.
>
> Self-organization is where we get new, previously unknown things from.
> Open Space is a beautiful way of working with these dynamics within the
> container of strategic work in organizations and communities.
>
> That’s about the shortest summary I can undertake about this stuff.  :-)
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Aug 31, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Daniel Mezick via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
> "Is it accurate to say that some self organizing happens by invitation and
> some happens by coercion/force? "
>
>
> Great question Lucas!
>
>
> The [invitation] wall-poster you suggest feels wall-worthy to me, so long
> as no one is obligated to examine it... or even look at it.
>
>
> My turn to ask a question: What might a world "void of manipulation" and
> "replete with invitation" actually look like?
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On 8/31/15 9:57 AM, Lucas Cioffi via OSList wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Is it accurate to say that some self organizing happens by invitation and
> some happens by coercion/force?
>
> For example, from the perspective of someone who lives outside of Iraq,
> the way the Ba'ath Party took charge of Iraq through a coup seems like an
> example of self-organizing by force to us, because we're outside the system
> of Iraq.  I welcome some thoughts on this.
>
> Over the past few months (and working with Michael Herman for VOSonOS)
> I've seen that the spirit of invitation shouldn't end with the writing of
> the invitation, and instead it should be present throughout the open
> space.  When someone posts a topic on the marketplace wall, they are
> inviting others to a conversation, not taking over a time slot (like having
> a coup and taking over a small country).
>
> When someone wants to be a "dictator" of their open space session, yes
> others can use their two feet and walk out, but that comes at a cost to the
> social fabric of the organization.  A better outcome would be that the
> would-be dictator holds a welcoming space from the start.  So I'd recommend
> that another sign worth posting on the wall near "Law of Two Feet" would be
> "Spirit of Invitation".  I think it's wall-worthy, do you?
>
> Lucas Cioffi
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> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Paul Levy via OSList <
> <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
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>> I think the clue lies in the wonderful word "self".
>>
>> We are the selves that organise.
>>
>> Beautiful.
>>
>
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