[OSList] No silence in opening

[Michael Herman via OSList]

here's one of my favorite stories about feedback, harold.

some years ago i did one of those 10-day meditation courses (goenka,
vipassana, for those who care) and then helped with hosting another one.
 on my third, as a participant, we had an old indian guy, the #2 teacher in
the world at that time in that practice, sitting in with us, but i thought
the actual course teacher and the overall organization were a little dodgy.


we were just forming the community in the midwest US, working toward
building a center.  the practice was all about equanimity.  i went to this
great teacher, a kind of mountain of gentleness, and asked something like,
"what is more important, my responsibility to point out things that could
help make the community better here or my staying in practice of
equanimity?"

he says, reassuringly, "these gypsy (not in an establish center) courses
are always a bit difficult, not the ideal, always with different
arrangements and challenges, BUT... if 10% of the people get 10% of the
benefit, that will be enough."

for me, it's same with open space.




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Michael Herman
Michael Herman Associates
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http://OpenSpaceWorld.org


On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

>  Hi Viv,
>
> Thank you! I appreciate you're joining the annoyance club with me :-)
>
> I've noticed some tendency towards people making open invitations to
> "improve" the process - and I'll be doing a post conference
> debrief/retrospective in a couple hours.  I've no interest in taking on
> others anxieties about Open Space. And I'm also curious what you think
> about inviting feedback, and how to help make the best of it - not just for
> myself - but for the other stake holders in the process when an Open Space
> is being hosted by an organization?
>
>     Thanks!
>     Harold
>
> On 6/15/15 7:56 PM, Viv McWaters via OSList wrote:
>
> Hi Harold
>
> Ah, yes I share your annoyance. For me it has nothing to do with what you did or did not do at the opening etc, I'm sure it's just as it needed to be. It's the second-hand feedback, via email no less. "Some people" nearly always means "me". It's also slightly passive-aggressive. I try not to take on other people's anxieties about open space - of which there seems to be a lot around - and simply get on with it.
>
> Cheers
>
> Viv
>
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