[OSList] metaphorum: a clean language one-day online gathering

[paul levy via OSList]

Michael

It isn't my experience nor the experience of an increasing number of people
i am meeting. An emerging generation, loaded with hope and readiness.

They don't unlearn. They remember gently and quickly what they always knew.
They can be 80 or 90 years old.

And they don't unlearn because they experience "un" as a construct created
by over-dramatic, polarising, do-gooding facilitators. They shift
perspective as suddenly and refreshingly as a weather change. It need not
be Shakespearean nor epic. It can be a flick of a Mary Poppins umbrella.

They don't unlearn because they take to open space as if they were born for
it and they step into it within moments of space opening. There's no grief
because the grief is transformed in the blink of an eye to energetic
enthusiasm.

We can travel 30,000 miles around the world to reach a place we call "one
step forward", arriving bruised and exhausted. Or we can take one step
forward.

What if, just what if unlearning is a habitual tool of facilitation and not
as important as we believe we experience ?

Paul


On Friday, 26 August 2016, Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Paul,
>
> for myself, it was like a new lease on life opening up grand perspectives
> to unlearn my decades old OD-facilitation modes.
> Right, it should have been connected with grief but it was not.
>
> At the time, back in 1996, I did not consciously realize that I was
> unlearning anything... I was just in plain good spirits working in this
> different way. Actually, folks that had known me for a long time came up
> and expressed their surprise about how I had changed...
>
> I do know now, however, that unlearning apparently takes as long as
> learning something... so the trip is ongoing.
>
> cheers
> mmp
>
>
> On 26.08.2016 18:30, paul levy via OSList wrote:
>
>> I've finally realised what's been bugging me.
>>
>> It's the idea that unlearning facilitation is often a step of huge
>> grief. It somehow needs three days of facilitation.... Etc.
>>
>> I beg to differ. The human soul needs only to open space for its own
>> unlearning.
>>
>> Do we not believe we can invite those who want to unlearn to find to an
>> open space focused on unlearning. Is this the one thing OST cannot do ?
>>
>> Issue an invitation - to unlearn together all we thought we knew about
>> facilitation. Use OST...
>>
>> Dives for cover
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On Friday, 26 August 2016, Michael Herman via OSList
>> <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     there's something interesting happening that some of us might want
>>     to join on september 9th.  i don't think it's been mentioned here yet.
>>
>>     i first heard about "clean language" from harold shinsato.  it seems
>>     useful in our conversations with sponsors about invitations, to help
>>     us work with their story in their own words.  it'll be useful in
>>     other settings, too, like coaching.
>>
>>     the event on the 9th is a 12-hour online gathering, i would say
>>     heavily informed by open space or maybe it's an experimental online
>>     adaptation of open space.  but come for the topic, the ideas and
>>     practice, and the learning, not for the process.
>>
>>     here are the links where you can check it out.  i'm planning to
>>     participate in the window that will be daytime in chicago.
>>
>>     what is the metaphorum online gathering?
>>     http://judyrees.co.uk/metaphorum-2016/
>>     <http://judyrees.co.uk/metaphorum-2016/>
>>
>>     what is clean language?
>>     http://judyrees.co.uk/what-is-clean-language-2/
>>     <http://judyrees.co.uk/what-is-clean-language-2/>
>>
>>
>>     Michael
>>
>>     --
>>
>>     Michael Herman
>>     Michael Herman Associates
>>     312-280-7838 <tel:312-280-7838> (mobile)
>>
>>     http://MichaelHerman.com
>>     http://OpenSpaceWorld.org
>>
>>
>>
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