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

Fri Aug 26 15:06:09 PDT 2016

i can think of two ways to spin grief and loss, paul.  one is in the moment
of realizing, when it occurs to someone that they've been in a box.  the
loss of what didn't happen.  the second is when folks 'get it' right away
and then have to deal with letting go or maybe choosing between this newly
discovered or rediscovered way of being and some of the things and
structures they have in life because they traded this space away.  not all
of the grief, loss, and other navigation, structural reform you might call
it, happens in the moment.  it's not just 'aw, what the heck, maybe i'll
risk putting up a topic in this newfangled meeting.'  sometimes it's having
to have a good long think about what value i've been adding or what value i
can add now, given my job as 'manager' of things isn't really that
necessary.  not to mention the exploration and mastery of the open space
between controlling and collapse.  even if/when we love it and want it,
there is still work to be done.  some letting go, some loss and grief.  and
none of that's a problem.  it's just part of the new territory.  maybe
there isn't any disagreement here, either.  it's just that what looks, or
we might describe, to those who've not crossed over this threshold like
grief and loss just looks like being fully alive from the other side.

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Michael Herman
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 4:30 PM, paul levy via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> 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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