[OSList] Questioning Questioning

[Bhavesh Patel via OSList]

Hi Harold,

Glad to hear you remember me!

Thanks for offering space for my question, and I would like to change it a
bit from what you wrote... *Does the "question approach" work in every
culture or is it culture specific?*

Many approaches/methods like AI, AoH, etc, put a lot of emphasis on the
questions and the design of questions. A question can be an invitation to
explore, however invitations can exist without questions right?

A sideways on this is that I have an ongoing 'wondering' about whether Open
Space the Method (*not the great on-going Open Space that Harrison often
refers to*) has some cultural bias to it as well... however everytime I
bring this up I am quickly explained/lectured/told that it doesn't!!!


Smiles Bhav...



On 7 January 2016 at 18:48, Harold Shinsato <harold at shinsato.com> wrote:

> Hey Bhav!
>
> It sounds like you've started an interesting inquiry around inquiry
> itself. I'd like to open space for your answers as well as the other
> responses from Harrison & Michael P. - so we (and all the elders) can best
> "sit" the question.
>
> Here's Bhav's question in brief: Do western style questions work in every
> culture as an approach?
>
> I'll open it a bit more: What culture assumptions do we bring to our
> requests, inquests, inquiry, 'quest'ions, that might help or hinder the
> authentic opening of space?
>
>     Harold
>
> P.S. Of course I remember you Bhav. I remembered you before I met you - as
> your influence preceded your presence at least in my time-space-continuum.
> Thanks for reentering it here on the OSList.
>
> On 1/7/16 4:14 AM, Bhavesh Patel wrote:
>
> Hey Harold and World,
>
> Merry Orthodox Christmas from Moldova where it has been snowing all day!!!
>
> Your question triggered a different kind of questionING in me. Personally
> I find questions/inquiry and Rilke's 'Live the questions now' approach
> very useful.
>
> *However my increasing sensitivity to culture makes me wonder whether this
> approach works for everybody, or whether it is a cultural thing, fitting
> more an inquiring Western culture? Sometimes do we overemphasise this
> approach, use it in a kind of universal way?*
>
> I have my own answers/experiences to the above questions but of course
> won't share them because you asked for questions!
>
>
> Smiles Bhav...
>
> p.s. Harold, we met at the WOSonOS in London and talked a bit about
> complexity and Cynefin...
>
>
>
>
> --
> Harold Shinsato
> harold at shinsato.com
> http://shinsato.com
> twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush>
>
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