[OSList] Questioning Questioning

Fri Jan 8 01:40:31 PST 2016

Dear Bhav,

when I use the "quickly explained/lectured/told"-approach I often find 
that I didn't sit the question but jumped up to get that nasty question 
squashed.
Perhaps it has to do with being suspected to be "biased" on this or on 
whatever.
To me it seems clear that nothing comes out of nothing. So, if something 
emerges it has come from a place or source that has all kinds of 
cultural and other characteristic backgrounds, roots, etc. This then 
assumedly also applies to OST (and, by the same token, to "the great 
on-going Open Space that Harrison often refers to").
In my practice I am simply amazed how OST "works" regardless of what 
setting it is used in (language, culture, class, religion, what have 
you)... so maybe its heritage is trans-cultural, trans-whatever you add 
here. If that is its bias, good enough for me. It simply would mean that 
this is a unique characteristic of OST. To me that would be the second 
unique characteristic of the approach, the other being its focus on 
consciously relying and being in love with the force of selforganisation.

Cheers from Berlin where we had enough snow again to get out our 
neighborhood machine to have some exercise early in the morning

mmp

On 08.01.2016 10:19, Bhavesh Patel via OSList wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto:harold at shinsato.com>
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>
>
>
>
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