[OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 96, Issue 17
Mark Carmel
markacarmel at gmail.com
Thu Apr 18 05:01:20 PDT 2019
Awesome Work Harrison! Way to pioneer yet another way! Thank you
very much for your detailed information of the process and outcome. Cannot
wait to listen to the Requiem ...
Mark
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> 1. Re: Ten Weeks in Open Space (Jamie Colston)
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> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:49:39 +0100
> From: Jamie Colston <jamiecolston at googlemail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [OSList] Ten Weeks in Open Space
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> I absolutely love this story.
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> On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 17:57, Harrison Owen via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
> > For some odd reasons, I committed to ?teaching? a course
> > which met once a week for 10 weeks. I think my hosts assumed I would do
> the
> > standard ?Lecture/Discussion,? but I had a different plan. Do it all in
> > Open Space. It has become an interesting experiment.
> >
> > I have been involved in multiple, multi-day events, but
> the
> > days were always contiguous. What would happen, I wondered, if you did 10
> > Open Spaces, each an hour and a half, and separated by a week? I had
> little
> > question that something useful (rich learning, community, etc) might
> occur
> > in the first session ? but would it continue, build, attenuate? The
> > question is neither idle or purely academic, and could point in the
> > direction of enhancing extended, formal learning environments.
> >
> > My host was a university and my experience to date has
> been
> > that no matter how fiercely universities pursue ?advanced learning
> > environments/approaches,? they are terrified of Open Space. Those may
> not
> > be the words the academics of my acquaintance would be comfortable with ?
> > but those words do seem to fairly describe the behavior. Open Space is
> > occasionally allowed as an ?experiment? ? with the full and certain
> > knowledge that it could not possibly ?work.? I have also witnessed
> massive
> > and sustained efforts devoted to the eradication of Open Space in those
> > rare instances when it seemed to have taken root.
> >
> > Why these attitudes exist, I do not know (but I do have
> > some suspicions) ? however the opportunity to test the academic
> environment
> > was irresistible. Certainly the statistical significance of my experiment
> > is negligible. There is an effective N of 1? all the way around. One
> class,
> > one university, one time. The participants are all senior citizens, and
> the
> > course content perhaps bizarre: *Death, Dying and Life*.
> >
> > We are now three quarters of the way through. Prudence
> > would dictate waiting for the end and a follow up with post-tests.
> However
> > the trends are pretty clear and academic purity was never my strong
> point.
> > Besides if the definitive word is not written others (that could be you!)
> > might do a replication, and that would be wonderful! For the record, I
> did
> > everything ?by the book? ? including post-its, masking tape, Issues of
> > concern stuck to the wall. In the first session we posted issues to be
> > addressed over the next 10 weeks, with the clear understanding that
> > additions and changes could be made at any point along the way.
> >
> > The first session happened just like usual ? no surprise.
> > We took about half an hour to create the agenda leaving one hour for the
> > first groups, of which there were four. Reports were generated over the
> > next week, emailed back to me ? and then combined and resent.
> >
> > One week later everybody returned (16) and the next round
> > of groups occurred (I forget how many) without prodding or assistance. In
> > fact I left to get some coffee. When an hour had expired, all returned
> for
> > a brief Closing Circle, actually sort of square, as it seems that circles
> > are a step too far for the university J I thought we might be getting
> > somewhere when one of the participants said the whole thing was really
> odd.
> > ?We were talking about Death and Grief? and people were laughing.?
> >
> > This past week I received an email from the university
> > official saying that she wished to ?visit the class, possibly for 15
> > minutes.? I responded that she was certainly welcome, but that I was
> unsure
> > what, if anything, she might see or hear. The room we had been assigned
> was
> > rather small and definitely noisy with multiple groups conversing. It
> took
> > the participants virtually no time at all to discover a number of small
> > ?conversation nooks,? furnished and private, located all over the
> building.
> > Of course, during class hours everybody else was in class ? except for
> our
> > participants. They were everywhere and kept moving. I suggested that the
> > official might do better to come for the whole time (1 ? hours) so she
> > would at least know where to start. I also told her that she would be
> > treated just like all participants ? no special handling or introduction.
> > I knew she would make her way and the people would take care of her ? as
> > they did for everybody else.
> >
> > When the session was over, everybody came back to the
> ?home
> > room.? We never did have a ?sit down? closing circle because the place
> was
> > just buzzing and people had busses to catch. Our official visitor had
> this
> > bemused smile and was now totally enveloped by the group. I never did
> > formally meet her, actually I?m not even sure exactly what she looks
> like.
> > But I did receive an email from her when I got home saying that something
> > quite strange must be happening. Apparently all of the other classes in
> her
> > program area were losing participants, sometimes by half. She was so
> > impressed that our full compliment arrived promptly at the appointed
> hour,
> > and everybody was there at the end. I confess I smiled too, always
> > believing the *Law of Two Feet* is the most powerful test for, and
> > indicator of, Customer/participant Satisfaction. One might suspect we
> were
> > hitting pretty close to 100%. 24 hours later I got another email asking
> if
> > I could do mini-courses in the summer and a full repeat in the Fall. I
> > thanked her for the honor and declined ? saying that I only did it once
> for
> > any group. However there were now 16 people who could do as well or
> better.
> > We?ll see. In any event it is an experiment you can try, and I wish you
> as
> > much fun as I have had.
> >
> > The points of significance for me were several. First, the
> > topic (Death, dying and Life) which is taboo in many circles and
> difficult
> > in most ? was freely and openly explored by people for whom it was all
> > pretty much virgin territory. Of course as senior citizens, that
> territory
> > was getting smaller and smaller (bigger and bigger?). Secondly, I was
> > struck by the evolving feeling of warmth and connection. I can?t imagine
> > how you would measure that, but even my faculty visitor couldn?t escape.
> > Lastly, and certainly least provable, was a sense expressed by several
> and
> > certainly me ? that 10 discreet weeks evolved into one connected open
> > space. Sometime of greater intensity, sometimes less ? but always
> connected.
> >
> > For our last gathering I have invited everybody to my
> house
> > to enjoy a rich performance of Beethoven?s *Missa Solemnis *done by the
> > Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, followed by lunch at a small
> country
> > restaurant down the road. I call it my Office. Gathering for a requiem
> mass
> > might seem rather ghoulish, but as I said when making the invitation, ?No
> > dead person has ever listened to a requiem.? They are all written for the
> > living and in their own way are a celebration of life. This was
> explicitly
> > true of the Brahms *German Requiem* ? and frankly the 9th Symphony (Ode
> > to Joy) has nothing on the mass ? I think. Try it. It?s amazing.
> >
> >
> >
> > Harrison
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> From: Birgitt Williams <birgitt at dalarinternational.com>
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> Dear Al,
> My perspective is that the more that there is focus on what is not wanted,
> the more that the 'not wanted' gets energized. Within this perspective, I
> would not focus on a 'peril'.
>
> Earth has her own frequency, and is a beautiful living being whom I trust
> to look after herself. Humans are part of planet Earth. She nurtures us.
> Our quest may be to find how to be in better relationship with the Earth.
> This provides a life nurturing focus.
>
> Change in behaviors is possible with a vision to work towards, and OST
> provides us with a wonderful way to work with Spirit. Harrison's first
> book, even before OST, was about Spirit...and I loved it.
>
> in genuine contact,
> heart to heart,
> Birgitt
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> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 7:33 AM R Chaffe via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
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> > Alan,
> > Peter Sandman would say that until the hazard and outrage are balanced in
> > the community of concern dialogue is not really possible. The issue at
> the
> > moment may be summarised as the hazard associated with climate change is
> > academic to the majority of the community, in particular the right wing
> of
> > the community denying the scientific evidence. Even science itself. Ie
> No
> > hazard, no outrage therefore no issue.
> >
> > The answer to your core question is that Open Space is perhaps the only
> > way to address such a complex and systematic issue. Open Space
> technology
> > is one of the better tools to use to create situations where dialogue may
> > be achieved and where the classic adversarial situation minimised or
> > avoided.
> >
> > The irony is that opening the space would be an ideal way of getting the
> > community to the point that they are ready to work seriously on this
> major
> > issue.
> >
> > I have used Open Space technology very effectively to explore our
> > preparedness for climate change and the massive investment required in
> > infrastructure to facilitate innovation and adaption. It has taken 12
> > years, far too slow but this is the current reality.
> >
> > It is again time to try and try again.
> >
> > Regards
> > Rob
> >
> > On 16 Apr 2019, at 7:05 pm, Alan Stewart via OSList <
> > oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> >
> > G?day from Downunder again
> >
> > To express my appreciation for the responses received to my missive of 13
> > April 1919 about this topic. They were all offline. Mainly from people
> who
> > know me personally from our meetings during times and places since my
> being
> > an OST <http://www.openspaceworld.org>facilitator, starting in 1994.
> >
> > Including this: ?Great idea Alan. I look forward to hearing what response
> > you get. I am so ?over? the alternatives (commonly called ?summits? or
> > ?round tables? (which might be ?round? in name only), where the regular
> > suspects talk ?at? each other.
> >
> > Open Space, open invitation, is really the way to go with such a complex
> > question.?
> >
> >
> >
> > And who have offered sage suggestions, such as:
> >
> > Delete all references to myself and how I came up with the idea.
> >
> > Instead state clearly in as few words as possible, viz 'the juicy' parts
> > about:
> >
> > What do I suggest?
> >
> > What could the proposed action possibly achieve?
> >
> > What will be the details?
> >
> >
> > One responder wonders if the way of using OST I am suggesting could only
> > be done at a national government level; a fair query, in my opinion.
> >
> > Nonetheless what I will go ahead in proposing is to have an OST based
> > gathering with the backing of a State?s ?Climate Body?. In this instance
> > South Australia.
> >
> > Together with the local organizers of ?School Strikers? as the
> 'auspicers'
> > to invite representatives of some main 'constituents' to participate in a
> > 2.5 day OST event I the manner I had outlined earlier.
> >
> > And so I will go ahead with the basic initiative as spelled in my note to
> > our List of a few days ago.
> >
> > On the premise that ?whatever happens ?? <smile>
> >
> > To be despatched shortly after the forthcoming Easter weekend.
> >
> >
> > *Before doing this I would ask you again: Do you have any thoughts on my
> > proposed way of using OST which you reckon could strengthen the
> likelihood
> > of its being acted upon?*
> >
> > Looking forward.
> >
> >
> > *Al *
> >
> > Al (formerly Alan) Stewart, PhD
> > Process Artist
> > Facilitator of conversations that matter and participatory fun
> >
> > Senior Fulbright Scholar
> >
> > Blog: www.conversare.net
> >
> > Member: American Society for Cybernetics <http://asc-cybernetics.org/>
> >
> > *Member: **National Trouble Makers Union* <http://www.ntmu.com.au/>
> >
> >
> > *Residence: Adelaide, South Australia, since 1975 With time away in the
> > USA (1981) and Hong Kong (2005-2011 <(2005-2011>) *
> >
> > *_________________________________*
> >
> >
> >
> > *"Whenever we treat each other well good things happen."*
> >
> > * Al Stewart*
> >
> > *?Be yourself. And be it well?*
> >
> > PS You may also be inspired ? and alarmed ? by the recent contribution
> > from Bill McKibben to this most vital concern of our times. See his new
> > book entitled *Falter* here
> > <https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/15/falter_in_new_book_bill_mckibben
> >
> > and here
> > <
> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/books/review/bill-mckibben-falter.amp.html
> >
> > .
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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