[OSList] Report From The Field

Tue Jan 8 16:36:17 PST 2019

> statues of Harrison Owen in town squares everywhere

i've heard there are already hundreds if not thousands of them sprinkled
around the globe.  all invisible, of course!

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Michael Herman
Michael Herman Associates
312-280-7838 (mobile)

http://MichaelHerman.com
http://OpenSpaceWorld.org

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 5:28 PM markacarmel <markacarmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Sir Michael Herman, I remember you for sure.
> Mark
>
>
>
> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Michael Herman <michael at michaelherman.com>
> Date: 1/8/19 3:57 PM (GMT-07:00)
> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
> Cc: Mark Carmel <markacarmel at gmail.com>, Thomas Herrmann <
> thomas at openspaceconsulting.com>
> Subject: Re: [OSList] Report From The Field
>
> I looked hard at your name, Mark, and didn't recognize it. But I have
> heard your story, and even told a very abbreviated version from time to
> time!  Thanks!  And thanks Harrison for making that connection. Michael
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 15:55 Thomas Herrmann via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>> Great read!
>> Now I will sleep well.
>> Opening Space tomorrow, warms my 💔
>> We rock
>> Appreciatively
>> Thomas
>>
>> Skickat från min iPhone
>>
>> 8 jan. 2019 kl. 23:47 skrev Harrison Owen via OSList <
>> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>:
>>
>> For reasons known only to the CyberGods I somehow missed Mark’s offering.
>> But I didn’t miss what followed… Mark’s language is (0n occasion) off
>> putting. But having known him for a long time, his heart is definitely in
>> the right place (even if it isn’t YOUR place). J
>>
>>
>>
>> When I first meet Mark (25 years ago?) he had the exalted title of
>> Superintendant of Roads (I think) in a Colorado County -- Pueblo. I don’t
>> know what that totally involved – but one thing was the snow plowing
>> operations on some of the nastiest parts of the American Rockies. Serious
>> business with marginal room for error lest you go over the edge. Each Fall,
>> the plow operators would be gathered for a “education” session on “better
>> plowing.” Experts would hold forth, and the drivers, presumably, got
>> smarter. Then came Mark. He turned the gathering over to the real experts
>> (the drivers) – and it was all in Open Space. Came up with a catchy title:
>> Roads Scholars! Then it seemed that the Governor of Colorado needed to work
>> with all “his” County Execs. Mark was called upon for the job. He ended up
>> as a County Executive … which is a political job equal to President in many
>> (smaller) countries. Frankly, I have always stood in awe of Mark – opening
>> space in the middle of a political morass. He’s good – but definitely odd.
>> I’m pleased to call him my friend.
>>
>>
>>
>> ho
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org
>> <oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org>] *On Behalf Of *Marai Kiele via
>> OSList
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 8, 2019 4:32 PM
>> *To:* ost list international
>> *Cc:* Marai Kiele; Mark Carmel
>> *Subject:* Re: [OSList] Report From The Field
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Mark,
>>
>>
>>
>> I appreciate your flow of energy and appreciation, both for OST and
>> Harrison!
>>
>> I am fascinated, hearing about the „at that time“ largest educational
>> transformation group and I honour you as someone who has walked the trails
>> of OST before me.
>>
>>
>>
>> At the same time, I notice my resentment in regard to this part of your
>> sharing:
>>
>>
>>
>>           "beware of the evil spirits that seek the status quo at all
>> costs“ and "fortify oneself against the forces that WILL seek to
>> undermine change".
>>
>>
>>
>> I actually don’t live within a paradigm of something like „evil spirits“,
>> and I find myself quite „resistant" to changing that world-view. I also
>> don’t believe in setting myself up „against“ anything, but instead I
>> believe in focusing on what is wanted. For me, this would include honouring
>> those with a different perspective on what I desire (which might be change
>> or transformation in regard to a specific subject).
>>
>>
>>
>> I have heard the term, „the client is resistant“ both in therapy and
>> consulting contexts, and I notice great discomfort within me towards this
>> kind of label.
>>
>>
>>
>> Not mostly, but also from my personal experience of someone giving me
>> that „batch of honour". Someone who didn’t understand my perspective and
>> how I was actually serving a group with my intervention. It has now
>> happened to me several times that someone said to me (sometimes years
>> later): „NOW I get you! I thought you were just annoying/resistant, but you
>> were right / actually ahead of us with your perspective“.
>>
>>
>>
>> And.. there are times when I am not at all ahead, but truly resistant to
>> change. For example because of different priorities.
>>
>>
>>
>> I will never forget the disbelief of the person at the iPhone help desk
>> of my mobile phone provider:
>>
>>
>>
>> I called to ask how to activate my new iPhone 6. Which had been sitting
>> in my desk for OVER A YEAR unused, after I had received the new model. He
>> couldn’t believe that I hadn’t activated it right away. I imagine he might
>> have shared that story during his coffee break with colleagues and all of
>> them shaking their heads or laughing about that strange client.
>>
>> I just hadn't wanted to let go of my iPhone 3s (until I really had to
>> because I couldn’t get software updates anymore). Back then, I so preferred
>> its design. I mostly used it to make calls, not for the internet, and it
>> fit so nicely into my hand and the back pocket of my jeans… Clearly a
>> criteria that many tech savvy people will not find as important at I did!
>>
>>
>>
>> So the „moral“ of my story: What might be the things that other people
>> value which we don’t understand, when we judge them as „resistant“?
>>
>>
>>
>> I very much appreciate how that perspective is embodied in this short
>> video, narrated by Charles Eisenstein:
>>
>>
>>
>>             What is it like to be you?
>>
>>             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStmnodUpOo
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, isn’t OST based on invitation? And if there is something like
>> „resistance to following an invitation“, is it a true invitation in the
>> first place?
>>
>>
>>
>>             (Kudos to Dan Mezick and Mark Sheffield and their book on
>> Inviting Leadership)
>>
>>
>>
>> With respect,
>>
>> Marai
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 08.01.2019 um 02:41 schrieb Mark Carmel via OSList <
>> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>:
>>
>>
>>
>> Greetings Fellow OST Practitioners!
>>
>>
>>
>> It is an honor to join you once again.  I met the great Harrison Owen in
>> the early 1990's and began immediately facilitating Open Space.  I hope
>> some of you remember me.  Guided by Harrison's mentor-ship I set the world
>> record with a 700 person group in 1993, the largest at the time for an
>> educational transformation.
>>
>>
>>
>> To my fellow followers of His Honor, Harrison "The GREAT" Owen, THE
>> Inventor of the Magic and Miracle of OPEN SPACE, (or the Receiver, from the
>> Great Inventor...) I honor you for carrying on His Legacy.
>>
>>
>>
>> May I suggest to ALL, that when the Space is Opened to the Spirit of
>> Change, you are playing with the fire of the crucible right there,
>> fomenting the ferver that IS the crux of CHAOS, and thus bringing out the
>> very, very Good in people, and also, sometimes, the bad.  In all your
>> preparations, beware of the evil spirits that seek the status quo at all
>> costs, sometimes, literally.  Change dies hard, as it is said, and in
>> America, we now live in Retaliation Nation, where change, may be, and is,
>> often, met with resistance.
>>
>>
>>
>> To fortify oneself against the forces that WILL seek to undermine change
>> (and not in an open way, quite the contrary), and undermine the change
>> agents championing change, one tidbit of hopefully useful observation is
>> warranted:  Make SURE Leadership is SOLID!
>>
>>
>>
>> It is such a joy to see O.S.T. alive and well.  We ALL have Harrison to
>> thank for His Gift of the Spirit of Human Understanding, Peace, and
>> Reconciliation.  Thank YOU, dear Father Harrison Owen!!
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers!  Long May OST Live!!
>>
>>
>>
>> O - Open Invitation
>>
>> S - System Innovation
>>
>> T - Transformation Communication
>>
>>
>>
>> Peace!!
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark Carmel
>>
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> Michael Herman
> Michael Herman Associates
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> http://MichaelHerman.com
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