[OSList] Report From The Field

[Barry Owen]

Marai thank you for the offering of this video.

It mirrors many of the thoughts swimming around in my head about the
seemingly incessant "need" for many people to resist and fight when what's
most useful is the Opening of more space.

If only a sliver of the energy expended on this "warring" over anything and
everything imaginable were to be directed towards more intentional human to
human contact, this world be a kinder, gentler, and more forgiving world.

As I witness so many layers of human ugliness manifesting all around us, my
thoughts always shift to a mantra I've heard from Harrison Owen for years:

Just keep on opening space!

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On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:31 PM Marai Kiele via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> 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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