[OSList] Possible Relationship between Clean Language and Open Space

[Birgitt Williams]

Hi Jake,
Something more to think about relates to your sentence "But, I now see how
Open Space also encourages introspection. In Open Space, participants have
no recourse to authority; instead, they must rely on themselves." From my
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author-ship within oneself that is self leadership. Developing leadership
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On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 1:38 PM Jake Yeager via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've sensed that there is a relationship between Clean Language
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Language> and Open Space, but I
> wasn't sure what it was. They are definitely similar in construction:
> minimalist and precise. But I felt the relationship was deeper than these
> characteristics. Then, I came across a passage in an Open Space case study
> called We Passed the Flowerpot from Lap to Lap: Using Open Space to
> Create a Learning Communit
> <https://www.openspaceworld.org/files/tmnfiles/learning.htm>y by Sara
> Halprin and Herb Long. In the study, two students who participated in a
> three-weekend course that was conducted in Open Space capture their
> experience as thus (emphasis mine):
>
> "The course was to be about learning and development, so what did we learn
> and how do we learn? We learn by exploring. We learn by listening. We learn
> through our families, our culture and our experiences. We learn by taking
> risks and stretching our minds. It is a lifelong process and a spiritual
> process. *What we discover as we go along is that much of what we think
> we need to know, we actually have inside ourselves already. The trick is to
> accept ourselves and to look inside ourselves to find the teacher within*
> ."
>
> That the client discovers answers within is a key aspect of Clean
> Language; however, I never considered it as so for Open Space. But, I now
> see how Open Space also encourages introspection. In Open Space,
> participants have no recourse to authority; instead, they must rely on
> themselves. Similarly, in Clean Language, the client cannot garner
> expertise or advice from the practitioner. Therefore, in both modalities,
> the participant must learn self-reliance, and to rely on one's self means
> to look within for answers. And I think this might be the deeper
> relationship that I sensed!
>
> Just a thought. Would love to hear what other's think.
>
> Much love,
> Jake
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