[OSList] The New Space Race?
Jake Yeager
jacob.yeager at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 08:31:44 PDT 2020
Hi mmp,
What's your preferred closing circle process? I am interested to know how
you "do nothing" for the closing circle too. :)
Thanks!
All the best,
Jake
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When the mind is quiet, the sun of your heart will shine once again, and
you will be free of problems.
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:35 AM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> Dear Doris and you other tender and friendly folks out there,
>
> "Tend and Befriend" is always a basic response, crisis or not.
>
> But since crisis is a basic prerequisite for the unfolding of time and
> space for selforganisation "Tend and Befriend" also unfolds more freely.
>
> In os events that deal with urgent matters, "tend and befriend" is
> always present.
> In the context of such gatherings it is usually not perceived as
> something special by participants.
>
> Facilitators, however, busy with doing nothing, do observe it every
> time. There are even attempts to have the paricipants increase their
> awareness of this by ending an os event with reflections along the
> medicine wheel. Which, as I discovered, is a grand way of looking at
> such elements as vision, management, community and leadership... but
> rarely gets much attention by participants. They already know all that.
> And I guess, they are more interested to get busy on the actions they
> just worked on.
>
> Greetings from Berlin, where I see "Tend and Befriend" abound... to the
> astonishment of the folks in charge who see stuff happening they felt
> responsible for....
>
> Cheers and enjoy tending and befriending and being tended and befriendet
>
> mmp
> Am 20.04.2020 um 11:13 schrieb Doris Gottlieb via OSList:
> > Dear Peggy,
> >
> > Thank you for sending the article and for reminding me about Tend and
> > Befriend as one of the basic responses of humans in crisis and stress.
> > It is so valuable to expand my noticing in working in times of crisis to
> > include this frame and look for where and how it happens.
> >
> > With love and gratitude,
> >
> > Doris
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:36 AM agusj via OSList
> > <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hi Peggy!
> >
> > Thanks for share this The psychologist, Shelley Taylor, working with
> > a team of women, found women tended to respond differently. They
> > took care of the vulnerable and worked together.
> >
> > I love it! I knew in my profound self that there should be another
> way.
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> > Warm regards
> >
> > Agustín
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, April 16, 2020, 04:16:09 PM GMT-5, Peggy Holman via
> > OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> > <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > Thanks for opening this conversation. I’ve been thinking about
> > something similar, with a slightly different emphasis. I’ve been
> > struck by how frequently I’m hearing “we’re all in this together”.
> > So I’ve been thinking about how it is a time of both personal
> > responsibility AND a sense of the greater good that has never
> > existed in my lifetime. (We’re about the same age.) Even talk of
> > sacrifice. Something I recall my parents talking about from their
> > youth in World War 2.
> >
> > Something that has intersected this mulling has been watching the
> > amazing amount of constructive journalism happening right now.
> > Practical, responsive, listening to the questions from the public.
> > And, of course, the generosity of people self-organizing to help
> others.
> >
> > One last element in my thinking about this: "tend and befriend"
> > rather than "fight or flight.” In brief, in 2000, a woman
> > psychologist looked at the research that led to coining the phrase
> > fight or flight to characterize human response to threat or stress.
> > Turns out, like much of that early social science research, it was
> > done primarily with men. The psychologist, Shelley Taylor, working
> > with a team of women, found women tended to respond differently.
> > They took care of the vulnerable and worked together.
> >
> > With nowhere to run, I see much of the response to Coronavirus
> > following the pattern of tend and befriend. It’s a trend I’d sure
> > like to see made conscious and furthered. I wrote a 2-minute piece
> > about it:
> >
> https://medium.com/@PeggyHolman/journalism-that-tends-and-befriends-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-1ec800ccf9ad
> .
> >
> > I think fighting and fleeing less and tending and befriending more
> > encompasses both personal responsibility and the common good.
> >
> > Be well and stay sane,
> > Peggy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Enjoy the award winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:40 PM, Michael Herman via OSList
> >> <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> >> <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I had a thought recently that might be interesting here, and that
> >> maybe you can add on to, as a story and conversation here. And
> >> then in the world. This overlaps with some other recent threads,
> >> too, I think.
> >>
> >> As background, I'm exactly old enough that the moon landing is, as
> >> best I can tell, my oldest memory. I've seen pictures of stuff
> >> that happened before, but I clearly remember the space toys being
> >> given away at gas stations, our family buying our first color TV,
> >> and (just like now) keeping our distance... in that case we were
> >> supposed to stay six feet from the new set.
> >>
> >> From that global moment came all kinds of "big blue marble"
> >> photos, Bucky Fuller's "Spaceship Earth," and other images. Now
> >> we had a picture of "all in this together" where "all" really was
> >> every human. And then, a few decades later, we've created a
> >> global network, a global economy, and global epidemics. Not
> >> everyone made a direct, conscious connection about those images
> >> from space, but somehow we all grew up participating in the
> >> creation of these global structures and phenomena.
> >> Now I think we might have a chance to accelerate our swing back,
> >> to the micro, the local, the individual in equally strong,
> >> long-term ways. It took us a while to get there, but the message
> >> coming clearer now is "wear a mask," for instance, "to protect
> >> others..." And inside of that, this seems like a visceral
> >> reminder that "what you, the little individual does -- does
> >> matter." It matters with masks and the virus, but it can be, and
> >> I hope it will be, quickly translated to the plastic we use, the
> >> miles we drive, the other things we purchase and reinforce with
> >> our money, the way we manage emotions in groups, and so on. It
> >> matters for everyone to manage their own "stuff," their own
> >> behavior, purchases, words, and other choices.
> >>
> >> This is what I hope we might be learning, anyway. And within all
> >> of the possibilities, choosing to take responsibility for one's
> >> own experience, actively choosing to be learning and contributing,
> >> seems to me about the best choices we could focus on, each of us,
> >> individually and personally. What we've been saying all along, in
> >> various ways, that individual agency and actions matter, seems
> >> more important and understandable that ever.
> >>
> >> This makes me curious if and how what is happening now with the
> >> virus and what we've all been teaching and practicing and inviting
> >> "in open space," might shape the world over the next few decades.
> >> I wonder what kind of a world might emerge from increasing
> >> awareness of personal agency, responsibility, learning and
> >> contributing, in meetings and everywhere else.
> >>
> >> This is one good thing I have imagined could emerge from this.
> >> This is the view I'm testing as I watch the news and talk with
> >> clients these days.
> >>
> >> What do you think might come out of the current situation, on any
> >> scale?
> >>
> >> And is there anything else to do about helping it along, for now,
> >> wherever we are?
> >>
> >> Michael
> >>
> >>
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> >> Michael Herman
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