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