[OSList] The New Space Race?
Jake Yeager
jacob.yeager at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 15:43:45 PDT 2020
Thanks mmp __/\__ <3
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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.
- Robert Adams <http://www.robert-adams.info/>
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 4:45 PM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> Dear Jake,
>
> after folks have gathered in the closing circle and announcements have
> ceased and things have quieted down completely I:
>
> --- take about three minutes to go back to the beginning of the
> gathering pointing to the phases of the event in the last 3 days
>
> --- show the talking stick (something I found outside earlier in the
> day, such as a branch with leaves or flowers on it and if it is a
> situation in which a mike is used that might be the talking stick) and
> speak, sitting in the circle, about 2 minutes on this final process
> (that it will be passed from one to another in a clockwise direction,
> that one should not think about what to say while it is on the way, once
> you receive it, hold it for a while, dont pass it on right away, and if
> something occurs to you right then let everyone else know if you like,
> say it and others listen, if you hold it and you dont say or do anything
> we listen into the silence, and if you say something from the heart we
> listen with our hearts).
>
> Since there is a closing time to the gathering, everyone knows how much
> time is available for the closing circle, and usually it will take
> place in the time still available.
>
> By this time the talking stick has returned to me and I say something
> like "Thank you for the privilege to facilitate this event" and then
> turn to the sponsor that is sitting next to me and ask him to close the
> event and send us on our ways.
>
> The sponsor closes the event.
>
> Sometimes there also seems to be the need to have a ritual for the group
> as a whole to celebrate the end of this process... there is a very short
> intervention I learned from HO:
> After the closing circle and the short speech of the sponsor I rise and
> ask everyone else to get up and form a very close standing circle, wait
> a moment and invite to have a last look at everyone, after a while I ask
> everyone to turn outward, still noticing the circle "behind" me and then
> leave the circle in all directions... usually this is the time when
> people move around, hug, say goodbye, etc.
>
> Of course, there are different situations that call for other closings,
> such as a gathering of more than 300 (up to 300 it works the way I
> described), lets say 2000, then you need several mikes that are taken by
> os-team members to those that signal that they want to say something...
> not everybody gets to speak.
>
> This last phase is, except for the introduction to the process in the
> beginning, the only time I am visible and speak to the whole group...
> and I do not say anything more than what I mentioned. During the usually
> 25 to 35 minutes in which participants listen and talk I say nothing and
> do nothing.
>
> Greetings from Berlin where doing nothing is the expected mode in the
> corona lockdown, a tough exercise for many...
>
> cheers
> mmp
>
>
>
> Am 20.04.2020 um 17:31 schrieb Jake Yeager via OSList:
> > 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
> > ________________
> >
> > When the mind is quiet, the sun of your heart will shine once again, and
> > you will be free of problems.
> > - Robert Adams <http://www.robert-adams.info/>
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:35 AM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList
> > <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto: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>
> > <mailto: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>
> > > <mailto: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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> into
> > > Opportunity <http://www.engagingemergence.com>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:40 PM, Michael Herman via OSList
> > >> <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
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> > >> <mailto: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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >>
> > >> Michael Herman
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> > >> 312-280-7838 (mobile)
> > >>
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> > >>
> > >>
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>
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