[OSList] Asking for your wisdom - Leora Tushinski

[Harrison Owen SR]

Leora -- My very best to Tova! Holding the tension is a loosing game.. Just
open some space and if the people really care, they will get amazing things
accomplished with no intervention or supervision. Ask Tova about our time
together in Rome with 50 Palestinians and Israelis who were mostly security
types. At the start I remember standing behind two gentlemen I didn't know.
One said to the other, "This is really weird -- we are in business to kill
each other." Try it. Amazing things do happen.

Harrison

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 9:34 AM David Osborne via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Interesting question Leona.
>
> My answer is more about the principles of self-organization underneath
> openspace (that I learned from Harrison over lunches and a cocktail or two
> at the Glenn Echo Inn) than open space methodology.  Open space requires
> something to be urgent and important.....otherwise people won't care and
> they won't show up and invest in it. I think as a manager part of your role
> is defining what's important to the organization and why in a way that
> people care. and want to contribute ....this sets the direction for your
> team or group. The urgent important issue is like the camp fire that you
> can then invite people to gather around and discuss.....it is your role as
> manager to make the environment inclusive and safe for people to gather and
> share their views and ideas openly until insight emerges about the
> situation itself and what to do about it.   The energy and motivation to
> act will naturally arise at this point and you can help the group stay
> connected and share information about progress and what's working and
> what's not.  It's all self-organizing or emergent change. Where Harrison
> and I differed and I'm still exploring his view is whether we need to do
> anything at all or whether it will all happen by itself.   My view has been
> that I care too, and I want to do something. I am part of the emergence. Is
> my role necessary no. But without it something different will emerge.
> Systems are always moving toward fragmentation or cohesion and your role as
> manager will make a huge difference in which way they are headed.
>
> Thanks for your question, and my best to all.
>
> David
>
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> On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 6:13 AM leora tushinski via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>
>> This is my first time in the OSList and I am writing to ask for the
>> wisdom I am sure is held in this group.
>>
>> My name is Leora and I'm a student of "Dialogic interventions in Large
>> group" , held by Tova Averbuch and Rotem Ofer.
>>
>> As a manager I have a challenge (and maybe a fear): wondering how to
>> "hold" the tension between the "freedom" in the OS method,   and
>> “purposefulness” needed in most of the processes .
>>
>> How can we expect to get to "bottom lines" (get the work done) when we
>> depend only on the people who come, and what they decide…?
>>
>>   And more, how can we avoid   the "loose" rules   lead to "anarchy",
>> especially in complex environment?
>>
>> I will appreciate your time, attention and wisdom
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Leora
>>
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>>
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