[OSList] An improbable invitation A poem about a job - Happy Thanksgiving to the Peacemakers

Mark Carmel markacarmel at gmail.com
Sun Nov 21 06:18:41 PST 2021


Note to list serve managers: I did not see any content in this thread on
items 5,6,7 and especially 8 from our fearless leader Harrison.  Have a
Blessed Holiday season my friends.
MC

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>    1. Re: Where angels fear to tread (Jeff Aitken)
>    2. Re: Where angels fear to tread (Birgitt Williams)
>    3. Where Angel's Fear to Tread (Mark Carmel)
>    4. Re: Where Angel's Fear to Tread (Jeff Aitken)
>    5. An Improbable invitation. A  poem about a job. (Phelim McDermott)
>    6. Re: An Improbable invitation. A  poem about a job.
>       (Phelim McDermott)
>    7. Re: An Improbable invitation. A  poem about a job. (Alan Halford)
>    8. Re: An Improbable invitation. A poem about a job.
>       (Harrison Owen SR)
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> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:04:45 -0800
> From: Jeff Aitken <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com>
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> The reason I ask, about Nora getting at something new and different, is
> that I know seasoned veterans of Open Space who are very excited about Warm
> Data Labs.
>
> Something seems new to them. (I will ask.)
>
> Jeff
>
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021, 11:33 AM Jeff Aitken <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > PS Chris - love what you shared. Already thinking of design ideas for
> that
> > badge...
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 19, 2021, 10:52 AM Jeff Aitken <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> To come back around to Nora for a moment: She is exploring how a fresh
> >> new hypothesis gets created, one which can be a better fit to a complex
> >> situation in a time of crisis.
> >>
> >> Foundational to a new hypothesis is "the realm of unseen contributors
> >> coalescing to produce the foundations of hypothesis."
> >>
> >> She finds that by intentionally placing different contexts of life side
> >> by side in new configurations - literally doing so in the design of warm
> >> data labs - the tender shoots of new hypothesis formation are nurtured.
> >>
> >> My question: Is this a restatement of the notion that "U shaped"
> >> processes like Bohm dialogue or Open Space can foster conversation that
> >> deepens us beneath our long held assumptions, to explore fresh
> assumptions?
> >> (What some have called transformative learning, and what HHO originally
> >> called "crossing the open space"?)
> >>
> >> Or is Nora getting at something new and different?
> >>
> >> Nora and colleagues might or might not be versed in the theory and
> >> practice of what Peggy documented in The Change Handbook, with 18 and
> then
> >> 60+ different processes.
> >>
> >> We have kinda danced around this question, and I want to ask it more
> >> directly.
> >>
> >> Warmly
> >>
> >> Jeff
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021, 9:36 AM Chris Corrigan via OSList <
> >> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I think I have come to learn that all the work of an Open Space meeting
> >>> happens in the invitation, and the more personal and intentional the
> >>> better.  Recently I had a client work for two months to get 20 very
> >>> powerful people in a room to talk about a major issue in the education
> >>> system, and the Open Space was only six hours, and my work was really
> only
> >>> 20 minutes of active facilitation.  That to me is a mark of great
> >>> participation and a high chance for sustainability of the results.
> Hoping
> >>> one day I can coach a client in invitation so well that they don;t even
> >>> need a big face to face meeting, or at the very least, they don't need
> me
> >>> there.  At that point I will call it "Achieving a Harrison" and award
> >>> myself a badge.  And then go and take a nap.
> >>>
> >>> Chris
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 12:15 AM Thomas Herrmann via OSList <
> >>> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I love this way of clarifying how you can look for inviting the whole
> >>>> system, Peggy! Thanks for sharing! I will make sure I incorporate it
> in my
> >>>> practice as I think it helps the thinking about how to spread ?the
> >>>> irresistible invitation?. And I also agree its great to involve as
> many of
> >>>> these stakeholders early in the process, especially as there is often
> a low
> >>>> level of trust between them.
> >>>>
> >>>> Usually I invite my sponsors quite clearly to not jump up and raise
> >>>> their topics but wait and see what happens, I assure them that I will
> be
> >>>> very clear to give space for everyone and not closing the agenda
> creation
> >>>> without very clear last opportunities ? so they can rest assured that
> all
> >>>> of their important topics can be posted. So if they miss anything at
> the
> >>>> end, they can add. I agree with others, they are mostly surprised by
> the
> >>>> richness of the agenda created by participants.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> One piece I have included in my designs the last years is to have a
> >>>> ?sync-meeting? some time the last week before the OST, to give them an
> >>>> opportunity to share their hopes and fears for the upcoming OST and
> clarify
> >>>> any practicalities they may be wondering about. This is much
> appreciated
> >>>> and givs them more of a feeling of safety and it increases their
> curiosity,
> >>>> openness and peace ?.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> With appreciation for all of the wisdom in this circle
> >>>>
> >>>> Thomas Herrmann
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> *Fr?n:* OSList <oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org> *F?r *Peggy
> >>>> Holman via OSList
> >>>> *Skickat:* den 18 november 2021 23:08
> >>>> *Till:* Open Space Listserv <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
> >>>> *Kopia:* Peggy Holman <peggy at peggyholman.com>
> >>>> *?mne:* Re: [OSList] Where angels fear to tread
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Like Michael, I have had the experience of leaders making a list
> behind
> >>>> the scenes and being surprised that participants not only posted
> everything
> >>>> on their list but also things that they hadn?t thought of that turned
> out
> >>>> to matter to them. And, of course, the experience of witnessing the
> >>>> passion, interest, and creativity of people often surprises everyone
> who is
> >>>> in an Open Space meeting for the first time.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Jeff, to your question about requisite variety of topics in an Open
> >>>> Space, I see that as a matter of being mindful about invitation. The
> >>>> biggest investment of preparation time for the Open Spaces I?m
> involved
> >>>> with are inviting, as Harrison would say, ?the people who care.?
> Whomever
> >>>> I?m working with, I encourage them to do the work of thinking through,
> >>>> given their purpose, who makes up the system ? who are the people who
> care?
> >>>> In many cases, that may include involving a microcosm in shaping the
> >>>> organizing question and invitation so that it resonates with the
> people of
> >>>> the system.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I take my cue on how to think about who makes up the system from Marv
> >>>> Weisbord and Sandra Janoff?s rubric of inviting the people who ?ARE
> IN? ?
> >>>> with *A*uthority, *R*esources, *E*xpertise, *I*nformation, and *
> N*eed.
> >>>> I also suggest an overlay for considering demographic diversity. For
> >>>> thinking about that, I draw from the Maynard Institute?s ?Fault
> lines? -
> >>>> race, class, gender, geography, and generation and two ?fissures? -
> >>>> politics and religion. Not all dimensions apply to every situation but
> >>>> bringing them up enables the people planning the Open Space to make a
> >>>> conscious choice about whom they invite and how.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> This is a long-winded way of saying that my experience is that by
> doing
> >>>> the work to invite a requisite variety of people, a requisite variety
> of
> >>>> topics will show up. And then, to the principle of whoever comes is
> the
> >>>> right people, I let go of worrying about it.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Birgitt ? to words and embodied experience, yes you are saying what I
> >>>> meant: *it is not the words used that are most likely to help, rather
> >>>> the embodied experience*. For example, describing the experience of
> >>>> Open Space and what it produces can be enough for some. For most of
> us,
> >>>> hearing a description or even seeing a video doesn?t come close to
> being
> >>>> there. It is a multi-dimensional experience that involves, head,
> heart,
> >>>> body, spirit. Rarely does this come across in a description. A story
> might
> >>>> communicate more of it. But I?m guessing most people discover some
> aspect
> >>>> they hadn?t expected from just reading, hearing, or watching a video
> about
> >>>> it.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Appreciatively,
> >>>>
> >>>> Peggy
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ________________________________
> >>>>
> >>>> Peggy Holman
> >>>> Co-founder
> >>>> Journalism That Matters
> >>>> 15347 SE 49th Place
> >>>> Bellevue, WA  98006
> >>>> 206-948-0432
> >>>> www.journalismthatmatters.org
> >>>> www.peggyholman.com
> >>>> Twitter: @peggyholman
> >>>> JTM Twitter: @JTMStream
> >>>>
> >>>> Enjoy the award winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into
> >>>> Opportunity <http://www.engagingemergence.com>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Nov 17, 2021, at 1:52 PM, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList <
> >>>> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Dear Birgitt,
> >>>>
> >>>> your two sentences:
> >>>>
> >>>> "My perspective: following the principles of OST, spirit shows up in
> >>>> the moment, inspiring people to post exactly the topics that need to
> be
> >>>> posted at that moment in time. This dynamic is altered when relying on
> >>>> anyone to pre-post topics, or to set meta-topics, catering to
> limitation
> >>>> rather than abundance of possibilities."
> >>>>
> >>>> had some memories come up.
> >>>>
> >>>> In at least three of the ost events I was involved in it turned out
> >>>> that the sponsors prepared a set of "issuse" they felt should be part
> of
> >>>> the event before the event... in case nobody would post them.
> >>>> To the surprises of the sponsors all their issues were posted by the
> >>>> participants.
> >>>> In addition, they themselves experienced that other issues entered
> >>>> their mind during the process that they then posted.
> >>>> In many other ost events sponors were very surprised about the broad
> >>>> passion, interest, creativity, etc. and most of all selforganisation
> that
> >>>> manifested...
> >>>>
> >>>> For what actually happens when ost is part of the everyday life of an
> >>>> organisation over a number of years with a special focus on the vast
> system
> >>>> of that enterprise have a look here
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Practicing-Open-Space-Our-First-Ten-Years-E-Book
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> in English, French, Polish, Spanish and Chinese ... translated from
> the
> >>>> German Original by ost-colleagues all of you know
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers from Berlin
> >>>> mmp
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Am 17.11.2021 um 21:32 schrieb Birgitt Williams via OSList:
> >>>>
> >>>> Jeff...thanks for sharing the article and for the discussion that
> >>>> emanated from the question you posed to the OS list. I have enjoyed
> the
> >>>> responses and look forward to more conversation showing up. You have
> added
> >>>> more great questions.
> >>>> You asked:Do we assume that the passion and responsibility of a
> >>>> gathered group will create the requisite variety of topics/contexts to
> >>>> generate excellent Warm Data from a theme question, and foster these
> unseen
> >>>> transcontextual sources of systems changing creativity?
> >>>> Or does the sponsor need to think up and post the outlying
> >>>> topics/contexts to invite that fruitful variety?
> >>>> What are the upsides and downsides of having a passionate advocate
> post
> >>>> and host each topic of conversation? What topics don't get posted,
> and does
> >>>> that limit the potential and health of the system?
> >>>> My perspective: following the principles of OST, spirit shows up in
> the
> >>>> moment, inspiring people to post exactly the topics that need to be
> posted
> >>>> at that moment in time. This dynamic is altered when relying on
> anyone to
> >>>> pre-post topics, or to set meta-topics, catering to limitation rather
> than
> >>>> abundance of possibilities.
> >>>> Peggy...I am intrigued by your sentences "Sometimes more and different
> >>>> words can help. More often, it takes an embodied experience." I would
> like
> >>>> to understand more. My current understanding is that it is not the
> words
> >>>> used that are most likely to help, rather the embodied experience. Is
> this
> >>>> what you mean?
> >>>> in genuine contact,
> >>>> Birgitt
> >>>> Picture*
> >>>> *
> >>>> *Birgitt Williams*
> >>>> *Senior consultant-author-mentor to leaders and consultants *
> >>>> *Specialist in organizational and systemic transformation, leadership
> >>>> development, and the power of nourishing  a culture of leadership.*
> >>>> www.dalarinternational.com <http://www.dalarinternational.com>
> >>>> >> Learn More & Register <
> >>>> http://www.dalarinternational.com/upcoming-workshops/> for any of our
> >>>> upcoming workshops here.
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> >>>> Phone: 01-919-522-7750
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> >>>> >
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> >>>> >
> >>>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 7:31 AM Jeff Aitken via OSList <
> >>>> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> >>>> <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>> wrote:
> >>>>    Now I am considering whether there is a (hopefully) funny joke
> >>>>    lurking here somewhere.
> >>>>    The facilitator asked the sponsor, "do you want a book of
> >>>>    proceedings created from your event?" And the sponsor said "no, I'm
> >>>>    going for the aphanipoesis, but thanks."
> >>>>    But seriously folks, do we assume that the passion and
> >>>>    responsibility of a gathered group will create the requisite
> variety
> >>>>    of topics/contexts to generate excellent Warm Data from a theme
> >>>>    question, and foster these unseen transcontextual sources of
> systems
> >>>>    changing creativity?
> >>>>    Or does the sponsor need to think up and post the outlying
> >>>>    topics/contexts to invite that fruitful variety?
> >>>>    What are the upsides and downsides of having a passionate advocate
> >>>>    post and host each topic of conversation? What topics don't get
> >>>>    posted, and does that limit the potential and health of the system?
> >>>>    What can the OST methodology teach the WDL methodology, and vice
> >>>> versa?
> >>>>    Early morning questions,
> >>>>    Jeff
> >>>>    On Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 5:45 PM Peggy Holman via OSList
> >>>>    <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> >>>>    <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> >>>> <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>> wrote:
> >>>>         From what I can glean in Bateson?s article and what I have
> >>>>        heard about Warm Data, what happens does sound parallel to what
> >>>>        occurs when people meet in Open Space.
> >>>>        I find her writing frustrating. But when one is attempting to
> >>>>        give language to new ideas, it?s rough. The effort falls into a
> >>>>        pattern she discusses: our tendency to want to relate to the
> >>>>        ideas through habitual lenses. Sometimes more and different
> >>>>        words can help. More often, it takes an embodied experience.
> >>>>        Perhaps a Warm Data Lab?
> >>>>        I find her insight that we need a word for life coalescing
> >>>>        towards vitality in unseen ways intriguing. By naming it, I
> hope
> >>>>        it will become more seen. Sounds like something we want to
> >>>>        notice and grow.
> >>>>        Thanks for sending the article Jeff.
> >>>>        ________________________________
> >>>>        Peggy Holman
> >>>>        Co-founder
> >>>>        Journalism That Matters
> >>>>        Bellevue, WA  98006
> >>>>        206-948-0432
> >>>>        www.journalismthatmatters.org <
> >>>> http://www.journalismthatmatters.org>
> >>>>        www.peggyholman.com <http://www.peggyholman.com>
> >>>>        Twitter: @peggyholman
> >>>>        JTM Twitter: @JTMStream
> >>>>        Enjoy the award winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval
> >>>>        into Opportunity <http://www.engagingemergence.com>
> >>>>
> >>>>        On Nov 16, 2021, at 2:48 PM, Chris Corrigan via OSList
> >>>>        <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> >>>>        <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> >>>> <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>        Thanks for sharing this Jeff. I have known about Nora's work
> >>>>        for sometime and although I don't fully understand it yet I
> >>>>        think what I do know of it, it's great.).
> >>>>
> >>>>        WHy does she choose the words she chooses? I think because
> >>>>        this is how she has come to an understanding about the simple
> >>>>        truths that Warm Data works with. God know we have some pretty
> >>>>        funny language amongst us all to explain things like "let
> >>>>        people look after things they care about."  But, Jeff, the
> >>>>        first piece you posted of hers makes a lot of sense to me and
> >>>>        is a concise description of Warm Data process, and is very
> >>>>        helpful to me having an "aha" about it.
> >>>>
> >>>>        Chris
> >>>>
> >>>>        On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 1:37 PM Jeff Aitken via OSList
> >>>>        <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> >>>>        <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> >>>> <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>            Also I note that Nora is still very early in the practice
> >>>>            of a methodology that she invented (I think.)
> >>>>
> >>>>            Maybe it's like the first five-ten years of OST as folks
> >>>>            were figuring out what the hell this is all about... : )
> >>>>
> >>>>            And from the lens of an artist and family therapy
> >>>>            researcher whose father was Gregory Bateson. That makes
> >>>>            sense to me...
> >>>>
> >>>>            Warmly
> >>>>            Jeff
> >>>>
> >>>>            On Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 1:21 PM Jeff Aitken
> >>>>            <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com <mailto:r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com
> >>>> <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com>>>
> >>>>            wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>                Hi Birgitt. My first guess is that it serves
> >>>>                practitioners to be simple, while it serves systems
> >>>>                scientists to be complicated or complex.
> >>>>
> >>>>                They are writing about living systems at all scales
> >>>>                and making very subtle distinctions.
> >>>>
> >>>>                It may serve us practitioners to have some
> >>>>                appreciation for the latter. "Your mileage may vary"
> >>>>                tho, as a friend says!
> >>>>
> >>>>                Warmly
> >>>>                Jeff
> >>>>
> >>>>                On Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 1:10 PM Birgitt Williams
> >>>>                <birgittwilliams at gmail.com
> >>>>                <mailto:birgittwilliams at gmail.com
> >>>> <birgittwilliams at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>                    Jeff..I don't understand why it serves to be so
> >>>>                    complicated? Why not simply refer to seen and
> unseen?
> >>>>
> >>>>                    Birgitt
> >>>>
> >>>>                    On Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 3:57 PM Jeff Aitken via
> >>>>                    OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> >>>>                    <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> >>>> <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>                        One more email - I was amiss to mention this
> >>>>                        new theory by Nora, without defining the word
> >>>>                        she is introducing, and she finds occurring in
> >>>>                        Warm Data Lab and I think is true in OST too.
> >>>>
> >>>>                        It is "a way to describe a life giving
> >>>>                        process, by which vitality, healing, and
> >>>>                        creativity come into being by the coalescence
> >>>>                        of multiple unseen factors."
> >>>>
> >>>>                        "Aphanipoiesis combines two words from ancient
> >>>>                        Greek to describe this way in which life
> >>>>                        coalesces toward vitality in unseen ways.
> >>>>                        (Aphanis comes from a Greek root meaning
> >>>>                        obscured, unseen, unnoticed; poiesis is from
> >>>>                        one meaning to bring forth, to make.)"
> >>>>
> >>>>                        Yes it's an academic term, and is presented at
> >>>>                        a systems science conference and in a journal
> >>>>                        article.
> >>>>
> >>>>                        Useful for practitioners to think about and to
> >>>>                        notice in our work? That's my question for the
> >>>>                        oslist.
> >>>>
> >>>>                        It reminds me of Harrison's definition of
> >>>>                        "peace" in The Practice of Peace. With an
> >>>>                        emphasis on the unseen, internal, very subtle
> >>>>                        shifts that take place that are NOT reflected
> >>>>                        in proceedings and action plans.
> >>>>
> >>>>                        Warmly, Jeff.
> >>>>
> >>>>                        Reference:
> >>>>
> >>>>                        Bateson, N.,(2021). Aphanipoiesis. In Journal
> >>>>                        of the International Society for the Systems
> >>>>                        Sciences, Proceedings of the 64th Annual
> >>>>                        Meeting of the ISSS, Virtual (Vol. 1, ?1) ?
> >>>>                        under review.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>                        This work was presented at the Annual
> >>>>                        Biosemiotics Conference June 2021, the Annual
> >>>>                        Conference of the International Society of
> >>>>                        Systems Sciences July 2021, and the Annual
> >>>>                        conference of the Institute of General
> >>>>                        Semantics September 2021.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>                        On Mon, Nov 15, 2021, 11:16 PM Jeff Aitken
> >>>>                        <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com
> >>>>                        <mailto:r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com
> >>>> <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>                            As a refresher or quick intro to the
> >>>>                            process, Warm Data Lab starts with a group
> >>>>                            of folks and a theme question. But the
> >>>>                            topics of conversation are chosen in
> >>>>                            advance by sponsor and facilitator. Each
> >>>>                            breakout table (or area) gets a topic
> >>>>                            written on a sign: which names a context
> >>>>                            from which to address the theme question.
> >>>>
> >>>>                            So if the theme is drug abuse, the chosen
> >>>>                            wide variety of contexts might be:
> >>>>                            education, prisons, public health,
> >>>>                            initiation, addiction, pharmaceuticals,
> >>>>                            parenting, ceremony, etc. People go to the
> >>>>                            breakouts of their choice and stay or move
> >>>>                            as they wish. The law of mobility is used.
> >>>>                            A closing circle might end the event after
> >>>>                            some number of hours.
> >>>>
> >>>>                            It has some qualities of OST and World
> >>>>                            Cafe while being different.
> >>>>
> >>>>                            I've only been in one WDL so other folks
> >>>>                            might improve my description.
> >>>>
> >>>>                            Jeff
> >>>>
> >>>>                            On Mon, Nov 15, 2021, 7:22 PM Jeff Aitken
> >>>>                            <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com
> >>>>                            <mailto:r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com
> >>>> <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>                                Where does systemic change take place?
> >>>>                                I am reflecting on earlier posts about
> >>>>                                the Warm Data Lab and comparing -
> >>>>                                contrasting this work with other
> >>>>                                hosted conversation processes like OST.
> >>>>
> >>>>                                What seems different - please correct
> >>>>                                this if it's wrong - is the level of
> >>>>                                attention paid to the complex ways in
> >>>>                                which WDL might help bring about
> >>>>                                change. Looking well beyond action
> >>>>                                plans and carefully harvested
> >>>>                                proceedings etc.
> >>>>
> >>>>                                This may be a fruitful area of inquiry
> >>>>                                for OST folks. (The subject line here
> >>>>                                is from a reference in a book by Nora
> >>>>                                Bateson's late father Gregory.)
> >>>>
> >>>>                                Nora Bateson just shared a video and
> >>>>                                long essay, coming out prior to her
> >>>>                                essay being published soon in a
> >>>>                                journal. She is introducing a new term
> >>>>                                "aphanipoiesis" to the conversation of
> >>>>                                systemic transformation.
> >>>>
> >>>>                                The essay is here:
> >>>>
> >>>> https://norabateson.medium.com/aphanipoiesis-96d8aed927bc
> >>>>                                <
> >>>> https://norabateson.medium.com/aphanipoiesis-96d8aed927bc>
> >>>>
> >>>>                                Some teaser paragraphs for us. Can
> >>>>                                this also be said about OST, but we
> >>>>                                just don't??
> >>>>
> >>>>                                "Rewilding the Interior
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>                                In the words of the Warm Data hosting
> >>>>                                theory, we tend the ?about? so that
> >>>>                                what is re-configured is in the
> >>>>                                ?within.? It does not really matter
> >>>>                                what people talk ?about? in a Warm
> >>>>                                Data Lab. There is nothing to capture
> >>>>                                at that level. What matters is the way
> >>>>                                the participants are internally sewing
> >>>>                                together the different conversations
> >>>>                                and contexts. On a transcript this
> >>>>                                information is inaccessible.
> >>>>
> >>>>                                "In the Warm Data processes,
> >>>>                                communication in explicit form is not
> >>>>                                held to be the communication of
> >>>>                                interest. That level of conversation
> >>>>                                is there as a skeleton, onto which the
> >>>>                                stories not told reshape the person
> >>>>                                who did not tell them, the alterations
> >>>>                                in tone, the re-tilted perception is
> >>>>                                given free rein to rub memories and
> >>>>                                stories against each other. One
> >>>>                                comment that comes up repeatedly is,
> >>>>                                ?Your story changed my story.? Through
> >>>>                                this ?side-by-side-ing,? stories told
> >>>>                                change stories almost told, and their
> >>>>                                bearers are able to reshape their
> >>>>                                impressions in ways that are untamed.
> >>>>                                By careful tending of the ?about? and
> >>>>                                ?within,? the rich world of memory and
> >>>>                                story re-wilds.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>                                "The gaps are where the hope of
> >>>>                                systemic transformation is waiting. In
> >>>>                                the Warm Data processes, participants
> >>>>                                are given a structure to re-stitch, to
> >>>>                                re-wild, to begin a new abductive
> >>>>                                process into these gaps. Again, by
> >>>>                                placing the contexts of life
> >>>>                                side-by-side in new configurations,
> >>>>                                the aphanipoietic processes are given
> >>>>                                room, without conscious purpose or
> >>>>                                goals or defined outcomes, without
> >>>>                                scripts or roles or trends ? to allow
> >>>>                                the tender new beginnings of another
> >>>>                                abductive description to form mutually.
> >>>>
> >>>>                                "Through this work, I have found I
> >>>>                                needed this term to embark on a deeper
> >>>>                                study of the importance of
> >>>>                                aphanipoiesis. The changes I witness
> >>>>                                occurring in the Warm Data processes
> >>>>                                are completely unpredictable and
> >>>>                                profound. They suggest ever more
> >>>>                                vividly that there is a real, if
> >>>>                                unseen, mingling of the body, culture,
> >>>>                                education, family ? and a whole batch
> >>>>                                of transcontextual experience that is
> >>>>                                guiding all other actions. It is to
> >>>>                                this change that I have devoted my
> >>>>                                efforts toward systemic
> transformation."
> >>>>
> >>>>                                Warmly,
> >>>>                                Jeff
> >>>>                                Yelamu / San Francisco
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 20:35:54 -0500
> From: Birgitt Williams <birgitt at dalarinternational.com>
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> Subject: Re: [OSList] Where angels fear to tread
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> Peggy, Chris, Jeff, Michael, Thomas and those others of you interested in
> this thread,
> I agree that getting the potential guest list right is of greatest
> importance, as is the wording of the invitation. The spirit of intent
> behind the invitation has great import. In the language I prefer, I say it
> must be genuine. People always feel when the spirit of intent and the words
> don't match.
>
> I agree with Jeff in that it is also my experience that there are topics
> posted on subsequent days that didn't get posted on the first day, that are
> topics people are passionate about yet for whatever reason didn't get them
> up onto the agenda wall the first day. I have had more than one occasion in
> which the people didn't post the topics that really mattered to them at the
> first OST in their organization...instead they watched and felt into the
> experience of whether the space that was open for them to post topics was
> genuinely open without retribution afterwards about what was said. Then
> saying after the first OST that they realized it was genuine and wished
> they had posted their topics. I liked it when it was possible for me to say
> "not to worry, we are having another OST in a month and you will have the
> opportunity to post your topics then"...and they did.
>
> I am not fond of short OST meetings. I understand the magic of long OST
> meetings of multiple days, and of multiple OST meetings in the same
> organization....those meetings where everything that wants to be spoken
> gets its opportunity, where everything that wants to be listened to gets
> heard.
>
> in genuine contact,
> Birgitt
> [image: Picture]
>
>
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> On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 5:07 PM Peggy Holman via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
> > Like Michael, I have had the experience of leaders making a list behind
> > the scenes and being surprised that participants not only posted
> everything
> > on their list but also things that they hadn?t thought of that turned out
> > to matter to them. And, of course, the experience of witnessing the
> > passion, interest, and creativity of people often surprises everyone who
> is
> > in an Open Space meeting for the first time.
> >
> > Jeff, to your question about requisite variety of topics in an Open
> Space,
> > I see that as a matter of being mindful about invitation. The biggest
> > investment of preparation time for the Open Spaces I?m involved with are
> > inviting, as Harrison would say, ?the people who care.? Whomever I?m
> > working with, I encourage them to do the work of thinking through, given
> > their purpose, who makes up the system ? who are the people who care? In
> > many cases, that may include involving a microcosm in shaping the
> > organizing question and invitation so that it resonates with the people
> of
> > the system.
> >
> > I take my cue on how to think about who makes up the system from Marv
> > Weisbord and Sandra Janoff?s rubric of inviting the people who ?ARE IN? ?
> > with *A*uthority, *R*esources, *E*xpertise, *I*nformation, and *N*eed. I
> > also suggest an overlay for considering demographic diversity. For
> thinking
> > about that, I draw from the Maynard Institute?s ?Fault lines? - race,
> > class, gender, geography, and generation and two ?fissures? - politics
> and
> > religion. Not all dimensions apply to every situation but bringing them
> up
> > enables the people planning the Open Space to make a conscious choice
> about
> > whom they invite and how.
> >
> > This is a long-winded way of saying that my experience is that by doing
> > the work to invite a requisite variety of people, a requisite variety of
> > topics will show up. And then, to the principle of whoever comes is the
> > right people, I let go of worrying about it.
> >
> > Birgitt ? to words and embodied experience, yes you are saying what I
> > meant: *it is not the words used that are most likely to help, rather the
> > embodied experience*. For example, describing the experience of Open
> > Space and what it produces can be enough for some. For most of us,
> hearing
> > a description or even seeing a video doesn?t come close to being there.
> It
> > is a multi-dimensional experience that involves, head, heart, body,
> spirit.
> > Rarely does this come across in a description. A story might communicate
> > more of it. But I?m guessing most people discover some aspect they hadn?t
> > expected from just reading, hearing, or watching a video about it.
> >
> > Appreciatively,
> > Peggy
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> > On Nov 17, 2021, at 1:52 PM, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList <
> > oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Birgitt,
> >
> > your two sentences:
> >
> > "My perspective: following the principles of OST, spirit shows up in the
> > moment, inspiring people to post exactly the topics that need to be
> posted
> > at that moment in time. This dynamic is altered when relying on anyone to
> > pre-post topics, or to set meta-topics, catering to limitation rather
> than
> > abundance of possibilities."
> >
> > had some memories come up.
> >
> > In at least three of the ost events I was involved in it turned out that
> > the sponsors prepared a set of "issuse" they felt should be part of the
> > event before the event... in case nobody would post them.
> > To the surprises of the sponsors all their issues were posted by the
> > participants.
> > In addition, they themselves experienced that other issues entered their
> > mind during the process that they then posted.
> > In many other ost events sponors were very surprised about the broad
> > passion, interest, creativity, etc. and most of all selforganisation that
> > manifested...
> >
> > For what actually happens when ost is part of the everyday life of an
> > organisation over a number of years with a special focus on the vast
> system
> > of that enterprise have a look here
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Practicing-Open-Space-Our-First-Ten-Years-E-Book
> >
> >
> > in English, French, Polish, Spanish and Chinese ... translated from the
> > German Original by ost-colleagues all of you know
> >
> > Cheers from Berlin
> > mmp
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Am 17.11.2021 um 21:32 schrieb Birgitt Williams via OSList:
> >
> > Jeff...thanks for sharing the article and for the discussion that
> emanated
> > from the question you posed to the OS list. I have enjoyed the responses
> > and look forward to more conversation showing up. You have added more
> great
> > questions.
> > You asked:Do we assume that the passion and responsibility of a gathered
> > group will create the requisite variety of topics/contexts to generate
> > excellent Warm Data from a theme question, and foster these unseen
> > transcontextual sources of systems changing creativity?
> > Or does the sponsor need to think up and post the outlying
> topics/contexts
> > to invite that fruitful variety?
> > What are the upsides and downsides of having a passionate advocate post
> > and host each topic of conversation? What topics don't get posted, and
> does
> > that limit the potential and health of the system?
> > My perspective: following the principles of OST, spirit shows up in the
> > moment, inspiring people to post exactly the topics that need to be
> posted
> > at that moment in time. This dynamic is altered when relying on anyone to
> > pre-post topics, or to set meta-topics, catering to limitation rather
> than
> > abundance of possibilities.
> > Peggy...I am intrigued by your sentences "Sometimes more and different
> > words can help. More often, it takes an embodied experience." I would
> like
> > to understand more. My current understanding is that it is not the words
> > used that are most likely to help, rather the embodied experience. Is
> this
> > what you mean?
> > in genuine contact,
> > Birgitt
> > Picture*
> > *
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> > *Senior consultant-author-mentor to leaders and consultants *
> > *Specialist in organizational and systemic transformation, leadership
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> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 7:31 AM Jeff Aitken via OSList <
> > oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> > <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>> wrote:
> >    Now I am considering whether there is a (hopefully) funny joke
> >    lurking here somewhere.
> >    The facilitator asked the sponsor, "do you want a book of
> >    proceedings created from your event?" And the sponsor said "no, I'm
> >    going for the aphanipoesis, but thanks."
> >    But seriously folks, do we assume that the passion and
> >    responsibility of a gathered group will create the requisite variety
> >    of topics/contexts to generate excellent Warm Data from a theme
> >    question, and foster these unseen transcontextual sources of systems
> >    changing creativity?
> >    Or does the sponsor need to think up and post the outlying
> >    topics/contexts to invite that fruitful variety?
> >    What are the upsides and downsides of having a passionate advocate
> >    post and host each topic of conversation? What topics don't get
> >    posted, and does that limit the potential and health of the system?
> >    What can the OST methodology teach the WDL methodology, and vice
> versa?
> >    Early morning questions,
> >    Jeff
> >    On Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 5:45 PM Peggy Holman via OSList
> >    <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> >    <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>>
> > wrote:
> >         From what I can glean in Bateson?s article and what I have
> >        heard about Warm Data, what happens does sound parallel to what
> >        occurs when people meet in Open Space.
> >        I find her writing frustrating. But when one is attempting to
> >        give language to new ideas, it?s rough. The effort falls into a
> >        pattern she discusses: our tendency to want to relate to the
> >        ideas through habitual lenses. Sometimes more and different
> >        words can help. More often, it takes an embodied experience.
> >        Perhaps a Warm Data Lab?
> >        I find her insight that we need a word for life coalescing
> >        towards vitality in unseen ways intriguing. By naming it, I hope
> >        it will become more seen. Sounds like something we want to
> >        notice and grow.
> >        Thanks for sending the article Jeff.
> >        ________________________________
> >        Peggy Holman
> >        Co-founder
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> >        On Nov 16, 2021, at 2:48 PM, Chris Corrigan via OSList
> >        <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> >        <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> > <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>> wrote:
> >
> >        Thanks for sharing this Jeff. I have known about Nora's work
> >        for sometime and although I don't fully understand it yet I
> >        think what I do know of it, it's great.).
> >
> >        WHy does she choose the words she chooses? I think because
> >        this is how she has come to an understanding about the simple
> >        truths that Warm Data works with. God know we have some pretty
> >        funny language amongst us all to explain things like "let
> >        people look after things they care about."  But, Jeff, the
> >        first piece you posted of hers makes a lot of sense to me and
> >        is a concise description of Warm Data process, and is very
> >        helpful to me having an "aha" about it.
> >
> >        Chris
> >
> >        On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 1:37 PM Jeff Aitken via OSList
> >        <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> >        <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> > <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>> wrote:
> >
> >            Also I note that Nora is still very early in the practice
> >            of a methodology that she invented (I think.)
> >
> >            Maybe it's like the first five-ten years of OST as folks
> >            were figuring out what the hell this is all about... : )
> >
> >            And from the lens of an artist and family therapy
> >            researcher whose father was Gregory Bateson. That makes
> >            sense to me...
> >
> >            Warmly
> >            Jeff
> >
> >            On Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 1:21 PM Jeff Aitken
> >            <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com <mailto:r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com
> > <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com>>>
> >            wrote:
> >
> >                Hi Birgitt. My first guess is that it serves
> >                practitioners to be simple, while it serves systems
> >                scientists to be complicated or complex.
> >
> >                They are writing about living systems at all scales
> >                and making very subtle distinctions.
> >
> >                It may serve us practitioners to have some
> >                appreciation for the latter. "Your mileage may vary"
> >                tho, as a friend says!
> >
> >                Warmly
> >                Jeff
> >
> >                On Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 1:10 PM Birgitt Williams
> >                <birgittwilliams at gmail.com
> >                <mailto:birgittwilliams at gmail.com
> > <birgittwilliams at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >
> >                    Jeff..I don't understand why it serves to be so
> >                    complicated? Why not simply refer to seen and unseen?
> >
> >                    Birgitt
> >
> >                    On Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 3:57 PM Jeff Aitken via
> >                    OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> >                    <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> > <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>> wrote:
> >
> >                        One more email - I was amiss to mention this
> >                        new theory by Nora, without defining the word
> >                        she is introducing, and she finds occurring in
> >                        Warm Data Lab and I think is true in OST too.
> >
> >                        It is "a way to describe a life giving
> >                        process, by which vitality, healing, and
> >                        creativity come into being by the coalescence
> >                        of multiple unseen factors."
> >
> >                        "Aphanipoiesis combines two words from ancient
> >                        Greek to describe this way in which life
> >                        coalesces toward vitality in unseen ways.
> >                        (Aphanis comes from a Greek root meaning
> >                        obscured, unseen, unnoticed; poiesis is from
> >                        one meaning to bring forth, to make.)"
> >
> >                        Yes it's an academic term, and is presented at
> >                        a systems science conference and in a journal
> >                        article.
> >
> >                        Useful for practitioners to think about and to
> >                        notice in our work? That's my question for the
> >                        oslist.
> >
> >                        It reminds me of Harrison's definition of
> >                        "peace" in The Practice of Peace. With an
> >                        emphasis on the unseen, internal, very subtle
> >                        shifts that take place that are NOT reflected
> >                        in proceedings and action plans.
> >
> >                        Warmly, Jeff.
> >
> >                        Reference:
> >
> >                        Bateson, N.,(2021). Aphanipoiesis. In Journal
> >                        of the International Society for the Systems
> >                        Sciences, Proceedings of the 64th Annual
> >                        Meeting of the ISSS, Virtual (Vol. 1, ?1) ?
> >                        under review.
> >
> >
> >
> >                        This work was presented at the Annual
> >                        Biosemiotics Conference June 2021, the Annual
> >                        Conference of the International Society of
> >                        Systems Sciences July 2021, and the Annual
> >                        conference of the Institute of General
> >                        Semantics September 2021.
> >
> >
> >                        On Mon, Nov 15, 2021, 11:16 PM Jeff Aitken
> >                        <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com
> >                        <mailto:r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com
> > <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >
> >                            As a refresher or quick intro to the
> >                            process, Warm Data Lab starts with a group
> >                            of folks and a theme question. But the
> >                            topics of conversation are chosen in
> >                            advance by sponsor and facilitator. Each
> >                            breakout table (or area) gets a topic
> >                            written on a sign: which names a context
> >                            from which to address the theme question.
> >
> >                            So if the theme is drug abuse, the chosen
> >                            wide variety of contexts might be:
> >                            education, prisons, public health,
> >                            initiation, addiction, pharmaceuticals,
> >                            parenting, ceremony, etc. People go to the
> >                            breakouts of their choice and stay or move
> >                            as they wish. The law of mobility is used.
> >                            A closing circle might end the event after
> >                            some number of hours.
> >
> >                            It has some qualities of OST and World
> >                            Cafe while being different.
> >
> >                            I've only been in one WDL so other folks
> >                            might improve my description.
> >
> >                            Jeff
> >
> >                            On Mon, Nov 15, 2021, 7:22 PM Jeff Aitken
> >                            <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com
> >                            <mailto:r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com
> > <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >
> >                                Where does systemic change take place?
> >                                I am reflecting on earlier posts about
> >                                the Warm Data Lab and comparing -
> >                                contrasting this work with other
> >                                hosted conversation processes like OST.
> >
> >                                What seems different - please correct
> >                                this if it's wrong - is the level of
> >                                attention paid to the complex ways in
> >                                which WDL might help bring about
> >                                change. Looking well beyond action
> >                                plans and carefully harvested
> >                                proceedings etc.
> >
> >                                This may be a fruitful area of inquiry
> >                                for OST folks. (The subject line here
> >                                is from a reference in a book by Nora
> >                                Bateson's late father Gregory.)
> >
> >                                Nora Bateson just shared a video and
> >                                long essay, coming out prior to her
> >                                essay being published soon in a
> >                                journal. She is introducing a new term
> >                                "aphanipoiesis" to the conversation of
> >                                systemic transformation.
> >
> >                                The essay is here:
> >
> > https://norabateson.medium.com/aphanipoiesis-96d8aed927bc
> >                                <
> > https://norabateson.medium.com/aphanipoiesis-96d8aed927bc>
> >
> >                                Some teaser paragraphs for us. Can
> >                                this also be said about OST, but we
> >                                just don't??
> >
> >                                "Rewilding the Interior
> >
> >
> >                                In the words of the Warm Data hosting
> >                                theory, we tend the ?about? so that
> >                                what is re-configured is in the
> >                                ?within.? It does not really matter
> >                                what people talk ?about? in a Warm
> >                                Data Lab. There is nothing to capture
> >                                at that level. What matters is the way
> >                                the participants are internally sewing
> >                                together the different conversations
> >                                and contexts. On a transcript this
> >                                information is inaccessible.
> >
> >                                "In the Warm Data processes,
> >                                communication in explicit form is not
> >                                held to be the communication of
> >                                interest. That level of conversation
> >                                is there as a skeleton, onto which the
> >                                stories not told reshape the person
> >                                who did not tell them, the alterations
> >                                in tone, the re-tilted perception is
> >                                given free rein to rub memories and
> >                                stories against each other. One
> >                                comment that comes up repeatedly is,
> >                                ?Your story changed my story.? Through
> >                                this ?side-by-side-ing,? stories told
> >                                change stories almost told, and their
> >                                bearers are able to reshape their
> >                                impressions in ways that are untamed.
> >                                By careful tending of the ?about? and
> >                                ?within,? the rich world of memory and
> >                                story re-wilds.
> >
> >
> >                                "The gaps are where the hope of
> >                                systemic transformation is waiting. In
> >                                the Warm Data processes, participants
> >                                are given a structure to re-stitch, to
> >                                re-wild, to begin a new abductive
> >                                process into these gaps. Again, by
> >                                placing the contexts of life
> >                                side-by-side in new configurations,
> >                                the aphanipoietic processes are given
> >                                room, without conscious purpose or
> >                                goals or defined outcomes, without
> >                                scripts or roles or trends ? to allow
> >                                the tender new beginnings of another
> >                                abductive description to form mutually.
> >
> >                                "Through this work, I have found I
> >                                needed this term to embark on a deeper
> >                                study of the importance of
> >                                aphanipoiesis. The changes I witness
> >                                occurring in the Warm Data processes
> >                                are completely unpredictable and
> >                                profound. They suggest ever more
> >                                vividly that there is a real, if
> >                                unseen, mingling of the body, culture,
> >                                education, family ? and a whole batch
> >                                of transcontextual experience that is
> >                                guiding all other actions. It is to
> >                                this change that I have devoted my
> >                                efforts toward systemic transformation."
> >
> >                                Warmly,
> >                                Jeff
> >                                Yelamu / San Francisco
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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