[OSList] An improbable invitation A poem about a job - Happy Thanksgiving to the Peacemakers
Mark Carmel
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Sun Nov 21 06:18:41 PST 2021
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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.
> >>>> PO Box 19373, Raleigh, NC, USA 27613
> >>>> Phone: 01-919-522-7750
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> >>>>
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> >>>> >
> >>>> Connect on LinkedIn <
> >>>>
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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."
> >>>>
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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]
>
>
> *Birgitt Williams*
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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
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > Peggy Holman
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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*
> > *
> > *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.*
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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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> > Bellevue, WA 98006
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> > 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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