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At 05:11 PM 12/5/00 -0500, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>So Open Space IS not self
organization but it is an procedure, that tries to<br>
adjust very carefully appropriate boundary conditions so that an optimal
self<br>
organization can occure.<br>
... facilitators describe this attempt in a sence making way not as
holding<br>
the temperature but "holding the space"
..</blockquote><br>
Interesting distinction... but i rather think that in Open Space we
essentially create the essential pre-conditions for self-organization. Or
maybe that is what you said? And of course, self-organization in the
human domain shares preconditions with all other domains (after all we
are atoms too) -- but then there are some additional elements brought
about because of our knowledge and feelings (history and emotion). So
there is an intentional act... which starts things off (someone decides
to hold and OST) but when once started, it does it all by itself -- I
think, <br>
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Harrison<br>
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