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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face="Arial Narrow" size=2><SPAN
class=350070016-30042002>Harrison,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face="Arial Narrow" size=2><SPAN
class=350070016-30042002>My belief and worldview is one that is grateful for the
greater Open Space of the world, created by our Creator, and for the Divine
Operating Plan inclusive of basic universal laws (givens) for which I am
greatful and if they weren't being attended to we might just have our planets
colliding with one another and so on. Within this Divine Operating Plan that I
view as a matrix of some sort (the finite mind has a problem grasping the
infinite, despite a deep knowing that is within me) every organism, including
humans, seem to have free will to make choices that are either life depleting or
life nurturing. As such, the visible world can appear to be self organizing
within this greater Divine Operating Plan. Whether our free will takes us to a
collective will that organizes ourselves to be life nurturing or life depleting
is still unknown. Thank goodness that the seen world (the world experienced by
our five senses) is not the total picture. I have a lot of faith in the unseen
world to assist us to choose a life nurturing future. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face="Arial Narrow" size=2><SPAN
class=350070016-30042002>Within Open Space Technology, created by yourself, we
have a magnificent window to heighten our conscious awareness about our choices.
That which is experienced by the five senses in an OST meeting may appear to be
self organizing within a matrix developed and held by the collaboration of the
facilitator and the sponsor and any others who so choose as the meeting unfolds.
A matrix seems to be needed for the self organizing to appear. The richness and
depth of the "self organizing" within the OST meeting seems to be impacted by
the ability of the facilitator to work with the unseen world (in my experience,
this is the opening and holding of "space" which is not empty space at all but
indeed very full). </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face="Arial Narrow" size=2><SPAN
class=350070016-30042002>In the games you are referring to, a matrix is created,
within which the players have choice, usually again choices between life
depleting and life nurturing.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Harrison
Owen<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 29, 2002 9:36 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Holding Space in Emergent
Systems<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>I am, as some may know, afflicted with the notion
that all systems are essentially self-organizing, and that in Open Space we
are basically dealing with one more such emergent system. Holding Space,
therefore has something to do with the art and practice of sustaining
self-organization. turns out we are not alone. Programers who do games of an
emergent sort seem to be playing in the same sandbox. See the
following:<BR><BR><FONT size=3>“One of the pleasures of what I do,” Zimmerman
tells me, over coffee near the </FONT><FONT size=4>NYU </FONT><FONT
size=3>campus, “is that you get to see a player take what you</FONT><FONT
face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>*</FONT>ve designed and use it in completely
unexpected ways.” The designer, in other words, controls the micromotives of
the player<FONT face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>*</FONT>s actions. But the way
those micromotives are exploited— and the macrobehavior that they generate—are
out of the designer<FONT face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>*</FONT>s control.
They have a life of their own.<BR><BR>Sound a little Familiar? For more,
check out Steven Johnson's book "Emergence" (Scribner/2001)<BR><BR><FONT
size=3>Harrison<BR><BR></FONT><X-SIGSEP>
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<DIV align=center>Harrison Owen<BR>7808 River Falls Drive<BR>Potomac, MD 20854
USA<BR>phone 301-365-2093<BR>Open Space Training <A
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eudora="autourl">www.openspaceworld.org</A><BR>Personal website <A
href="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm"
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