Hi all !<br> <br> Harrison's metaphore with the bicycle brings me back to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig. What is Quality ?<br> <br> Louise Brissette<br> 514.271.0318<br> ipse@videotron.ca<br> leadershipcreateur.wordpress.com<br> leadership créateur : pour une écologie du travail<br><br><b><i>Harrison Owen <hhowen@adelphia.net></i></b> a écrit :<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Date : Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:13:19 -0400<br>De : Harrison Owen <hhowen@adelphia.net><br>Objet: Re: Next Generation<br>À : OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br><br> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name="GENERATOR"> <style></style> <div><font face="Arial">Gabriela -- It is a rare and wonderful morning when you awake to find a thought expressed with such clarity and elegance
that you can only sit there in silent appreciation for the thought and the thinker. You provided such a moment for me in your words, "</font><font face="Times New Roman">For me, OST has nothing to do with trends. It simply touches the heart of people and because it gives official permission for selforganization. For me its all about "back to the roots and forward to higher consciousness". I <br>deeply believe and feel, its all just the beginning - based on millions of evolutionary open space years." </font><font face="Arial">And most particularly your last sentence --</font><font face="Times New Roman">"back to the roots and forward to higher consciousness".</font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial">I have always been clear that OS was and is a Half-way Technology. It has been (and I guess continues to be) very useful as a starting point, but only that. It is rather like training wheels on your
bicycle when you were a kid (or the steadying hand of a parent or older sibling) during your first rides. In the moment, but only in that first moment, they (helping hands / training wheels) are most useful, even essential. But the whole point is to "do it all by yourself." And certainly there is little need, and less utility for the design of more and better training wheels -- at least not for you.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial">Pushing the analogy a bit further -- when riding the bicycle of life, maturity occurs when not only are training wheels a thing of the past -- but even the thought of training wheels is banished, except as a fond memory of something that helped you on your way. And you really fly when there is no thought at all -- a mindless moment. Just being. I suppose you could talk about all this in terms of trusting the process (bicycle/balance), but I think it goes a lot deeper
than that. It is more like total union in an organic entity, bicycle/me.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial">All analogies break somewhere along the line -- or should be broken, and riding the bicycle is no exception. The problem is that there are two (at least) parts -- bicycle and me. In life, I find that it is all a single, constantly changing, always the same, ever evolving, and "already there" organic phenomenon. Call it a Complex Adaptive System, Self-Organization or whatever (and no name really does it), but for sure it is a seamless journey, and we are on it -- with or without permission.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial">I guess I did have to chuckle a bit, Gabriela, at your attribution to Open Space of the power to "give official permission for self-organization." I know what you meant -- but from where I sit, self-organization doesn't need
permission, nor do we need permission to self-organize. Self-Organizing is what we are, along with all the rest of the Cosmos. It does seem, however, that we do need an opportunity to learn, or better, remember this fundamental fact of life, and there is no question that OS does provide that.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial">Goodness knows where all this is taking us, but I don't think it has much to do with designing better processes (2nd Generation OS, for example) or even your "well designed social architectures." In fact, I don't think it has anything to do with "designing" whatsoever. For me it is rather more like being an appreciative participant in the ongoing evolution of the cosmos. Our part is a small one, but when it comes to the business of design, the total system can take care of that pretty much all by itself. We might be helpful, and for sure we can learn ways in which we as
individuals might flow more gracefully and effectively in the great rivers of the cosmos -- whatever all that might mean. And I think we are on the way to finding out.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial">Thanks for the thoughts, Gabriela!</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial">Harrison </font></div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div>Harrison Owen<br>7808 River Falls Dr.<br>Potomac, MD 20854<br>USA<br>301-365-2093<br>207-763-3261 (summer)<br>website <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com">www.openspaceworld.com</a><br>Personal Website <a href="http://www.ho-image.com">www.ho-image.com</a><br></div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right:
0px;"> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="background: rgb(228, 228, 228) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>From:</b> <a title="gabriela.ender@OpenSpace-Online.com" href="mailto:gabriela.ender@OpenSpace-Online.com">Gabriela Ender</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>To:</b> <a title="OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU"
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a> </div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 14, 2006 3:34 AM</div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: Next Generation</div> <div><br></div>Hi Holger,<br><br>next generation of OST? Why? The gift and the power of OST its exactly these <br>beautiful easiness. When we want to enable and support selforganization - we <br>have to be role models for "less is more". I think, we facilitators <br>facilitating OST not for us. We do it for the people. Therefore my question <br>would not be "next generation OST", but rather next
generation of <br>consciousness. Consciousness in terms of how to include the elegancy of OST <br>into ongoing or planned communication or transformation processes, the <br>consciousness of how to combine complementary methods and resources within <br>in a longer term process (also offline and online) and also the <br>consciousness in terms of what is our role as consultants/facilitators, if <br>we work with OST. If we step into the shoes of the people, we do not need a <br>next generation OST, we need humility for the miracles of OST and a personal <br>inner demand for quality regarding well designed participatory <br>architectures.<br><br>For me, OST has nothing to with trends. It simply touches the heart of <br>people and because it gives official permission for selforganization. For me <br>its all about "back to the roots and forward to higher consciousness". I <br>deeply believe and feel, its all just the beginning -
based on millions of <br>evolutionary open space years.<br><br>So far my two morning cents,<br>Gabriela<br><br><br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "Holger Nauheimer (Change Facilitation)" <br><<a href="mailto:holger@CHANGE-FACILITATION.ORG">holger@CHANGE-FACILITATION.ORG</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a>><br>Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:08 AM<br>Subject: Next Generation<br><br><br>Hi everybody,<br><br>you might have seen my discussion inputs to the dropping knowledge<br>movement. That brings me to a point I would like to explore, together with<br>you. Our network is just starting a project on "Trends in Change<br>Facilitation", and the big question is "What's next?", or "Better,<br>something next?"<br><br>Being myself an admirer of the power that an OS can unfold (and the<br>potential to transform organizations), I am still the old
post-post-<br>modernist who asks himself: Is OS the end of a development we have just<br>embarked on, just in the tiny time span of 20 years, when OS, AI and<br>Future Search, and the principles of self-organization were discovered for<br>groups, more or less símultanously, and started to move the world - World<br>Cafe, as a latecomer 10 years ago - now Otto Scharmer shaking the trees,<br>or is it just the beginning, in the sense of "We've only just begun":<br><br>We've only just begun to live,<br>White lace and promises<br>A kiss for luck and we're on our way.<br>And yes, We've just begun.<br><br>Before the rising sun we fly,<br>So many roads to choose<br>We start our walking and learn to run.<br>And yes, We've just begun.<br><br>Sharing horizons that are new to us,<br>Watching the signs along the way,<br>Talking it over just all of us,<br>Working together day to day<br>Together.<br><br>And when the evening comes we
smile,<br>So much of life ahead<br>We'll find a place where there's room to grow,<br>And yes, We've just begun.<br><br>Words & Music by Paul Williams & Roger Nichols<br>(I prefer the cover version of Curtis Mayfield, by the way)<br><br>So, is OS the end of a long road or the start? Will OS be able to address<br>all questions of community and organization, and belongingness? Will we<br>need and want to experiment with it for a long time to come? Are there<br>issues/problems/potential solutions in the Global Village which demand<br>other methodologies? Has Open Space Online provided an answer on how to<br>further proceed the road? Or which other forms of global interaction will<br>we need to develop?<br><br>Is there a right or wrong approach to attempt a healing of the broken<br>world?<br><br>Waiting for answers, and for more questions.<br><br><br>Warm but inpatient regards<br>Holger Nauheimer<br><br><br>Change
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