<DIV> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Interesting point, Ralph.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">It would be interesting to try. Before that, some comments.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">I suspect that this
depends on the previous experience of the group. I am sure that at OSONOS or with a company or community used to OST everything would work fine. But with a group used to Future Search probably they would end up with a future search meeting (and one of the participants would <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">spontaneously</B> become an active facilitator).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">The point is that when we are saying that a system self organizes<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> we are saying nothing about how it self organizes...</B> So the question arises: why do people in OST events self organize the way they do? And how they self
organize to produce the fantastic results that are often produced?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Like in other instances of self organization (like the flocking of birds, or pheromone driven ants, etc), I thing that in OST there are micro-rules that allow for a certain macro behavior to emerge. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">It is true that the facilitator does the less that he/she can. But that is because these small little "rules" are being followed. The invitation, the circle, the law, the relation between major sessions/break out
sessions, the posting of issues, etc are among those "rules". The principles and all the other amazing things that we consistently encounter in OST events are the results of self organization bounded by those "micro-rules", that I propose to name “foundations” of OST. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Of course this is only my humble attempt to understand OST from a different perspective. But if it is true it can have interesting consequences.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm
0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Regards<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Artur <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div></DIV> <DIV> <BR><BR><B><I>Ralph Copleman <rcopleman@comcast.net></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <div>One way to test what is essential (what Artur termed "micro") and what is<BR>not would be to open some space without mentioning either the four<BR>principles or the law of two feet. Or anything else.<BR><BR>If self-organization occurs in os, would not the "space" still
"open"<BR>without things we have come to believe are essential? I'm betting it would=<BR>,<BR>or at least could. Perhaps all we need is a room and a theme and a wall.<BR>Maybe some tea and coffee. </div> <div> </div> <div>(...)</div></BLOCKQUOTE><p>
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that gives answers</a>, not web links.
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