I agree Harrison it is brilliant. And when I referred to open space learning I meant it in the broadest of ways. i meant it in the way where we are a drift in a sea of knowing not what and open to all the possibility of interaction and relationship. I also love seeing the expression of what we all hold dear, spoken as action as it is in the video. We often look for concrete expressions of action as in plans and task lists when we look to quantify the importance of the kind of meeting space that open space permits. I most often think that a true expression of what we hope has happened can't be quantified in that way. The expression we really hope for is one that transforms how each of us does all the different work we do. Expressions where evidence of the "tool" is at work fashioning all the actions that come from our movement through our lives. We share a dream for this. I am glad that it touched you.<div>
Pat<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Harrison Owen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Pat – Much more than fascinating, it is absolutely
brilliant. Truly it brought tears to my eyes arising in part because of the consummate
simplicity of the learning experiment and its powerful result – but even
more because it epitomizes precisely what I believe we as a community should be
about. And it is not just about the education of children, important though
that may be. The possibilities are larger involving virtually every aspect of
the human endeavor. We have had the privilege of witnessing the power of self
organization at work doing things that most of our fellows, who have not had
that experience, will consider to be impossible. Open Space may have provided
the door way through which we might consciously enter the self organizing
world. But that is simply a beginning and the best is yet to come. The first
step is to push beyond the narrow focus on OST as a method or “tool”
– to begin to apply the central understandings to the vast array of human
undertakings – finance, marketing, food production, scientific research,
and on and on. Each application will be different and experimental, even as the
video you posted was different and experimental. And we cannot do it alone, but
we can be a powerful yeast that raises up some marvelous new loafs of bread. I
confess that over the past few months as I have been reading OSLIST, I have
totally enjoyed the warmth of the community and our willingness to support each
other as required – holding space for a venture. But I have also longed
for something more and deeper. And Pat, I think you might just have opened a
way. Thank you!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Harrison </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is a link to a TED talks video that describes open
space learning. It is pretty fascinating.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html</a></p>
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