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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Reinhard – I love your passion. And visualizations (images) are great and powerful. But I might take small issue with some of your premises – that we had a choice about self-organization. (</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'> “If people want to use self organization to meliorate their City…”) </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>In my book, there is no choice. Self-organization is what is – as it has been for some 13.7 billion years. And despite what some City Planners and others of a similar ilk might say (or hope) – it is all self organizing. They can make any plan they want to (“Planned Communities”), but at the end of the day, when Human Community forms -- if it does, it is self-organizing. Ants do it, birds do it – we all do it. Could we do “it” better? Of course – but not by refining the process. That process has worked pretty good for some time. However, we can, I believe, remember what we already know. Open Space can be (has been) helpful. A preview of coming attractions! A training ground for future actions… “Training wheels” as Chris Corrigan says. But the facilitator’s role is what it has always been. Get folks started, and get out of the way. No Bells, No Whistles – No Nothing. Just get out of the way! The Folks will do it, I find.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>Harrison</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Dr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Camden, Maine 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone 301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(summer) 207-763-3261<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.openspaceworld.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.ho-image.com (Personal Website)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 13, 2011 1:40 PM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] energy field of the facilitator and its influence on OST outcomes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>Dear OS-friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>I have been in hospital for some days, so my response comes a little late. But some of you won't like it earlier or later, and for me it stays valid also after time.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>Since Birgitt showed up and opened the dialogue with Harrison, I wanted to jump into the ring as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>I fully support Birgitts approach to lift the level of consciousness of facilitators. I like also Harrisons love for self organization and share it. BUT I ask: self organization of what? Of the OS meeting? I think that's by far not enough. My credo: an egoless organization could, would create heavon on earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>Once I was visualizing a big OS. The theme: Rising the quality of the Inner City of X. The OS facilitator, a famous colleague, told me: I don't care a bit if they get a better Inner City, I care that they have a good OS! <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>Here I strongly disagree. If people want to use self organization to meliorate their City, I want to support them in any way. I don't care if they use OS or other effective ways (we offer some), but if they use it, they should get the best out of it. And over the years grew my following thoughts:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>ASPECT 1 <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>An average participant chooses his groups at the marketplace. If he chooses one out of 15 possible groups per time slot, he participates in 6-7% of the groups. His information at the end about process and results covers 6-7%. If he is a bumble bee, and if he watches the written results of other groups carefully, and if he even reads written reports, his information level could rise to 10, 15, even 20%. He will never see the full picture, although he feels the energy of 100%.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>Nobody so far mentioned this fact as far as I know, in all the discussions and OSONOS'es.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>Here Visualization can help. The visualizers go from group to group, like bumble bees, noticing, noticing, noticing, transforming process, results and atmosphere into images. We are doing it on little cards, which you can take into every corner, participate in discussions silently, go wherever we feel the energy rising, as Max Schupbach calls that. With our pictures we then form a continuous picture wall, where everybody can follow the process. And in the evening News we project the images to the whole group. Scientific research shows, that hereby the awareness of process and results jumps from 20% to 60%.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>ASPECT 2<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>If the OS has consequences, the images are a strong tool. To remember what happened. To show it to others, who did not participate, for example board members. To use them as starting platform for new work groups. To compare later results with the original intention. And always: to remember.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>If you only want to create a beautiful OS, Visualization certainly is one thing less to do.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>If you want to support self organization, in a company, an organization … , using OS as a tool, to sharpen this tool by Visualization is great. After hundreds of projects I know what I am talking about.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>Some will say: There is nothing to improve in OST! OK, but maybe there is something to improve in the use of OST for self organization.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'>Reinhard<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy'>Reinhard Kuchenmüller</span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy'><br><span class=apple-style-span>Dr. Marianne Stifel </span><br><span class=apple-style-span>VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE®</span><br><br><span class=apple-style-span>tel +39-0566-88 929</span><br><span class=apple-style-span>www.visuelle-protokolle.de</span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0C1074'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>