David<div><br></div><div>There's a depth and warm texture to your model.</div><div><br></div><div>I would offer this:</div><div><br></div><div>You define vision this: <br><font><span style="line-height:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"what does it look like when it is done"</span></font></div>
<div><font><span style="line-height:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal">I believe that is only part of vision. </span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal"><br></span></font></div>
<div><font><span style="line-height:normal">Vision is what does the temporal picture look like: the picture of past, present AND future, all playing into each other. As I said earlier - what went before (past) is also before us (future, in front).</span></font></div>
<div><font><span style="line-height:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal">Such a magical word - before - it means both behind and in front !</span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal">When we open space for a vision of the whole timeline - the unfolding story - then something often emerges - it is this: potential </span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal">I believe we can only truly know the future vision when we look back at it. </span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal"><br></span></font></div>
<div><font><span style="line-height:normal">Be prepared to be surprised.</span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal"> </span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal">The future is often revealed by opening space for the present and the past.</span></font></div>
<div><font><span style="line-height:normal"> </span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal">Futures are fulfilled in where we have travelled from.</span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal">Paul</span></font></div><div><font><span style="line-height:normal"><span></span><br></span></font>On Sunday, 24 March 2013, David wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">When I do open space with my business hat on in the consulting role, I almost always start with four imperatives that most companies start with, even if they havent articulated it, but soon lose sight of. I call it VMPM. Vision, Mission, Purpose, Method. Many companies have a mission statement, few ever read it after it has been written. NO company is healthy for more than a year or two at a time, although many run very successfully from the economic metric for years or decades. I just put up the four words, the group gets to define them. Here are my definitions, that we usually start with to frame the discussion:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Vision: what does it look like when it is done. A vision is a snapshot, or series of snapshots. Vision is not Mission.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Mission: What is the target, how does the map compare to the territory. The territory is not always reflected on the map. (just by a street map of Nairobi sometime, and you will see what I mean). Mission is not Purpose.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Purpose: the personal "why" . Purpose is purpose, it is my personal core driver. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Method: How we do it, the outflow of the inflow of the first three points. Method is how I achieve my self interests as part of a collaborative community, also called a company. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">All successful communities have these common elements: Community! which is collaborative and cooperative, consistent and committed. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I have found that through the day of OS things hidden or unknown become apparent. All day I am moving idea and discussion points into those four points, and whatever other axiomatic points the circle cares to add on their own. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">David Glenwinkel<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.villagecare.com" target="_blank">www.villagecare.com</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><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""> <a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org');" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a> [mailto:<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org');" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Suzanne Daigle<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 24, 2013 6:44 AM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] Follow-Up and Flow in Open Space<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal">Ditto for me too! Suzanne<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p>On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring <<a>adriana@diazberrio.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>Yes I agree with Nici I was going to say the same thing!<br>Adriana Diaz-Berrio, Montreal, Quebec<u></u><u></u></p><div><div><p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p>2013/3/23 Nici Richter <<a>nici.richter@gmail.com</a>><u></u><u></u></p>
<div><p>What a wonderful conversation!<u></u><u></u></p><div><p>Oh - I am loving it!<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p>Thank you!<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p>Nici Richter<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p>Johannesburg, South Africa<u></u><u></u></p>
</div></div><div><p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p>On 23 March 2013 14:56, paul levy <<a>paul@cats3000.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><p>Dear colleagues<u></u><u></u></p><div><p><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div><div><p>Someone suggested I post this and I'd be delighted with some reflections on it...<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p>warm wishes<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div><div><p>Paul Levy<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p>Follow-Up and Flow in Open Space...<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p style="line-height:14.25pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">"Time runs backwards in the spiritual world."</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">No, don't stop reading. Not yet.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">There's a lot of debate in the field of emergence focused on "when things open up, how do you close them down?".<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">In the realm of Open Space, often the textbook reply is not to close down at all but simply to open some more space for closing down...<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">In other words, if we are worried about outcomes from an open space - what will happen back at base, the actions, the commitments in practice, then all we need to do is to follow up with an invitation to another Open Space that focuses on the question of action. So you need at least two open spaces to get stuff done.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">Another view is that one should trust the open space itself - whatever happens of course is the only thing that could have. And many open spaces do self-organise sessions about action so... just trust the process. It always works.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">A third view is that these are paying clients we are usually talking about. As facilitators we can't just leave the organisation "up in the air", walk away and let them do what they will with the space we've opened up! Many facilitators then reach for the post-it notes, often in the last hour, and start to draw out (or bleed?) actions from the meeting. All kinds of clever prioritising and voting ensues. Elsewhere I've suggested this might be a counter-productive way of going about things.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">Now, here's an alternative view and its based on the idea that time runs backwards in the spiritual world. No! Stay with me. Just for a bit longer. Imagine you put what went "before" you (past), before you (in front of you.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:14.25pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">For those of you still here, read on...<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="line-height:14.25pt">
</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Adriana Díaz-Berrio Ph.D. CRHA<br><a href="tel:%28514%29%20739%202268" target="_blank">(514) 739 2268</a><br><a href="http://www.diazberrio.com" target="_blank">www.diazberrio.com</a><br>
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