<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Yeah it's an interesting one and words are so limited in capturing some of this stuff...<br><br></div>I find another thing Harrison said quite interesting which is about thinking you KNOW how to do an Open Space! So as I continue to do one less thing in my own practice of open space, I am also watching myself for slipping into a 'this is the way to do it' approach...<br>
<br></div>Each space is uniquely different and so I try to keep awake to responding uniquely... which I don't always manage!<br><br><br>Smiles Bhav...<br><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 28 February 2014 15:58, Michael M Pannwitz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmpannwitz@gmail.com" target="_blank">mmpannwitz@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Smiling back at you, Bhav!<br>
After reading page 15 I felt that open space the way I practice and understand it goes way beyond "light structure". In addition, I keep trying to stay in the practice of "doing one less thing" after each os event I am involved in. Furthermore, I feel that 99% of structure in os events is selforganized by the assembled system.<br>
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Thinking back 18 years, thats 1996 when I began to work with os, I remember how I quickly abolished my original habit of having small posters in the break-out sessions with notes on the various roles that could/should be filled for the group work... and how I gradually got rid of all references on how to interact (in page 15 a number of guidelines are mentioned that seem to come out of the "in the know" stance).<br>
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Perhaps I am missing something here when I keep thinking that OST needs neither "light structuring" nor is a "container". I do pay attention to the space in reference to fresh air, daylight, luscious food, professional PAS, etc but not to the style of communication... in fact, I can easily imagine and have experience the value of interruption, persuasion, disrespectful language, questions of all kinds, etc. In my experience, the system/participants appear to quickly establish the kind of communication they need to work on their issues. No training required.<br>
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I am very curious what the things are that you and the others listening in have cancelled/dropped/removed from your repertoire... or added... in facilitating os events.<br>
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Have a great weekend<br>
mmp<div class=""><br>
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On 28.02.2014 14:08, Bhavesh Patel wrote:<br>
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Hi Friends,<br>
<br>
I was reading the attached article and loved the way they articulated<br>
'open space' and wanted to share it with you below. The whole article is<br>
attached.<br>
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Smiles Bhav...<br>
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*Page 15*<div class=""><br>
I want to use the term ‘light structuring’ to make a contrast with forms<br>
and practices that could be described as already knowing and already<br>
fixed. What I am calling light structuring gives more space for<br>
emergence and improvisation (see, for example, Barrett, 2006; Clegg,<br>
Kornberger and Rhodes, 2005; Weick, 1998) or unfolding. One might say<br>
that light structuring makes space for 'being in the now' rather than<br>
‘in the know’. I see light structuring, in this sense, as an important<br>
aspect of dialoging and participatory ways of knowing. Light structuring<br>
might mean that participants are invited to try to follow certain<br>
guidelines that help them to learn whilst practicing what Isaacs called<br>
the ‘collective discipline’ (Isaacs, 1993) of dialogue. These usually<br>
include guidelines such as: do not interrupt, do not attempt to persuade<br>
others, use respectful language, ask questions only for clarification,<br>
listen to your listening and so on (e.g., Chasin, Herzig, Roth, Chasin,<br>
Becker and Stains, 1996).<br>
<br>
Such ‘minimal’ or ‘light’ structures help to block or interrupt already<br>
solidified patterns and, in this way, can help to open up new<br>
possibilities and what I have called ‘soft’ self-other relations. The<br>
idea is to provide enough but not too much structure: to provide a<br>
container, so to speak, that invites and supports the gradual emergence<br>
of slow, open, coherent, in-the-present-moment performances. In this way<br>
it becomes possible to be ‘relationally responsive’ (McNamee, Gergen and<br>
associates, 1999) to whatever comes up in any particular moment and<br>
possible to make space and be open for multiple, ongoing, local realities.<br>
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