<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Thanks Harold, Chris</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">I have come across Group Works. I ordered the deck the other day, thinking I should give it more time than I was willing to with the electronic version.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">My motivation for asking has a few threads:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">1. general interest in pattern languages as a way of building practice-based knowledge, and in particular to support collaboration</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">2. the sense that how OST works can be interpreted in terms of underlying patterns, consciousness of which will make it possible to adapt and transform OST, create new event forms, and support self-organisation in new contexts. (And that current pattern sets & approaches, e.g. GroupWorks, don't fulfill this potential.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">3. no practice-knowledge development like this can be done alone, and I'd like to participate in such a thing</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">So I suppose you could say I'm not seeking pattern languages to help with open space, but for open space to help with pattern languages for self organisation.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Is that the sort of clarification you are after Harold?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Does anyone else share the sense that patterns of self organisation should be made more transparent?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><font color="#663300" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b><i>John Baxter</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><i>CoCreate Adelaide Facilitator, Director of Realise consultancy</i></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><a href="http://cocreateadl.com/localgov%E2%80%8B" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">CoCreateADL.com</a> | <a href="http://www.jsbaxter.com.au/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">jsbaxter.com.au</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><font color="#444444" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">0405 447 829</font><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);display:inline"><font color="#444444" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> | </font></div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">@</span><a href="http://twitter.com/jsbaxter_" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif" target="_blank">jsbaxter_</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><i><b><a href="http://citygrill.eventbrite.com.au" target="_blank">City Grill— An Election Forum More Magnificent Than Any Ever Seen</a>!</b>, Saturday 18 October 2014<br>Connect with your candidates, get your voice heard by joining with others in your community, and Influence the future of the city</i></div></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><i><br></i></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 5:01 AM, Harold Shinsato via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</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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John,<br>
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Will you tell me more about your interest in pattern languages for
use in OST? Your question instantly made me think of the Group Works
deck that Chris recommended as well. It's a great set of patterns
for working with groups. A few weeks ago Tricia Chirumbole and I
actually used this card deck on the absolutely wonderful Open Space
Hotline she hosts on Tuesdays. We looked at what is needed on the
Open Space List. I actually picked it at random - and I think it's
quite a funny *joke* what the Universe revealed at 'random' back in
September.<br>
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<b>Embrace Dissonance and Difference</b><br>
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<i>Encourage your group to honour contradictory viewpoints, sitting
with the uncertainty and ambiguity this brings. Acknowledge all
perspectives as equally valid and explore them fully as needed,
especially when tensions are high and agreement seems far away.</i><br>
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Even funnier - we wondered what would happen after this embracing
process were completed. This is what came up at random.<br>
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<b>Playfulness</b><br>
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<i>Invite light-hearted and high spirited interaction to exercise
mind, senses, imagination, and body, to engender creativity, and
deepen relationships. Playfulness may be evoked through structured
but fun ways to engage relevant topics, or restorative breaks that
allow laughter free reign, or may simply show up as humour.</i><br>
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But I think I'm letting the topics on the OSList start to bleed
together. Please do tell us more about your thoughts of how a
pattern language could help with Open Space? I'm quite interested.
Pattern language has made a huge difference in the sphere of
software development, and it's how I learned about the work of
Christopher Alexander who first came up with this concept for
architecture.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Harold<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>You will find the group pattern language project
interesting...</div>
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<div><a href="http://groupworksdeck.org" target="_blank">http://groupworksdeck.org</a></div>
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<div>Chris<br>
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On Oct 16, 2014, at 9:28 PM, John Baxter via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>
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<div class="gmail_default">My interest at the
moment is to learn simply, who here is interested in
pattern languages and Open Space?<br>
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<div class="gmail_default">I introduced myself to
the Facebook group by asking who is interested in pattern
languages. It seems to be kick starting a discussion, but
Artur Silva points out that would be better suited to
OSList. So abracadabra, here we are!</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">Artur referred to a
(~2009) conversation on the "Foundations of OST", which
came close to the topic without being explicit. I will
explore this sometime soon.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">I personally have a
long-term interest in patterns for participatory
processes, and use patterns as a frame to extrapolate
lessons from OST to apply in other contexts.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">If these things are of
interest I welcome a conversation : )</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">Cheers</div>
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