<div dir="ltr">here's one of my favorite stories about feedback, harold.<div><br></div><div>some years ago i did one of those 10-day meditation courses (goenka, vipassana, for those who care) and then helped with hosting another one. on my third, as a participant, we had an old indian guy, the #2 teacher in the world at that time in that practice, sitting in with us, but i thought the actual course teacher and the overall organization were a little dodgy. </div><div><br></div><div>we were just forming the community in the midwest US, working toward building a center. the practice was all about equanimity. i went to this great teacher, a kind of mountain of gentleness, and asked something like, "what is more important, my responsibility to point out things that could help make the community better here or my staying in practice of equanimity?"</div><div><br></div><div>he says, reassuringly, "these gypsy (not in an establish center) courses are always a bit difficult, not the ideal, always with different arrangements and challenges, BUT... if 10% of the people get 10% of the benefit, that will be enough."</div><div><br></div><div>for me, it's same with open space.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div> <br>--<br><br>Michael Herman<br>Michael Herman Associates<br><a href="http://MichaelHerman.com" target="_blank">http://MichaelHerman.com</a><br><a href="http://OpenSpaceWorld.org" target="_blank">http://OpenSpaceWorld.org</a><br><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:16 PM, 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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Hi Viv,<br>
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Thank you! I appreciate you're joining the annoyance club with me
:-)<br>
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I've noticed some tendency towards people making open invitations to
"improve" the process - and I'll be doing a post conference
debrief/retrospective in a couple hours. I've no interest in taking
on others anxieties about Open Space. And I'm also curious what you
think about inviting feedback, and how to help make the best of it -
not just for myself - but for the other stake holders in the process
when an Open Space is being hosted by an organization?<br>
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Thanks!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Harold</font></span><span class=""><br>
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<div>On 6/15/15 7:56 PM, Viv McWaters via
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Ah, yes I share your annoyance. For me it has nothing to do with what you did or did not do at the opening etc, I'm sure it's just as it needed to be. It's the second-hand feedback, via email no less. "Some people" nearly always means "me". It's also slightly passive-aggressive. I try not to take on other people's anxieties about open space - of which there seems to be a lot around - and simply get on with it.
Cheers
Viv
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