<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px">Everyone's comment on this occasion has one thing at its center, gratefulness for <br><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_14986"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_15144">OST's life changing impact.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_15266"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_15144"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_15267"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_15144">Count me among'em!!</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_15268"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_15144"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_15269"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_15144">Elwin Guild</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_15369"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_15144">Portland, CT</span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_14981" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_14980" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_14983" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_14982" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Daniel Mezick via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_14985"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_14984" style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, June 29, 2015 7:51 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSList] 30 Years ... and Counting!<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_14979" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv5306195737"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_14978">
Do we just do what we are programmed to do? Are Troublemakers born,
rather then made? Tricksters? Warriors? Storytellers? <br clear="none">
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Is free will an illusion? Is [the Law of 2 Feet] therefore a joke, a
rather funny joke actually, and one that is on us?<br clear="none">
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"Like the output of a programmed computer, only one choice is ever
physically possible: the one you made," Coyne wrote.<br clear="none">
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"Mele pointed out that the study participants' brain activity
accurately predicted their eventual decision only 60 percent of the
time. In his view, this suggests people can consciously choose to
override their brains' predispositions.
</div><div><div> "Therefore, he wrote, "I do not recommend betting the farm on
the nonexistence of free will."<br clear="none">
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<div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv5306195737yqt4706928311" id="yiv5306195737yqt95334"><div class="yiv5306195737moz-cite-prefix">On 6/27/15 8:13 AM, Harrison via OSList
wrote:<br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Paul
– I cannot dispute that something called “Harrison Owen” was
present. But I was just giving you an “inside report” of my
experience. I never doubted my presence, but how, why, or
for what purpose I showed up remained pretty much of a
constant mystery to me prospectively. Retrospectively it all
seems to make some sort of sense, and with a little effort I
can spin a marvelous tale. Or at least I enjoy it.</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Specifically,
I never got a job that I went after. I never went after a
job that I got. I did “choose” a career, but that blew up in
the first few years. Very honestly, I always seems to be
well on my way to the next part of my life before I had even
a small clue. Talk about life plan. Is that self
organization? I don’t know, but it works for me.</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Harrison
</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Winter
Address</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">7808
River Falls Drive</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Potomac,
MD 20854</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_15370" class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">301-365-2093</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Summer
Address</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">189
Beaucaire Ave.</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Camden,
ME 04843</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">207-763-3261</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Websites</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"><a href="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">
www.openspaceworld.com</a></span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"><a href="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">www.ho-image.com</a></span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">OSLIST
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<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">
OSList [<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv5306195737moz-txt-link-freetext" ymailto="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>paul levy via OSList<br clear="none">
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, June 27, 2015 3:10 AM<br clear="none">
<b>To:</b> Michael Herman; World wide Open Space
Technology email list<br clear="none">
<b>Cc:</b> Harrison<br clear="none">
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] 30 Years ... and Counting!</span></div>
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<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal">Harrison </div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal">You had everything to do with it. You
were there, and it could never happened without you, for you
are it-self.</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal">Warm wishes </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"> </div>
</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_15375">
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal">Paul <br clear="none">
<br clear="none">
On Saturday, 27 June 2015, Michael Herman via OSList <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>
wrote:</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_15374">
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435590258166_15373" class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal">i want to add something to what you're
saying about acting UPON the system and acting IN the
system, paul. i think there's a third way. </div>
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<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal">it's common, as you say, for people
to separate and try to have some effect UPON the Self,
the circle, the system. we call it managing, directing,
imposing, controlling, and improving – and the shape is
the same even if we're trying to improve "open space."
it's all outside and unsatisfied. then there is, as
you say, acting IN the system. people announcing
sessions, floating around as butterflies, and so on. </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal">the third way takes a certain kind of
person and/or a good deal of practice, maybe even a
little luck (a few martinis, perhaps?). the third way
is when little individual separate selves manage to
speak up AS the Self. this is just the opposite of the
manager self attempting to speak for the Self. </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal">in those moments, mostly fleeting, of
necessity, because it's hard to hold that form, hard to
stay on that wave, (or maybe because there's often so
little that can or must be "said" or "done"), when we
speak AS the gathered Self, we are still our selves, but
our selves are not in charge. we do and become things,
as harrison suggests, that we might not otherwise choose
or intend or even want. but whatever happens... </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal">the wave of Self picks us up and
moves us AND we are that wave. we must always and
everywhere be holding space for ourselves and diving for
cover in Self, or is that holding space for ourSelves
and diving for cover in self? <grin></div>
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</div>
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<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"> <br clear="none">
--<br clear="none">
<br clear="none">
Michael Herman<br clear="none">
Michael Herman Associates<br clear="none">
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://michaelherman.com/">http://MichaelHerman.com</a><br clear="none">
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://openspaceworld.org/">http://OpenSpaceWorld.org</a></div>
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<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal"> </div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal">On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 5:40 PM,
Harrison via OSList <<a href="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>
wrote:</div>
<div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Paul...
Being the contrarian that I am, I rather think
that the “Self” in question is -- itself -- a
product of self organization. Weird, I guess – but
that has definitely been my life experience. The
“self” that I am definitely was not the product of
my intent or design. It may not have happened “all
by itself,” but I didn’t have too much to do with
it, as least as I am aware. How about those
bananas?</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Harrison</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Winter
Address</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">7808
River Falls Drive</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Potomac,
MD 20854</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"><a href="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">301-365-2093</a></span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Summer
Address</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">189
Beaucaire Ave.</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Camden,
ME 04843</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"><a href="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">207-763-3261</a></span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Websites</span></div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://%20www.openspaceworld.com/">www.openspaceworld.com</a></span></div>
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<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">
OSList [mailto:<a href="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>paul levy via OSList<br clear="none">
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 26, 2015 8:01 AM<br clear="none">
<b>To:</b> Harrison; World wide Open Space
Technology email list<br clear="none">
<b>Cc:</b> Steve Piersanti<br clear="none">
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] 30 Years ... and
Counting!</span></div>
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<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
<div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">Harrison</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">I
do like this little phrase "organising - all
by itself"</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">I've
wondered, via this list, before: what is
this "self" that organises?</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">When,
I stand, as a self (called Paul) and behold
the world process (in which I stand) - I
stand apart as the beholder, but also behold
the wonder that I am part of that world
process as well.</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">Apart
and belonging. the universe seems to have
within it, an ability to behold its-self.
(Itself - Its self)</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">Here's
a poem I wrote a while back, in a little
book called The Poetry of Change:</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">Cleft...</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">Like
a cleft stick</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">You
are no longer</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">Whole</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">See?</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">Yet
even </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">Whole</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">You
were ripped from</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">A
tree.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">It's
easy to forget that the ability to behold
self-organisation and to share it so
eloquently on this list, as Harrison does,
requires a self to behold it (and to know it
is a self doing the beholding). When we
behold self-organisation, we necessarily
behold ourselves at the same time.
Self-organisation is an act of self
organisation (not the lack of a hyphen in
the second one). Organisation is beautiful
and the distaste for it is silly and
pointless. Because organisation and
self-organisation are one and the same
thing.</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">There
is a form of organisation however where the
self imposes its temporarily separate will
onto other selves and, in the process
forgets itself. It forgets that it is part
of the system it is imposing its will upon.
There can be many reasons for this which I
won't go into here. When one or more selves
forget they are part of the thing they are
imposing their will on, the whole system can
go into a state of suffering because it
temporarily loses its wholeness. This can
happen in a conference when a small group of
selves impose an agenda on the whole "self"
of the community. The smaller group of
selves have temporarily attempted to place
themselves outside of the whole system of
which they are always a part.</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">When
we use open space technology, we restore the
wholeness of the system by allowing each
self to act both separately and together in
the world-process. There's a harmony because
both beholder and beholded come closer
together and even show themselves as the
same thing. The circle represents its well.
It feels like a remembering (Re-membering -
we put the "whole body" back on again).</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">What's
beautiful about open space is when each of
our separate selves gets up and temporarily
acts as if it is separate from the
world-self. "i want to lead a session on" or
"I use my my two feet" or "I become a
butterfly. Not the world temporary. Control
is often benevolent when it is transient
asnd temporary. </div>
</div>
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<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">In
Open Space, these passing acts of separate
self ('lovely selfishness' I call it) are
very close to the experience of whole
self-organisation - because the circle is
strong - self and Self are very close
together in a kind of playful dance. </div>
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<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
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<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">Also
self and Self are close together in Time. We
are creating the agenda as selves and as a
collective SELF in an improvisational way.
Improvisation is the way the universe
breathes and moves.</div>
</div>
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<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">In
a traditional conference, those little acts
of each self (cooking up the agenda way in
advance) becomes separated in time from the
agenda that is experienced together (as a
together-self). We act as if our little
selves are separate from the whole. We try
to act UPON the system from outside instead
of IN the system. Here organisation becomes
something in which selves role play being
separate. There is no circle. The universe
if "over there." At best we hold the whole
circle or community in imagination.</div>
</div>
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<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">The
day of the conference arrives. If there is
energy, self-organisation manifests anyway
and the conversations happen in the coffee
breaks. Even in open space events, where we
create the agenda on the day, the
conversations happen in the coffee breaks.
we even create our own extra or different
coffee breaks outside the formal timings,
using our two feet.</div>
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<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">Oh
no. I beg to differ. Self-organisation
doesn't happen all by itself.
Self-organisation happens out of itself. And
itself is a beautiful thing.
Self-organisation is a process of
ORGANISATION. In the human realm it happens
as an act of synchronous improvisation. We
organise and we control but we just do it
closer to the moment and out of an
experience of the whole. Temporary, separate
"selfishness" becomes synonymous with play.
Individuality and Community weave a
lemiscate pattern. </div>
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<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">Each
individual self acts both separately and
collectively all of the time.</div>
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<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">The
universe was made so that human beings could
self-organise it.</div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">(Dives
for cover)</div>
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<div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">Paul
Levy</div>
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<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">On
24 June 2015 at 18:46, Harrison via OSList
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wrote:</div>
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<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">Come
this 4<sup>th</sup> of July it will be
30 years since something called Open
Space Technology happened. At the time,
we (that would be me, for sure) didn’t
have a clue what it was or where it was
headed. Since then it seems like a lot
of good stuff has come down. Of course
we need to remember the learnings from
the ‘60’s – “Never trust anyone over
30.” Well... we just got there!
Everybody should be well advised that
what happens next is TOTALLY their
responsibility... Or something.</div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">What
happens next is definitely your
responsibility. Having entered into my
80<sup>th</sup> year, I am well past the
age of discretion. But I do have a few
thoughts that may, or may not, be
germane.</div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">I
don’t think this is the end of
something. I do believe it is the
beginning. And... There will always be a
time when “the first timers” (as
participants or facilitators) gets the
WOW Experience (Thank you Tom Peters).
Kind of like the first ride on your
bicycle. Millions of people have done it
before you. But your First Ride is
always unique (for you). </div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">There
will always be times when bits and
pieces of our common experience in Open
Space are held out as “singularities” –
something strange and unique. The latest
version is called, “Liberating
Structures (Thank you Henri!).”
Wonderful Idea, I think, but just a very
small part of the whole. </div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">And
for all those wonderful people who are
attempting to wed Open Space to Agile
(Dan et al you know who I am talking
about) – I say Three Cheers! And I also
hope that the day will come when it is
recognized that truly Agile organization
are fully, consciously, intentionally –
self organizing. At that point, you
don’t have to wed anything to anything.
Just be what you already are. Which is
another way of saying that SCRUM (along
with all the other “techniques”) sound
nice, but are yet one more example of
“working too hard.”</div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">And
What Next? Truly, I am out of crystal
balls. But I rather think the beginning
will begin when we call “Full Stop” on
any attempt to organize anything. And in
that momentary space (Open Space?) just
notice what is organizing all by itself.
Amazing! And we didn’t do a thing. Which
leads naturally to the next question...
How do we take advantage of the winds of
our existence to bring our ships to
harbors of fullness and greatness?</div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">And
then we may take a lesson from Sailors
and the Sea. Sailors do not create the
wind or the Sea. Although many have
tried. All have failed. But they have
learned to ride the winds and the seas
to their advantage. We have the same
opportunity.</div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style=""> </div>
<div class="yiv5306195737MsoNormal" style="">On
this 30<sup>th</sup> Birthday, and as I
approach my 80<sup>th</sup> – Good Luck
and Carry On!</div>
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