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Howdy Harrison,<br>
<br>
Thanks for describing the context of the Ralph Copleman story- I'm
very thankful for that info.<br>
<br>
I notice that, lots of times here, there are references made to
notable OST episodes, and situations from times past... <br>
<br>
...the "OST-mythos" as it were. <br>
<br>
These mythical stories often have me wondering what I missed, and
what I might now be missing. (Being clueless as I am.) <br>
<br>
I'm sure these story-fragment postings are not posted with intent to
exclude anyone, or to be discourteous, or unkind. More like: some
good old basic camaraderie is taking place between some old friends.<br>
<br>
Still: Do these "inside-story-fragments" on OSLIST tend to evoke
feelings of exclusion in readers who were <i>not</i> there at the
time? <br>
<br>
Not sure. <br>
<br>
<CONFESSION><br>
<br>
As for me, personally, I sometimes find myself experiencing
curiously odd feelings of exclusion, when a told-fragment of an old
OST-mythos story lacks explicit context. So I can follow the story,
you know? The terms "outsider" or "clueless" or "not in the story"
describe these feelings fairly well. "Not invited?"<br>
<br>
I sometimes wonder if some of the hundreds of <i>other</i> members
of OSLIST ever feel this way...or if it is "just me." <br>
<br>
</CONFESSION><br>
<br>
Daniel <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
On 10/4/15 2:59 PM, Harrison Owen via OSList wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">âEverything
is moving.â .... Michael -- I remember that moment very
well. And Dan, Iâm not sure the context, etc, would help
very much. But just for the record the odd phrase popped out
at one of the International Symposia on Organization
Transformation which happened to be taking place at a small
college south of Seattle. I have no idea why Ralph said what
he did, and Iâm not sure Ralph did either. But then again
a lot of marvelous stuff seems to burst out with no obvious
logic train. Indeed it may be that the lack of logic train
enables the thought?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p>Â </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Whatever
the genesis, the phrase wandered about my head for some
time, quite unattached, and it also happened that I was
working my way slowly through one of the masterpieces of 20<sup>th</sup>
century western philosophy when a fuzzy connection began to
form. The work was that of Alfred North Whitehead, and the
title: âProcess and Reality.â Iâve been through the
book probably 4-5 times, and I am frank to confess that I
donât think I really understand it. But then again Iâve
heard a number of people with much greater credentials,
tenure, etc â say the same thing. But I did get that it
had something to do with, âEverything is moving.â And
the more I thought and read, the more I felt that the good
philosopher had made a small mistake on his title. It
shouldnât be âProcess <i>and</i> Reality,â but rather
âProcess <b>is</b> Reality.â<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p>Â </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Now,
Anna Caroline we come to âstructure,â or perhaps I
should say the fallacy of Structure? Yes I know â weâve
all been taught that structure is the precursor, the
âdeterminatorâ of everything. My face looks as it does
because of my bone structure. My life proceeds the way it
does because of my social structure. My business works as it
does because of the organizational structure. And of course,
meetings happen the way they do because of meeting
structure, which apparently is the prime domain of
âfacilitators.â And even if we hadnât been
âtaughtâ all this, the primacy of structure would appear
to be blatantly obvious â as plain as the nose on your
face. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p>Â </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Unfortunately,
it does seem to turn out that sometimes the blatantly
obvious is not necessarily so. For example just looking at
things it is pretty clear that the world is flat, or at the
least bumpy flat. And any fool can see that we are the
center of it all â Sun, moon, and stars whiz around us.Â
But when we think about it, as we have been doing for the
last 500-600 years, the obvious isnât so obvious. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p>Â </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">It
is reasonable to ask what would start to make us think
differently â to the point that we begin to question the
obvious, and even come to see things in a different way?
Taking a leap, I will suggest that it all begins with the
perception of anomaly. Things just donât make sense. Our
eyes tell us one thing... but???? And then we start making
up stories to explain the apparently unexplainable. We
imagine different ways of looking at things so that the
nonsensical makes sense. Some of those stories get pretty
strange, but if they actually work â that is to say, help
us to see in new and useful ways â thatâs great!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p>Â </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">There
is, of course, a proper term for the activity I have been
describing. It is called Theory Building. And for whatever
it is worth, âtheoryâ comes from the Greek â<i>theoreinâ</i>
â to see. In a word, theories are ways of looking at
things â likely stories you might say. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p>Â </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Now,
at long last (too long?) we come to the odd story I was
starting to tell, to the effect that Structure is only a
figment of our imagination, a flash frame of a moment gone
by. Interesting, and helpful under some circumstances... but
always partial and in a sense illusory. Whatâs
âreallyâ happening is all flow. Everything is moving â
Thatâs Ralphâs story, and I guess it is mine too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p>Â </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">So
how did I get to such a weird condition? It was all about
anomaly â more particularly, the anomaly of Open Space.
Everything that I had ever learned told me that it could not
work. Unfortunately it did (work) â and not just once, but
every time, hundreds of thousands of times. Something was
definitely weird. It seemed to me that I had to re-consider
all those things I thought I had learned, beginning with the
basics... such things as Structure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p>Â </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Common
sense would say that Open Space works because we somehow
created a structure that enabled it to work. Thatâs the
way things get done, or so I had been taught. But thatâs
not the way things happened in Open Space. Structure emerged
along the way and only momentarily. Worse yet it (structure)
seemed to have little to do with the obvious power,
connections, creativity.... all of which created structures,
and passed them by. And actually it always seemed to me that
the âstructuresâ I âsawâ existed only because I
wanted to see them â or perhaps that I âshouldâ see
them. But they were only momentary wisps, figments â never
to be mistaken for what was really going on. Or so Iâve
been thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p>Â </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Harrison<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p>Â </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p>Â </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p>Â </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p>Â </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p>Â </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p>Â </o:p></span></p>
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<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"">
OSList [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Herman via OSList<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 03, 2015 6:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> JL Walker; World wide Open Space Technology
email list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] The Tyranny of
Structurelessness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">you remind me, harrison, of one morning
news session years ago, somewhere, probably OT... where
ralph copleman walked to the center of the circle and
announced, all serious and mischievous at the same time,
"it's all moving!" Â <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">then put the stick down and went back
to his seat. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 1:47 PM, JL
Walker via OSList <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-family:"Courier
New";color:#1F497D">I was thinking that maybe
the antidote to the eventual tyranny of
structurelessness is to open space, again and again,
until true democracy can emerge.</span><span
lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-family:"Courier
New";color:#1F497D">Â </span><span
lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-family:"Courier
New";color:#1F497D">Juan Luis</span><span
lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Â </span><span
lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""
lang="ES">De:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""
lang="ES"> OSList [mailto:<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>]
<b>En nombre de </b>Rosa Zubizarreta via OSList<br>
<b>Enviado el:</b> sábado, 03 de octubre de 2015
12:19<br>
<b>Para:</b> Daniel Mezick; World wide Open Space
Technology email list<br>
<b>Asunto:</b> Re: [OSList] The Tyranny of
Structurelessness</span><span lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
lang="ES-TRAD">Â <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
lang="ES-TRAD">Hi Daniel,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
lang="ES-TRAD">Yes, this is a
key piece... I see it as very
similar in some ways to what
Ken Wilber wrote later, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
lang="ES-TRAD">about the "shadow
side of the green meme". (Each
meme has its own shadow, as well
as its own gift...)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
lang="ES-TRAD">So, I love "green".
I love circles, I love
non-hierarchy, etc. <br>
And, part of the "shadow side of
the green meme" is how
ideologically anti-structure it
can become... <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
lang="ES-TRAD">to the point where
some people may not even agree that
OST does, in fact, offer a very
simple and effective structure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
lang="ES-TRAD">By way contrast, think
of a situation where group of people
(who don't know about OST, and/or, who
are having a power struggle around
"which process to use", and/or.... )
might easily spending a whole weekend
arguing <i>about </i>"how to
self-organize ourselves"... with a
great deal more pain and frustration
and a great deal less value.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
lang="ES-TRAD">whereas, instead, IF
someone knows about OST, and, a clear
invitation has been extended, and, there
is enough trust/suspension of disbelief
so that participants are willing to
enter into that format, <br>
<br>
then, we end up with a very simple and
elegant structure that allows people to
self-organize beautifully.... <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
lang="ES-TRAD">at least that's how i see
it! :-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
lang="ES-TRAD">with all best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
lang="ES-TRAD">Rosa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="ES-TRAD">Rosa
Zubizarreta</span></i></b><span
lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><span
lang="ES-TRAD">Developing
Participatory and Co-intelligent
Leadership<br>
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target="_blank"><b>From
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lang="ES-TRAD">For more resources
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lang="ES-TRAD">Â <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
lang="ES-TRAD">On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 9:26
AM, Daniel Mezick via OSList <<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
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wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
lang="ES-TRAD">THE TYRANNY of
STRUCTURELESSNESS<br>
by Jo Freeman aka Joreen<br>
<br>
I find this essay extremely interesting. I
hope you do, too. <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Here is a pertinent quote, from the essay:<br>
"...</span><i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="ES-TRAD">the idea of
"structurelessness" does not prevent the
formation of informal structures, only
formal ones."<br>
<br>
</span></i><span lang="ES-TRAD"><br>
Circa 1970. Context: the women's movement.
Quick summary of the main points: from the
essay...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l5
level1 lfo1"><i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="ES-TRAD">During the years in
which the women's liberation movement
has been taking shape, a great
emphasis has been placed on what are
called leaderless, structureless
groups as the main -- if not sole --
organizational form of the movement. </span></i><span
lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3
level1 lfo2"><i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="ES-TRAD">The idea of
"structurelessness," however, has
moved from a healthy counter to those
tendencies, to becoming a goddess in
its own right.</span></i><span
lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l6
level1 lfo3"><i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="ES-TRAD">Contrary to what we
would like to believe, there is no
such thing as a structureless group. </span></i><span
lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo4"><i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="ES-TRAD">This means that to
strive for a structureless group is as
useful, and as deceptive, as to aim at
an "objective" news story,
"value-free" social science, or a
"free" economy. A "laissez faire"
group is about as realistic as a
"laissez faire" society; the idea
becomes a smokescreen for the strong
or the lucky to establish unquestioned
hegemony over others. </span></i><span
lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo5"><i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="ES-TRAD">This hegemony can be so
easily established because the idea of
"structurelessness" does not prevent
the formation of informal structures,
only formal ones. </span></i><span
lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo6"><i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="ES-TRAD">For everyone to have
the opportunity to be involved in a
given group and to participate in its
activities, the structure must be
explicit, not implicit. </span></i><span
lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4
level1 lfo7"><i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""
lang="ES-TRAD">It is this informal
structure, particularly in
Unstructured groups, which forms the
basis for elites.</span></i><span
lang="ES-TRAD"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
lang="ES-TRAD"><br>
<br>
Just in case you have not yet encountered
the full text of this essay, here it is: <br>
<br>
THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS<br>
by Jo Freeman aka Joreen<br>
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