<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Harold,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Glad to hear you remember me!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks for offering space for my question, and I would like to change it a bit from what you wrote... <b>Does the "question approach" work in every culture or is it culture specific?</b><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Many approaches/methods like AI, AoH, etc, put a lot of emphasis on the questions and the design of questions. A question can be an invitation to explore, however invitations can exist without questions right?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">A sideways on this is that I have an ongoing 'wondering' about whether Open Space the Method (<i>not the great on-going Open Space that Harrison often refers to</i>) has some cultural bias to it as well... however everytime I bring this up I am quickly explained/lectured/told that it doesn't!!!<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Smiles Bhav...<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 January 2016 at 18:48, Harold Shinsato <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com" target="_blank">harold@shinsato.com</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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Hey Bhav!<br>
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It sounds like you've started an interesting inquiry around inquiry
itself. I'd like to open space for your answers as well as the other
responses from Harrison & Michael P. - so we (and all the
elders) can best "sit" the question.<br>
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Here's Bhav's question in brief: Do western style questions work in
every culture as an approach?<br>
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I'll open it a bit more: What culture assumptions do we bring to our
requests, inquests, inquiry, 'quest'ions, that might help or hinder
the authentic opening of space?<br>
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Harold<br>
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P.S. Of course I remember you Bhav. I remembered you before I met
you - as your influence preceded your presence at least in my
time-space-continuum. Thanks for reentering it here on the OSList.<br>
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<div>On 1/7/16 4:14 AM, Bhavesh Patel wrote:<br>
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Harold and World,<br>
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<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Merry
Orthodox Christmas from Moldova where it has been snowing all
day!!!<br>
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<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Your
question triggered a different kind of <span>questionING</span> in me.
Personally I find questions/<span>inquiry</span> and Rilke's 'Live the
questions now' approach very useful.<br>
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<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>However
my increasing sensitivity to culture makes me wonder whether
this approach works for everybody, or whether it is a
cultural thing, fitting more an <span>inquiring</span> Western
culture? Sometimes do we overemphasise this approach, use it
in a kind of universal way?</b><br>
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<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I have
my own answers/experiences to the above questions but of
course won't share them because you asked for questions!<br>
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<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Smiles
<span>Bhav</span>...<br>
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<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">p.s.
Harold, we met at the <span>WOSonOS</span> in London and talked a bit
about complexity and <span>Cynefin</span>...<br>
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Harold Shinsato<br>
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