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Hi Chris,<br>
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Since the thread is about helping the OSI-US find "mission
questions", rather than answering the questions, I would encourage
and invite you to reflect on these questions in separate threads to
make the reflections easier to see and connect with via the subject
line.<br>
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I look forward to your reflections!<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Harold<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/19/16 11:13 AM, Chris Corrigan
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<div class="">I like your questions Paul. They’re interesting! Can
I add some reflections on them? </div>
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<div class=""> A few more questions ...</div>
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<div class="">Warm wishes </div>
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<div class="">Why are we still calling OST a technology ?</div>
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<div class="">Still called a technology because it’s cheeky.
That’s my take anyway.</div>
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<div class="">Why is the LAW of two feel a law ?</div>
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Law because, like the law of gravity it seems to be
fundamentally inviolable. So it’s helpful to acknowledge it.
You could probably acknowledge the law of gravity too, if you
wanted to remind people not to drop their stuff. But at least
acknowledging the law of mobility helps people understand why
folks wander off during sessions.</div>
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<div class="">If the "principles" are not prescriptions
but descriptions why are they called principles ?</div>
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<div>Principles don’t have to be prescriptive to be
principles. These four principles seem to capture four
things (or five) that work about open space. They are
provocative and interesting and disruptive to normal meeting
procedures. And I have done many Open Space meetings
without talking about them at all. </div>
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<div class="">How can it possibly take 2 days to <span
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<div class="">OST and why would anyone ever want to teach
it anyway ?</div>
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<div>It doesn’t take two days to “teach" Open Space
Technology. But to spend two days with other practitioners
who are learning, thinking about, and trading ideas on using
OST seems to accelerate people’s practice and use of the
process and the underlying view of the world that it
encapsulates.</div>
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<div>Open Space Technology is not “teacheable” but it is
learnable. How’s that for a provocative proposition?</div>
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<div class="">Why do OST "elders" on the OS list keep
advocating dogmatic views about OST? (Oh yes you do)</div>
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<div>Who are these “elders" of which you speak?</div>
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<div class="">What if one less thing to do was
facilitation ?</div>
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<div>Yup.</div>
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<div class="">How could OSI begin a humble inquiry into
new and valuable ways of opening space? And learn from
them ?</div>
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This is a really great question. Juanita Brown has convened a
conversation on “the central garden” of participatory methods
that is just such a humble inquiry. So humble that it has been
approached slowly and quietly, and I’m sure she would welcome
many others joining. She’s been at it for a while: <a
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<div class="">What questions do we need to ask that cannot
be formed into latinised words and phrases ?</div>
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<div>This one:</div>
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<div class="">Where is open space technology when the
world needs to open space most - right now ?</div>
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<div>It is right here where it has always been. And I think
there is a lot of space being opened in the world right now,
in all kinds of ways. </div>
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<div>Opening space is not a guarantee of peace and good times.
When space opens so too does authentic human voice. People
that have been silent claim sound. People that have been
displaced look for a new home. People that have been backed
into corners clamp down on control and fear. Does the world
need open space most now? Or has open space given us the
world we live in now?</div>
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<div>We have no guarantee of safety in this world. And when
space open for some, others who didn’t ever realize they
were taking up so much, suddenly start getting quite
worried. It’s nice to imagine the tables being turned over,
unless one of the tables is mine. </div>
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<div>Chris</div>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Harold Shinsato<br>
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