<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hey Harold,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I have been playing with an approach for something else that might work here as well.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">The MISSION should simply be a blank circle with a small comment in the middle that says "Add your question/statement here."<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Around the blank mission circle should be about 8 eight questions that together hold the tensional diversity of your mission. These questions can all be different and coming from different perspectives, they could be conflicting and contradictory, not too much and not too little, trying to hold the paradoxical nature of...<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Why am I taking this approach? I am finding that defining things, even questions, does not support the reality of something that is dynamic and yet coherent. A whirlpool is a great example, you know what it is and you can see it, yet the whole thing is always moving and completely dependent on everything around it. It's identity/mission relies on the constant change happening, stop the change and it dies.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Maybe an Open Space Institute's mission is something like that?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I feel like Paul L is always trying to support us recognising the delicate balance of 'fixing/defining/naming' something like Open Space...<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Smiles Bhav...<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 July 2016 at 22:10, 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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Dear People of Open Space:<br>
<br>
The Open Space Institute of the U.S. has been "holding space for
open space" since at least 1997. It's origins lie in the summer of
1996, 20 years ago. In the beginnings, there were many serious
conversations in the community as to the role and mission of such an
institute, and that role has certainly evolved over the years. The
board has determined it is time for us to revisit our mission and
role, and especially to invite and trust the rest of the community
refresh and renew our purpose.<br>
<br>
Rather than have a mission statement, we hope instead to have a
mission question. Or series of questions. What are the most valuable
and alive questions for our community right now, and for the
foreseeable future?<br>
<br>
To start the "question storming", here are some questions that have
been reportedly asked deeply within our community in the early days:<br>
<br>
What is Open Space Technology?<br>
What is Open Space?<br>
What is Space?<br>
<br>
And here are some practical questions that would help guide the
OSI-US's operations:<br>
<br>
How can the OSI-US best support our community?<br>
How can we best work together with the community to co-create a
broad and diverse circle of people holding space for open space?<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Harold Shinsato<br>
on behalf of the Board of the Open Space Institute, U.S.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Harold Shinsato<br>
<a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com" target="_blank">harold@shinsato.com</a><br>
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