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<p>Michael,</p>
<p>You ask, <br>
</p>
<p>"...Dan, how did the exchange run after you asked your question
and HO answered. I wonder how the group responded."</p>
<p>I think the group was pleasantly surprised by Harrison's answer.
There were nods and knowing smiles. We got it recorded and
everyone was taking notes at the time. <br>
</p>
<p>Wait. I hope there aren't any illegitimate-authority types
following this thread.<br>
</p>
<p>Daniel<br>
</p>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/22/16 8:40 AM, Michael M Pannwitz
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote
cite="mid:45708520-cb41-a79e-2906-edcfcf22a413@gmail.com"
type="cite">When the Man with the Hat was not in the mood to
invest another year's work into organizing etc another one of the
OT events OST was born. A way to run a conference... and then bit
by bit it turned out that stuff happend nobody had expected (often
the case in experiments). Thorough reflection and further testing
revealed that OST - as its essence - was a fine way to expand time
and space for the force of selforganisation to show up.
<br>
So, as far as I can tell, it was not designed to subvert
illegitimate authority. But its certainly true that when the force
of selforganisation gets running its devastating if not lethal to
illegitimat authority.
<br>
<br>
Dan, how did the exchange run after you asked your question and HO
answered. I wonder how the group responded.
<br>
<br>
Her a story:
<br>
In one OST I facilitated, a learned and assured man got up during
the posting issues part with five issues in his hands: "Here are
the five issues I have identified that we need to talk about for
anything worthwhile to happen" and dropped them into the center.
I asked him to read the 5 out loud and post them on the bulletin
board. He did. Nobody showed up in any of the 5 sessions.
<br>
<br>
Greetings from Berlin
<br>
mmp
<br>
<br>
On 22.08.2016 14:20, Daniel Mezick via OSList wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Greetings Fellow Humans!
<br>
<br>
On a recent weekend, I had the wonderful honor of inviting up to
5
<br>
friends up to Harrison's house in Maine, to discuss all things
OST.
<br>
<br>
And it was really, really fun. I thought about "who to invite?"
for a
<br>
very long time, and carefully selected some truly great people
for the
<br>
invitation: Jon Jorgensen (West coast OpenSpace Agility guy,)
Mark
<br>
Sheffield (OpenSpace Agility HANDBOOK co-author,) Stuart Turner
<br>
(OpenSpace Agility teacher and Scrum Alliance CST from
Singapore,) Salah
<br>
Elliethy (OpenSpace Agility teacher and Agile coach in DC,) and
Todd
<br>
Kromann (OpenSpace Agility and the OST guy who has arranged
over-- get
<br>
this-- 300 OST events inside WALMART since 2014).
<br>
<br>
And finally, the day arrived. And there we were all there, all
of a
<br>
sudden. Out on the porch with Harrison. Enjoying the lake.
Chatting with
<br>
Harrison. About everything. And the whole thing was very
surreal.
<br>
<br>
And I mostly kept my mouth shut, in service to maximizing the
time
<br>
everyone else got with Harrison that day. Stuart, after all,
came all
<br>
the way from Singapore! Jon came all the way from California.
Mark came
<br>
from North Carolina. Salah came from DC. Todd came all the way
from
<br>
Arkansas.
<br>
<br>
So I just did my best to observe, and stay real quiet. And I was
doing
<br>
OK ...
<br>
<br>
<br>
...but the discussions were very triggering. To say the least!
And I had
<br>
to stifle myself several times.
<br>
<br>
And then: I did have this one persistent, burning question keep
coming
<br>
up for me. And I was definitely going to ASK it...
<br>
<br>
<br>
So I just waited till there a good long while, till there was a
good
<br>
long pause in all the interactions.
<br>
<br>
It was just the 7 of us. And after a long series of question and
<br>
answers, back and forth, it finally did get real quiet.
<br>
<br>
And the moment arrived.
<br>
<br>
And right there I popped the question, into the silence...
<br>
<br>
<br>
*"...Harrison, I have a question... AND THIS IS IT: *
<br>
<br>
*
<br>
*
<br>
<br>
*Is Open Space Technology SUBVERSIVE to illegitimate
authority?"*
<br>
<br>
<br>
And Harrison, without any hesitation, goes: *"(chuckle...)
<br>
...Abso-lutely...that's the whole POINT!"*
<br>
<br>
<br>
Wow.
<br>
<br>
Who likes the idea that OST is designed to subvert illegitimate
authority?
<br>
<br>
Who doesn't?
<br>
<br>
Is this subversive quality of OST a bug...or a feature?
<br>
<br>
<br>
--
<br>
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<br>
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