<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Thanks for your comments here Marai I found they resonated with me and I appreciated the intentionality I sensed. <div><br></div><div>Best to all,</div><div><br></div><div>David<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jan 8, 2019, at 4:31 PM, Marai Kiele via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div class="">Dear Mark,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I appreciate your flow of energy and appreciation, both for OST and Harrison! </div><div class="">I am fascinated, hearing about the „at that time“ largest educational transformation group and I honour you as someone who has walked the trails of OST before me.</div><div class=""><span style="font-size: large;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">At the same time, I notice my resentment in regard to this part of your sharing:<font size="4" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"beware of the evil spirits that seek the status quo at all costs“ </font>and<font size="4" class=""> "</font><span style="font-size: large;" class="">fortify oneself against the forces that WILL seek to undermine change"</span><span style="font-size: large;" class="">.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>I actually don’t live within a paradigm of something like „evil spirits“, and I find myself quite „resistant" to changing that world-view. I also don’t believe in setting myself up „against“ anything, but instead I believe in focusing on what is wanted. For me, this would include honouring those with a different perspective on what I desire (which might be change or transformation in regard to a specific subject).<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have heard the term, „the client is resistant“ both in therapy and consulting contexts, and I notice great discomfort within me towards this kind of label. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Not mostly, but also from my personal experience of someone giving me that „batch of honour". Someone who didn’t understand my perspective and how I was actually serving a group with my intervention. It has now happened to me several times that someone said to me (sometimes years later): „NOW I get you! I thought you were just annoying/resistant, but you were right / actually ahead of us with your perspective“.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And.. there are times when I am not at all ahead, but truly resistant to change. For example because of different priorities. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will never forget the disbelief of the person at the iPhone help desk of my mobile phone provider: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I called to ask how to activate my new iPhone 6. Which had been sitting in my desk for OVER A YEAR unused, after I had received the new model. He couldn’t believe that I hadn’t activated it right away. I imagine he might have shared that story during his coffee break with colleagues and all of them shaking their heads or laughing about that strange client.</div><div class="">I just hadn't wanted to let go of my iPhone 3s (until I really had to because I couldn’t get software updates anymore). Back then, I so preferred its design. I mostly used it to make calls, not for the internet, and it fit so nicely into my hand and the back pocket of my jeans… Clearly a criteria that many tech savvy people will not find as important at I did!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So the „moral“ of my story: What might be the things that other people value which we don’t understand, when we judge them as „resistant“?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I very much appreciate how that perspective is embodied in this short video, narrated by Charles Eisenstein: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>What is it like to be you?</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStmnodUpOo" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStmnodUpOo</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, isn’t OST based on invitation? And if there is something like „resistance to following an invitation“, is it a true invitation in the first place?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Kudos to Dan Mezick and Mark Sheffield and their book on Inviting Leadership) </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With respect,</div><div class="">Marai</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 08.01.2019 um 02:41 schrieb Mark Carmel via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Greetings Fellow OST Practitioners!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">It is an honor to join you once again. I met the great Harrison Owen in the early 1990's and began immediately facilitating Open Space. I hope some of you remember me. Guided by Harrison's mentor-ship I set the world record with a 700 person group in 1993, the largest at the time for an educational transformation. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">To my fellow followers of His Honor, Harrison "The GREAT" Owen, THE Inventor of the Magic and Miracle of OPEN SPACE, (or the Receiver, from the Great Inventor...) I honor you for carrying on His Legacy. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">May I suggest to ALL, that when the Space is Opened to the Spirit of Change, you are playing with the fire of the crucible right there, fomenting the ferver that IS the crux of CHAOS, and thus bringing out the very, very Good in people, and also, sometimes, the bad. In all your preparations, beware of the evil spirits that seek the status quo at all costs, sometimes, literally. Change dies hard, as it is said, and in America, we now live in Retaliation Nation, where change, may be, and is, often, met with resistance. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">To fortify oneself against the forces that WILL seek to undermine change (and not in an open way, quite the contrary), and undermine the change agents championing change, one tidbit of hopefully useful observation is warranted: Make SURE Leadership is SOLID! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">It is such a joy to see O.S.T. alive and well. We ALL have Harrison to thank for His Gift of the Spirit of Human Understanding, Peace, and Reconciliation. Thank YOU, dear Father Harrison Owen!! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Cheers! Long May OST Live!!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">O - Open Invitation</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">S - System Innovation</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">T - Transformation Communication</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Peace!!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Mark Carmel</div></div>
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