Doug wrote: OK, folks: Joelle you speak of "that place," and Harrison you talk about whether or not laughter is the causative factor or whether it "does the job," and both are perceptive answers. But I am not sure I yet see what is this something that happens in OST and these other methods. What do you suppose it is that causes this community to erupt, this healing (do you understand it to mean "wholing," if that is a word?) to happen?
short take on a long answer (actually a whole book) is that in Open Space the natural self-organizing system which we all -- are gets back to work, and if it is wounded, it heals itself. Laughter is one of the sounds we make when we are healing. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 USA phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website www.mindspring.com\~owenhh osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
