Right On Judi-- You will see that others of us agree with you! Here's to the work you do opening more space. Best --BJ
On Monday, May 17, 2004, at 09:12 AM, Judi Richardson wrote:
Hello Harrison and all, I have not read all the replies to Harrison's posting as I received the initial posting and printed it off to take with me as I travelled to Open Space for an international conference on Globalization. I am responding to your posting now that 140 participants have generated 40 topics and moved to their groups. A teacher arrived last minute with 30 high school students -- and, as always, they add amazing things to the group. I shall catch up on the replies to your posting upon my return. I was curious at the Halfway Technology statement and I see OST as a complete process. We, as human beings, are here to evolve. For a point in time, people agree to gather, to suspend disbelief around some principles and one law. In your posting, Harrison, you eluded that we do this just to be what we already are. I consider the objective mirror of OST -- time out of time -- as a chance to see ourselves as we are -- and once we do that we have to change. I would love it if people see some of the habitual patterns they develop -- and drop those to become more of what we are -- fearlessly. Who am I to have the audacity to expect the group to go further? It is their process. It is up to their passion and responsbility to go further. You state, Harrison, that it would seem that OST is not to be considered. Why beat the drum of what we don't want? I find more and more who want to explore the OST process -- in training and in practice. I facilitated OST for 38 B. Ed. students once and they started doing their presentations with OST -- no training -- worked myself right out of a job there! My wanting more for an organization would be "closing space" -- what right do I have to project my disappointment on their process? I see my work to build a relationship to the process, to the space, the form, in building the container as the content belongs to the group. OST - for however long is a snapshot in time in the evolution process -- time out of time, out of habitual patterns, embracing creative tension. I sat up last night with participants from Uganda, Zimbabwe, Australia, LeSotho, Canada and the US who wanted to ask questions and play with participatory processes. When I finish here I'm off to Toronto to facilitate a change process for an institution including a one and one-half day OST. The next week I am opening space for Aboriginal Fisheries Works in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. And in the moment we close the space -- it is a full technology -- complete, perfect in its imperfection! And for now I see a few coffee cups to pick up! <grin> with deep appreciation for the reflection and looking forward to reading others responses! Judi __________________________________________________________ Judith Richardson, MA Coaching & Consulting Optimizing Performance, Potential and Profitability www.ponoconsultants.com www.emergentfeminine.com Subscribe to our newsletter at www.emergentfeminine.com Check out www.emergentfeminine.com for special programs and new products! Get Ready to Reap the Rewards! Nova Scotia, Canada Phone: (902) 434-6695 Facsimile: (902) 435-1085 E-mail: ju...@accesswave.ca * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
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