David McKay wrote: "The article also pulls from the research the qualities in a client which best predispose them to taking advantage of serendipity. That may be the most applicable to folks here -- as Open Space seems to rely on planned happenstance."
Isn't it interesting how everything has to be fitted into "the plan," even if planning had nothing to do with whatever is going on? Or maybe more accurately, "planning" as the intentional human act, was only one of a myriad of factors creating the present moment. For me Open Space is not too far from stopping to smell the roses, allowing the present moment to appear as it is, no longer covered by all the might-have-beens, could-have-beens, or should-have-beens -- plans. Many take open space, and the experience of open Space, as a strange new reality. I guess my experience is diametrically the opposite. Everything is Open Space, but that fact is obscured by a whole mess of exogenous lay-ons. All the plans. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com/> Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== 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