Thank you Chris, I get your point. Very clear. I agree with you now.
Thanks for taking the time to explain.
Koos
At 07:12 23-10-2012, Chris Corrigan wrote:
Koos...for me the law of two feet is about passion and
responsibility. If you care about something, take care of it.
Paul may have felt that he was "taking care of it" when he produced
his critiques of the event in London. Possibly. But my experience
is that many people are comfortable just being in their passion
about something - sometimes just ranting - and fail to join in,
support, improve, help out or otherwise make a responsibility based
offering to the situation at hand. While i appreciate criticism and
am perfectly capable of wrestling with ideas - and in this case I
even pointed out that there is much merit in Paul's observations - I
nevertheless would invite consideration of the fact that if someone
is sitting through an open space event and not offering
responsibility, that the criticism has the feeling of being sniping
from the sidelines while failing to take up the invitation at hand
and it's hard to work with that. That is all.
A some level, love it or leave is also always an option, but that
isn't what I'm talking about here. I'm looking for a more nuanced
response from a practitioner that is clearly very familiar with the
dynamics of Open Space and self organization and wondering what he
did at the event to use his own power to create the experience he
was looking for.
He may have done something, but as I read it, he stayed for whole
thing and then wrote a fairly detailed critique of the whole experience.
So. Hmmmmm.
Chris
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On 2012-10-21, at 3:22 AM, Koos de Heer
<<mailto:k...@auryn.nl>k...@auryn.nl> wrote:
Hi Chris,
I am not sure I understand what you mean when you say that the law
of two feet applies. If it means as much as "This is Open Space,
love it or leave it," I feel compelled to say that I don't support that.
Of course I can walk out of a session if I am feeling that I am
neither learning nor contributing. But if I have the idea that the
Open Space gathering as a whole could use improvements in the way
it is run, referring to the law of two feet can become a way to
evade a discussion that needs to take place. It can take place at a
later date, which is what is happening now and that is fine.
Koos
Op 20 okt. 2012 om 21:23 heeft Chris Corrigan
<<mailto:chris.corri...@gmail.com>chris.corri...@gmail.com> het
volgende geschreven:
The critique in the article is fine. And the subsequent link
Phelim sent along is fine too. Paul's tone is a bit jarring and
his argument isn't helped by making a lot of generalized
statements. Also he critiques WOSonOS in a way that makes it hard
to separate his critique if the event from a critique of the team,
even though he later clarifies that he wasn't critiquing the
facilitator. It's tricky to make a forceful and powerful critique
without it seeming personal.
My response to these posts is that Paul is right in substance. In
general my take in things is that the Law of Two Feet applies. If
you are not learning or contributing find some way or some where
that you can. That's what makes things better. Obviously expecting
others to change the way the way a process seems too dependant on
them is rational madness.
Chris
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On 2012-10-20, at 5:09 AM,
"<mailto:a...@alanhalford.com.au>a...@alanhalford.com.au"
<<mailto:a...@alanhalford.com.au>a...@alanhalford.com.au> wrote:
Just spent a delicious three days co-learning with Peggy Holman
here in Perth then I read this -
So, what's possible now?
<http://rationalmadness.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/the-tragic-re-imprisonment-of-open-space/>http://rationalmadness.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/the-tragic-re-imprisonment-of-open-space/
take care out there
alan
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