Hello,
Continuing with my last post, I want to share some new reflections about the OS
process.
If we interpret the first day of a three-day OS event like the "death process"
that organizations need in order to letting go the past, to open space for the
emergent future possibilities, would it be better to dedicate less time to the
"death process" in comparison with the time we devote for the "birth process"?
I know that grief is important and needs time, but I think that it is more
constructive to focus in the future that could emerge.
Assuming this, do you think that it would be a good idea reduce the first day
to half day and shorten the time slots to 30 minutes, in order to accelerate
the "death process"? The first agenda would be established for this half day.
With this, the group has almost the same number of conversations, although
these are shorter. To close this first half day elegantly, you do it with a
closing circle. In this way, the group have one day and a half to the creative
process and this phase would start with an opening circle and a new agenda.
Make sense?
Warm regards,
Agustin
From: Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring <adri...@diazberrio.com>
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Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [OSList] From "here to there"... "less is more"
Hi Agustin: I Like this book theory U I don,t think that I understand it very
well but I am living mi self this process of letting go and letting come new
things because I was in Montreal for seven years and now I live in Mexico again
but in a new city called Queretaro.
I will be facilitating an OS for the pschology students congress of the
UCO_Mondragon university.
I am exited to do it.
But yes every time explaining OS confronts me with this aspect that people
need to let go to their old model before they accept to try this new one option.
I am also having the same difficulties with the other approach I use calle
Groupe de codéveloppement profesionel based on experiential learning and group
interaction. It is also based on the idea that a group has a collective
intelligence that is bigger when we talk together.
I would like to share this method with people from this list. If someone wants
to know more and to have a first experience I would like to offer a free on
line session. I need minimum 3 people and maximum 5. It takes 2 hours. This
method for me is very powerful and could be complementary with an OS event .
Contact me if you want to know more!
Thank you for sharing this good ideas and experiences!
Adriana
2015-03-23 21:34 GMT-06:00 agusj via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>:
Hello Suzanne and all,
"The challenge is how to get from “here” to “there”. Letting go the old ways
of doing things, acknowledging the futility of much that we are now doing,
starting to operate from a whole new frame, almost from scratch if one
considers the contrast between hierarchy and self-organization. This
represents a ton of internal grief work and lots of trial and error." Wonderful
and provocative thought.
I had the opportunity and the privelege of participating in the ULab led by
Otto Sharmer some weeks ago. In my humble opinion, U Theory has 2 concepts that
are in line with this conversation about death and birth. They are "letting go"
and "letting come". You have to letting go the past in order to letting come
the emergent future. I compare this "letting go" with the "death process" you
are talking about, and the "letting come" with the "birth process"
respectively. I would dare say that these both "processes" are also present in
OS. In the last year, I have facilitated 3 three-day OS events and what I have
observed is that the first day is for "catharsis", and is only after that, that
the group can overcome the past and is ready to letting come the emergent
future in the second day. I think that this "letting come" is possible,
because OS propitiates the conditions for presencing, that happens at the
bottom of the U, and this is the point where you connect to your inner source
of inspiration and will.
I am eager to hear your ideas about this connection I have found between U
Theory and OS. Agustin
From: Suzanne Daigle via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>
To: OSLIST <OSList@lists.openspacetech.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 7:07 AM
Subject: [OSList] From "here to there"... "less is more"
Harrison and all,
I had the opportunity to visit some companies lately that had the stirrings of
self-organization. One of them, Sun Hydraulics, was among the 12 organizations
featured in Frederic Laloux’s book: Reinventing Organizations. And as luck
would have it, Doug Kirkpatrick of Morning Star (another Laloux company) was
touring with me. The other companies I visited were not at the same level but
in their heart and actions, I knew they were heading in the same direction.
Though truly for all, it is the journey and not the destination that
self-organization represents. I was in awe and truly could not get enough. It
reminded me of those best moments in my own work career when shared pride,
purpose, collaboration, camaraderie, high performance and aliveness bubbled
over. Above all, I was struck by the wonderful “ordinary” people doing
“extraordinary things”; leadership lurking everywhere, individuals taking and
living their own space with others. In the joy of experiencing and reliving the
intensity and vibrancy of what “work” can and should be like, I was struck and
deeply saddened knowing how few organizations are operating this way. How much
pain and how much “settling and giving up” there still is in the world of work
today. I see and feel the contrast of the two: lifeless versus vibrant. And
yet in the despair of knowing this, I sense a shift in consciousness, two
realities colliding, as one world dies, another waits to be birthed. There is
much “hanging on” in companies today with a grasping of the “illusion of
safety” that our old system operated on, whilst many are now edging towards
something that is exerting its pull, something new. Much has been written
about the industrial model under which most companies still operate. A
top-down hierarchy, command-control system with predictability and efficiency
built in. The habits of this are embedded everywhere. Most of us know this
operating system has been pushed to its limits and no longer serves. One can’t
deny that much good came of it not the least of which we have been given more
years in this wonderful life. Nor can one deny its excesses, which have caused
much damage not the least of which to our human spirit on what matters most.
The challenge is how to get from “here” to “there”. Letting go the old ways of
doing things, acknowledging the futility of much that we are now doing,
starting to operate from a whole new frame, almost from scratch if one
considers the contrast between hierarchy and self-organization. This
represents a ton of internal grief work and lots of trial and error.
Does it require that our organizations hit bottom? Or perhaps in our souls, we
know that we have already hit bottom and this will be enough to propel us
forward. Harrison says: “The cure then would be to stop the wounding, at
least until we could see how things might go. Of course, if the situation is
really terminal, then by all means. Bring it on! That could be SCRUM,
Facilitation, Last Rites, whatever…” And then later he says:“Before we do
anything more, different, or otherwise – I sincerely believe we need to stop
and appreciate what apparently happens very naturally, all by itself, with
minimal or no assistance. And after that appreciative moment, we might think of
a few things to do, but only a very few.” Harrison, in my heart of hearts, I
believe this too. I believe in “less is more” even though I still struggle in
living this way. My struggles will be no different than the struggles of
others and indeed there is beauty in those struggles, in doing it wrong, in
losing and finding our way. It is the essence and unfolding of life. And what
I also know is what the “real deal” Open Space can do to snap us out of the
command/control shackles, to shock us into awareness, a coming home to who we
are buried there inside of us. The work ahead, I believe, is to continue to
invite from the place of where people are, without shame or blame, because they
cannot know what they do not know until they have experienced it. That power of
less is more. Knowing that in the "less" lies the best in high performance,
creativity, human connection and life. Therein lies the magic of Open Space.
It gives us a taste of what could be.
Suzanne Suzanne Daigle
Open Space Facilitator
NuFocus Strategic Group
FL 941-359-8877
Cell: 203-722-2009
www.nufocusgroup.com
s.dai...@nufocusgroup.com
Twitter @Daiglesuz
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Continuing with my last post, I want to share some new reflections about the OS
process.
If we interpret the first day of a three-day OS event like the "death process"
that organizations need in order to letting go the past, in order to open space
for the emergent future possibilities, would it be better to dedicate less time
to the "death process" in comparison with the time we devore for the "birth
process"? I know that grief is important and needs time but I think that it is
more constructive to focus in the future that could emerge.
Assuming this, do you think that it would be a good idea to accelerate the
"death process" reducing the first day to half day shortening the time of the
time slots to just 30 minutes as well? With this, the group has almost the same
From: Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring <adri...@diazberrio.com>
To: agusj <agusjs2...@yahoo.com>; World wide Open Space Technology email list
<oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>
Cc: Suzanne Daigle <sdaig...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [OSList] From "here to there"... "less is more"
Hi Agustin: I Like this book theory U I don,t think that I understand it very
well but I am living mi self this process of letting go and letting come new
things because I was in Montreal for seven years and now I live in Mexico again
but in a new city called Queretaro.
I will be facilitating an OS for the pschology students congress of the
UCO_Mondragon university.
I am exited to do it.
But yes every time explaining OS confronts me with this aspect that people
need to let go to their old model before they accept to try this new one option.
I am also having the same difficulties with the other approach I use calle
Groupe de codéveloppement profesionel based on experiential learning and group
interaction. It is also based on the idea that a group has a collective
intelligence that is bigger when we talk together.
I would like to share this method with people from this list. If someone wants
to know more and to have a first experience I would like to offer a free on
line session. I need minimum 3 people and maximum 5. It takes 2 hours. This
method for me is very powerful and could be complementary with an OS event .
Contact me if you want to know more!
Thank you for sharing this good ideas and experiences!
Adriana
2015-03-23 21:34 GMT-06:00 agusj via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>:
Hello Suzanne and all,
"The challenge is how to get from “here” to “there”. Letting go the old ways
of doing things, acknowledging the futility of much that we are now doing,
starting to operate from a whole new frame, almost from scratch if one
considers the contrast between hierarchy and self-organization. This
represents a ton of internal grief work and lots of trial and error." Wonderful
and provocative thought.
I had the opportunity and the privelege of participating in the ULab led by
Otto Sharmer some weeks ago. In my humble opinion, U Theory has 2 concepts that
are in line with this conversation about death and birth. They are "letting go"
and "letting come". You have to letting go the past in order to letting come
the emergent future. I compare this "letting go" with the "death process" you
are talking about, and the "letting come" with the "birth process"
respectively. I would dare say that these both "processes" are also present in
OS. In the last year, I have facilitated 3 three-day OS events and what I have
observed is that the first day is for "catharsis", and is only after that, that
the group can overcome the past and is ready to letting come the emergent
future in the second day. I think that this "letting come" is possible,
because OS propitiates the conditions for presencing, that happens at the
bottom of the U, and this is the point where you connect to your inner source
of inspiration and will.
I am eager to hear your ideas about this connection I have found between U
Theory and OS. Agustin
From: Suzanne Daigle via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>
To: OSLIST <OSList@lists.openspacetech.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 7:07 AM
Subject: [OSList] From "here to there"... "less is more"
Harrison and all,
I had the opportunity to visit some companies lately that had the stirrings of
self-organization. One of them, Sun Hydraulics, was among the 12 organizations
featured in Frederic Laloux’s book: Reinventing Organizations. And as luck
would have it, Doug Kirkpatrick of Morning Star (another Laloux company) was
touring with me. The other companies I visited were not at the same level but
in their heart and actions, I knew they were heading in the same direction.
Though truly for all, it is the journey and not the destination that
self-organization represents. I was in awe and truly could not get enough. It
reminded me of those best moments in my own work career when shared pride,
purpose, collaboration, camaraderie, high performance and aliveness bubbled
over. Above all, I was struck by the wonderful “ordinary” people doing
“extraordinary things”; leadership lurking everywhere, individuals taking and
living their own space with others. In the joy of experiencing and reliving the
intensity and vibrancy of what “work” can and should be like, I was struck and
deeply saddened knowing how few organizations are operating this way. How much
pain and how much “settling and giving up” there still is in the world of work
today. I see and feel the contrast of the two: lifeless versus vibrant. And
yet in the despair of knowing this, I sense a shift in consciousness, two
realities colliding, as one world dies, another waits to be birthed. There is
much “hanging on” in companies today with a grasping of the “illusion of
safety” that our old system operated on, whilst many are now edging towards
something that is exerting its pull, something new. Much has been written
about the industrial model under which most companies still operate. A
top-down hierarchy, command-control system with predictability and efficiency
built in. The habits of this are embedded everywhere. Most of us know this
operating system has been pushed to its limits and no longer serves. One can’t
deny that much good came of it not the least of which we have been given more
years in this wonderful life. Nor can one deny its excesses, which have caused
much damage not the least of which to our human spirit on what matters most.
The challenge is how to get from “here” to “there”. Letting go the old ways of
doing things, acknowledging the futility of much that we are now doing,
starting to operate from a whole new frame, almost from scratch if one
considers the contrast between hierarchy and self-organization. This
represents a ton of internal grief work and lots of trial and error.
Does it require that our organizations hit bottom? Or perhaps in our souls, we
know that we have already hit bottom and this will be enough to propel us
forward. Harrison says: “The cure then would be to stop the wounding, at
least until we could see how things might go. Of course, if the situation is
really terminal, then by all means. Bring it on! That could be SCRUM,
Facilitation, Last Rites, whatever…” And then later he says:“Before we do
anything more, different, or otherwise – I sincerely believe we need to stop
and appreciate what apparently happens very naturally, all by itself, with
minimal or no assistance. And after that appreciative moment, we might think of
a few things to do, but only a very few.” Harrison, in my heart of hearts, I
believe this too. I believe in “less is more” even though I still struggle in
living this way. My struggles will be no different than the struggles of
others and indeed there is beauty in those struggles, in doing it wrong, in
losing and finding our way. It is the essence and unfolding of life. And what
I also know is what the “real deal” Open Space can do to snap us out of the
command/control shackles, to shock us into awareness, a coming home to who we
are buried there inside of us. The work ahead, I believe, is to continue to
invite from the place of where people are, without shame or blame, because they
cannot know what they do not know until they have experienced it. That power of
less is more. Knowing that in the "less" lies the best in high performance,
creativity, human connection and life. Therein lies the magic of Open Space.
It gives us a taste of what could be.
Suzanne Suzanne Daigle
Open Space Facilitator
NuFocus Strategic Group
FL 941-359-8877
Cell: 203-722-2009
www.nufocusgroup.com
s.dai...@nufocusgroup.com
Twitter @Daiglesuz
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