Hi Tony, Thanks for the link and invitation I still haven't had time to delve into the details, but it sounds intriguing. I would mostly love to learn about the transition - as you call it - from an idea in to action Thank you so much and all the best, Sagit
בתאריך יום ג׳, 7 בינו׳ 2020 ב-9:56 מאת Tony Budak via OSList < oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>: > Here is an opportunity to use OST for learning together about the Commons > Transition to describe a series of ongoing actions that reflect the needs > and creative input of civil society. What are the components of such a > transition, and how do they turn into concrete actions? > > You are invited to attend or host a Time for a Commons Transition study > group, message me or Click for details; > https://primer.commonstransition.org/#home > > Thanks again for creating our tomorrows, > Tony Budak, Lead Convener at TimeBank Mahoning Watershed > > On 1/6/2020 6:42 PM, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList wrote: > > Dear ho, > > the cybergremlins did not interfere. > I received your message twice via OSLIST. > Stuff still seems to work. > > Have a great day > mmp > > > Am 06.01.2020 um 23:21 schrieb Harrison Owen via OSList: > > I tried this as a response… the cybergremlins intervened, so here goes > another! > > ho > > Sagit … I confess that my response to your note was equally, or perhaps > mostly… a response to the present moment. This is not the first time that > Planet Earth in general and/or your particular part of the world has > hovered on the edge of serious chaos. Each of us may hold whatever > opinion(s) we wish, and I certainly have mine – but several facts are > indisputable: Nobody really understands what’s going on, even less do we > understand where it might be headed, and most of all -- nobody has the exit > plan. Under these circumstances, and while we hold our breath, a little > conversation with our fellows might be in order. But how? > > There are some 8 billion of us on the planet, divided at least 8 billion > ways … not all of them happy. Having a useful conversation under the > circumstances seems rather impossible. Doubtless there have been processes, > procedures and structures developed for human beings to pursue their issues > by less than violent means. But all of them seem rather inadequate right > now. We do not have sufficient facilitators, interveners, therapists, > parliamentarians, process re-engineers, conflict resolvers, etc… for the > job, and even if we did have the number, the necessary time for positioning > and preparation doesn’t exist. > > Are we out of options? Maybe --- or then again there may be an option > we’ve had all along and never quite took seriously. > > Some people call it Open Space, which could make it sound like a novel > procedure or process to be applied immediately and globally. In my > experience those words sound nice, maybe even comforting, but do not > describe reality. Open Space is nothing new, strange or different – it is > precisely what we have been doing for the past million years, or however > long it is that /Homo sapiens/ has been doing whatever it does. From the > very beginning we sat in a circle, posted our wishes and dreams (sometime > on the wall of a cave), opened a market place to trade and share our > ideas… and then we went to work. Sometimes these circles formed on a more > or less regular basis (weekly market sort of thing) but the really critical > and important ones happened when they happened … but always when there was > an issue that grabbed peoples’ attention, that was so complex that nobody > could figure it, involved so many different sorts of folks that nobody > could count their kind, stirred great passion and usually conflict, and had > to be dealt with NOW. > > Over time there was a move to institutionalize this primal circle and give > it a name like Senate or Parliament. And it didn’t take long for some to > think they were in charge. Often this worked rather well and it seemed like > the established order was maintained. Every so often, however, A BIG one > would come along and suddenly we were back to basics. Even in the 21^st > century that can happen. > > So how do you have a meaningful conversation with 8 billion people? We > have the means, and it comes with our genes. I suppose the issue of the > moment is to get out of the way, and let it happen. Doing that may well > open the door to a whole new understanding of who and what we are, where we > are going and how to get there. We even have an electronic assist that our > precursors could never have dreamed of. To all of this I can add my own > personal experience – that never in 30+ years, often in extreme conflict > situations have I seen any sort of physical violence and ALWAYS witnessed > the previous combatants in respectful relations with each other… sometimes > surprisingly so. They shed common tears, danced together, laughed and even > hugged each other. They did it all by themselves with no prompting and no > assists. Wonderful! > > But what about now? How to get the ball rolling, so to speak? Truthfully, > I really don’t know. I can also imagine that it will happen, if only > because it has happened before. If anybody out there is searching for a > mission, something useful to do with their life and talent … opening this > door might well be a good place to start. Or there are other possibilities > I would really rather not think about. > > Harrison > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
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