Re: [OSList] The New Space Race?

[Jake Yeager via OSList]

Thanks mmp __/\__ <3


When the mind is quiet, the sun of your heart will shine once again, and
you will be free of problems.
 - Robert Adams 


On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 4:45 PM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Dear Jake,
>
> after folks have gathered in the closing circle and announcements have
> ceased and things have quieted down completely I:
>
> --- take about three minutes to go back to the beginning of the
> gathering pointing to the phases of the event in the last 3 days
>
> --- show the talking stick (something I found outside earlier in the
> day, such as a branch with leaves or flowers on it and if it is a
> situation in which a mike is used that might be the talking stick) and
> speak, sitting in the circle, about 2 minutes on this final process
> (that it will be passed from one to another in a clockwise direction,
> that one should not think about what to say while it is on the way, once
> you receive it, hold it for a while, dont pass it on right away, and if
> something occurs to you right then let everyone else know if you like,
> say it and others listen, if you hold it and you dont say or do anything
> we listen into the silence, and if you say something from the heart we
> listen with our hearts).
>
> Since there is a closing time to the gathering, everyone knows how much
> time is available for the closing circle, and usually it will  take
> place in the time still available.
>
> By this time the talking stick has returned to me and I say something
> like "Thank you for the privilege to facilitate this event" and then
> turn to the sponsor that is sitting next to me and ask him to close the
> event and send us on our ways.
>
> The sponsor closes the event.
>
> Sometimes there also seems to be the need to have a ritual for the group
> as a whole to celebrate the end of this process... there is a very short
> intervention I learned from HO:
> After the closing circle and the short speech of the sponsor I rise and
> ask everyone else to get up and form a very close standing circle, wait
> a moment and invite to have a last look at everyone, after a while I ask
> everyone to turn outward, still noticing the circle "behind" me and then
> leave the circle in all directions... usually this is the time when
> people move around, hug, say goodbye, etc.
>
> Of course, there are different situations that call for other closings,
> such as a gathering of more than 300 (up to 300 it works the way I
> described), lets say 2000, then you need several mikes that are taken by
> os-team members to those that signal that they want to say something...
> not everybody gets to speak.
>
> This last phase is, except for the introduction to the process in the
> beginning, the only time I am visible and speak to the whole group...
> and I do not say anything more than what I mentioned. During the usually
> 25 to 35 minutes in which participants listen and talk I say nothing and
> do nothing.
>
> Greetings from Berlin where doing nothing is the expected mode in the
> corona lockdown, a tough exercise for many...
>
> cheers
> mmp
>
>
>
> Am 20.04.2020 um 17:31 schrieb Jake Yeager via OSList:
> > Hi mmp,
> >
> > What's your preferred closing circle process? I am interested to know
> > how you "do nothing" for the closing circle too. :)
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > All the best,
> > Jake
> > 
> >
> > When the mind is quiet, the sun of your heart will shine once again, and
> > you will be free of problems.
> >   - Robert Adams 
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:35 AM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList
> > mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>>
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Dear Doris and you other tender and friendly folks out there,
> >
> > "Tend and Befriend" is always a basic response, crisis or not.
> >
> > But since crisis is a basic prerequisite for the unfolding of time
> and
> > space for selforganisation "Tend and Befriend" also unfolds more
> freely.
> >
> > In os events that deal with urgent matters, "tend and befriend" is
> > always present.
> > In the context of such gatherings it is usually not perceived as
> > something special by participants.
> >
> > Facilitators, however, busy with doing nothing, do observe it every
> > time. There are even attempts to have the paricipants increase their
> > awareness of this by ending an os event with reflections along the
> > medicine wheel. Which, as I discovered, is a grand way of looking at
> > such elements as vision, management, community and leadership... but
> > rarely gets much attention by participants. They already know all
> that.
> > And I guess, they are more interested to get busy on the actions they
> > just worked on.
> >
> > Greetings from Berlin, where I see "Tend and Befriend" abound... to
> the
> > astonishment of the folks in charge who see stuff 

Re: [OSList] The New Space Race?

[Michael M Pannwitz via OSList]

Dear Jake,

after folks have gathered in the closing circle and announcements have 
ceased and things have quieted down completely I:


--- take about three minutes to go back to the beginning of the 
gathering pointing to the phases of the event in the last 3 days


--- show the talking stick (something I found outside earlier in the 
day, such as a branch with leaves or flowers on it and if it is a 
situation in which a mike is used that might be the talking stick) and 
speak, sitting in the circle, about 2 minutes on this final process 
(that it will be passed from one to another in a clockwise direction, 
that one should not think about what to say while it is on the way, once 
you receive it, hold it for a while, dont pass it on right away, and if 
something occurs to you right then let everyone else know if you like, 
say it and others listen, if you hold it and you dont say or do anything 
we listen into the silence, and if you say something from the heart we 
listen with our hearts).


Since there is a closing time to the gathering, everyone knows how much 
time is available for the closing circle, and usually it will  take 
place in the time still available.


By this time the talking stick has returned to me and I say something 
like "Thank you for the privilege to facilitate this event" and then 
turn to the sponsor that is sitting next to me and ask him to close the 
event and send us on our ways.


The sponsor closes the event.

Sometimes there also seems to be the need to have a ritual for the group 
as a whole to celebrate the end of this process... there is a very short 
intervention I learned from HO:
After the closing circle and the short speech of the sponsor I rise and 
ask everyone else to get up and form a very close standing circle, wait 
a moment and invite to have a last look at everyone, after a while I ask 
everyone to turn outward, still noticing the circle "behind" me and then 
leave the circle in all directions... usually this is the time when 
people move around, hug, say goodbye, etc.


Of course, there are different situations that call for other closings, 
such as a gathering of more than 300 (up to 300 it works the way I 
described), lets say 2000, then you need several mikes that are taken by 
os-team members to those that signal that they want to say something... 
not everybody gets to speak.


This last phase is, except for the introduction to the process in the 
beginning, the only time I am visible and speak to the whole group... 
and I do not say anything more than what I mentioned. During the usually 
25 to 35 minutes in which participants listen and talk I say nothing and 
do nothing.


Greetings from Berlin where doing nothing is the expected mode in the 
corona lockdown, a tough exercise for many...


cheers
mmp



Am 20.04.2020 um 17:31 schrieb Jake Yeager via OSList:

Hi mmp,

What's your preferred closing circle process? I am interested to know 
how you "do nothing" for the closing circle too. :)


Thanks!

All the best,
Jake


When the mind is quiet, the sun of your heart will shine once again, and 
you will be free of problems.

  - Robert Adams 


On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:35 AM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList 
mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> 
wrote:


Dear Doris and you other tender and friendly folks out there,

"Tend and Befriend" is always a basic response, crisis or not.

But since crisis is a basic prerequisite for the unfolding of time and
space for selforganisation "Tend and Befriend" also unfolds more freely.

In os events that deal with urgent matters, "tend and befriend" is
always present.
In the context of such gatherings it is usually not perceived as
something special by participants.

Facilitators, however, busy with doing nothing, do observe it every
time. There are even attempts to have the paricipants increase their
awareness of this by ending an os event with reflections along the
medicine wheel. Which, as I discovered, is a grand way of looking at
such elements as vision, management, community and leadership... but
rarely gets much attention by participants. They already know all that.
And I guess, they are more interested to get busy on the actions they
just worked on.

Greetings from Berlin, where I see "Tend and Befriend" abound... to the
astonishment of the folks in charge who see stuff happening they felt
responsible for

Cheers and enjoy tending and befriending and being tended and befriendet

mmp
Am 20.04.2020 um 11:13 schrieb Doris Gottlieb via OSList:
 > Dear Peggy,
 >
 > Thank you for sending the article and  for reminding me about
Tend and
 > Befriend as one of the basic responses of humans in crisis and
stress.
 > It is so valuable to expand my noticing in working in times of
crisis to
 > include this frame and look for where and how it 

Re: [OSList] The New Space Race?

[Jake Yeager via OSList]

Hi mmp,

What's your preferred closing circle process? I am interested to know how
you "do nothing" for the closing circle too. :)

Thanks!

All the best,
Jake


When the mind is quiet, the sun of your heart will shine once again, and
you will be free of problems.
 - Robert Adams 


On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:35 AM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Dear Doris and you other tender and friendly folks out there,
>
> "Tend and Befriend" is always a basic response, crisis or not.
>
> But since crisis is a basic prerequisite for the unfolding of time and
> space for selforganisation "Tend and Befriend" also unfolds more freely.
>
> In os events that deal with urgent matters, "tend and befriend" is
> always present.
> In the context of such gatherings it is usually not perceived as
> something special by participants.
>
> Facilitators, however, busy with doing nothing, do observe it every
> time. There are even attempts to have the paricipants increase their
> awareness of this by ending an os event with reflections along the
> medicine wheel. Which, as I discovered, is a grand way of looking at
> such elements as vision, management, community and leadership... but
> rarely gets much attention by participants. They already know all that.
> And I guess, they are more interested to get busy on the actions they
> just worked on.
>
> Greetings from Berlin, where I see "Tend and Befriend" abound... to the
> astonishment of the folks in charge who see stuff happening they felt
> responsible for
>
> Cheers and enjoy tending and befriending and being tended and befriendet
>
> mmp
> Am 20.04.2020 um 11:13 schrieb Doris Gottlieb via OSList:
> > Dear Peggy,
> >
> > Thank you for sending the article and  for reminding me about Tend and
> > Befriend as one of the basic responses of humans in crisis and stress.
> > It is so valuable to expand my noticing in working in times of crisis to
> > include this frame and look for where and how it happens.
> >
> > With love and gratitude,
> >
> > Doris
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:36 AM agusj via OSList
> > mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>>
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hi Peggy!
> >
> > Thanks for share this The psychologist, Shelley Taylor, working with
> > a team of women, found women tended to respond differently. They
> > took care of the vulnerable and worked together.
> >
> > I love it! I knew in my profound self that there should be another
> way.
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> > Warm regards
> >
> > Agustín
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, April 16, 2020, 04:16:09 PM GMT-5, Peggy Holman via
> > OSList  > > wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > Thanks for opening this conversation. I’ve been thinking about
> > something similar, with a slightly different emphasis. I’ve been
> > struck by how frequently I’m hearing “we’re all in this together”.
> > So I’ve been thinking about how it is a time of both personal
> > responsibility AND a sense of the greater good that has never
> > existed in my lifetime. (We’re about the same age.) Even talk of
> > sacrifice. Something I recall my parents talking about from their
> > youth in World War 2.
> >
> > Something that has intersected this mulling has been watching the
> > amazing amount of constructive journalism happening right now.
> > Practical, responsive, listening to the questions from the public.
> > And, of course, the generosity of people self-organizing to help
> others.
> >
> > One last element in my thinking about this: "tend and befriend"
> > rather than "fight or flight.” In brief, in 2000, a woman
> > psychologist looked at the research that led to coining the phrase
> > fight or flight to characterize human response to threat or stress.
> > Turns out, like much of that early social science research, it was
> > done primarily with men. The psychologist, Shelley Taylor, working
> > with a team of women, found women tended to respond differently.
> > They took care of the vulnerable and worked together.
> >
> > With nowhere to run, I see much of the response to Coronavirus
> > following the pattern of tend and befriend. It’s a trend I’d sure
> > like to see made conscious and furthered. I wrote a 2-minute piece
> > about it:
> >
> https://medium.com/@PeggyHolman/journalism-that-tends-and-befriends-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-1ec800ccf9ad
> .
> >
> > I think fighting and fleeing less and tending and befriending more
> > encompasses both personal responsibility and the common good.
> >
> > Be well and stay sane,
> > Peggy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> > Peggy Holman
> > Co-founder
> > Journalism That Matters
> > 15347 SE 49th Place
> > Bellevue, WA  98006
> > 206-948-0432
> > 

Re: [OSList] The New Space Race?

[Michael M Pannwitz via OSList]

Dear Doris and you other tender and friendly folks out there,

"Tend and Befriend" is always a basic response, crisis or not.

But since crisis is a basic prerequisite for the unfolding of time and 
space for selforganisation "Tend and Befriend" also unfolds more freely.


In os events that deal with urgent matters, "tend and befriend" is 
always present.
In the context of such gatherings it is usually not perceived as 
something special by participants.


Facilitators, however, busy with doing nothing, do observe it every 
time. There are even attempts to have the paricipants increase their 
awareness of this by ending an os event with reflections along the 
medicine wheel. Which, as I discovered, is a grand way of looking at 
such elements as vision, management, community and leadership... but 
rarely gets much attention by participants. They already know all that.
And I guess, they are more interested to get busy on the actions they 
just worked on.


Greetings from Berlin, where I see "Tend and Befriend" abound... to the 
astonishment of the folks in charge who see stuff happening they felt 
responsible for


Cheers and enjoy tending and befriending and being tended and befriendet

mmp
Am 20.04.2020 um 11:13 schrieb Doris Gottlieb via OSList:

Dear Peggy,

Thank you for sending the article and  for reminding me about Tend and 
Befriend as one of the basic responses of humans in crisis and stress.
It is so valuable to expand my noticing in working in times of crisis to 
include this frame and look for where and how it happens.


With love and gratitude,

Doris

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:36 AM agusj via OSList 
mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> 
wrote:


Hi Peggy!

Thanks for share this The psychologist, Shelley Taylor, working with
a team of women, found women tended to respond differently. They
took care of the vulnerable and worked together.

I love it! I knew in my profound self that there should be another way.

Thanks a lot!

Warm regards

Agustín


On Thursday, April 16, 2020, 04:16:09 PM GMT-5, Peggy Holman via
OSList mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:


Hi Michael,

Thanks for opening this conversation. I’ve been thinking about
something similar, with a slightly different emphasis. I’ve been
struck by how frequently I’m hearing “we’re all in this together”.
So I’ve been thinking about how it is a time of both personal
responsibility AND a sense of the greater good that has never
existed in my lifetime. (We’re about the same age.) Even talk of
sacrifice. Something I recall my parents talking about from their
youth in World War 2.

Something that has intersected this mulling has been watching the
amazing amount of constructive journalism happening right now.
Practical, responsive, listening to the questions from the public.
And, of course, the generosity of people self-organizing to help others.

One last element in my thinking about this: "tend and befriend"
rather than "fight or flight.” In brief, in 2000, a woman
psychologist looked at the research that led to coining the phrase
fight or flight to characterize human response to threat or stress.
Turns out, like much of that early social science research, it was
done primarily with men. The psychologist, Shelley Taylor, working
with a team of women, found women tended to respond differently.
They took care of the vulnerable and worked together.

With nowhere to run, I see much of the response to Coronavirus
following the pattern of tend and befriend. It’s a trend I’d sure
like to see made conscious and furthered. I wrote a 2-minute piece
about it:

https://medium.com/@PeggyHolman/journalism-that-tends-and-befriends-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-1ec800ccf9ad.

I think fighting and fleeing less and tending and befriending more
encompasses both personal responsibility and the common good.

Be well and stay sane,
Peggy







Peggy Holman
Co-founder
Journalism That Matters
15347 SE 49th Place
Bellevue, WA  98006
206-948-0432
www.journalismthatmatters.org 
www.peggyholman.com 
Twitter: @peggyholman
JTM Twitter: @JTMStream

Enjoy the award winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into
Opportunity 










On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:40 PM, Michael Herman via OSList
mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:

Hi all,

I had a thought recently that might be interesting here, and that
maybe you can add on to, as a story and conversation here.  And
then in the world.  This overlaps with some other recent threads,
too, I think.

As background, I'm exactly old enough that the moon landing is, as
best I can tell, my oldest memory.  I've seen pictures of stuff
 

Re: [OSList] The New Space Race?

[Doris Gottlieb via OSList]

Dear Peggy,

Thank you for sending the article and  for reminding me about Tend and
Befriend as one of the basic responses of humans in crisis and stress.
It is so valuable to expand my noticing in working in times of crisis to
include this frame and look for where and how it happens.

With love and gratitude,

Doris

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:36 AM agusj via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Hi Peggy!
>
> Thanks for share this The psychologist, Shelley Taylor, working with a
> team of women, found women tended to respond differently. They took care of
> the vulnerable and worked together.
>
> I love it! I knew in my profound self that there should be another way.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Warm regards
>
> Agustín
>
>
> On Thursday, April 16, 2020, 04:16:09 PM GMT-5, Peggy Holman via OSList <
> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks for opening this conversation. I’ve been thinking about something
> similar, with a slightly different emphasis. I’ve been struck by how
> frequently I’m hearing “we’re all in this together”. So I’ve been thinking
> about how it is a time of both personal responsibility AND a sense of the
> greater good that has never existed in my lifetime. (We’re about the same
> age.) Even talk of sacrifice. Something I recall my parents talking about
> from their youth in World War 2.
>
> Something that has intersected this mulling has been watching the amazing
> amount of constructive journalism happening right now. Practical,
> responsive, listening to the questions from the public. And, of course, the
> generosity of people self-organizing to help others.
>
> One last element in my thinking about this: "tend and befriend" rather
> than "fight or flight.” In brief, in 2000, a woman psychologist looked at
> the research that led to coining the phrase fight or flight to characterize
> human response to threat or stress. Turns out, like much of that early
> social science research, it was done primarily with men. The psychologist,
> Shelley Taylor, working with a team of women, found women tended to respond
> differently. They took care of the vulnerable and worked together.
>
> With nowhere to run, I see much of the response to Coronavirus following
> the pattern of tend and befriend. It’s a trend I’d sure like to see made
> conscious and furthered. I wrote a 2-minute piece about it:
> https://medium.com/@PeggyHolman/journalism-that-tends-and-befriends-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-1ec800ccf9ad
> .
>
> I think fighting and fleeing less and tending and befriending more
> encompasses both personal responsibility and the common good.
>
> Be well and stay sane,
> Peggy
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 
> Peggy Holman
> Co-founder
> Journalism That Matters
> 15347 SE 49th Place
> Bellevue, WA  98006
> 206-948-0432
> www.journalismthatmatters.org
> www.peggyholman.com
> Twitter: @peggyholman
> JTM Twitter: @JTMStream
>
> Enjoy the award winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into
> Opportunity 
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:40 PM, Michael Herman via OSList <
> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I had a thought recently that might be interesting here, and that maybe
> you can add on to, as a story and conversation here.  And then in the
> world.  This overlaps with some other recent threads, too, I think.
>
> As background, I'm exactly old enough that the moon landing is, as best I
> can tell, my oldest memory.  I've seen pictures of stuff that happened
> before, but I clearly remember the space toys being given away at gas
> stations, our family buying our first color TV, and (just like now) keeping
> our distance... in that case we were supposed to stay six feet from the new
> set.
>
> From that global moment came all kinds of "big blue marble" photos, Bucky
> Fuller's "Spaceship Earth," and other images.  Now we had a picture of "all
> in this together" where "all" really was every human.  And then, a few
> decades later, we've created a global network, a global economy, and global
> epidemics.  Not everyone made a direct, conscious connection about those
> images from space, but somehow we all grew up participating in the creation
> of these global structures and phenomena.
>
> Now I think we might have a chance to accelerate our swing back, to the
> micro, the local, the individual in equally strong, long-term ways.  It
> took us a while to get there, but the message coming clearer now is "wear a
> mask," for instance, "to protect others..."  And inside of that, this seems
> like a visceral reminder that "what you, the little individual does -- does
> matter."  It matters with masks and the virus, but it can be, and I hope it
> will be, quickly translated to the plastic we use, the miles we drive, the
> other things we purchase and reinforce with our money, the way we manage
> emotions in groups, and so on.  It matters for everyone to manage their own
> "stuff," their 

Re: [OSList] The New Space Race?

[Peggy Holman via OSList]

Hi Agustín,

So glad it was helpful! 

I’d sure love to see our language shift from “fighting” everything to 
befriending it. 

Perhaps there are times and places where resistance or even denial are the best 
strategy. My hunch is in the long run, we’re better off surrounding 
disturbances and finding compassion to transcend and include their root causes.

Stay well,
Peggy



> On Apr 18, 2020, at 4:35 PM, agusj  wrote:
> 
> Hi Peggy!
> 
> Thanks for share this The psychologist, Shelley Taylor, working with a team 
> of women, found women tended to respond differently. They took care of the 
> vulnerable and worked together.
> 
> I love it! I knew in my profound self that there should be another way.
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Warm regards
> 
> Agustín
> 
> 
> On Thursday, April 16, 2020, 04:16:09 PM GMT-5, Peggy Holman via OSList 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Thanks for opening this conversation. I’ve been thinking about something 
> similar, with a slightly different emphasis. I’ve been struck by how 
> frequently I’m hearing “we’re all in this together”. So I’ve been thinking 
> about how it is a time of both personal responsibility AND a sense of the 
> greater good that has never existed in my lifetime. (We’re about the same 
> age.) Even talk of sacrifice. Something I recall my parents talking about 
> from their youth in World War 2.
> 
> Something that has intersected this mulling has been watching the amazing 
> amount of constructive journalism happening right now. Practical, responsive, 
> listening to the questions from the public. And, of course, the generosity of 
> people self-organizing to help others.
> 
> One last element in my thinking about this: "tend and befriend" rather than 
> "fight or flight.” In brief, in 2000, a woman psychologist looked at the 
> research that led to coining the phrase fight or flight to characterize human 
> response to threat or stress. Turns out, like much of that early social 
> science research, it was done primarily with men. The psychologist, Shelley 
> Taylor, working with a team of women, found women tended to respond 
> differently. They took care of the vulnerable and worked together.
> 
> With nowhere to run, I see much of the response to Coronavirus following the 
> pattern of tend and befriend. It’s a trend I’d sure like to see made 
> conscious and furthered. I wrote a 2-minute piece about it: 
> https://medium.com/@PeggyHolman/journalism-that-tends-and-befriends-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-1ec800ccf9ad
>  
> .
> 
> I think fighting and fleeing less and tending and befriending more 
> encompasses both personal responsibility and the common good.
> 
> Be well and stay sane,
> Peggy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Peggy Holman
> Co-founder
> Journalism That Matters
> 15347 SE 49th Place
> Bellevue, WA  98006
> 206-948-0432
> www.journalismthatmatters.org 
> www.peggyholman.com
> Twitter: @peggyholman
> JTM Twitter: @JTMStream
> 
> Enjoy the award winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:40 PM, Michael Herman via OSList 
>> mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all, 
>> 
>> I had a thought recently that might be interesting here, and that maybe you 
>> can add on to, as a story and conversation here.  And then in the world.  
>> This overlaps with some other recent threads, too, I think.  
>> 
>> As background, I'm exactly old enough that the moon landing is, as best I 
>> can tell, my oldest memory.  I've seen pictures of stuff that happened 
>> before, but I clearly remember the space toys being given away at gas 
>> stations, our family buying our first color TV, and (just like now) keeping 
>> our distance... in that case we were supposed to stay six feet from the new 
>> set.  
>> 
>> From that global moment came all kinds of "big blue marble" photos, Bucky 
>> Fuller's "Spaceship Earth," and other images.  Now we had a picture of "all 
>> in this together" where "all" really was every human.  And then, a few 
>> decades later, we've created a global network, a global economy, and global 
>> epidemics.  Not everyone made a direct, conscious connection about those 
>> images from space, but somehow we all grew up participating in the creation 
>> of these global structures and phenomena.
>>  
>> Now I think we might have a chance to accelerate our swing back, to the 
>> micro, the local, the individual in equally strong, long-term ways.  It took 
>> us a while to get there, but the message coming clearer now is "wear a 
>> mask," for instance, "to protect others..."  And inside of that, this seems 
>> like a visceral reminder that "what you, the little individual does -- does 
>> matter."  It matters with masks and the virus, but it can be, 

Re: [OSList] The New Space Race?

[agusj via OSList]

 Hi Peggy!
Thanks for share this The psychologist, Shelley Taylor, working with a team of 
women, found women tended to respond differently. They took care of the 
vulnerable and worked together.
I love it! I knew in my profound self that there should be another way.
Thanks a lot!
Warm regards
Agustín

On Thursday, April 16, 2020, 04:16:09 PM GMT-5, Peggy Holman via OSList 
 wrote:  
 
 Hi Michael,
Thanks for opening this conversation. I’ve been thinking about something 
similar, with a slightly different emphasis. I’ve been struck by how frequently 
I’m hearing “we’re all in this together”. So I’ve been thinking about how it is 
a time of both personal responsibility AND a sense of the greater good that has 
never existed in my lifetime. (We’re about the same age.) Even talk of 
sacrifice. Something I recall my parents talking about from their youth in 
World War 2.
Something that has intersected this mulling has been watching the amazing 
amount of constructive journalism happening right now. Practical, responsive, 
listening to the questions from the public. And, of course, the generosity of 
people self-organizing to help others.
One last element in my thinking about this: "tend and befriend" rather than 
"fight or flight.” In brief, in 2000, a woman psychologist looked at the 
research that led to coining the phrase fight or flight to characterize human 
response to threat or stress. Turns out, like much of that early social science 
research, it was done primarily with men. The psychologist, Shelley Taylor, 
working with a team of women, found women tended to respond differently. They 
took care of the vulnerable and worked together.
With nowhere to run, I see much of the response to Coronavirus following the 
pattern of tend and befriend. It’s a trend I’d sure like to see made conscious 
and furthered. I wrote a 2-minute piece about it: 
https://medium.com/@PeggyHolman/journalism-that-tends-and-befriends-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-1ec800ccf9ad.
I think fighting and fleeing less and tending and befriending more encompasses 
both personal responsibility and the common good.
Be well and stay sane,Peggy





Peggy Holman
Co-founder
Journalism That Matters
15347 SE 49th Place
Bellevue, WA  98006
206-948-0432
www.journalismthatmatters.org
www.peggyholman.com
Twitter: @peggyholman
JTM Twitter: @JTMStream

Enjoy the award winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity










On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:40 PM, Michael Herman via OSList 
 wrote:
Hi all, 
I had a thought recently that might be interesting here, and that maybe you can 
add on to, as a story and conversation here.  And then in the world.  This 
overlaps with some other recent threads, too, I think.  
As background, I'm exactly old enough that the moon landing is, as best I can 
tell, my oldest memory.  I've seen pictures of stuff that happened before, but 
I clearly remember the space toys being given away at gas stations, our family 
buying our first color TV, and (just like now) keeping our distance... in that 
case we were supposed to stay six feet from the new set.  
>From that global moment came all kinds of "big blue marble" photos, Bucky 
>Fuller's "Spaceship Earth," and other images.  Now we had a picture of "all in 
>this together" where "all" really was every human.  And then, a few decades 
>later, we've created a global network, a global economy, and global epidemics. 
> Not everyone made a direct, conscious connection about those images from 
>space, but somehow we all grew up participating in the creation of these 
>global structures and phenomena.
 Now I think we might have a chance to accelerate our swing back, to the micro, 
the local, the individual in equally strong, long-term ways.  It took us a 
while to get there, but the message coming clearer now is "wear a mask," for 
instance, "to protect others..."  And inside of that, this seems like a 
visceral reminder that "what you, the little individual does -- does matter."  
It matters with masks and the virus, but it can be, and I hope it will be, 
quickly translated to the plastic we use, the miles we drive, the other things 
we purchase and reinforce with our money, the way we manage emotions in groups, 
and so on.  It matters for everyone to manage their own "stuff," their own 
behavior, purchases, words, and other choices.  
This is what I hope we might be learning, anyway.  And within all of the 
possibilities, choosing to take responsibility for one's own experience, 
actively choosing to be learning and contributing, seems to me about the best 
choices we could focus on, each of us, individually and personally.  What we've 
been saying all along, in various ways, that individual agency and actions 
matter, seems more important and understandable that ever.  
This makes me curious if and how what is happening now with the virus and what 
we've all been teaching and practicing and inviting "in open space," might 
shape the 

Re: [OSList] The New Space Race?

[Marc C. Trudeau via OSList]

Hi, Michael!

I’m having similar thoughts, that this virus has created the liminal moment for 
all these ideas and impulses to emerge into concrete social networks and 
practices, many of which we can’t even imagine. I, for one, am offering to Open 
Space in each community I touch, starting with my alma mater, Worcester 
Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA, USA. My intent is to create space 
for people to process this experience together. We began by offering the 
extended community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni a series of OST 
gatherings that my compadres and I have dubbed, "WPI - 'In This Together,'” 
with the theme, “How will we, the WPI community, support each other through 
this crisis?”. (We are, in fact, employing a rules mashup of OST and 
https://liveingreatness.com/core-protocols/the-core-commitments/, which I’ll 
share more about here another day.) The first session drew about 20 to a 
four-hour event. The closing circle asked to reconvene every two weeks; next 
event is on 4/27.

Peace and health,

Marc
—
Marc Trudeau
LikeBreathin.com
mobile +1 (774) 641-8302

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Re: [OSList] The New Space Race?

[R Chaffe via OSList]

Thanks Peggy,
I associate the current realities to the first time we saw the image of our 
blue green orb hanging in space.  Our home.  Our Earth, there is only one of us 
in the solar system.  The image was passive and the threats etc did not 
immediately hit home.  Now we are all vulnerable, the whole world to an 
organism that kills.

The response is interesting to follow as well as lead.  As a family we have now 
celebrated a 40th and a 10th birthday, Easter Day had the whole family together 
reaching out to each other.   My Doctors and Specialists are using Skype, zoom 
etc to consult saving heaps of time and money.  We are exploring ways of 
conversing with each other as well as encouraging participation.  The last zoom 
meeting had over 460 participants and I heard every word and could ask 
questions via email it was like a personal interview with the Federal Minister 
for Health.

Now my family is adapting to school at home.  Very much a new learning 
environment.  My family have set up school spaces and really have adapted very 
quickly.  

As we try things to explore the chaos and develop responses in complexity I 
would rather learn than liable actions because of the newness and completeness 
of our responses.   Spiral Dynamics gives us some clues as to how the changes 
might develop as w again strive for that self organising, self actuating  
structure.   

It seems to me right now there are many bees and butterflies along with highly 
energised groups living out the Open Space principles.  How good is that!  



Regards
Rob

> On 17 Apr 2020, at 7:25 am, Peggy Holman via OSList 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Thanks for opening this conversation. I’ve been thinking about something 
> similar, with a slightly different emphasis. I’ve been struck by how 
> frequently I’m hearing “we’re all in this together”. So I’ve been thinking 
> about how it is a time of both personal responsibility AND a sense of the 
> greater good that has never existed in my lifetime. (We’re about the same 
> age.) Even talk of sacrifice. Something I recall my parents talking about 
> from their youth in World War 2.
> 
> Something that has intersected this mulling has been watching the amazing 
> amount of constructive journalism happening right now. Practical, responsive, 
> listening to the questions from the public. And, of course, the generosity of 
> people self-organizing to help others.
> 
> One last element in my thinking about this: "tend and befriend" rather than 
> "fight or flight.” In brief, in 2000, a woman psychologist looked at the 
> research that led to coining the phrase fight or flight to characterize human 
> response to threat or stress. Turns out, like much of that early social 
> science research, it was done primarily with men. The psychologist, Shelley 
> Taylor, working with a team of women, found women tended to respond 
> differently. They took care of the vulnerable and worked together.
> 
> With nowhere to run, I see much of the response to Coronavirus following the 
> pattern of tend and befriend. It’s a trend I’d sure like to see made 
> conscious and furthered. I wrote a 2-minute piece about it: 
> https://medium.com/@PeggyHolman/journalism-that-tends-and-befriends-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-1ec800ccf9ad.
> 
> I think fighting and fleeing less and tending and befriending more 
> encompasses both personal responsibility and the common good.
> 
> Be well and stay sane,
> Peggy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Peggy Holman
> Co-founder
> Journalism That Matters
> 15347 SE 49th Place
> Bellevue, WA  98006
> 206-948-0432
> www.journalismthatmatters.org
> www.peggyholman.com
> Twitter: @peggyholman
> JTM Twitter: @JTMStream
> 
> Enjoy the award winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:40 PM, Michael Herman via OSList 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all, 
>> 
>> I had a thought recently that might be interesting here, and that maybe you 
>> can add on to, as a story and conversation here.  And then in the world.  
>> This overlaps with some other recent threads, too, I think.  
>> 
>> As background, I'm exactly old enough that the moon landing is, as best I 
>> can tell, my oldest memory.  I've seen pictures of stuff that happened 
>> before, but I clearly remember the space toys being given away at gas 
>> stations, our family buying our first color TV, and (just like now) keeping 
>> our distance... in that case we were supposed to stay six feet from the new 
>> set.  
>> 
>> From that global moment came all kinds of "big blue marble" photos, Bucky 
>> Fuller's "Spaceship Earth," and other images.  Now we had a picture of "all 
>> in this together" where "all" really was every human.  And then, a few 
>> decades later, we've created a global network, a global economy, and global 
>> epidemics.  Not everyone made a direct, conscious connection about those 
>> images from space, but somehow we all grew up 

Re: [OSList] The New Space Race?

[Peggy Holman via OSList]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for opening this conversation. I’ve been thinking about something 
similar, with a slightly different emphasis. I’ve been struck by how frequently 
I’m hearing “we’re all in this together”. So I’ve been thinking about how it is 
a time of both personal responsibility AND a sense of the greater good that has 
never existed in my lifetime. (We’re about the same age.) Even talk of 
sacrifice. Something I recall my parents talking about from their youth in 
World War 2.

Something that has intersected this mulling has been watching the amazing 
amount of constructive journalism happening right now. Practical, responsive, 
listening to the questions from the public. And, of course, the generosity of 
people self-organizing to help others.

One last element in my thinking about this: "tend and befriend" rather than 
"fight or flight.” In brief, in 2000, a woman psychologist looked at the 
research that led to coining the phrase fight or flight to characterize human 
response to threat or stress. Turns out, like much of that early social science 
research, it was done primarily with men. The psychologist, Shelley Taylor, 
working with a team of women, found women tended to respond differently. They 
took care of the vulnerable and worked together.

With nowhere to run, I see much of the response to Coronavirus following the 
pattern of tend and befriend. It’s a trend I’d sure like to see made conscious 
and furthered. I wrote a 2-minute piece about it: 
https://medium.com/@PeggyHolman/journalism-that-tends-and-befriends-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-1ec800ccf9ad
 
.

I think fighting and fleeing less and tending and befriending more encompasses 
both personal responsibility and the common good.

Be well and stay sane,
Peggy







Peggy Holman
Co-founder
Journalism That Matters
15347 SE 49th Place
Bellevue, WA  98006
206-948-0432
www.journalismthatmatters.org
www.peggyholman.com
Twitter: @peggyholman
JTM Twitter: @JTMStream

Enjoy the award winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity 










> On Apr 16, 2020, at 12:40 PM, Michael Herman via OSList 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> I had a thought recently that might be interesting here, and that maybe you 
> can add on to, as a story and conversation here.  And then in the world.  
> This overlaps with some other recent threads, too, I think.  
> 
> As background, I'm exactly old enough that the moon landing is, as best I can 
> tell, my oldest memory.  I've seen pictures of stuff that happened before, 
> but I clearly remember the space toys being given away at gas stations, our 
> family buying our first color TV, and (just like now) keeping our distance... 
> in that case we were supposed to stay six feet from the new set.  
> 
> From that global moment came all kinds of "big blue marble" photos, Bucky 
> Fuller's "Spaceship Earth," and other images.  Now we had a picture of "all 
> in this together" where "all" really was every human.  And then, a few 
> decades later, we've created a global network, a global economy, and global 
> epidemics.  Not everyone made a direct, conscious connection about those 
> images from space, but somehow we all grew up participating in the creation 
> of these global structures and phenomena.
>  
> Now I think we might have a chance to accelerate our swing back, to the 
> micro, the local, the individual in equally strong, long-term ways.  It took 
> us a while to get there, but the message coming clearer now is "wear a mask," 
> for instance, "to protect others..."  And inside of that, this seems like a 
> visceral reminder that "what you, the little individual does -- does matter." 
>  It matters with masks and the virus, but it can be, and I hope it will be, 
> quickly translated to the plastic we use, the miles we drive, the other 
> things we purchase and reinforce with our money, the way we manage emotions 
> in groups, and so on.  It matters for everyone to manage their own "stuff," 
> their own behavior, purchases, words, and other choices.  
> 
> This is what I hope we might be learning, anyway.  And within all of the 
> possibilities, choosing to take responsibility for one's own experience, 
> actively choosing to be learning and contributing, seems to me about the best 
> choices we could focus on, each of us, individually and personally.  What 
> we've been saying all along, in various ways, that individual agency and 
> actions matter, seems more important and understandable that ever.  
> 
> This makes me curious if and how what is happening now with the virus and 
> what we've all been teaching and practicing and inviting "in open space," 
> might shape the world over the next few decades.  I wonder what kind of a 
> world might emerge from increasing awareness of personal agency, 
> responsibility,