Re: Management in a World of Turtles

2005-02-18 Thread Lucas Gonzalez
--- Harrison Owen escribió: > I think we all do what we can do -- but your efforts > might be expanded were you to spend some time helping others to open > their own space. > In short do a training program. It doesn't have to be elaborate to be > effective. "Do a training program"? You mean par

Non-violence

2005-02-18 Thread Jim Metcalf
Dear friends in OS, Many of you will be interested in the latest book from the Albert Einstein Institute: Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Practice (Boston: Extending Horizons Books, Porter Sargent Publishers) 2005, 598 pp. This groundbreaking work builds o

Re: Management in a World of Turtles

2005-02-18 Thread Pannwitz, Michael M
In the last 7 years there have been about 13,000 people in osevents that I facilitated. Now divide 6.500.000.000 by 13.000 that would mean 500.000 facilitators working each at the same level as I have for the next 7 years to reach every human on this planet. Looking at the open space world map http

Re: Management in a World of Turtles

2005-02-18 Thread Harrison Owen
"Doing a Training program" is simply that. Invite some friends, colleagues, "paying guests" to learn about Open Space. Teach them what you know and move on. And then let them open space. That is the way we have done it all over the world. Some people actually make money on this -- not a lot -- but

November dates?

2005-02-18 Thread Lisa Heft
Hello, dear colleagues - A group of us are figuring out some details to host the 2005 Open Space on Open Space in the US, in November in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Some dates that look good for reserving a site include November 5-7, possibly also 11-13. For those of you who may be interested in co

Re: Management in a World of Turtles

2005-02-18 Thread Lucas Gonzalez
>think about the 6 and 1/2 billion potential clients >and come to the conclusion that we really don't have the >couches or ashrams in sufficient number to do the job. Do we, with OST? Could you imagine servicing so many clients, soon? I like the idea very much, but how do we get from here to the

Re: Management in a World of Turtles

2005-02-18 Thread Jennifer Hurley
On 2/16/05 9:09 AM, "Harrison Owen" wrote: > > Your friend, a manager in a middle sized organization, just had an > interesting experience. When he woke up this morning, there it was - a real > blinding flash of the obvious! Something that he had always known but never > quite had the courage to

Re: Language and self organizing systems

2005-02-18 Thread Lucas Gonzalez
Of course I must agree that language is self-organizing - and so is perception (I guess). Not that I understand how it works, but it happens all by itself, so it must be self-organizing? Language is part of a larger system, as it happens in countries where there is more than one language. Quite

Language and Self-Organizing Systems

2005-02-18 Thread Gilbert Brenson-Lazan
Hello,all. Great thread!!! All I can add is that many years of OS and other facilitating experiences in different countries, cultures and languages have convinced me of the wisdom and usefulness of the models of Radical Constructivism and the words (in a 1996 workshop) of Heinz Von Foerster:

Re: Management in a World of Turtles

2005-02-18 Thread Harrison Owen
Luccas -- when you say that "solid time" stands in your way, I can certainly understand. And if any one of us tried to do it all, the problem only gets impossible. I think we all do what we can do -- but your efforts might be expanded were you to spend some time helping others to open their own spa

Re: Management in a World of Turtles

2005-02-18 Thread Harrison Owen
A number of people have suggested that Focusing and Open Space have much in common, or perhaps much to give each other. I can certainly see the point after these conversations and having read some of the material. It seems to me that Eugene Gendlin's work could be very powerful for use in coaching