Re: a very simple reason

2005-05-18 Thread Funda Oral
Kate, Welcome and thank you. Referring to your suggestion ; "one can create one's own local community of collaborative practice" I am working very hard on that. Only, sometimes i get tired and impatient. Funda - Original Message - From: "Kate Armstrong" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 20

Re: Thoughts on Self Organizing

2005-05-18 Thread Diane Gibeault
Cheryl, I like your description of the distinctions between organizing and emergence and I particularly like the chemistry metaphor. Diane -Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu]On Behalf Of Cheryl Honey Sent: May 18, 2005 3:39 PM To: osl...@listserv.bois

Re: a very simple reason...indeed

2005-05-18 Thread Elwin and Joan
--- Raffi Aftandelian wrote: > I recall a number of years back that I wondered, well, what comes > after the last paradigm. And now I think I realize that many people > have already probably answered the question. I don't think it's > appropriate to try to answer it on the listserv, maybe for the

Re: a very simple reason

2005-05-18 Thread Funda Oral
As i am very interested in OST, as i want to work and live in that area; i am also questioning and thinking about OST community. This was one of the subjects discussed at OSonOS in Goa. I enjoy being a part of OSLIST, learning about your experiences, thoughts etc. But i am not sure if we are coop

Re: theology, teachings and OST

2005-05-18 Thread Harrison Owen
Masud -- I am sure there are many connections with other flavors of Islam -- I just happened to have been talking to a Sufi. Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Per

a very simple reason

2005-05-18 Thread Douglas D. Germann, Sr.
Funda-- << Maybe it is too much "self" organizing.."self" means you're alone, do << anything you can by your own, Your post brought something out for me--this word "organizing:" is it possible we are less about organizing than about something like swarming. Not sure I know what to call it.

Re: theology, teachings and OST

2005-05-18 Thread Artur Silva
Harrison: Harrison Owen wrote: One of the interesting things to me is that over the years people of a broad range of traditions (Buddhist, Hindi, Islam (at least the Sufi version), Judaism, Christianity, Taoism, Native American -- to name a few) have remarked on the similarities between wh

Re: OST question

2005-05-18 Thread Gabriela Ender
Hi BJ, between 1999 and 2002 we developed a text-based real-time conference system for holding OST meetings on-line. The following eBook (PDF) contains a describtion of the OpenSpace-Online® metholdology, application fields, with testimonials and user-feedbacks: http://www.openspace-online.com

The results we have come to expect

2005-05-18 Thread Douglas D. Germann, Sr.
To our good friends-- Here is the whole collection (so far) of what we see in Open Space. You are invited to share with us what you see, so we can grow this list. How might we use these observations? 1. People of good will work and think toward the end of the spectrum dealing with holistic view

Thoughts on Self Organizing

2005-05-18 Thread Cheryl Honey
Doug: Good point...organizing is deductive process with an intentional outcome...while inductive is emergence of what is already present from within. Open Space fosters emergence of activity and outcomes. No one knows the outcome...the open space allows people to awaken to matters of the heart wher

theology, teachings and OST

2005-05-18 Thread Funda Oral
Dear Michael, and everybody, OST is close to many teachings that exists in science, different religions, traditions. This can be another area of investigation maybe. But it's not somehow used as many as, as often as it should be. I observed following barriers that prevent it to be more widesprea

a very simple reason

2005-05-18 Thread Raffi Aftandelian
There's a very simple reason, I believe, why something else will probably come to replace OST in some 5 years time. I believe that when Harrison says that all there is is Open Space, he is right...but only in reference to our current prevailing worldview, our current paradigm. I believe that a ne

Re: a very simple reason

2005-05-18 Thread Harrison Owen
Ah Raffi -- put me out to pasture, would you? Well I will go soon enough, but in the meantime, I guess I am having too much fun to leave the party. And when it comes to my hat, you are on very dangerous ground m'boy. Down in Texas (where I am not from) folks (males) will tell you that there are thr

Re: theology, teachings and OST

2005-05-18 Thread Masud Sheikh
0400, Harrison Owen wrote: > One of the interesting things to me is that over the years people of a > broad range of traditions (Buddhist, Hindi, Islam (at least the Sufi > version), Judaism, Christianity, Taoism, Native American - to name a > few) have remarked on the similarities between what h

Re: SV: New Member

2005-05-18 Thread Pannwitz, Michael M
Dear Lise, funny, I had an entirely different perception regarding Craigs comment "Theologically, it has some implications that I have not come close to digesting" Not being an academically trained theologian I have several times been surprised by one of them coming up to me and pointing out how cl

Re: a very simple reason

2005-05-18 Thread Kate Armstrong
Hello from another new listserv member! I was encouraged to explore OST by Michael Pannwitz, Lisa Heft, John Engle, and John Van Houten. My original introduction to OST was as a sort of "free-for-all" minor piece of a large group meeting, and I was horrified by what I thought was a complete lack o

Community Building workshop in philadelpha

2005-05-18 Thread john engle
good morning oslisters. you are invited to a Community Building workshop that my colleague is organizing in philadelphia june 25 and 26. learn more at: http://www.members.dca.net/jpkahn/cbw-phila.pdf john http://JohnEngle.blogspot.com - Reflections about Haiti, life, and our work. http://John

SV: New Member

2005-05-18 Thread Lise Damkjær
Hallo Craig! Nice that you joined the dialogue here - I certainly do remember you from Practice of peace in NYC. You really are brave admitting that the theology in OS causes you troubles - and "oh shit-experiences" I guess ;-) I wonder why the flow and the philosophy of open space is so distant to

Re: theology, teachings and OST

2005-05-18 Thread Harrison Owen
One of the interesting things to me is that over the years people of a broad range of traditions (Buddhist, Hindi, Islam (at least the Sufi version), Judaism, Christianity, Taoism, Native American -- to name a few) have remarked on the similarities between what happens in Open Space (or one might c

New Member

2005-05-18 Thread Craig Gilliam
Greetings. My name is Craig. I did my first Open Space with Harrision Owen in NYC in January. It has taken me this long to enter into the conversation. I am fascinated by Open Space and continue to process the experience. I work with organizations -- primarily religious congregations/institut

Re: OST question

2005-05-18 Thread Lucas Gonzalez
I believe that on the internet, The Law of Two Feet may become The Law of Two (or Ten, if you've so been trained) FINGERS - as each person can choose to reply to messages they find disturbing, or not. Ok, it may ocasionally be the law of ONE finger: the one you use to press "delete". Sometimes yo