Re: just wondering

I think this rings true for me -- what we seem to lack in the 'free market' is SPIRIT some ever-present, yet tough-to-define sense of being connected with each other and to live within this worldview. Free market capitalism - with its infamous 'trickle-down' effect - seems to have a built-in

Re: Open Space in a private school

Hi Nataly et al 1. We ran an Open Space with a large Anglican boys school (100 year history) earlier in the year - about 90 people attended comprised roughly one third parents, one third students and one third staff (whoever comes are the right people and it just happened that this was the way it

Re: just wondering

Marty Interesting question you raise. I certainly don't have a clear answer, but just a few thoughts. At San Francisco this year someone convened a very interesting conversation about what happens when communities "self organise themselves into dictatorships"...or words to that effect. I didn't

Open Space in a private school and schools in general

Hi, all of you interested in os in schools, since 1997, I have been involved with 32 open space events in education, 20 of them in schools (after-school-day care, elementary school, all varieties of the various highschools in the German system, special schools)and, as everyone seems to be repor

Re: just wondering

These days everything ( words, works, feelings, relationships, lives etc) became a subject for consumption under the so called "free market ideal". It seems that this "ideal" didn't bring social and economic justice and equality to our world. It even destroyed existing social and economic equil

Re: just wondering

One of the principles used to describe the why and the how of OST is self organizing systems. This is, in my opinion, the core of why OST works. Everything in creation with the possible exception of hydrogen is self organizing. Self organizing systems are self sustaining by definition or they di

Re: just wondering

Hello Pat. I've been trying to stay out of this conversation, but now I feel the need to wade in with my size 7½ boots. (That's small as UK sizes go - no sniggering please!) You say: > *They use what is available to them to form relationships and are present > and conscious in those possibiliti

Re: just wondering

Thanks for wondering aloud, Martin. a brief thought. I think that a free market is theoretically aligned with Open Space, but a truly free market doesn't really exist in practice and is not promoted by current regulations. It seems to me that what makes OS work is that it "regulates" principle

Re: Report from the field: OS with youth from 35 countries on the MDGs

Félicitations Wow ...ces jeunes qui s'inspire si rapidement du FO ...et cette idée que les gens se fassent des copies sur leurs clés usb quand le temps le permet... Tu es pretes pour de plus grands défis encore J'ai essayé de t'envoyer ce message 2 fois hier soir mais la connection bloquait.

Re: Open Space in a private school and schools in general

Dear Eddie, Harrison, Michael, Gerard and Michael! Thank you so much for your support and resourceful letters! I will look at the archives and might ask more specific questions when I get to that point! Have a great autumn! Nataly Marchuk Independent Associate Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. H

Re: just wondering

Hi JackI guess my comment reveals my worldview that everything in creation is intelligent and conscious. For me consciousness is about being aware of self and other selves and developing a protocol for possibilities for that interaction. It is an interest or openness, an awareness of what is pres

Re: just wondering

Pat - It seems to me that some of the difficulty may a confusion of apples with oranges. To my mind "Capitalism" is one (among many) hypothetical, man-made models (understandings) of the Market Place. The Market Place is a living, organic, self-organizing system. Like all such systems it will seek

Re: just wondering

Michael said: I love Harrison Owen's observation that "Whereever space is opened, peace breaks out" AND in parallel with that it seems to me possible that Open Space could be used for people to self organise to evil ends as well as to good ends (remember the famous TV Character, Maxwell Smart's com

Re: just wondering

Harrison and all We still want the tea back - or the taxes - we don't mind which! Sincere regards from the UK - from an OS practitioner who doesn't think there has ever been a truly free market, is very wary of control freaks on the Left and Right, believes in democracy (in the way that

Re: just wondering

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