Re: [OSList] Opening Space

2014-11-11 Thread Harrison Owen via OSList
Dan -- not quite sure where you are going, but if I had an answer it would go something like this: "Sometimes... It all depends." Harrison Winter Address 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-2093 Summer Address 189 Beaucaire Ave. Camden, ME 04843 207-763-3261 Webs

Re: [OSList] Opening Space

2014-11-11 Thread Daniel Mezick via OSList
Hi Harrison, Here is where I am...been thinking about this: "Everyone's already IN open space, they're just scared of it." So here goes: 1. Reality: Its all open space all the time. In that environ, then, Lawof2Feet applies. "Go somewhere you can get what you say you want: to contribute and/

Re: [OSList] [SPAM] - Re: Opening Space

2014-11-11 Thread Annamarie Pluhar via OSList
Hi Dan, hi Harrision, hi everyone else, Yup, according the the spiritual stuff I read, and what I've experienced, we always get what we intend... the tricky thing is knowing what we really, really, really intend. I'll use myself as an example ... this summer I was worried and anxious about i

Re: [OSList] Opening Space

2014-11-11 Thread Harrison Owen via OSList
To #1 I might say... I have no idea whether you will get what you want. But I'm absolutely sure that you will never find it if you don't look. Then again, you may find something better along the way. As for #2... That one is definitely above my pay grade. Harrison Winter Address 7808

Re: [OSList] Opening Space

2014-11-11 Thread Michael M Pannwitz via OSList
Dear Harrison, as for #2 my take is that there is no such thing as "the" passionate and responsible and neither such thing as "the" dispassionate and irresponsible. At least I have never seen such critters in my os-life. And appart from that there are all kinds of realities. Which probably c

[OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

2014-11-11 Thread Peggy Holman via OSList
Hi all, I got the query below from my friend Tom Atlee. It seemed like a great question for the list. Since Tom isn’t on it, I told him that I’d forward any responses. appreciatively, Peggy > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Tom Atlee > Date: November 10, 2014 at 12:51:54 PM PST > Subject:

Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

2014-11-11 Thread Barry Owen via OSList
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Re: [OSList] Opening Space

2014-11-11 Thread Daniel Mezick via OSList
yes, According to the idea, "intent=result", my intent in posting does have "something to do with" eliciting a response from you, Michael. (And Anna Marie. And Harrison. So far...) Likewise, I am getting what I want, or: at least what my unconscious wants. As a result of this thread, I'm pla

Re: [OSList] Opening Space

2014-11-11 Thread Royle, Karl via OSList
Are you on drugs Daniel? :-) Sent by iPhone Karl Royle Head of Enterprise and Commercial Development Faculty of Education Health and Wellbeing University of Wolverhampton 01902323006 07815416698 @karlroyle. On Twitter Karlr61 Skype Www.academia.edu/karlroyle On

Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

2014-11-11 Thread Jeff Aitken via OSList
Reminds me about the conference where the streaming twitter feed was projected behind the keynote speaker, showing real-time critiques of his speech that he could not see. Imagine a tweeted call to abandon the keynote and gather down the hall. : ) I know Tom's idea is more subtle and diplomatic.

Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

2014-11-11 Thread paul levy via OSList
I wonder if anyone reading this has experiences to share of what I am about to describe. Most published stories of open space tend to go by the book. The book is often referred to as the *user *

Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

2014-11-11 Thread Royle, Karl via OSList
Great! Sent by iPhone Karl Royle Head of Enterprise and Commercial Development Faculty of Education Health and Wellbeing University of Wolverhampton 01902323006 07815416698 @karlroyle. On Twitter Karlr61 Skype Www.academia.edu/karlroyle On 11 Nov 2014, at 20:51

Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

2014-11-11 Thread Jeff Aitken via OSList
http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/ Majestic doesn't even do it justice. Tho frankly the lady with a thousand cats in her house also comes to mind. (My apologies for the irreverence) Jeff Original message From: Jeff Aitken Date:11/11/2014 12:29 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Peggy Holma

Re: [OSList] Opening Space

2014-11-11 Thread Daniel Mezick via OSList
Hi Karl, What I am really, really interested in doing with others here is exploring the "all open space all the time" idea. Harrison brings this concept up quite a lot, most recently in the video interview he posted just this week. The "Law of 2 Feet" and the "Whatever happens" principle as

Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

2014-11-11 Thread Jeff Aitken via OSList
The relevant page. Again apologies for taking the bandwidth. http://kairos.laetusinpraesens.org/dialo_s Jeff Original message From: Jeff Aitken Date:11/11/2014 1:12 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Peggy Holman ,World wide Open Space Technology email list Cc: Tom Atlee Subject: RE:

Re: [OSList] Opening Space

2014-11-11 Thread Michael Herman via OSList
i shared this with tricia the other day. maybe it fits here: in explaining the buddhist concept of emptiness, mingyur rinpoche (tibetan teacher) points out that they're not talking about nothingness or the void... while the buddha did teach that the nature of the mind -- in fact, the nature of

Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

2014-11-11 Thread Daniel Mezick via OSList
Paul, This is great. I have some questions, hopefully intriguing questions, which I hope you are willing to answer...I'm very interested in learning about /your/ thoughts on these questions Question 1 background: In this 1st person account, there are several people occupying /roles/:

Re: [OSList] Opening Space

2014-11-11 Thread Daniel Mezick via OSList
Ok, so "inconceivable emergence" and/or "unnamable possibility" then ? On 11/11/14 4:47 PM, Michael Herman wrote: i shared this with tricia the other day. maybe it fits here: in explaining the buddhist concept of emptiness, mingyur rinpoche (tibetan teacher) points out that they're not talki

Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

2014-11-11 Thread Harrison Owen via OSList
Tell Tom to Join in! He’s welcome!! And you could also tell him that I do believe he is working much too hard. No need to “plan” the subversion. Seems to happen quite regularly, all by itself. Could cite instances, all of which would be embarrassing to some folks... But over the last several y

Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

2014-11-11 Thread Carmela Ariza via OSList
I love the idea of the guerrilla open space… The way Tom wrote his experience already fired me up! Perhaps if the risks are not as high - and the chance to generate or exacerbate conflict is low - this is a good thing to do… Cheers, Carms True happiness is a state of mind. Happiness is not

Re: [OSList] Opening Space

2014-11-11 Thread Carmela Ariza via OSList
Hello Daniel thanks for sharing this concept of emptiness…. yes, emptiness is not nothingness… it is still something but that something is perhaps beyond what we could ever imagine and we need the space to allow that emptiness to be for the something else's to come into being… cheers, carms

Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

2014-11-11 Thread Skye Hirst via OSList
yeah, indeed flash mob Open Space always a great possibility. Thanks, Skye On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Royle, Karl via OSList < oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > Great! > > Sent by iPhone > Karl Royle > Head of Enterprise and Commercial Development > > Faculty of Education Health

Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

2014-11-11 Thread John Baxter via OSList
I hosted an 'Elephants' Gathering' at a conference once upon a time. I knew there were people there I wanted to talk to, but the program was of little interest. I didn't try to compete with the mainstream agenda, I put it in the evening. Nobody had any intent on the formalities of Open Space, bu

Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

2014-11-11 Thread Michael Herman via OSList
first, to paul, yes i've definitely done as you say. was a very small group of us, not a conference but a "team meeting" held too late in the day and made everyone ripe for some harmless mutiny. i led the charge or made the suggestion, and the next day we did the team meeting in open space. we p

Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

2014-11-11 Thread Jeff Aitken via OSList
I remember that story Michael! Some year afterward, John Abbe came south from Eugene and we cofacilitated a two day 'recent changes camp' outside and inside of the Social Text offices in Palo Alto. Folks from Europe were there too. Jeff On 11/11/14, Michael Herman via OSList wrote: > first, to p