[OSList] Wosonos 2018 program plan

I like to present the program plan for the Wosonos 2018, see below We are already having registrations from at least China, Sir Lanka, Israel, The European Countries, USA, Canada and inquiries from a few other countries. It will be an exciting event where talent and experience are faced with the t

Re: [OSList] A Question About Safety

David, Having read your later explanation of "safe", I feel it's also useful to look a bit closer at "self-organization". From a systemic perspective, it is impossible for a complex system (like an org, or a group of people within) to *not* self-organize. It does not matter whether conditions

Re: [OSList] A Question About Safety

Hi David... I guess the question for me would be: What do you mean by safe? If safe mean something like total stasis where nothing changes and everything is known in advance -- then I am sure self organization, which is actually just another name for evolution, would be slithery slow. After all,

Re: [OSList] A Question About Safety

Here is the currently prevailing definition for [psychological safety]: This week, Google published a list of the five traits that its most successful teams share

Re: [OSList] A Question About Safety

Dear David, In my opinion YES, it CAN be too safe to support self-organization. Me with Gabriela Galambvari, Stratis Karras and Prof. Nigel Roome, measured Organizational Learning in an Embassy and we found that due to their information-safety standards their OL capacity was significantly compr

Re: [OSList] A Question About Safety

Forgive the explanations/examples being from a different time… 1969 From: OSList on behalf of "Royle, Karl via OSList" Reply-To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Date: Tuesday, 21 August 2018 at 11:58 To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Cc: Karl Royle Subject: Re: [O

Re: [OSList] A Question About Safety

And this too ten principles of learning that Rogers (1969, pp. 157-164) abstracted from his own experience: 1. Human beings have a natural potentiality for learning. “They are curious about their world, until and unless this curiosity is blunted by their experience in our educational system” (p

Re: [OSList] A Question About Safety

Carl Rogers, in Freedom to Learn … talks about this Rogers (1969) listed five defining elements of significant or experiential learning: 1. It has a quality of personal involvement – Significant learning has a quality of personal involvement in which “the whole person in both his feeling an

Re: [OSList] A Question About Safety

Quoting from Harrison in *The Practice of Peace.* Stuart Kaufman's original work which focused on biological systems aka the emergence of life on earth describes five pre-conditions for open space, one of which is "*A safe, nutrient-rich environment." *Harrison goes on to describe the equivalent