Thanks Harrison. Your thoughts give me a sense of peace and balance in the
midst of my anticipation (sometimes anxiety). My limited experience has been
that creating and holding the space is one of the more subtle aspects of the
art.
Joe
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911 has prompted me to look for ways to be philanthropic with my work. I have
decided to volunteer economic development oriented consultation in third
world nations. As a pilot project I have called upon contacts in a German
foreign aid organization in Nepal. I had been told by several Nepali
busi
Thank you for your clear thinking and direct words Paul. You are not a lone
wolf in this space. I see these things much as you do.
I have an image of the people that were on the fourth plane that crashed in a
field in Pennsylvania instead of into a building somewhere else. My guess is
that most
"Reliance on intelligence alone results in rebelliousness. Exercise of
humaness alone results in weakness. Fixation on trust alone results in folly.
Dependence on the strength of courage results in violence. Excessive
sternness of command results in cruelty. When one has all five virtues
together,
In a message dated 9/23/01 10:11:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
owe...@mindspring.com writes:
<< The Way of the Warrior. >>
Amen, Harrison
Joe Paul
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One of the members of this group is hosting a training event in Toronto this
winter. I have misplaced information about that event and would like to
pass it on. Please post contact information again here. Thanks so much.
Joe Paul
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I am looking for a seasoned OS practitioner in Portland, Oregon. Is anyone on
this list serve a Portlander or know of a practitioner who is? The gig is to
do a teaser 2 hour OS that is meant to lead up to a 2 day event within a few
of months
Thanks for the help
Joe Paul
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In a message dated 12/7/00 5:14:44 PM Pacific Standard Time,
bjpet...@amug.org writes:
<< There are definitely other things I see that need to be addressed in
this situation before deciding that open space would be appropriate. >>
BJ,
I work exclusively with family businesses and their advisors.
Susan,
Since this is a educational/marketing event you have set up, you might just
take them through the first couple of hours of an OS event (circle talk,
market place, etc) using the sign up wall as if it were going to actually be
a three day event. (You would need to give as much attention to t
Very nicely done website Kerry
Joe
Nancie,
Once upon a time I sold the concept of hiring Harrison Owen to facilitate the
annual conference of my own professional association in OS. The Board of
Directors (made up of Investment Bankers, Lawyers, CPA's, & Management
Consultants) who made the decision found it helpful to be able to
I greatly appreciate the recetn very insightful postings on knowledge
management issues. There have also been several links that will be of great
interest to any drawn to this subject. To those links I would add
http://www.outsights.com/systems/kmgmt/kmgmt.htm
There is a very clear discussion of s
Brigit and David,
You seem concerned that the process of knowledge management is some kind of
spiritual rip off. I am not suggesting that OST might be used to capture the
essential essence of people and leave them less than they were, or their
system less that it was.
The truth is that knowledge
I am expanding my consulting practice into the area of "Knowledge
Management". I am especially interested in the transfer of knowledge and
knowledge systems during the succession process (transfer of leadership,
ownership, management between generations in family owned businesses). Some
of my cli
Here is a response from a strong "J" type (exec director of an professional
association) when I ask how the recent OS even went.
"The open space design seemed to go very well. At times, I wondered
about the value, but the participants loved it. That's what's important.
There are things division
Pete,
Your question stimulates me to suggest William Bridges' book, "The Character
of Organizations". He has formulated a typology based on Meyers Briggs
concepts and identified 16 organizational types that correspond to the 16
individual types.
In addition to the question of whether OS resonates
In a message dated 3/1/99 12:14:31 AM Pacific Standard Time,
stillin...@aol.com writes:
<< Joe,
I'm just saying that I think I'm hearing that OS is about trusting the
process
which constantly acknowledges the inherent wisdom of the group and the
individuals. And that's very different from the w
In a message dated 2/25/99 12:07:56 PM Pacific Standard Time,
ralp...@earthlink.net writes:
> "intuitive and idiosyncratic judgement on the spur of the moment."
I thought I read:
"One of those times, I did sense that I had relatively little
credibility on the topic in question, so I might as wel
This question of having a dual relationship as an OS facilitator seems an
issue of professional responsibility that is analogous to the issue of
therapists having dual relationships with their clients, which is strickly and
unequivocally prohibited by all behavioral science licensing boards that I
It sounds like you have created a wonderful learning environment for your
group of 8 facilitators. When I did my first two Open Space events I engaged
a consultant to coach me through them. But I didn't think to have here come
to the event itself to coach me in the midst of the experience. That
Earlier references to self-orgaizing systems drew me to something I read a
while ago that is relevant to OS. It is from "A Simpler Way" by Margaret
Wheatly (page 46-47)
"Life wants to happen. It calls itself into existence. Out of all information
and all possibilities, an entity comes into form.
In a message dated 1/21/99 9:05:44 AM Pacific Standard Time,
dferr...@placer.ca.gov writes:
<< One of the things that caught my attention most in the whole Open Space
meme is that self-organizing systems don't need a facilitator to organize
them. >>
But they often need someone to assume the respo
In a message dated 98-10-29 12:10:44 EST, you write:
<< The movement between chaos and order. The movement between change and
continutity?? >>
Your question causes me to think about what is doing the moving. It also
leads me to speculate that it is only our version of consciousness that makes
th
In a message dated 10/27/98 4:39:38 PM Pacific Standard Time,
birg...@worldchat.com writes:
<< I would like to understand your offering of
"between the forces of continuity and forces of change". I see continuity
and change as similar to each other, part of the same force. I would love to
hear
Sounds really good to me Karen.
Brigitt you asked me to say more about continuity and change. (that phrase is
very much with me because I put on a confernce that Harrison Owen facilitated
for us called Continuity and Change: Expanding the Possibilties. It was a huge
success and as the co-chair of
Also Bert, I speculate from your nickname that the A in AV stands for Albert.
However there is a long line of AV Elliotts (Amerigo Vespucci) in one branch
of my family and I am wondering if you might be a long lost cousin? If you
are or have intrest in Elliotts with two l's and t's contact me at
f
Bert, My experience is that all living systems live in a dynamic tension
between the forces of continuity and the forces of change. It is predictable
that movement in one direction creates a balancing response in another. The
important thing is that people trust each other enough (or at least th
In a message dated 10/26/98 4:17:29 PM Pacific Standard Time,
ldek...@primenet.com writes:
<< issues, ideas or suggestions >> for web site
Make it a 3-D environment
Joe
I would greatly appreciate any words of wisdom any of you may have in
combining Open Space and CyberSpace. I am co-chair of an international
conference for an organization. It is our annual conference and the
association's members are advisors and consultants from many disciplines who
serve famil
Peg,
I think that the group I am part of (
http://www.aspenfamilybusiness.com/";>
http://www.aspenfamilybusiness.com ) as a self organizing system. The
group is 10 years old, there are 5 of us in the group, there is no heirarchy,
we all live in different parts of the country, and we only meet fa
In a message dated 98-04-21 10:55:49 EDT, you write:
<< If people are turning away from Open Space because they saw what
they were told was Open Space and were turned off by it, that is a problem.
However, since "Open Space" and "OST" are not trademarks, there's little that
can be done to preve
Birgitt,
Without permutations, we would still be one celled organisms hanging out in a
hot spring somewhere. It seems to me that evolution needs to have lots of
experiments that don't work. Just as much so in the evolution of mind, and
social systems as in biology. There is a bigger Open Space w
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