Re: [OSList] Who Opens the Space?

Here's a story about when the group itself opens its own space... It's an excerpt from Dee Hock's book One from Many, pp. 205-207 (Kindle edition). "Three hours into the morning, an agenda for the remainder of the three-day meeting was proposed. It contained nothing about the failed effort at

Re: [OSList] OST as a way to go in addressing climate change perils

'They', the school kids, don't need OST? They will move forward regardless! It's 'we', the old people, who need to open the space. Just a thought... Best regards, Jan Höglund, Sweden ___ OSList mailing list To post send emails to

Re: [OSList] Is there experience in developing Open Space further in organizations and networks after the initial intervention

Thanks for your reflections Harrison! Rachel Naomi Remen also speaks about 'who and what' we already are: "The power to repair the world is already in you." "In befriending life, we do not make things happen according to our own design. We uncover something that is already happening in us and

Re: [OSList] Is there experience in developing Open Space further in organizations and networks after the initial intervention

Many thanks to Harrison Owen and Peggy Holman for sharing this — and to Birgitt Williams, of course! And now, twenty years and more later, what are your reflections? /Jan Höglund, Sweden ___ OSList mailing list To post send emails to

Re: [OSList] Brett Wood Podcast

Hi Michael and all, Michael M Pannwitz wrote May 21, 2017: > Gunnar Hjelholt, the fellow who founded social psychology in Denmark, > spent time in a forced labor camp in Germany as a young man toward the > end of WWII. Reflections on that experience were published many years > later in:

Re: [OSList] Brett Wood Podcast

Harrison asked: What is this justification for this travesty? There's no justification! But an organization's routine way of doing things is at risk when it begins to embrace life. The real power in the universe is creativity. When we serve creativity we get even more creativity. But

Re: [OSList] Research OST

Michael, You wrote: > Point is, that "research" along the Quaker line, is what I think OST is the > best approach to without formally being a Quaker. I just want to clarify that I'm not a Quaker myself, but that I do believe that communal discernment is a human potential. The similarities

Re: [OSList] Research OST

Hi Hege, One book which can be interesting in relation to research on OST is "A Quaker Approach to the Conduct of Research: Collaborative Practice and Communal Discernment" by Gray Cox et al. I'm personally very interested in how communal discernment can be used as a practice to enhance