larry,
i'd like to echo your last paragraph...
Even though I have some training in ritual, I have not been very fond of
it. It becomes rote too easily. Finding a fit with the culture is
important. Minimizing it is important. Some is necessary to engage the
spirit in the room.
...and add that, wi
Ralph:
I guessed your tongue was in your cheek, but my experience is that the
"ritual" does make a difference. The ritual, even minimal, enhances the
power of the beginning of the Open Space if it fits the community and
culture. Or, it does the opposite. It and the facilitator connect to the
energ
Dear Friends,
I'm a bit surprised at the reaction to my little off-handed wise-crack.
Do we really think the direction one walks makes a big difference? I have
walked clockwise, counter-clockwise, in a weave, figure-eights, and randomly.
Other patterns, too, I guess. Can't recall e
for Ralph Copleman
I haven't found it any different in the southern hemisphere, though I
always use the talking stick anti-clockwise in the southern hemisphere
and clockwise in the northern hemisphere - and I work in both parts of
the world. I occasionally get mixed up which hemisphere I am in, an
Ralph:
It would be different, I bet. How the circle is walked does certainly
effect groups. I observed one set of colleagues Open the Space by each
walking a different circle within the larger circle and walk different
directions. One was speaking French and the other English. I think they
wound t
Dear Friends,
Several dozen open space events under my belt, and here's something new
that happened to me today...
After I did the introduction, a woman participant came up to me and said
that I had to be more careful, as I walked in circles, of people who may
suffer from motion sickness, as she
hello everyone,
been catching up with this thread with interest. thanks for your
question, birgitt. it's fun to see so many people together here. i was
just remembering what uwe said yesterday (in my time) about open space
being harrison's simple packaging of what so many others have talked
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the observation how "uninformed" audiences form opinions.
Thanks again for bringing this up.
regards Uwe
On 4/21/98, OSLIST wrote:
>Hello friends and colleagues,
>I am having a huge struggle and hope that we can get some dialogue
>going
>here that will help me out. The
It seems to be a quirk of human nature that form stays long after spirit has
departed. I experienced that in my own reaction to the religious rituals of
my youth that held no meaning for me. I believe it exists in the original
>intention of creating corporate charters centuries ago and what they
Prasad:
A thoughtful and insightful contribution.
Esther
I agree that there some underlying principles (4 + a law) that create the
conditions for real "open space" --- space that creates the conditions for
spirit connected self-organizing. I think there are some rituals that make
it more likely that the space will be deep and connected. However, rituals
I have been following the discussion with interest for many reasons. The first
one is my interest in open space and how I add or change something that I
intuitively feel that is needed. I do not necessarily mean to change the
spirit of open space but the letter of open space, I feel is to be
experi
Most of this has already been said by others but I'll add my 2 cents
anyway. At OT15 (you were there, Brigitt) someone put up a session on
"structure." I was intrigued so I went. He couldn't picture how
the Open Space format could work in a business setting, and wanted an
answer to this. Hi
I've enjoyed listening to the concerns, challenges and opportunities raised
by this thread. When I literally stumbled into "Open Space Technology," I
recognized the spirit and some elements of this methodology--from Bohmian
dialog to Native American rituals to experiential learning processes to
pe
Birgitt:
This brings up for me the problems of not at least copyrighting the terms.
Harrison Owen's coining of the name is associated with a particular
methodology. Even if he didn't accredit people in Open Space he could have
copyrighted the name and then what? I'm not sure if we'd be any further
Dear Birgitt,
Thanks for the reflections on "modified open space". I like what you are
saying, and I want to spend a bit of thinking time in response. I don't
have that time right now, but will do so within 24 hours or so. Talk to
you then. Cheers and blessings to all. BRIAN
Birgitt,
Thanks to all who are making this such a vital dialogue. I particularly
want to honour the observations from Kay of the deceptive simplicity of
Open Space and the challenges which come with this simplicity and Larry's
commitment to encouraging "true" connection to Spirit.
Time and again,
Open Space and the principles and law (an perspective on spirit) that inform
it are now inform almost every thing I do. I have used meeting process that
is more guided than Open Space, but included some of the same
principles--and have created the conditions for spirit in this way. I have
done that
Kay Vogt here.
I have been in this type of discussion before. In particular within the Carl
Rogers client- centered movement with regard to what is Rogerian therapy. The
same arguments that have already surfaced here have been raging there for
years. What has happened over a history of about 50 ye
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
Hello friends and colleagues,
I am having a huge struggle and hope that we can get some dialogue going
here that will help me out. The topic is "modified open space". Within me,
I have clarity that we either "Open Space" or we do not. For me there is no
such thing as modified O
Birgitt expressed some concerns about "modified open space." I find them quite
reasonable. 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 &quo
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