This article, not very long, seems to be describing what might be the smallest open spaces we know about: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mitochondria-are-more-like-a-motherboard-than-the-powerhouse-of-the-cell/ The images of mitochondria "socializing" look a lot like what we do with groups, no? And the effects on organisms seem to match what we might describe happens in organizations running on open space. Turtles and open space, all the way down. -- Michael Herman Michael Herman Associates 312-280-7838 (mobile) MichaelHerman.com OpenSpaceWorld.org

That’s a tiny Open Space for sure! Interesting! Thanks for sharing Michael Thomas Från: Michael Herman via OSList <everyone@oslist.org> Skickat: den 2 juni 2025 22:28 Till: OS list <everyone@oslist.org> Ämne: [OSList] The Smallest Open Spaces? This article, not very long, seems to be describing what might be the smallest open spaces we know about: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mitochondria-are-more-like-a-motherboard-than-the-powerhouse-of-the-cell/ The images of mitochondria "socializing" look a lot like what we do with groups, no? And the effects on organisms seem to match what we might describe happens in organizations running on open space. Turtles and open space, all the way down. -- Michael Herman Michael Herman Associates 312-280-7838 (mobile) MichaelHerman.com<http://MichaelHerman.com> OpenSpaceWorld.org<http://OpenSpaceWorld.org>

Looking at these sentences: "The images of mitochondria "socializing" look a lot like what we do with groups, no?  And the effects on organisms seem to match what we might describe happens in organizations running on open space." got me thinking. I looked more and finally I rewrote them: "The images of mitochondria "socializing" look a lot like what groups do. All systems (families, neighborhoods, schools, parties, factories, churches, hospitals, villages, cities, countries, forests, oceans, beehives, universes...) run on open space as long as they are not controlled and the force of self-organization feels comfortable." In the "Practice of Peace" (and several other books by Harrison) he went way back, millions of years before mitochondria, reporting on the search of the creation of life on planet Earth, for instance the work of Kauffman, in a way looking for the origin of self-organization... The Chapter  IV "Muddling Through" of "The Practice of Peace" tells his approach to the source... to the smallest of open space, as we call it now. Greetings from Berlin where I envy all of you who will gather at Worldwide Open Space on Open Space in Kenya... I is stuck in a tiny neighborhood in Berlin... mmp Am 03.06.2025 um 09:26 schrieb Thomas Herrmann via OSList: > > That’s a tiny Open Space for sure! > > Interesting! > > Thanks for sharing Michael > > Thomas > > *Från:*Michael Herman via OSList <everyone@oslist.org> > *Skickat:* den 2 juni 2025 22:28 > *Till:* OS list <everyone@oslist.org> > *Ämne:* [OSList] The Smallest Open Spaces? > > This article, not very long, seems to be describing what might be the > smallest open spaces we know about: > > https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mitochondria-are-more-like-a-motherboard-than-the-powerhouse-of-the-cell/ > > The images of mitochondria "socializing" look a lot like what we do > with groups, no?  And the effects on organisms seem to match what we > might describe happens in organizations running on open space. > > Turtles and open space, all the way down. > > > -- > > Michael Herman > Michael Herman Associates > > 312-280-7838 (mobile) > > MichaelHerman.com <http://MichaelHerman.com> > OpenSpaceWorld.org <http://OpenSpaceWorld.org> > > > OSList mailing list --everyone@oslist.org > To unsubscribe send an email toeveryone-leave@oslist.org > See the archives here:https://oslist.org/empathy/list/everyone.oslist.org Michael M Pannwitz Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany +49 30 7728000mmpannwitz@posteo.de See the Open Space World Map with 541 Open Space Workers living in 82 countries and active in 146 countries worldwide: www.openspaceworldmap.org This year the WOSonOS will be in Kenya, have a look https://www.wosonos2025.org/

Hi Michael, Great article on mitochondria. Thanks for sharing. What I liked very much is this phrase: “ The waterfall cannot be understood from its parts, only from its movement. And once the flow stops, there is no more waterfall. The waterfall is not a thing that appears and disappears. It is a process—a process that flows and stops flowing. Like a waterfall, you are not a thing. You are a process—an energetic process, to be precise.” Applies to all of us. And to the flow in Open Space gatherings. All my best, Tonnie [cid:image001.png@01DBDAA4.9CA0FED0] Van: Michael Herman via OSList <everyone@oslist.org> Verzonden: maandag 2 juni 2025 22:28 Aan: OS list <everyone@oslist.org> Onderwerp: [OSList] The Smallest Open Spaces? This article, not very long, seems to be describing what might be the smallest open spaces we know about: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mitochondria-are-more-like-a-motherboard-than-the-powerhouse-of-the-cell/ The images of mitochondria "socializing" look a lot like what we do with groups, no? And the effects on organisms seem to match what we might describe happens in organizations running on open space. Turtles and open space, all the way down. -- Michael Herman Michael Herman Associates 312-280-7838 (mobile) MichaelHerman.com<http://MichaelHerman.com> OpenSpaceWorld.org<http://OpenSpaceWorld.org>

> Début du message réexpédié : > > De: Tonnie van der Zouwen via OSList <everyone@oslist.org> > Objet: [OSList] Re: The Smallest Open Spaces? > Date: 11 juin 2025 à 07:44:08 UTC+2 > À: Michael Herman <michael@michaelherman.com>, OS list <everyone@oslist.org> > Répondre à: Tonnie van der Zouwen <info@tonnievanderzouwen.nl> > > Hi Michael, > > Great article on mitochondria. Thanks for sharing. What I liked very much is this phrase: > > “ The waterfall cannot be understood from its parts, only from its movement. And once the flow stops, there is no more waterfall. The waterfall is not a thing that appears and disappears. It is a process—a process that flows and stops flowing. Like a waterfall, you are not a thing. You are a process—an energetic process, to be precise.” > > Applies to all of us. And to the flow in Open Space gatherings. > > All my best, > Tonnie > >  > > > > Van: Michael Herman via OSList <everyone@oslist.org> > Verzonden: maandag 2 juni 2025 22:28 > Aan: OS list <everyone@oslist.org> > Onderwerp: [OSList] The Smallest Open Spaces? > > This article, not very long, seems to be describing what might be the smallest open spaces we know about: > > https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mitochondria-are-more-like-a-motherboard-than-the-powerhouse-of-the-cell/ > > The images of mitochondria "socializing" look a lot like what we do with groups, no? And the effects on organisms seem to match what we might describe happens in organizations running on open space. > > Turtles and open space, all the way down. > > > -- > > Michael Herman > Michael Herman Associates > 312-280-7838 (mobile) > > MichaelHerman.com <http://michaelherman.com/> > OpenSpaceWorld.org <http://openspaceworld.org/> > > > OSList mailing list -- everyone@oslist.org > To unsubscribe send an email to everyone-leave@oslist.org > See the archives here: https://oslist.org/empathy/list/everyone.oslist.org