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Funda Oral
Tue, Feb 13, 2024 10:02 AM
Dear Harrison Owen,
Dear Chris Corrigan,
Dear OSList,
I think, we need Open Space Technology as described and written and
designed by Harrison Owen around the world.
However we don't need any Shaman.
I don't how much time to write my opinions but I never use these principles
with religious other spiritual references.
People understand these principles easily from their life, from where they
come from.
Thanks!
Funda Oral
www.aatorganizasyon.blogspot.com
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Chris Corrigan
February 12
One of the hundreds of Open Space Technology Principles posters I have
used in my time, this one from an Art of Hosting training in Minnesota in
2012, and designed by a team member.
There is a post going around on the internet called "The Four Laws of the
Shaman https://kasabrina.com/2023/03/19/the-four-laws-of-a-shaman/" or
the "Four Laws of Spirituality
https://www.trustfulmind.com/the-four-laws-of-spirituality/." The four
laws are ascribed to some unknown shaman or some exotic culture like
"Indian spirituality" or "Native American wisdom." You can visit the links
I've provided here to get a sense of the text. And, of course, this stuff
is all over Facebook, where it gets shared endlessly. The earliest
reference to these "Four Laws of a Shaman" I could find is from a Facebook
page in 2011.
This kind of thing always gets my hackles up because it is possible that
these sorts of sayings are attributable to a person who may be a specific
teacher in a specific spiritual lineage or tribal community. Erasing their
voice is a kind of colonization, so please don't share these kinds of
unattributed nuggets of wisdom unless you can quote a source.
In this case, however, the source is not a tribal elder from an exotic
locale, but is Harrison Owen from Maryland, USA and the "Four Laws" are
actually the original four principles of Open Space Technology. Here is one
version of these "four laws of a shaman" from the posts:
- "The person who comes into your life is the right person"
- "What happens is the only thing that could have happened"
- "Anytime it starts is the right time."
- "When something ends, it ends"
Anyone familiar with this blog or Open Space Technology will recognize
right away that these are the original four principles of Open Space
Technology, to whit:
- Whoever comes is the right people.
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
- Whenever it starts is the right time.
- When it's over, it's over.
(And there is a fifth principle that was added within the last decade or so
which says "Where ever it happens is the right place" but I'm old skool and
the truth is I forget that one all the time)
The original reference for these principles is Harrison's "Open Space
Technology: A User's Guide, first edition
https://www.amazon.com/Open-Space-Technology-Users-Guide/dp/0961820535"
originally published in 1992. The principles and the law of two feet are
outlined in Chapter Five, pp 68-74. Before that, these principles were
articulated in the late 1980s and published in the original set of notes
Harrison wrote about the process sometime in 1987 or 1988. You can find
that document
https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/papers/brief-users-guide-open-space-technology/?fbclid=IwAR2_Py36uia50LdBzWlzJpoCxTxC_RXNGAUHO8izSncl52rUUxKdYn4LONQat
the worldwide archive of the Open Space Technology community of practice.
Harrison is incredibly generous with his work, and you can find much of his
out-of-print work available at the Harrison Owen Library at
openspaceworld.org. There is a library of his papers there too.
https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/papers/
Sometimes, it is asserted that Harrison got these principles from a
Liberian village. This isn't true. Harrison did a stint in the US Peace
Corps in the 1960s and documented village life in Liberia while working on
community projects. You can read a beautiful photo essay of his
observations in "When the Devil Dances" at the Internet Archive. He
never claimed to see Open Space in action there. Rather, he was taken with
how the community addressed a complex agricultural issue, and he cut his
teeth on designing participatory processes in that work, which is
documented in some detail in The Practice of Peace
https://openspaceworld.org/hhowen/final%20pop%20hdsi.pdf..
The Organizational Transformation conferences he helped run in the early
1980s (documented here
https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/open-space-technology/) were the first
use of the method, specifically at OT3 in 1985. His story of how he came to
develop and use the method with many others is documented in his many
papers and books, especially Expanding Our Now. He has been interviewed
countless times, done TEDx talks and is always up for a chat, so if you
want to hear the story from the horse's mouth, you have abundant
opportunity to do so.
Harrison is an incredible guy, a deep river of experience and knowledge.
His folksy manner and his constant exhortations to simplify one's
facilitation practice don't come close to giving the full breadth of his
life's work its due. He is a priest, a theologian, a scholar of Near East
religion, myth and culture, a former bureaucrat, community organizer,
consultant, teacher, and author, and his whole life has only partially been
about Open Space. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't describe himself as a shaman
but he was an important mentor in my life. He was the first person to
introduce me to complexity theory, to spirit in organizations and to the
dynamics of self-organization which transformed my facilitation practice.
So. The next time you see these "shaman's laws" shared in your circles,
feel free to bring these receipts and give Harrison his due.
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Dear Harrison Owen,
Dear Chris Corrigan,
Dear OSList,
I think, we need Open Space Technology as described and written and
designed by Harrison Owen around the world.
However we don't need any Shaman.
I don't how much time to write my opinions but I never use these principles
with religious other spiritual references.
People understand these principles easily from their life, from where they
come from.
Thanks!
Funda Oral
www.aatorganizasyon.blogspot.com
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Chris Corrigan
February 12
*One of the hundreds of Open Space Technology Principles posters I have
used in my time, this one from an Art of Hosting training in Minnesota in
2012, and designed by a team member.*
There is a post going around on the internet called "The Four Laws of the
Shaman <https://kasabrina.com/2023/03/19/the-four-laws-of-a-shaman/>" or
the "Four Laws of Spirituality
<https://www.trustfulmind.com/the-four-laws-of-spirituality/>." The four
laws are ascribed to some unknown shaman or some exotic culture like
"Indian spirituality" or "Native American wisdom." You can visit the links
I've provided here to get a sense of the text. And, of course, this stuff
is all over Facebook, where it gets shared endlessly. The earliest
reference to these "Four Laws of a Shaman" I could find is from a Facebook
page in 2011.
This kind of thing always gets my hackles up because it is possible that
these sorts of sayings are attributable to a person who may be a specific
teacher in a specific spiritual lineage or tribal community. Erasing their
voice is a kind of colonization, so please don't share these kinds of
unattributed nuggets of wisdom unless you can quote a source.
In this case, however, the source is not a tribal elder from an exotic
locale, but is Harrison Owen from Maryland, USA and the "Four Laws" are
actually the original four principles of Open Space Technology. Here is one
version of these "four laws of a shaman" from the posts:
- "The person who comes into your life is the right person"
- "What happens is the only thing that could have happened"
- "Anytime it starts is the right time."
- "When something ends, it ends"
Anyone familiar with this blog or Open Space Technology will recognize
right away that these are the original four principles of Open Space
Technology, to whit:
- Whoever comes is the right people.
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
- Whenever it starts is the right time.
- When it's over, it's over.
(And there is a fifth principle that was added within the last decade or so
which says "Where ever it happens is the right place" but I'm old skool and
the truth is I forget that one all the time)
The original reference for these principles is Harrison's "Open Space
Technology: A User's Guide, first edition
<https://www.amazon.com/Open-Space-Technology-Users-Guide/dp/0961820535>"
originally published in 1992. The principles and the law of two feet are
outlined in Chapter Five, pp 68-74. Before that, these principles were
articulated in the late 1980s and published in the original set of notes
Harrison wrote about the process sometime in 1987 or 1988. You can find
that document
<https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/papers/brief-users-guide-open-space-technology/?fbclid=IwAR2_Py36uia50LdBzWlzJpoCxTxC_RXNGAUHO8izSncl52rUUxKdYn4LONQ>at
the worldwide archive of the Open Space Technology community of practice.
Harrison is incredibly generous with his work, and you can find much of his
out-of-print work available at the Harrison Owen Library at
openspaceworld.org. There is a library of his papers there too.
<https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/papers/>
Sometimes, it is asserted that Harrison got these principles from a
Liberian village. This isn't true. Harrison did a stint in the US Peace
Corps in the 1960s and documented village life in Liberia while working on
community projects. You can read a beautiful photo essay of his
observations in "When the Devil Dances" at the Internet Archive. He
never claimed to see Open Space in action there. Rather, he was taken with
how the community addressed a complex agricultural issue, and he cut his
teeth on designing participatory processes in that work, which is
documented in some detail in The Practice of Peace
<https://openspaceworld.org/hhowen/final%20pop%20hdsi.pdf.>.
The Organizational Transformation conferences he helped run in the early
1980s (documented here
<https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/open-space-technology/>) were the first
use of the method, specifically at OT3 in 1985. His story of how he came to
develop and use the method with many others is documented in his many
papers and books, especially Expanding Our Now. He has been interviewed
countless times, done TEDx talks and is always up for a chat, so if you
want to hear the story from the horse's mouth, you have abundant
opportunity to do so.
Harrison is an incredible guy, a deep river of experience and knowledge.
His folksy manner and his constant exhortations to simplify one's
facilitation practice don't come close to giving the full breadth of his
life's work its due. He is a priest, a theologian, a scholar of Near East
religion, myth and culture, a former bureaucrat, community organizer,
consultant, teacher, and author, and his whole life has only partially been
about Open Space. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't describe himself as a shaman
but he was an important mentor in my life. He was the first person to
introduce me to complexity theory, to spirit in organizations and to the
dynamics of self-organization which transformed my facilitation practice.
So. The next time you see these "shaman's laws" shared in your circles,
feel free to bring these receipts and give Harrison his due.
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Chris Corrigan
Tue, Feb 13, 2024 5:34 PM
Dear Harrison Owen,
Dear Chris Corrigan,
Dear OSList,
I think, we need Open Space Technology as described and written and
designed by Harrison Owen around the world.
However we don't need any Shaman.
I don't how much time to write my opinions but I never use these
principles with religious other spiritual references.
People understand these principles easily from their life, from where they
come from.
Thanks!
Funda Oral
www.aatorganizasyon.blogspot.com
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Chris Corrigan
February 12
One of the hundreds of Open Space Technology Principles posters I have
used in my time, this one from an Art of Hosting training in Minnesota in
2012, and designed by a team member.
There is a post going around on the internet called "The Four Laws of the
Shaman https://kasabrina.com/2023/03/19/the-four-laws-of-a-shaman/" or
the "Four Laws of Spirituality
https://www.trustfulmind.com/the-four-laws-of-spirituality/." The four
laws are ascribed to some unknown shaman or some exotic culture like
"Indian spirituality" or "Native American wisdom." You can visit the links
I've provided here to get a sense of the text. And, of course, this stuff
is all over Facebook, where it gets shared endlessly. The earliest
reference to these "Four Laws of a Shaman" I could find is from a Facebook
page in 2011.
This kind of thing always gets my hackles up because it is possible that
these sorts of sayings are attributable to a person who may be a specific
teacher in a specific spiritual lineage or tribal community. Erasing their
voice is a kind of colonization, so please don't share these kinds of
unattributed nuggets of wisdom unless you can quote a source.
In this case, however, the source is not a tribal elder from an exotic
locale, but is Harrison Owen from Maryland, USA and the "Four Laws" are
actually the original four principles of Open Space Technology. Here is one
version of these "four laws of a shaman" from the posts:
- "The person who comes into your life is the right person"
- "What happens is the only thing that could have happened"
- "Anytime it starts is the right time."
- "When something ends, it ends"
Anyone familiar with this blog or Open Space Technology will recognize
right away that these are the original four principles of Open Space
Technology, to whit:
- Whoever comes is the right people.
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
- Whenever it starts is the right time.
- When it's over, it's over.
(And there is a fifth principle that was added within the last decade or
so which says "Where ever it happens is the right place" but I'm old skool
and the truth is I forget that one all the time)
The original reference for these principles is Harrison's "Open Space
Technology: A User's Guide, first edition
https://www.amazon.com/Open-Space-Technology-Users-Guide/dp/0961820535"
originally published in 1992. The principles and the law of two feet are
outlined in Chapter Five, pp 68-74. Before that, these principles were
articulated in the late 1980s and published in the original set of notes
Harrison wrote about the process sometime in 1987 or 1988. You can find
that document
https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/papers/brief-users-guide-open-space-technology/?fbclid=IwAR2_Py36uia50LdBzWlzJpoCxTxC_RXNGAUHO8izSncl52rUUxKdYn4LONQat
the worldwide archive of the Open Space Technology community of practice.
Harrison is incredibly generous with his work, and you can find much of
his out-of-print work available at the Harrison Owen Library at
openspaceworld.org. There is a library of his papers there too.
https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/papers/
Sometimes, it is asserted that Harrison got these principles from a
Liberian village. This isn't true. Harrison did a stint in the US Peace
Corps in the 1960s and documented village life in Liberia while working on
community projects. You can read a beautiful photo essay of his
observations in "When the Devil Dances" at the Internet Archive. He
never claimed to see Open Space in action there. Rather, he was taken with
how the community addressed a complex agricultural issue, and he cut his
teeth on designing participatory processes in that work, which is
documented in some detail in The Practice of Peace
https://openspaceworld.org/hhowen/final%20pop%20hdsi.pdf..
The Organizational Transformation conferences he helped run in the early
1980s (documented here
https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/open-space-technology/) were the
first use of the method, specifically at OT3 in 1985. His story of how he
came to develop and use the method with many others is documented in his
many papers and books, especially Expanding Our Now. He has been
interviewed countless times, done TEDx talks and is always up for a chat,
so if you want to hear the story from the horse's mouth, you have abundant
opportunity to do so.
Harrison is an incredible guy, a deep river of experience and knowledge.
His folksy manner and his constant exhortations to simplify one's
facilitation practice don't come close to giving the full breadth of his
life's work its due. He is a priest, a theologian, a scholar of Near East
religion, myth and culture, a former bureaucrat, community organizer,
consultant, teacher, and author, and his whole life has only partially been
about Open Space. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't describe himself as a shaman
but he was an important mentor in my life. He was the first person to
introduce me to complexity theory, to spirit in organizations and to the
dynamics of self-organization which transformed my facilitation practice.
So. The next time you see these "shaman's laws" shared in your circles,
feel free to bring these receipts and give Harrison his due.
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I think you’ve misunderstood my post.
I was correcting this absurd idea that the principles were designed by some
unnamed “shaman” when actually it was Harrison.
Chris.
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 12:03 AM Funda Oral via OSList <everyone@oslist.org>
wrote:
> Dear Harrison Owen,
> Dear Chris Corrigan,
> Dear OSList,
>
> I think, we need Open Space Technology as described and written and
> designed by Harrison Owen around the world.
>
> However we don't need any Shaman.
>
> I don't how much time to write my opinions but I never use these
> principles with religious other spiritual references.
>
> People understand these principles easily from their life, from where they
> come from.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Funda Oral
> www.aatorganizasyon.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> *From:* Chris Corrigan <donotreply@wordpress.com>
> *To:* "syurdakul@yahoo.com" <syurdakul@yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 01:36:30 AM GMT+3
> *Subject:* The “shaman” is actually Harrison Owen
>
> Read on blog
> <https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/the-shaman-is-actually-harrison-owen/>
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> [image: Site logo image] Chris Corrigan posted: " One of the hundreds of
> Open Space Technology Principles posters I have used in my time, this one
> from an Art of Hosting training in Minnesota in 2012, and designed by a
> team member. There is a post going around on the internet called "The Four
> Laws of" Chris Corrigan <https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot> Read
> on blog
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> “shaman” is actually Harrison Owen
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> Chris Corrigan
>
> February 12
>
> *One of the hundreds of Open Space Technology Principles posters I have
> used in my time, this one from an Art of Hosting training in Minnesota in
> 2012, and designed by a team member.*
>
> There is a post going around on the internet called "The Four Laws of the
> Shaman <https://kasabrina.com/2023/03/19/the-four-laws-of-a-shaman/>" or
> the "Four Laws of Spirituality
> <https://www.trustfulmind.com/the-four-laws-of-spirituality/>." The four
> laws are ascribed to some unknown shaman or some exotic culture like
> "Indian spirituality" or "Native American wisdom." You can visit the links
> I've provided here to get a sense of the text. And, of course, this stuff
> is all over Facebook, where it gets shared endlessly. The earliest
> reference to these "Four Laws of a Shaman" I could find is from a Facebook
> page in 2011.
>
> This kind of thing always gets my hackles up because it is possible that
> these sorts of sayings are attributable to a person who may be a specific
> teacher in a specific spiritual lineage or tribal community. Erasing their
> voice is a kind of colonization, so please don't share these kinds of
> unattributed nuggets of wisdom unless you can quote a source.
>
> In this case, however, the source is not a tribal elder from an exotic
> locale, but is Harrison Owen from Maryland, USA and the "Four Laws" are
> actually the original four principles of Open Space Technology. Here is one
> version of these "four laws of a shaman" from the posts:
>
> - "The person who comes into your life is the right person"
> - "What happens is the only thing that could have happened"
> - "Anytime it starts is the right time."
> - "When something ends, it ends"
>
> Anyone familiar with this blog or Open Space Technology will recognize
> right away that these are the original four principles of Open Space
> Technology, to whit:
>
> - Whoever comes is the right people.
> - Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
> - Whenever it starts is the right time.
> - When it's over, it's over.
>
> (And there is a fifth principle that was added within the last decade or
> so which says "Where ever it happens is the right place" but I'm old skool
> and the truth is I forget that one all the time)
>
> The original reference for these principles is Harrison's "Open Space
> Technology: A User's Guide, first edition
> <https://www.amazon.com/Open-Space-Technology-Users-Guide/dp/0961820535>"
> originally published in 1992. The principles and the law of two feet are
> outlined in Chapter Five, pp 68-74. Before that, these principles were
> articulated in the late 1980s and published in the original set of notes
> Harrison wrote about the process sometime in 1987 or 1988. You can find
> that document
> <https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/papers/brief-users-guide-open-space-technology/?fbclid=IwAR2_Py36uia50LdBzWlzJpoCxTxC_RXNGAUHO8izSncl52rUUxKdYn4LONQ>at
> the worldwide archive of the Open Space Technology community of practice.
>
> Harrison is incredibly generous with his work, and you can find much of
> his out-of-print work available at the Harrison Owen Library at
> openspaceworld.org. There is a library of his papers there too.
> <https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/papers/>
>
> Sometimes, it is asserted that Harrison got these principles from a
> Liberian village. This isn't true. Harrison did a stint in the US Peace
> Corps in the 1960s and documented village life in Liberia while working on
> community projects. You can read a beautiful photo essay of his
> observations in "When the Devil Dances" at the Internet Archive. He
> never claimed to see Open Space in action there. Rather, he was taken with
> how the community addressed a complex agricultural issue, and he cut his
> teeth on designing participatory processes in that work, which is
> documented in some detail in The Practice of Peace
> <https://openspaceworld.org/hhowen/final%20pop%20hdsi.pdf.>.
>
> The Organizational Transformation conferences he helped run in the early
> 1980s (documented here
> <https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/open-space-technology/>) were the
> first use of the method, specifically at OT3 in 1985. His story of how he
> came to develop and use the method with many others is documented in his
> many papers and books, especially Expanding Our Now. He has been
> interviewed countless times, done TEDx talks and is always up for a chat,
> so if you want to hear the story from the horse's mouth, you have abundant
> opportunity to do so.
>
> Harrison is an incredible guy, a deep river of experience and knowledge.
> His folksy manner and his constant exhortations to simplify one's
> facilitation practice don't come close to giving the full breadth of his
> life's work its due. He is a priest, a theologian, a scholar of Near East
> religion, myth and culture, a former bureaucrat, community organizer,
> consultant, teacher, and author, and his whole life has only partially been
> about Open Space. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't describe himself as a shaman
> but he was an important mentor in my life. He was the first person to
> introduce me to complexity theory, to spirit in organizations and to the
> dynamics of self-organization which transformed my facilitation practice.
>
> So. The next time you see these "shaman's laws" shared in your circles,
> feel free to bring these receipts and give Harrison his due.
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Funda Oral
Tue, Feb 13, 2024 9:32 PM
I agree that this is an absurd discussion.
I would say Wisdom is everywhere.
OST is an efficient method. I am thankful to Harrison.
Have wonderful day,
Funda
Le mar. 13 févr. 2024 à 18:37, Chris Corrigan chris.corrigan@gmail.com a
écrit :
Dear Harrison Owen,
Dear Chris Corrigan,
Dear OSList,
I think, we need Open Space Technology as described and written and
designed by Harrison Owen around the world.
However we don't need any Shaman.
I don't how much time to write my opinions but I never use these
principles with religious other spiritual references.
People understand these principles easily from their life, from where
they come from.
Thanks!
Funda Oral
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February 12
One of the hundreds of Open Space Technology Principles posters I have
used in my time, this one from an Art of Hosting training in Minnesota in
2012, and designed by a team member.
There is a post going around on the internet called "The Four Laws of
the Shaman https://kasabrina.com/2023/03/19/the-four-laws-of-a-shaman/"
or the "Four Laws of Spirituality
https://www.trustfulmind.com/the-four-laws-of-spirituality/." The four
laws are ascribed to some unknown shaman or some exotic culture like
"Indian spirituality" or "Native American wisdom." You can visit the links
I've provided here to get a sense of the text. And, of course, this stuff
is all over Facebook, where it gets shared endlessly. The earliest
reference to these "Four Laws of a Shaman" I could find is from a Facebook
page in 2011.
This kind of thing always gets my hackles up because it is possible that
these sorts of sayings are attributable to a person who may be a specific
teacher in a specific spiritual lineage or tribal community. Erasing their
voice is a kind of colonization, so please don't share these kinds of
unattributed nuggets of wisdom unless you can quote a source.
In this case, however, the source is not a tribal elder from an exotic
locale, but is Harrison Owen from Maryland, USA and the "Four Laws" are
actually the original four principles of Open Space Technology. Here is one
version of these "four laws of a shaman" from the posts:
- "The person who comes into your life is the right person"
- "What happens is the only thing that could have happened"
- "Anytime it starts is the right time."
- "When something ends, it ends"
Anyone familiar with this blog or Open Space Technology will recognize
right away that these are the original four principles of Open Space
Technology, to whit:
- Whoever comes is the right people.
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
- Whenever it starts is the right time.
- When it's over, it's over.
(And there is a fifth principle that was added within the last decade or
so which says "Where ever it happens is the right place" but I'm old skool
and the truth is I forget that one all the time)
The original reference for these principles is Harrison's "Open Space
Technology: A User's Guide, first edition
https://www.amazon.com/Open-Space-Technology-Users-Guide/dp/0961820535"
originally published in 1992. The principles and the law of two feet are
outlined in Chapter Five, pp 68-74. Before that, these principles were
articulated in the late 1980s and published in the original set of notes
Harrison wrote about the process sometime in 1987 or 1988. You can find
that document
https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/papers/brief-users-guide-open-space-technology/?fbclid=IwAR2_Py36uia50LdBzWlzJpoCxTxC_RXNGAUHO8izSncl52rUUxKdYn4LONQat
the worldwide archive of the Open Space Technology community of practice.
Harrison is incredibly generous with his work, and you can find much of
his out-of-print work available at the Harrison Owen Library at
openspaceworld.org. There is a library of his papers there too.
https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/papers/
Sometimes, it is asserted that Harrison got these principles from a
Liberian village. This isn't true. Harrison did a stint in the US Peace
Corps in the 1960s and documented village life in Liberia while working on
community projects. You can read a beautiful photo essay of his
observations in "When the Devil Dances" at the Internet Archive. He
never claimed to see Open Space in action there. Rather, he was taken with
how the community addressed a complex agricultural issue, and he cut his
teeth on designing participatory processes in that work, which is
documented in some detail in The Practice of Peace
https://openspaceworld.org/hhowen/final%20pop%20hdsi.pdf..
The Organizational Transformation conferences he helped run in the early
1980s (documented here
https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/open-space-technology/) were the
first use of the method, specifically at OT3 in 1985. His story of how he
came to develop and use the method with many others is documented in his
many papers and books, especially Expanding Our Now. He has been
interviewed countless times, done TEDx talks and is always up for a chat,
so if you want to hear the story from the horse's mouth, you have abundant
opportunity to do so.
Harrison is an incredible guy, a deep river of experience and knowledge.
His folksy manner and his constant exhortations to simplify one's
facilitation practice don't come close to giving the full breadth of his
life's work its due. He is a priest, a theologian, a scholar of Near East
religion, myth and culture, a former bureaucrat, community organizer,
consultant, teacher, and author, and his whole life has only partially been
about Open Space. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't describe himself as a shaman
but he was an important mentor in my life. He was the first person to
introduce me to complexity theory, to spirit in organizations and to the
dynamics of self-organization which transformed my facilitation practice.
So. The next time you see these "shaman's laws" shared in your circles,
feel free to bring these receipts and give Harrison his due.
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I agree that this is an absurd discussion.
I would say Wisdom is everywhere.
OST is an efficient method. I am thankful to Harrison.
Have wonderful day,
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Le mar. 13 févr. 2024 à 18:37, Chris Corrigan <chris.corrigan@gmail.com> a
écrit :
> I think you’ve misunderstood my post.
>
> I was correcting this absurd idea that the principles were designed by
> some unnamed “shaman” when actually it was Harrison.
>
> Chris.
>
>
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>
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> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 12:03 AM Funda Oral via OSList <
> everyone@oslist.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear Harrison Owen,
>> Dear Chris Corrigan,
>> Dear OSList,
>>
>> I think, we need Open Space Technology as described and written and
>> designed by Harrison Owen around the world.
>>
>> However we don't need any Shaman.
>>
>> I don't how much time to write my opinions but I never use these
>> principles with religious other spiritual references.
>>
>> People understand these principles easily from their life, from where
>> they come from.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Funda Oral
>> www.aatorganizasyon.blogspot.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Forwarded Message -----
>> *From:* Chris Corrigan <donotreply@wordpress.com>
>> *To:* "syurdakul@yahoo.com" <syurdakul@yahoo.com>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 01:36:30 AM GMT+3
>> *Subject:* The “shaman” is actually Harrison Owen
>>
>> Read on blog
>> <https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/the-shaman-is-actually-harrison-owen/>
>> or Reader
>> <https://public-api.wordpress.com/bar/?stat=groovemails-events&bin=wpcom_email_click&redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.com%2Fread%2Fblogs%2F4433683%2Fposts%2F14725&sr=1&signature=c43fd498d49b23c784e90bd31b2acef0&user=65777874&_e=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&_z=z>
>> [image: Site logo image] Chris Corrigan posted: " One of the hundreds of
>> Open Space Technology Principles posters I have used in my time, this one
>> from an Art of Hosting training in Minnesota in 2012, and designed by a
>> team member. There is a post going around on the internet called "The Four
>> Laws of" Chris Corrigan <https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot> Read
>> on blog
>> <https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/the-shaman-is-actually-harrison-owen/>
>> or Reader
>> <https://public-api.wordpress.com/bar/?stat=groovemails-events&bin=wpcom_email_click&redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.com%2Fread%2Fblogs%2F4433683%2Fposts%2F14725&sr=1&signature=c43fd498d49b23c784e90bd31b2acef0&user=65777874&_e=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&_z=z> The
>> “shaman” is actually Harrison Owen
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>>
>> Chris Corrigan
>>
>> February 12
>>
>> *One of the hundreds of Open Space Technology Principles posters I have
>> used in my time, this one from an Art of Hosting training in Minnesota in
>> 2012, and designed by a team member.*
>>
>> There is a post going around on the internet called "The Four Laws of
>> the Shaman <https://kasabrina.com/2023/03/19/the-four-laws-of-a-shaman/>"
>> or the "Four Laws of Spirituality
>> <https://www.trustfulmind.com/the-four-laws-of-spirituality/>." The four
>> laws are ascribed to some unknown shaman or some exotic culture like
>> "Indian spirituality" or "Native American wisdom." You can visit the links
>> I've provided here to get a sense of the text. And, of course, this stuff
>> is all over Facebook, where it gets shared endlessly. The earliest
>> reference to these "Four Laws of a Shaman" I could find is from a Facebook
>> page in 2011.
>>
>> This kind of thing always gets my hackles up because it is possible that
>> these sorts of sayings are attributable to a person who may be a specific
>> teacher in a specific spiritual lineage or tribal community. Erasing their
>> voice is a kind of colonization, so please don't share these kinds of
>> unattributed nuggets of wisdom unless you can quote a source.
>>
>> In this case, however, the source is not a tribal elder from an exotic
>> locale, but is Harrison Owen from Maryland, USA and the "Four Laws" are
>> actually the original four principles of Open Space Technology. Here is one
>> version of these "four laws of a shaman" from the posts:
>>
>> - "The person who comes into your life is the right person"
>> - "What happens is the only thing that could have happened"
>> - "Anytime it starts is the right time."
>> - "When something ends, it ends"
>>
>> Anyone familiar with this blog or Open Space Technology will recognize
>> right away that these are the original four principles of Open Space
>> Technology, to whit:
>>
>> - Whoever comes is the right people.
>> - Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
>> - Whenever it starts is the right time.
>> - When it's over, it's over.
>>
>> (And there is a fifth principle that was added within the last decade or
>> so which says "Where ever it happens is the right place" but I'm old skool
>> and the truth is I forget that one all the time)
>>
>> The original reference for these principles is Harrison's "Open Space
>> Technology: A User's Guide, first edition
>> <https://www.amazon.com/Open-Space-Technology-Users-Guide/dp/0961820535>"
>> originally published in 1992. The principles and the law of two feet are
>> outlined in Chapter Five, pp 68-74. Before that, these principles were
>> articulated in the late 1980s and published in the original set of notes
>> Harrison wrote about the process sometime in 1987 or 1988. You can find
>> that document
>> <https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/papers/brief-users-guide-open-space-technology/?fbclid=IwAR2_Py36uia50LdBzWlzJpoCxTxC_RXNGAUHO8izSncl52rUUxKdYn4LONQ>at
>> the worldwide archive of the Open Space Technology community of practice.
>>
>> Harrison is incredibly generous with his work, and you can find much of
>> his out-of-print work available at the Harrison Owen Library at
>> openspaceworld.org. There is a library of his papers there too.
>> <https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/papers/>
>>
>> Sometimes, it is asserted that Harrison got these principles from a
>> Liberian village. This isn't true. Harrison did a stint in the US Peace
>> Corps in the 1960s and documented village life in Liberia while working on
>> community projects. You can read a beautiful photo essay of his
>> observations in "When the Devil Dances" at the Internet Archive. He
>> never claimed to see Open Space in action there. Rather, he was taken with
>> how the community addressed a complex agricultural issue, and he cut his
>> teeth on designing participatory processes in that work, which is
>> documented in some detail in The Practice of Peace
>> <https://openspaceworld.org/hhowen/final%20pop%20hdsi.pdf.>.
>>
>> The Organizational Transformation conferences he helped run in the early
>> 1980s (documented here
>> <https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/open-space-technology/>) were the
>> first use of the method, specifically at OT3 in 1985. His story of how he
>> came to develop and use the method with many others is documented in his
>> many papers and books, especially Expanding Our Now. He has been
>> interviewed countless times, done TEDx talks and is always up for a chat,
>> so if you want to hear the story from the horse's mouth, you have abundant
>> opportunity to do so.
>>
>> Harrison is an incredible guy, a deep river of experience and knowledge.
>> His folksy manner and his constant exhortations to simplify one's
>> facilitation practice don't come close to giving the full breadth of his
>> life's work its due. He is a priest, a theologian, a scholar of Near East
>> religion, myth and culture, a former bureaucrat, community organizer,
>> consultant, teacher, and author, and his whole life has only partially been
>> about Open Space. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't describe himself as a shaman
>> but he was an important mentor in my life. He was the first person to
>> introduce me to complexity theory, to spirit in organizations and to the
>> dynamics of self-organization which transformed my facilitation practice.
>>
>> So. The next time you see these "shaman's laws" shared in your circles,
>> feel free to bring these receipts and give Harrison his due.
>> Comment
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