Colin Morley
I’ve returned from my break to find the confirmation of Colin Morley’s death. Colin was an Open Space facilitator and although I never met him, I had several email conversations with him about Open Space, blogging and empowerment. His weblog is Empowerment Illustrated, and he was active in London with an initiative called Be The Change. If you visit there, you will find a memorial page for him.
Colin died in the July 7 bombings in London.
… be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try
to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then, gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then, gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
— Rilke
I’m taking off for a while, unplugged, unwired, undone. I’m going to spend time snorkelling with my son, reading Shakespeare with my daughter and eating local food with my partner and her mum. In short, enjoying the short summer we are blessed with here on the west coast.
See you at month’s end.
Now at least the moon is full, and I walk alone, which is best by night, if not by day always. Your companion must sympathize with the present mood. The conversation must be located where the walkers are, and vary exactly with the scene and events and the contour of the ground. Farewell to those who will talk of nature unnaturally, whose presence is an interruption. I know but one with whom I can walk. I might as well be sitting in a bar-room with them as walk and talk with most. We are never side by side in our thoughts, and we cannot hear each other�s silence. Indeed, we cannot be silent. We are forever breaking silence, that is all, and mending nothing. How can they keep together who are going different ways!
— Thoreau
Hi folks:
I’m getting myself prepared for OSonOS and, like every learning journey, I am preparing a couple of questions for myself. I’m specifically interested in these two issues at the moment:
- How can we move work from an Open Space event back into the organization’s “business as usual” setting while maintaining the spirit and invitation to transform that OST offers? I’m thinking here specifically of strategy work and an integral approach to strategy.
- I’m learning about Spiral Dynamics at the moment, and have used Ken Wilber’s integral thinking as a map for my work for years now. So this question relates to that area of thinking specifically: How does OST facilitate a integral transformation and how can we propagate these shifts to move towards second tier consciousness in individuals and organizations? (I’m hoping Larry Peterson will be in Halifax for this one!)
So those are two questions I have. They mostly deal with the echo of Open Space, the music it makes as it rearranges our world. If you are coming to Halifax in August and these pique your interest, give them some thought. They’ll probably still be somewhat top of mind for me in a month!
And as an invitation to others, what are the questions you are turning over in your mind? And if you are not coming to Halifax, what would you offer if you were there?
Rob Paterson points to a great article on the amazing evolution of the Wikipedia page on the London bombings. It’s a fascinating example of real time collaboration on design, content and truth.