Yesterday, I noticed by happy accident that all of this-life might just be a momentary compression of All Space, all-that-is, or what physicists have called the Zero Point Field, as written up by Lynn McTaggart in a book called The Field. I posted a bit about this in the afternoon, but brain followed the thread into the evening, chasing the implications, which seem to go like this…
If all of life really is pulsing between what we experience as this life body and what we sense as All Space, then it seems most important to cultivate in ourselves an easy pulsing between the certainties of body, business and environment and the uncertainties of, Divine if you like, mystery and power of All Space, inner, outer and otherwise.
With practice it seems, we learn to come and go more as we choose… not only this body to the next, like enlightened masters are supposed to do, but this day to the next, this job to the next, this conversation to the next, moving freely and cleanly and clearly through one ‘thing’ to enter the next ‘thing’ fresh and whole and ready …rather than being swept along unconsciously in the mainstream flow, bumping and clinging to the rocks. (Which reminds me of the opening parable in Richard Bach’s Illusions, btw.)
Coming back to workplace, then… Open Space Technology can be seen as the skillful practice of this pulsing between the technical knowns and uncountable unknowns in organization. OpenSpace allows us to move more easily into the essentially explosive, spontaneous, relational questions in MarketSpace, still and simultaneously grounding what happens back to the everyday work, the accountability, the results required in what we call the ‘real’ world.
In this way, Open Space is hospice AND midwifery for “the way things have always been done around here.” A space that holds-without-separating this organization and the whole of the world marketplace, so they can move more easily together. Business alignment and movement arising out of personal alignment and connection. How else could it be?