Open Spaces Workshops on Scientific & Social Change

Glennifer Gillespie and others - Ashland Institute

This group has migrated to here from May 12 onwards

Brief or concise: a telegraphic style of writing. American Heritage® Dictionary having the style of a telegram with many short words left out Synonym: concise - expressing much in few words from WordNet 3.0, Princeton University Although my usage of the term matches these definitions, I'll avoid using it when it connotes something like telepathic to people

I notice that the noisebridge space is surfacing at several places and connected to people that I know that are involved in the Open Science movement. I don't know what it's about that much - but I've been impressed with the people I've met who are involved.

Peter posted a noise bridge link to the CESPOC group and I had posted this to my library some time ago - and am now figuring out how to post to the group....

Tribal leadership has a triad structure for support. The idea is to have that team of people to pull one out of self-talk as a necessary tool for keeping oneself 'in possibility' - also David Logan and colleagues have a hierarchy of group development, where the highest level is defined as success of all - at a level of thriving.

Tribal leadership has a very active LinkedIn Group, blogs and webinars. They use a triad structure for accountability and support. They also have a very interesting assessment for group evolution. I will try to post a picture of their group assessments.

Indiana Research for Autism (4 circles)

Waiwaka Retreat Center on Lake George, NY offers low cost support and retreats for veterans and other low income women groups

support circles and civic life

"The essence of life is (interconnected) process. If the processing of material-energy and information ends, life also ends. The defining characteristic of life is the ability to maintain, for a significant period, a steady state in which the entropy (or disorder) within the system is significantly lower than its non-living surroundings. So the sequel to Renan's Law is: "And living systems want to stay connected in order to survive". We see the echo's of this in the Internet Freedom protection projects. Living systems according to Parent (1996) are by definition "open self-organizing systems that have the special characteristics of life and interact with their environment. This takes place by means of information and material-energy exchanges. Living systems can be as simple as a single cell or as complex as a supranational organization such as the European Union. Regardless of their complexity, they each depend upon the same essential twenty subsystems (or processes) in order to survive and to continue the propagation of their species or types beyond a single generation".[4]"

"Rhizomatic learning is a way of thinking about learning based on ideas described by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in a thousand plateaus. A rhizome, sometimes called a creeping rootstalk, is a stem of a plant that sends out roots and shoots as it spreads. It is an image used by D&G to describe the way that ideas are multiple, interconnected and self-relicating. A rhizome has no beginning or end… like the learning process. I wrote my first article on the topic 'rhizomatic education: community as curriculum' in an article I wrote in 2008."

Super Felicia! This fits into what I'm already starting to think about with metacognition and leading a team of people at work. Some of the diagrams of metacognition suggest a hierarchical relationship. I like and relate to this metaphor of a rhizome.

Cool Rhoda. Been doing a lot thinking over the last week on peer learning networks. Interested to see what things you night come across.

Remember the essentials of story amid all of the bedazzling tech tools.

So many good links here to follow. Thanks!