intro -- tzu jan LO14448

tzu jan gieszen (taosnet@euronet.nl)
Tue, 22 Jul 1997 19:57:32 +0200

fellow apprentices,

my name is jan gieszen and i live in the netherlands. i am learning every
day about myself and others. i live in different form of organisations: my
family, my own small company, a network of friends, the city i live in,
this electronic network and so on. i work in organisations as change
agent, catalyst. sometimes i manage ad interim, i give advise about power
politics, i coach in dealing with each other, i work together in
establishing conviviality. we use two names for our work chaos (written
gaos because my name is gieszen) and taosystems because we study the
dynamics of chaos and the way systems work. we share what we learn and
help to apply that knowledge and experience.

conviviality and system dynamics leads us into the five disciplines. weick
with his notions of 'the social psychology of organizing' and laing with
his 'knots' helped me to see and express the way we use the ideas that we
communicate. and a book of a belgian philosopher, arnold cornelis, about
the logics of emotions help me to see the way we can learn how to govern,
steer or guide ourselves through communicating.

i love to play with these notions and translate them into daily practice.
since i am familiar (and studying) the effects of automation on work,
managing, directing, power, relationships, organisations, i am often asked
or active through that entry. bringing workers and managers together with
technicians with their often so different beholding the world they live
in, they make.

i begin to understand why my life looks like a catastrophe: the rules that
i talk about, the words that i use, exist in a system that enfolds our
daily life in organisations. the words and rules describe what we do as a
kind of games, plays, roles, actions. they make reality visible and
learnable and choosable. i like that, do you?

i hope to encounter many fairy tale tellers, conscious beholders, players
and performers in these circles. castaneda and pirsig helped me to see
witches as people that belong to the community although they perform
rituals that are not yet recognized as common ways of living for all of
us. i am an apprentice.

in e-mail i refrain from capitals. i hope you will not be bothered.

recently i learned from the i ching that 'tzu jan' means 'what comes of
itself'. i added tzu to my name jan and sign as tzu jan.

greetings and curiosity for all of us. tzu jan

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taosnet@euronet.nl (tzu jan gieszen)

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