Hi Suzanne, Thank you for your description of how carefully you and the others are planning for your OST event, making your spirit of intent clear. Your spirit of intent for this event is critical, more so than the wording of the invitation. The words of the invitation feel contradictory to me to the spirit of intent. I pick up that the spirit of intent is to passionately look at a more life nourishing future for individuals, community and our dear Terra Blue. I don't pick up that the spirit of intent is about processing grief and so the assumptions including blame don't fit in for me with the beautiful spirit of intent that I believe you are holding.
What I really like about the text of the invitation that you shared on this list are the words "* it is not enough to just assume "business as (pre-pandemic) usual". Something much more is needed. This is the time to explore new possibilities in how we interact. It is time to reinvent our social and professional lives, to rethink what it means to be in community, and to turn our attention more passionately to ...personal, community and global health, welfare and survival,."* in genuine contact, Birgitt *Birgitt Williams* *Senior consultant-author-mentor to leaders and consultants * *Specialist in organizational and systemic transformation, leadership development, and the power of nourishing a culture of leadership.* www.dalarinternational.com >> Learn More & Register <http://www.dalarinternational.com/upcoming-workshops/> for any of our upcoming workshops here. PO Box 19373, Raleigh, NC, USA 27613 Phone: 01-919-522-7750 Like us on Facebook <https://dalarinternational.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=35ed818c946a88ba7344da05f&id=6677c35b38&e=e7zyhHfiqG> Connect on LinkedIn <https://dalarinternational.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=35ed818c946a88ba7344da05f&id=c26173f86b&e=e7zyhHfiqG> On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 8:53 AM Suzanne Daigle <[email protected]> wrote: > Technology and non-technology folks coming together for the Future of Work! > > Scrum BEYOND Software <https://tobiasmayer.uk/events/beyond.html> > > > *"We have come to value...individuals and interactions over processes and > tools" — agilemanifesto.org <https://agilemanifesto.org/>* > > This is a “behind the scenes” story of space opening during the > invitational journey. We were about 3 months out. We felt the passion and > purpose of our upcoming gathering, inspired by the context and theme. We > had the basics in place: dates, times, virtual space and setup planned on > QiqoChat, with a list of people to invite. We were ready to launch our > invitation. It would be an opportunity to reconnect with colleagues and > friends who had met in Arizona on this trailblazing theme more than a > decade ago. And to welcome others who we felt would be interested now and > into the future. > > It was mid-summer with many in the euphoria of a much-needed vacation > after being so deprived with covid, these past few years. Early on in our > invitational conversations, we sensed the duality of exhaustion (virtual > meeting fatigue) and deep yearning (dare we hope for a better world at > work). More poignantly, we felt that this gathering was so much more than > its history, more than a reunion. We felt the hopeful pull of the future > with its complex challenges, hopes, fears and dreams around the Future of > Work. Over the weeks and months, we sensed the mix of emotions, of optimism > and despair. > > As a host/facilitation team (Tobias Mayer, Francois Knuchel and I), we > listened, pondered and shared. It fueled and inspired us. Multiple times, > we tweaked the invitation to reflect what we were hearing. A few weeks ago, > we rewrote it almost entirely. We shifted, we went deeper, and we > integrated what we heard and sensed. We continue to invite and listen. > Together we are creating space. In a month it will be time to open and hold > that special space knowing that "whatever happens is the only thing that > could have." > > Here is an excerpt of the new language. Have a look at the full text if > interested and click on the names of attendees to see who is coming and > why. *ScrumBeyond Software, 2022 > <https://tobiasmayer.uk/events/beyond.html>* > > *“We are in a historical period of disruption and crisis on many fronts. > Events of the past two years have led us to become withdrawn, socially > disengaged, even suspicious of one another. The covid19 pandemic resulted > in the closing down of many social spaces, including offices and other > places of work, driving vast numbers of people onto their computers as > their only form of interaction. Now we are emerging from this social > desert, it is not enough to just assume "business as (pre-pandemic) usual". > Something much more is needed. This is the time to explore new > possibilities in how we interact. It is time to reinvent our social and > professional lives, to rethink what it means to be in community, and to > turn our attention more passionately to the systems that caused the > breakdown in the first place—our self-crafted culture of short-term > profiteering at the expense of personal, community and global health, > welfare and survival, our self-centered decisions that have led to world > hunger, continuous war and the present climate crisis. Something must > change, and that something is probably everything”.* > > To all who may be interested in this topic and theme, please come and feel > free to invite others. As always: "Whoever comes will be the right people". > > In so many ways, we feel this gathering captures the spirit of Harrison’s > work around grief and the “grieving and thriving in the workplace” > conversations that were held recently. We are so grateful to have Open > Space in our lives to welcome and host these important conversations. > > Warmly, > > Suzanne, Tobias and Francois > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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