Hello Everyone, So here I am back from an intense and very rewarding OST experience in Bilbao. It was indeed a very transformative moment right at the inflexion point of my personal and professional development. The funny thing though is that despite the novelty and all the new faces it felt like coming home. A feeling hard to explain but I suspect people on this list would understand.
As I was driving back on Saturday there were so many thoughts coming through my mind I thought I could probably write a whole book about this amazing week in Basque country. Here are some of the chapters title for that book: - Coming home to transformation - Energy, sexuality and quantum physics - Matter, time and the architecture or open space - Can touchy-feely break corporate dogmatic straitjacket - Open Space as social and personal therapy - Comprehensiveness and perceived randomness (or spontaneity as fit for purpose solution) I would like to thank everyone for a very warm welcome and amazing discussions and thank you for the encouragement from people on this list to make the trip. Most warm greetings and hugs, JF On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 6:44 PM ingrid ebeling ebus <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Gentza, > > well, yesterday I decided to come and join the WOSonOS 2022 in Bilbao. I > hesitated for quite a while, taking the train 32 hours or what ever. All > the sudden it seemed to be easy and got myself a flight ticket. > Regarding the accommodation I need some help. Earlier you > mentioned a centric new hostel 5 minutes´ walk from the WOSonOS. How can I > find out, whether it is still available or find an alternative house? > > Now I’m looking forward seeing you all. > > Ingrid > > > *Ingrid Ebeling, **EBUS * > *Systemic **Prozess facilitation* > Executive Coaching • Large Group Intervention > > Am Alten Gehäge 6 • D- 30657 Hannover • Germany > fon +49-511-336 03 30 • mobile +49-172-5145179 > [email protected] > > > Am 09.09.2022 um 10:31 schrieb Gentza Eleder <[email protected]>: > > > Hi Jean Fracnçois! > > I'm happy about your decission! > Let us know if there's anything we could help you with. > > Same for anyone that still is considering to take part totally or > partially in the WOS week in Bilbao, we are happy to make it easaier to > you! > > > We are passionate about making it easier to anyone that feels the thrill > and the passion on this gathering to join us! > > The "travel" is being so nice! > > Best wishes! > > Gentza Eleder Aurtenetxe Pildain > http://guneirekiarenlagunak.weebly.com/ > Mundaka > (+0034) 638.733.223 > > ps. Michael, we'll keep you in our hearts Bilbao, and will do our best to > join you some day, maybe next year, in Berlin! Thanks so much for your > support! > > ------- Original Message ------- > Em quinta-feira, 8 de setembro de 2022 às 22:25, JF <[email protected]> > escreveu: > > Thank you so much Michael for your warm and inspiring message. I will > definitely be in Bilbao, and am looking forward to it. > Gentza, I had read the OST user guide a few year's back but it has been a > while so a good suggestion to re-read it. I will see how much I am able to > commit for the Bilbao OS. For sure I'ld like to participate to the OSonOS I > will have to see about the earlier session. If so yes helping preparing the > space is probably a good idea. I have organised concerts before and I do > appreciate the thrill of anticipation. > Thank you all, > JF > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 5:37 PM WilbaOS <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Michael, thanks so much, first of all for your shiny explanation on the >> message 08.09 on self-organization taken place in OST meetings, and we just >> willing to re-enjoy this, not so much looking for an explanation, that's it! >> >> I'm sure we'll witness this magic soon in Bilbao (jsut 3 weeks!)). >> >> Dear Jean François, my previous experience with WOSonOS has been always >> so rewarding, that, feeling a bit sad after two years in which we had no >> way to ressemble, I asked around and, after a few colleagues said "go >> ahead" in December, we started joyfully with our small dream. >> >> Now we are happy to see that around 40 people we'll be enjoying 2 OS >> meetings in Bilbao soon. We espce that many more will sign up during next >> days (if some of you are considering it, please contact us for whatever we >> could help you: *[email protected] <[email protected]>*) >> >> >> 26+27th of September, withe the ample question: 2020+ Complex times: how >> are we going ahead in cooperative ways? >> >> 29th+30th of September: how can we refine and expand our OS practice all >> over the world? >> >> >> >> >> JF, I invite you, if having time, to read "Open Space Technology: the >> user's guide (Harrison Owen)", and if you are willing, join us in the >> practice of preparing the space during the 23th September and / or 28th. >> Let us know if we can anyhow make your coming easier! >> >> Regarding the Goodhabitz documentary, they'll be coming to WOSonOS in >> Bilbao, and we'll thank some of you answering to their interviews. >> >> Looking forward to meet you soon in Bilbao! >> >> Thansk for spreading the heartly invitation! >> >> Gentza Eleder >> Mundaka/Bilbao >> http://guneirekiarenlagunak.weebly.com/ >> >> https://twitter.com/OpenSpace_EH >> >> Sent with Proton Mail <https://proton.me/> secure email. >> >> ------- Original Message ------- >> On Thursday, September 8th, 2022 at 16:45, Michael M Pannwitz < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dear Jean-Francois, >> >> yes, experiencing open space in an OST setting is the best way to get >> into this experiment which will be lifelong, I guarantee. >> In fact, some folks know that open space and the approach can not be >> learned or taught but it can be remembered. In other words, we already know >> about it. But all kind of circumstances have led to it being burried deep >> down. >> In so called open space "Trainings" where 97% of the time everything is >> entirely selforganizing, lasting 3 to 5 days (I love the 5 day variety) >> where the trainers are mostly invisible, its been observed, that >> participants could no longer do without open space. >> So, Bilbao is also a variety of "training" with the opportunity to take a >> deep dive and upon surfacing you will breathe something that you never >> experienced before. >> For me, it was life changing. And that at the age of 56 with 3 decades of >> all kinds of OD behing me and pretty sure that I knew everything. It was >> tough work to drop my old habits and in a way it still is. By the way, that >> was in 1996 at a "training" with Harrison Owen and Romy Shovelton in Roffey >> Park... >> >> So, get on your motorcycle or start walking or hitchhiking towards Bilbao >> and have a great time. >> >> Greetings from Berlin >> mmp >> >> PS: Dont forget to include yourself in the Open Space World Map >> >> https://www.openspaceworldmap.org/inclusion >> >> >> and add a picture so I can see you when writing corresponding with you. >> At my age I rarely leave my neighborhood, but have a grand time here... I >> might leave it once more if the next WOSonOS will be in Berlin, I hear some >> folks are planning that for 2023... >> >> Am 08.09.2022 um 14:56 schrieb JF: >> >> Hello All, >> I have been on this list and be interested in OST for many years. Yet I >> have never (until now) taken the opportunity to develop this interest >> further and actually participate and be involved with OST events. >> I am currently in a professional transition from being a manager in a >> large engineering firm to becoming self employed project manager with a >> view to help build collective intelligence in organisations through >> innovative organisational structures (e.g. holacracy) and various practices >> such as OST. >> I would like to learn and experience more and I have been told before >> that the best and only way to learn about OST is to experience it first >> hand. That makes a lot of sense and I think that this would be a great eye >> opener for me as well as a growing opportunity. Therefore I am >> contemplating participating in the next OSonOS in Bilbao (I live in the >> south of France) but I want to make sure that this is appropriate for >> someone who want to get initiated in OST. >> Thanks in advance for your comments and / or advice. >> Regads, >> >> Jean-François (JF) >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 7:49 PM Michael M Pannwitz <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear Gentza Eleder, >>> >>> you might tell them that ost is an approach to expand time and space for >>> the unfolding of selforganisation. It is not an intention of ost to change >>> business culture, have better meetings or all the other things one might >>> find important. >>> It has been noticed however, that ost events bring about amazing stuff >>> every time those gatherings are convened and that folks find that these >>> were the best meetings they ever experienced. How that happens has never >>> been grasped. And participants are regularily simply not interested to >>> research this, they just want to get going. The important observation is >>> that it works. And if it is used regularily in an organisation those >>> organisations change all by themselves (see the decade long experiment in >>> the Agency for Youth in Europe). >>> Selforganisation has never been grasped but it is the central force in >>> the unfolding of everything that has happened on this planet for billions >>> of year. >>> It has been observed that some very few prerequisites need to be in >>> place to get the the right conditions for getting this experiment in >>> selforganisation to unfold: sticky problem, high complexity of the matter, >>> large diversity of participants, high conflict and high urgency to act and, >>> not to forget, voluntarty participation. >>> >>> Everyone attending our event in Bilbao is an expert, even experts in >>> attendance that are zoologists, psychologists, anthropologists, medicine >>> men, sociologists, cooks, gardeners, plumbers, architects, teachers, >>> mothers and very important: children. If you have children and youngsters >>> at the event among all the others you will find that an amazing ingredient >>> for the diversity soup. Nobody knows why and it needs not to be researched, >>> we have seen it. >>> >>> Hope you get a great film that is shown in all cinemas around the world. >>> >>> Greetings from Berlin >>> Love and Peace >>> mmp >>> >>> >>> Am 23.08.2022 um 18:09 schrieb Gentza Eleder: >>> >>> Hi friends, how are you? >>> We are having since July some converations with GoodHabitz Documentaries >>> <https://www.goodhabitz.com/en-gb/why-goodhabitz/doing-things-differently/goodhabitz-moments/> >>> . >>> They are very interested in OST and are planning to come to Bilbao to >>> film and make some interviews during the 28th World Open Space on Open >>> Space. >>> >>> Now, they asked something that I thought would be best to spread through >>> the OSLIST, as follows: >>> >>> .... >>> >>> >>> *For the film we are still looking for anybody who is a >>> psychologist/anthropologist/sociologist or business culture expert. Or >>> someone with a lot of knowledge in this field. We would like to interview >>> such an expert about how you can change the business culture or the >>> approach in order to have better meetings. * >>> >>> *.... * >>> >>> >>> *Do you know if there are more experts who are attending the event? * >>> >>> >>> Would you, please, specially if planning to join as in Bilbao in >>> September, take some time to answer Marije (you can add us, as cc)? >>> >>> I've proposed her to join herself the OSLIST to take part directly in >>> the conversation or open new questions. >>> >>> >>> Best of all, >>> >>> >>> Gentza Eleder >>> >>> BuM_31 unJobbing >>> >>> Mundaka >>> >>> (+0034) 638.733.223 >>> >>> >>> >>> ------- Original Message ------- >>> Em terça-feira, 23 de agosto de 2022 às 10:10, Marije Kuipers >>> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> escreveu: >>> >>> Hi Gentza, good morning! >>> >>> How are you? Thanks for your email. Great answers! >>> >>> I forgot to ask, have you been filmed before? And is it online? Just to >>> get an idea :) >>> >>> .... >>> >>> For the film we are still looking for anybody who is a >>> psychologist/anthropologist/sociologist or business culture expert. Or >>> someone with a lot of knowledge in this field. We would like to interview >>> such an expert about how you can change the business culture or the >>> approach in order to have better meetings. >>> .... >>> >>> Do you know if there are more experts who are attending the event? >>> >>> Hope to hear from you. >>> >>> Thanks for your time and efforts! >>> >>> Have a good day, >>> Marije >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OSList mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>> >>> >>> Michael M Pannwitz >>> Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin >>> +49 30 7728000 [email protected] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OSList mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>> >> >> Michael M Pannwitz >> Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin >> +49 30 7728000 [email protected] >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > >
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