Dear Harrison,
Happy belated Birthday, dear Harrison Owen.
I’m sorry this reply is late, Harrison, as I’ve been fighting off a bout of Covid symptoms. I’ve also been reflecting on the profound influence you and your work have had upon me and my company, Improbable. Since that book fell itself off my shelf and told me it was about time I read it! As circles widen, there are also all the other people who have come into contact with the concept of Open Space through you and the wonderful fellow creators of Open Space Technology all those years ago.
Many of them have felt that influence through our own (now numbering in the hundreds) Open Space events. Others have experienced it through the practice of Open Space in our shows, as we have incorporated the principles into our daily rehearsals and the creation of our shows. Your’e gift was an abundance of spirit. Some are feeling it right now coming off the stage in our current show, “My Neighbour Totoro” at the Barbican in London.
Thank you so much for this generous gift, which now exists outside of you, beyond you, and all of us who believe in this crazy, sometimes scary, sometimes beautiful wave that we call life. I’ve been honored to be riding the waves with you.
Lots of Love, Phelim
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Sent from my iPhone Dear Harrison, I’m standing in line to cheer to you for your birthday and my thanks for Open Space, such a gift and blessing. My way into Open Space was through Thomas Herrman and Eiwor Backelund holding a training here in Sweden more than 20 years ago - and as other has said -those days change my life - or merely I finally found what I was looking for - and believed in. The training was held the same days that you were in Italy (I think?) holding an OST meeting in a very stressful situation amongst religious leaders. During the training we were following your story about what happened here on the list and we were very exited when we read the morning news that all went well.
I also remember my first posting here on the list and YOU answered - and it was like I was ”chatting” with ”Freud” or any other well known guru :-)
So Happy Birthday and hoping for many more to come :o) Eva
Harrison,
I imagine your 88 years lived like 88 keys of a piano, each with a different combination of strings, pegs, and hammers, each having a different pitch, and each contributing a different and special part of the music being played.
Keep playing The Music with SPIRIT! Rijon Dear Harrison,
I had travelled from Istanbul to Berlin for your 70th Birthday and we had a great party at Berlin Open Space Cooperative. Now i am in Berlin again. Next year we are organizing Wosonos in Istanbul.
Ever since, i keep bothering everybody around me with this simple yet somehow difficult to explain method, Open Space Technology.
Thanks Harrison, OST has also changed my life as many of my colleagues and it keeps me hope for the humanity.
Best wishes and Happy birthday💐 Funda Oral 4 Ara 2023 Pzt 05:09 tarihinde Audrey Hepburn via OSList < [email protected]> şunu yazdı: Dear Harrison and friends i Open Space！
Congratulations Harrison and miss you very much！ I would like share you a good news，excpet " Wave Rider" has been published in China，"The power of spirit" has passed reviewed by the China National publishing House，so we will get the Chinese version as soon as possible.
The ESG Ecological Conference was successfully held last month and used Open Space. More than 3 million people watched the live broadcast and 500 people attended the on-site meeting. Almost all participants in China's ESG files are shocked by the energy brought by Open Space.
Happy birthday!!! This is my 88th birthday gift for you!
Love you and every my OpenSpace Family!!
Audrey Hepburn
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---- Replied Message ---- Dear Harrison and friends i Open Space! Congratulations Harrison with celebrating the gift of Open Space. My way in to the life and practice of open space was first guided by Ingunn Svendsen in Norway pointing me to Thomas Herrmann in Sweden for workshop in the Genuine Contact program. My life and work changed from there. I was also happy to meet you Harrison in London wosonos in 2012.
Now Open space is finding its way into Municipalities on the west cost of Norway, Aalesund. The work, spirit and approach is more needed than ever!
All the best Hege Steinsland Sendt fra min iPhone Happy birthday Harrison.
Of all the things I have learned from you, perhaps the most important is how you have continually gifted Open Space Technology to the world. The principle of “trust the people” in every way is the essence of facilitating Open Space. But it is also the principle of how to host a community of people within an organization, a network, a global community.
Open Space Technology changed the way I work, and has been massively influential in so many important areas of work and life and community. And it was through your convening and generosity that I discovered many of the key collaborators that have been my partners and friends and teachers and colleagues over the past 28 years.
So a personal thank you to join this chorus of love and gratitude. Thank you for always operating from Spirit and inviting it the flow between us all.
Have a happy birthday!
Chris Dear Harrison, Wow 88…like an infinity sign representing the timeless influence and inspiration that you had on so many of us by introducing Open Space. Your gift was the gift of a more vibrant life, full of spirit, deep friendships and love. With a multiplier effect that is impossible to describe. Something we experience that is bigger than words. Like life. I got hooked in 2009 and the feeling of it never left me. It just grew and grew. Today may you feel the shared love and appreciation from so many of us, as described by colleagues here and others who may not know it’s your birthday today. Big hugs, Suzanne from Canada not too far from Camden Maine where many met by the sea, with a picture here of you on the waters there
Sent from my iPhone Happy Birthday, Harrison! So fortunate to have you as a part of my professional learning. Blessing to you as you celebrate your 88th birthday!
Open Space change my approach to so many learning situations. I was just explaining it to someone on Friday who listened but was unwilling to let go of her plan for a meeting. I will circle back at another time.
Best wishes to you for good health, enduring friends and continued learning!
Donnan Stoicovy
Dear Harrison I embarked on a journey to the USA in 1997 determined to find a new paradigm of change work in organizations. A year passed and I was deeply disappointed for I moved my family and found nothing. Luckily by 1998 I met OST through and the User's guide and in 1999, a moth before heading back home to Israel, I met you in a week's seminar. Meeting OST had changed me and the work I do in the world in a profound way. In 2000, you wrote you were coming to Israel to teach with me. I was so intimidated and happy at the same time. No words to tell you how fortunate I felt. Working together in Israel and Rome, meeting again in POP on Whidbey Island, spending time in my home with my family, colleagues and friends, are all moments I cherish. Sometimes we agreed sometimes we fought but you are the person and teacher who changed my life more than anybody else. On your birthday it is a good time to remember and tell the story of how blessed I feel for being your friend, learning and working together. To thank you for having my back every time I needed it and opening more and more gates in my soul, as the space I opened was not enough… Thank you and bless you for all the richness and encouragement you brought into my life, and for some of the unnecessary burdens you helped let go of… J Wishing you great health of body and soul, friendship and calm, I miss you Tova Averbuch Holon ![https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1cwHpXJdjcmQLlbdNAkgj8HapMTCKkqx1&revid=0B_yNcHN0z41LWjV3OHhYZE5sNk1ZTXVtK3R1cy9POXl1eERvPQ]() Happy Birthday and blessings for a magical new year of your life. We met in April 1992 when you came to Ontario, Canada to lead one of your four day trainings in OST. The timing was just right in my life to experience all that you offered to me as beneficially life changing, transformative. Drs. Larry Peterson and George Herrmanson were the sponsors of that event and I continue to be grateful to them for bringing you and your work into Canada. By December 1995, Larry Peterson, Paul Levy (and his partner whose name I have sadly forgotten), and I formed the Open Space Institute of Canada with you present, challenging us to do so. You had, and probably have, a 'let's get it done' approach. I was also present at the inaugural meeting of the Open Space Institute-USA with a number of dear friends including Anne Stadler and Peggy Holman. I admit to being one of the advocates of a networked system of the Open Space Institutes, not wanting the OS Institute in the USA to be the hub for all of us worldwide. There was no resistance as we all were in co-creating and emerging. You and our conversations have been some of the most significant in my life. I have so much gratitude to you for the many gifts that landed in my life from our friendship. Senior consultant-author-mentor to leaders and consultants Specialist in organizational and systemic transformation, leadership development, and the benefits of nourishing a culture of leadership. Whole Person Process Facilitation | September 20, 21, 27 & 28, 2023 | Online Individual Health and Balance | November 24, December 1, 8 & 15, 2023 | Online Strategic Planning the Genuine Contact Way | January 8-13, 2024 | Online Dear Harrison, Just a few words to celebrate you. We met in 1995 when a friend from Antioch University Seattle sent me an article from Training Magazine on Open Space Technology and I called you. It changed my life. You gave words and a framework to something I’d been playing with: the importance of random encounters for creativity and innovation — for “learning organizations" to flourish. Of course I joined the party. WE started this listserv. When you came to Seattle as part of your world tour with the idea of forming the Open Space Institute (OSI) in 1996, I was one of 7 who contributed $10 so we had the $70 required to apply for nonprofit status in the US. We quickly learned that our colleagues in Australia and Canada, who also formed OSI’s, expected that we add -US to our name. We did. And a network was acknowledged. All this is to say happy birthday Harrison. Thank you for being you. It has been a ride! May we continue to be present to what emerges as increasing numbers discover the challenges and opportunities of living life in open space.
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