Lisa, And all,
It's great to hear your excitement here in new York, where Matilda and I are at present. It's so inspiring to hear of all your supportive work in building the Chile and Spanish speaking OS community. We are sad we can't make it in person to see our friends. However, we feel supported in you looking after our invitational flame and are thankful you will be representing us in Chile to the world for our UK 2012 Wosonos. The host team is currently getting into gear and concurrent to Lisa making the invitation on our behalf in Chile we will have a web page up for early registration. As someone who has attended WOSonOS and OSonOs events I know they can can be truly inspiring in so many respects- not least I have made lifetime friendships from them. So if anyone is still thinking whether they should or shouldn't go I encourage you to follow your hearts! Love Phelim X ________________________________ I generally pick up emails only at the beginning and end of the working day. I am currently aiming to respond the following day. If it is urgent please call me on 07956 187298. _____________________________________ www.improbable.co.uk @openspacer On 7 Oct 2011, at 01:22, Lisa Heft <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, all - > > My heart was full (in a good way) so I wanted to share... > > I am preparing to travel to Chile to attend the WOSonOS 2011 - and it will be > so lovely to join together with my dear Chilean and Argentine and > other-country friends to dive into Open Space to learn with and from each > other. To celebrate culture and community and our differences and our > interconnection. > > There is still room for you, too if you would like to join us. > If you do not speak Spanish, do not worry - we will be there to help you. > > http://www.wosonoschile.cl > > And this plus the recent posts from Nick and Annette makes me think also of > the lovely invitation to WOSonOS 2012. > I recall that magical moment in Berlin at WOSonOS 2010 when Matilda you > invited on behalf of the performing arts community who have been using Open > Space for years now in an ongoing experiment of collaboration and > co-creation. Matilda engaged us all in a lovely improvisational partnering > exploration that truly invited us all to embody the creative interconnection > and culture of the performing arts Open Space community. > > I am excited... > - to learn from a community that has been exploring -in community- these > years > - to learn from people who explore in multiple modalities (movement, visual > arts, spoken word and more) > - to learn more about how you do documentation (because I am all about > documentation and I've really enjoyed reading documentation from the Devoted > & Disgruntled gatherings over the years) > - to see some of my dear colleagues from the UK Open Space community whom > I've enjoyed meeting and learning with over the years > - to meet new colleagues and hear what you have all been doing in communities > and organizations and workplaces in your region of the world > - to see and learn with some of my wonderful European Open Space colleagues > because I know you will be able to join us there... > > Amazing. And I know from helping each year's Host Teams that it is a lot of > work. So please know that I support you and believe in you. > > Participants in my workshops are so interested in these two events hosted by > these two wonderful and diverse communities each in their own cultural ways. > Whether they can get to the WOSonOSs or not - do know that their thoughts are > with you and that they are certainly with you in spirt. > > For those of you thinking of inviting and hosting for future years - I do > have a paper that is the collected wisdom of past years of Host Teams. Let me > know and I shall send that collective wisdom to you. > For anyone who wishes to invite for a future year but cannot make it to a > WOSonOS - it is one of our traditions to represent you if you cannot be there > in person to invite for a future year - so do let me know if you wish to do > some inviting this year and of course the offer remains for whenever you feel > you are ready to invite. Sometimes it takes a while to grow a regional > community of practice and then you may feel ready to invite. I am happy to > help and have happily represented others to invite on their behalf - and have > also been represented when it was I who could not get to a WOSonOS but wanted > to invite. > > But back to this lovely event that is happening in Chile in just a few weeks: > The Chile Host Team is doing such an amazing job - and we are lucky to have > them as part of our diverse world Open Space community. > It is so exciting that this is the first WOSonOS ever in Latin America - and > that as part of the plan there has been much learning and growing and > knowledge-sharing in the months before the WOSonOS - and that the learning > will continue during the WOSonOS, and also long afterwards - so it is not > just a single event but an entire arc of growing community and capacity for > the practice of Open Space in Spanish-speaking countries. > > I am honored to call this most passionate, vibrant, skilled and thoughtful > Chile Host Team my colleagues and friends. > > Thank you for your reading patience folks - I just had to share my delight.... > > Lisa > > > From October 12 through October 27 I will be traveling. During these dates I > may have less access to email. > > Lisa Heft > Consultant, Facilitator, Educator > Opening Space > [email protected] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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