Hi Lisa,
Thanks for your wonderful support of the WOSonOS's. This might deserve
another thread if people want to discuss, as there was some virtual open
dialog about our selection process on the OSList last year while it was
happening on site, and the selection process for Serbia was turbulent -
and definitely interesting. It was certainly emergent. But just for the
record, here are the 2015+ invitations offered last year. Not just China.
Spain - 2015 - Ian Barber
Mexico - 2015 - Livia Olivera, Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring
China - 2015 or 2016 - QingHua Song, Hulu Chen
Dallas, TX, USA - 2019 - Devon Morris
Chicago, IL - 2020 - Devon Morris
Virtual WOSonOS - 2025 - Devon Morris
Regards,
Harold
On 9/14/14 6:23 PM, Lisa Heft - wrote:
Hi, folks. Access Queen here again.
Another thing I do as Access Queen is to collect and share best practices and
lessons-learned from each year’s WOSonOS Host Team, and fold them into a
growing living document.
Nobody says you have to do a WOSonOS in a certain way. And you can host these
things whenever or whoever you feel so inspired.
For example, I have been hosting an Open Space on Open Space (and on all things
facilitation) every Spring in the San Francisco region, for years now. You are
all invited, and I will post that date on this list.
However, it is interesting to see that the Host Teams from 2001 onward - since
I have began this shared-wisdom document - name the same lessons-learned.
Some of which inform how they announced or invited, or had ample or
insufficient funding to cover their expenses, or realized how the design of a
WOSonOS / OSonOS is different than how they might design an Open Space meeting
for an organization’s task or exploration. And there are some fun traditions
that happen each year, as well.
Again: you can do it all in your own way. You can start your own traditions.
However if you are thinking of hosting a WOSonOS next year or in the future, do
contact me directly and I will send you this “Wisdom from Past Hosts” document.
By the way - typically each year at a WOSonOS one or more teams invite the
WOSonOS to their country for the next year, or for a future year. Right there
before the Closing Circle / end of the conference.
Our Chinese colleagues made a lovely invitation to host the next WOSonOS when
they came to the 2013 WOSonOS in Florida, USA.
I am wondering if they may bring their voice and invitation to Serbia to say so
again. WONDERFUL team!
Sometimes a team will offer for a few years in a row, because there may be
several teams who step forward to invite at once, and then typically the people
attending the WOSonOS chat and decide together in some way which country across
the world the WOSonOS will travel to for the next year.
Please know that you do *not* have to be present at a WOSonOS to invite to your
country for a future year. However it really does help, I think, to have
attended one or more WOSonOSs first, to know how that particular event feels
and might be structured. You can ask someone you know is going to a WOSonOS to
invite on your behalf. A great thing is to design an invitation that really
gives the cultural flavor and passion for your country.
I invited three years in a row before the group selected my country for the
following year.
Whenever it starts is the right time.
There were other wonderful inviters and other wonderful countries were chosen
before mine, which was perfect.
I have a lovely memory of Thomas and Eva from Sweden representing me one year -
I was an egg, wasn’t I? And… I broke, didn’t I?
All well, I feel much better now.
Anyway.
Contact me directly if you would like to receive this document to inform your
country team’s thought and planning for potentially hosting a future WOSonOS.
And I am sadly not attending this year but do let someone on this list know if
you would like them to plan with you how *they* can creatively represent you
when it is invitation time at the conference…
Lisa
Lisa Heft
Opening Space
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