Thanks to all for this wonderful conversation. An especially big thanks to you, Harold, for wrangling the technical difficulties and for reminding me/us that this video is still online. Hard to believe that when we made it in 2005, 15 minutes was the standard for length. These days, it’s rare for people to give more than a couple of minutes to watch something.
Lisa, the 2005 Girl Scout Convention brought together over 14,000 girls and adults from across the US for their corporate business meeting and to convene “Open Strategic Conversations” with the membership. The Open Space for over 1700 elected delegates focused on organizational structure and governance. The Strategy Cafes offered over 3000 girls and adults the opportunity to weigh in on the new Core Business Strategy. It was a wild and wonderful ride all the way around. You can read more about the story here - http://www.innovationpartners.com/2014/03/collective-wisdom-our-girl-scouts-client-story/ and here http://escoladeredes.net/group/tecnologias-de-dialogo/forum/topics/open-space-meetings-by-kate-burton. Then, as you mentioned, Lisa, at the 2008 GS convention, our team offered an opening night Appreciative Inquiry conversation for over 10,000 (which I facilitated and Gabriel Shirley took onto the big screens via an early use of text polling), an OST meeting for around 700 (which you elegantly facilitated), a Leadership Cafe (facilitated by Samantha Tan), StoryWeaving videos shot by the girls, Story Weavings on those looms…it was full of life! Perhaps more important than the meetings themselves, was the capacity that was built for Girl Scouts across the country. We trained hundreds of girls and adults in what I like to call Methods for Strategic Collaboration. We know that many of them went on to facilitate Open Space meetings, Appreciative Interviews and World Cafe Conversations in their own Girl Scout Councils and other groups in their local communities. Thanks for the question, Raffi! Warm wishes to all from sunny Phoenix, Christine Christine Whitney Sanchez, M.C. Phoenix, AZ, USA • +1.480.759.0262 www.innovationpartners.com Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter On Sep 23, 2014, at 5:34 PM, Sharon Joy Kleitsch <[email protected]> wrote: Thank you, Harold, for sharing this inspiring video. This is a treasure link that we will use in the future. We celebrate the courage and huge risk of those who created the amazing Girl Scout convention in 2005. How timely that I just watched our president address the challenges of climate change. We continue to experience the dynamics of Open Space and World Cafe as key models to guide our bio-region in these essential conversations toward our flourishing, prosperous future. We find that the leadership is coming from students and other young leaders. Thank you for modeling the power of all of us together. We are ready! Sharon Joy Kleitsch The Connection Partners, Inc - linking people, resources and ideas www.theconnectionpartners.com St Petersburg FL 33701 [email protected] From: Harold Shinsato <[email protected]> Reply-To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 8:06 PM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OSList] largest ost? Hi Raffi, Lisa, The 1400+ Open Space event Christine Whitney Sanchez facilitated for the Girl Scouts was documented in a video on the Open Space Institute's website. http://osius.org/content/girl-scouts-national-convention-large-open-space Regards, Harold On 9/23/14 2:59 PM, Lisa Heft - wrote: > Hi, Raffi, hi, friends, and a deep bow to you, Harold for your amazing work > behind the scenes to help the mechanics of this list support incredible > communication and sharing. > > Mark Matlock and I did several face-to-face OS events in Los Angeles, > Cincinnati and Atlanta, USA - the largest of which was, if I recall > correctly, 3500. > I have done quite a number of them at the 2400+ level. Peggy - I forget what > your largest may have been? Michael P - was it 2108? Christine Whitney > Sanchez - your largest? I name these folks because I am trying to recall who > are my OSLIST colleagues who have done this sort of large-group OS… > > One thing I learned quite a bit from was the collective work done by > Christine Whitney Sanchez, Gabriel Shirley and other amazing folks at the > 51st Girl Scout Congress - how to weave dialogue (of various forms - > different processes with different groups / amounts of people for different > specific reasons) into an 11,000 person event. I was *so* honored to be on > that team, doing among other things an Open Space meeting of I think it may > have been 780 people. Verbal dialogue, internal dialogue… Open Space, World > Cafe, story looms...lovely stuff. Such rich learning, in the pre-work, in the > conference, and upon reflection… > > I don’t know how many people Kai Degner (then the mayor of Harrisonburg - yes > - Harrison…burg... Virginia… ) had participating in his city-wide OS forums… > > Lisa > > On Sep 23, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Harold Shinsato <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi OSList, >> >> Raffi's email below triggered complaints from Google about Raffi's >> "Unauthenticated email from yahoo.com" that unsubscribed at least 130 gmail >> and googlemail addresses from the OSList. I've never seen a problem like >> this in all the years I've been managing the OSList. Hopefully it is >> resolved. I think I've added you all back. But it seems Raffi's email didn't >> make it through to the non google people as well. >> >> Raffi asked me to resend it. Hopefully this will go through. >> >> Cheers, >> Harold >> >> Subject: [OSList] largest ost? >> From: Raffi Aftandelian <[email protected]> >> Date: 9/23/14 10:39 AM >> To: OSlist <[email protected]> >> CC: Michael Pannwitz <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" >> <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> >> friends, >> >> my friend and colleague Misha Pronin in Moscow is wondering what is the >> largest ost event ever and where did it take place? >> >> thanks! >> >> laramtsa, >> >> raffi >> >> ****** >> >> I am the culturally White middle class American taxpayer, >> up to my chin in hypocrisy, double standards, a sense of entitlement, and >> choking on overconsumption, >> >> blissfully in denial about how 60% of my federal income taxes go to a >> military >> >> that sustains genocide and ecocide the world over >> >> ...all in the name of democracy, freedom, and happiness for all >> >> >> -- a riff off of Thic Nhat Hanh's Please Call Me By My True Names >> ----- Пересланное сообщение ----- >> От: Михаил Пронин <[email protected]> >> Кому: Raffi Aftandelian <[email protected]> >> Отправлено: воскресенье, 21 сентября 2014 12:24 >> Тема: Самый большой ОП >> >> Раффи, подскажи какой самый большой ОП на сегодняшний день и где был? >> >> >> -- >> Михаил Пронин >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > -- Harold Shinsato [email protected] http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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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