Under the heading of stories and comments from "2108" -- the following comes from Albrech Mahr, who along with his wife Brirgitte, sponsored and organized the event. Added to all the wonderful pictures we have been viewing and we seem to be developing something like a "case study." God Help us. We could turn into proper academics.
Harrison **************************************** Until the very last moments before the beginning I was not sure how it would be accepted by the participants given the fact that it was not a strictly typical OS, i.e. there was not one single highly controversial issue to be solved. But that fact did not de-energize the OS field into a noncommittal "whatever anybody suits" place but rather into a multilevel / multifocal space for expressing and sharing much of the huge amount of input and experience of the 3 previous days of the conference. We talked to many, many people and we got even more email feedback - all of it very, very positive and even enthusiastic about the rich possibilities to stay together for one day, digest, process and express all the experience and ideas and creating new perspectives. For some of the participants the OS was exactly what it historically meant to be: a big, creative, relaxing and yet beautifully meaningful coffee break which could only make sense within the togetherness of the whole conference, within mankind as one participant put it. For me it is an encouraging experinec to re-shape the classical conference format into the first part of working, learning etc and the second part of playfully-committedly making a personal meaning out of the conference in close connection with my human fellows. Dr. Albrecht Mahr, Brigitte Mahr Institut for Systems Constellations Mittlerer Dallenbergweg 37 a D-97082 Wuerzburg Phone 0049-931-7840100 Email: [email protected] www.mahrsteme.de Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 USA phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected] Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
