Dear Community of Practice: We had some fascinating and invigorating discussions in Toronto on November 28-30 with regard to Collaborative Research into Open Space, Self-Organization and Emergence. I have now put the OS Reports from the event up on the OSI Canada website at www.openspacecanada.org/CRReports.htm .
It took a little while to sort out what happened at the close, which might be of interest to all. The event was sponsored by Ryerson University, OSI Canada and HH Owen. There were some great discussions from my perspective and from others as well. A couple of folks who came were clearly into a traditional "research" paradigm. They did not want their names to be part of any public reports of the event. Nor did we think to articulate at the beginning the "given" that the OS reports would be put on the OSI Canada web site. (Now we know.) So, we just needed to be sure that everything was clear before we put up the reports. They are now posted without some names. It did raise the interesting question of any "research" -- who owns the "data"? It has been posted for a little while, but I thought I would wait until now to announce it. There will be more to come on this. Pat Sniderman at Ryerson is likely hosting some ongoing conversations on the issues that emerged. A couple of groups have decided to pursue their ideas after the event and will likely share them with the larger "community of practice" in the near future. We have some great stories about our perceptions of the impact of OST such as the recent one from Nigeria. Truly exciting! That is certainly one kind of "evidence". There are other kinds of "evidence" as well from all 4 quadrants. I am finding it interesting at this point to explore how we might collect and get other forms of evidence out there. I think there are some next ideas on this in the reports. (A couple of the pictures seem to "move" when put on the web, I hope I have corrected that well enough.) Happy New Year. Larry Larry Peterson Associates in Transformation Toronto, ON, Canada 416.653.4829 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <http://www.spiritedorg.com> www.spiritedorg.com * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
