Friends, Here's a response from Juanita Brown for all of your wonderful answers to her questions. I add my thank you as well. It was lovely to learn about what is working from everyone.
clear and unseasonably warm in Seattle, Peggy ----- Original Message ----- From: Juanita Brown To: Peggy Holman ; Atlee Tom Cc: Isaacs David Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 5:49 AM Subject: OS Listserv response Hello to all.... We in the World Cafe team were touched and honored to receive the heartfelt and thoughtful responses to our question regarding what enabled the OS listserv to maintain its vibrancy over all these years, and how it had contributed to the OS community around the world. After we read the list serv responses we also had a wonderful "storytelling" conversation with Peggy Holman, which helped us grasp more deeply the origins and unfolding of your OS learning community. There were so many parallels to things we have experienced with the World Cafe that, at times, I found my skin tingling with recognition. We loved the emphasis on living the Open Space principles, the opportunity for mutual help across time and space in a rapid way, the poetry and creative expression aspect (we've just started a "creative expressions" part of the World Cafe website), the diverse international voices chiming in, the welcoming of all that arrives, encouraging both the experienced and the "newbies" to exchange learnings as peers, and the inclusiveness and generosity of spirit that underlies your collaboration. It is a wonderful tribute to your self-managing, self-organizing community (and to the living systems thinking that underlies both OS and the World Cafe) that you are, yourselves, a living evolving "organism". I look forward to bringing many of these learnings to bear as this little girl--(10 years old this month)-- takes her next steps into the big world with the publication of the first book on the World Cafe in April. Thank you again for your generous sharing....and we look forward to continuing to "cross-pollinate" in whatever ways can be most nurturing to the common spirit that underlies our mutual work. for a better world. Fond regards, Juanita Brown _______________________________________ The World Café Living Knowledge Through Conversations That Matter http://www.theworldcafe.com To subscribe to the World Café listserv send an email to: [email protected] Type the word Subscribe in the subject line of your message * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
