Raffi
I wonder if this is one of your 'Society for Constructive Obnoxiousness'
postings as it is indeed difficult to believe <grin>
Congratulations and all good wishes for the grand adventure you and your
colleagues are now pursuing.
With love
Alan
Hong Kong
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From: "Raffi Aftandelian" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 10:21 PM
Subject: mixing business and pleasure
Greetings all!
When I called Mikhail Pronin from the church phone while Harrison was
speaking during the closing, Mikhail couldn't believe me.
When I reached Galina this morning, she also didn't believe me.
Judi, might you call this operating in the realm of disbelief?
Maybe this could be called almost understated giddiness.
Giddiness or not, but there's work to be done, joy to be had...
We've added a wiki page to facilitate the self-organization of OSonOS
Mockba. This page also includes information about a google group devoted
to OSonOS Mockba's self-organization.
This page can be found at
http://www.openspaceworld.org/network/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceonOpenSpace2006
The page is below.
It is a huge honor and responsibility to be organizing this event!
In gratitude, humility, and joy,
raffi
Describe the new page here. Welcome to the OSonOS-Moskva 2006 Page!
This page is devoted to being a collector of resources, ideas, anything
and everything that will facilitate making the self-organization of
OSonOS-Moskva as self-organizing and joyful as possible.
Please add, subtract, multiply, divide here as you see fit!
A number of initial thoughts:
1. Team make-up-- Interested in working on the self-organizing team? Just
let us know, wherever you are.
2. Fundraising-- We would like to make this event as accessible (in all
the senses of the word, perhaps) to participants. If you have any ideas
about how to make that happen, that would be great. Maybe you have old
(funded or unfunded) grant applications for OSonOS or other OST-related
events that we could use to edit, adapt in seeking funding for this event.
We are interested right now first of all in finding funding for
underrepresented and passionate OST community members and those who might
be potentially interested in OST.
In particular, right now this would mean community activists from around
the former Soviet Union. This might include Central Asians, Chechen War
veterans, ex or current Chechen rebels, refugees, human rights activists,
disability activists, those working in children's and women's issues, and
many many more.
A related area is sponsorship. We are especially interested in drawing
corporate interest, in particular Russia/NIS corporate sponsorship of this
OSonOS. How might we make corporate support and sponsorship (and
participation) both possible and self-organizing?
3. Ideas about project management- some OST facilitators have already
volunteered some tools to make the project management take place as
seamlesslyy as possible. More ideas welcome.
4. Holding space- it would be nice to hear who is setting the intention to
hold space the organizing and happening of OSonOS-Moscow. E-mails sent to
the addresses at the end of this page addressed to members of
Intertraining would be welcome.
5. Stories- one of the things that really helped to make the decision to
come to Russia is that many had had a very positive experience of being in
Russia. We would like to invite you to post those stories to the
OST-listserv. Let's hear the stories-- good and not-so-good-- about
Russia. So, we get a picture and can make an informed choice about
OSonOS14?.
6. Russia, NIS contacts- OST facilitators and other transformation of
consciousness industry professionals and hobbyists stepped forward at the
end of OSonOS13? and began volunteering their Russian contacts. Please, do
put us in touch with those who you know in Russia. It's a big country!
Many of us don't know each other!
7. Electronic discussion list-- an electronic discussion list has been
created to facilitate the self-organizing of OSonOS-Moskva. To sign up you
will need to register at Google.
The list's address is http://groups.google.ca/group/osonos2006. Once
signed up, you can send mail to the group at [email protected]
If you need any help in signing up, please contact the team.
8. Translation-- this OSonOS may likely be the first fully bilingual
OSonOS event. Your thoughts, experiences, ideas, models about making this
happen easily and seamlessly would be welcome.
9. Coaching-- ongoing coaching of the self-organizing team is one of the
meta-infrastructure elements that is key perhaps to making this another
miraculous OSonOS. Your volunteering yourself as a mentor/coach would be
welcome, whether electronically or by phone or ...
10. Initial planning meetings- tentatively the first two meetings are
scheduled for October. One will likely be an attempt at skype
(computer-based phone conferencing) in Open Space. The second will be a 2
1/2 day OST meeting on organizing the OSonOS, to take place in Moscow.
We would be interested in ideas about how to publicize widely the October
OSonOSonOS? (and generate interest in participation in the OSonOS) to
generate interest in the OSonOS itself, ideally so that in the OSonOSonOS?
marketing material would be written about the power of OST.
In gratitude, humility and joy, the OSonOS 2006 self-organizing team (all
members of the professional association of trainers and consultants,
Intertraining, www.intertraining.org)
Galina Tsarkova, independent consultant and trainer, Moscow, Russia
([email protected]) Mikhail Pronin, Center for Virtualistics,
Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, Russia ([email protected], www.cursus.ru)
Raffi Aftandelian, essenceworks consulting group, Moscow, Russia
([email protected])
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