Father Brian, I've been to WAM a few times. We met there either last year or the year before. I think I made the connection through Chris Corrigan.
I would be interested in exploring a proposal to do an OS at next year's WAM. Wouldn't it be interesting to have an OS with some focus on control? An OS period, at that academic gathering.... Would you be interested? Others too? Tenneson Woolf The Art of Hosting [email protected] www.artofhosting.org 801 376 2213 Dyer Institute for Leading Organizational Change [email protected] www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu 801 422 2665 -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fr BRIAN S BAINBRIDGE Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Causing Trouble For Scott Willard Dear Scott I think this statement of yours is utterly on target, IMHO. And it is useful to reflect that change of such magnitude - which I see as inevitable now and well and truly begun - takes a while to grow. I'm at a Management Conference in Missoula Montana and the whole premise at the base of the papers and presentations is almost totally based on "control" type thinking. Academics are - regrettably - among the last to hear what is happening in the world that is changing around them. And yet, my presence here over many years is now starting to bear some small fruit - like the parable of the mustard seed, except that it takes a while for germination to happen. Interesting that the first academic I met today at this event started talking about Open Space and its potential for a major international gathering in Africa sometime soon. And others who are here always tell me, now, how they are starting to make use of the ideas they have heard me talking about for a longish time. All of us who open space are, I believe, at the forefront of the new way of being for organizations. HHO has a wonderful lot to be praised for and for us and the world to be thankful for, I reckon. And there's still a road to travel, of course. Cheers and blessings, BRIAN from Missoula, Montana (at the moment!) Fr Brian S Bainbridge 0412 111 525 Skype: briansbain * * ========================================================== [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 * * ========================================================== [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
