Speaking of schools of thought. Just a few days ago, I finally put some (long, rambling, hard to follow!) thoughts down on paper about this (I'm sure covering only a few of the different thoughts/schools within this OS community):
http://facilitator-journey.blogspot.com/2007/06/integration-of-frames.html Has anybody ever tried to catalogue the various ways in which OS is approached? It's probably impossible to make an exhaustive listing, but I'm thinking it would prove a valuable learning resource, and maybe also useful if anyone wanted to study the effectiveness of OS, or report on one, that you could roughly say "This is the type of OS performed, this was the duration, this was the type of convergence, this was the closing" and it would be clear to everyone. Not that I want to take the fun and creativity out of it, of course! Greetings from a busy blogosphere! Andrew ----- Original Message ---- From: Michael M Pannwitz <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:39:00 PM Subject: Re: The Theme and STAMMTISCHE Dear Yana and you other themers, here a little correction to my post after reading yours: WOSonOS always has had a theme "Open Space on Open Space". A very "open", "wide" theme. In addition, more "focused" or "closed" themes have been used. My experience has been that regardless of whether the theme was simply "Open Space on Open Space" or other additional themes were used, the current interests with energy (such as "schools" for open space trainings or open space) have come up in all WOSonOS that I have been to. In fact, different ways ("schools", if you like) have been practiced for instance in the introduction part of the os event or in the design or around the closing circle... always lead to discussions on "styles", "schools", etc of ost. In fact, the whole field of "schools" or different ways of planning, opening, facilitating os events is one of the root causes for this listserve and is one of the most passionate issues making this exchange so productive. Regardless of all this, themes in all kinds of situations are important to arrive at (I put the emphasis on "arrive at"). An additional aspect to WOSonOS: Yes, I myself try to be at every one...and I have never even given one thought to the theme in the decision on whether to attend a WOSonOS or not. What attracts me most is those crazy colleagues from all over that are passionate about Open Space and Open Space Technology...even those weird whale watchers. And dont forget, STAMMTISCH time is just around the corner and I propose that at every one the theme for WOSonOS in San Francisco in 2008 is discussed, lets see what will emerge on: Monday, July 2nd, 7 pm in Augsburg, Bad Honnef, Berlin, Bielefeld, Bratislava, Budapest, Glottertal, Göteborg, Halifax, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Israel, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Köln, London, Luxembourg, Madison, Montreal, Moscow, München, New York, Paris, Saarbrücken, San Francisco, Singapore, Switzerland, Uppsala, Utrecht, Vienna Have a great day in Kyiv! See you in San Francisco or even earlier! hugs mmp Yana Demenko wrote: > Yes, Chris, on the one hand, you are right ... Whatever needs to happen > will happen during the OSonOS and sometimes there is no need in posting > the theme. But worldwide OS community is transforming all the time. > IMHO, today we got a lot of "hot" and hidden issues inside. To hide them > for now is not a constructive way. Don't you think so? Why not to put > them on the board and start to talk about? I think that OSonOS is a > right time for that kind of issues. > > Just for example ... have a look on the table of content of 15th > WOSonOS's book of proceedings (there was the theme as you know). And > what do you see? Issue #1 - A different way of training for OS > facilitators. Go to that particular page and you will see a bit more! > People from Eastern Europe, Asia, Canada and Australia are talking about > "schools" differences. I think it is a good result of using the theme. > > Has it a chance to appear without a theme? Maybe :) but there were also > some "peacemaking goals" of the hosting team ;) > > Best, > Yana Demenko > > [post] p.o.box 4-?, Kyiv-1, 01001, Ukraine > [e-mail] [email protected] > [web] www.demenko.info -- Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany ++49-30-772 8000 www.boscop.org www.michaelmpannwitz.de Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 444 resident Open Space Workers in 70 countries (working in a total of 128 countries worldwide) www.openspaceworldmap.org * * ========================================================== [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
