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Advertise Braziers Park for Open Space meetings??? Thanks for another lovely weekend. Michele On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Gerard Muller <g...@openspace.dk> wrote: > Dear Doama, > > The workshop will be from November 13th lunch-November 15th lunch. > I expect to finalise the invitation tomorrow, now that a space has found > me, > and mail it to you. It would be nice if you could make it ! > > If the dates don't suit your schedule, there's a series of events, about > one every week > in different countries. Only those who realy intend to miss it need to do > so. > > Greetings from Denmark, > > > > > Gerard Muller > Open Space Institute Denmark > Phone: (+45) 21269621 Skype: openspace1 > Mail: g...@openspace.dk > > > > > > > > > On Sep 6, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Diana Larsen wrote: > > Gerard, >> >> When will the workshop take place? I want to let some people know. >> >> Doama >> >> ** >> Diana Larsen >> http://www.futureworksconsulting.com/get-in-touch >> >> "Secrets of Agile Teamwork: Beyond Technical Skills" workshop with Esther >> Derby and Diana Larsen. >> October 21-23, 2008, Amelia Island Florida >> To register: http://tinyurl.com/6fv6xc >> >> "The Art of Agile..." workshop series with James Shore and Diana Larsen, >> Oct. 27-31, 2008, Portland, Oregon >> To register: http://tinyurl.com/6n5kbd >> >> >> On Sep 6, 2008, at 2:57 AM, Gerard Muller wrote: >> >> Dear all, >>> >>> >>> I really enjoy working in beautiful spaces. More often than not however, >>> clients have already rented >>> one, usually too cramped or sterile, without any spirit. Sometimes there >>> is >>> a wonderful room I did not yet know. >>> >>> >>> The worst space I ever worked in was when I was opening space for a >>> regional >>> tax office. >>> They had decided to have the meeting in their cellar - to save costs. The >>> ceiling was low, it was a long and narrow rectangle. It had to hold 195 >>> participants. I wasn't happy. >>> >>> >>> To my surprise the problem they had to solve was so bad that it did not >>> seem >>> to make a difference. >>> >>> >>> Sometimes I find the space I am to work in is unusual, or wonderful, or >>> both. I have worked in tents, >>> in barns, in police stations, in city council meeting rooms, in museums, >>> hospitals, castles, monasteries, churches, and so on. Over the years I >>> have >>> found some places I really like to be. >>> >>> >>> Sometimes the client has not yet booked something. Especially when it is >>> not >>> an internal meeting but a system, I find it useful to ask what location >>> other than a normal meeting space would symbolise and offer the right >>> environment for what they want to achieve. Again this has produced some >>> remarkable spots. >>> >>> >>> This time around, however, I could select the space. It concerned a >>> rather >>> special meeting; the seminar >>> on Harrison's Wave Rider Tour in the Netherlands. >>> >>> >>> Then something strange happened. >>> >>> >>> All locations that I know and like were booked. >>> >>> >>> I wrote to my network and asked for suggestions. Some twenty-five >>> suggestions came in, most of which I did not know at all. In good spirits >>> I >>> started to check. All that I contacted were booked, too. >>> >>> >>> I finally called a suggestion our collegue Gijs, a Dutchman living in >>> Shanghai gave me when we met >>> at WOSONOS in San Francisco. I called the secretariat of the >>> Sufi-organisation and explained them >>> I was looking for a special meeting space. Yes, they did have some >>> meeting >>> facilities, but they were definitely not a commercial conference centre. >>> Only meetings with a strong spiritual link could be held. >>> >>> >>> What came to my mind was to say that our meeting was to be about creating >>> dialogue and enabling deep conversations that matter, but that I was not >>> looking for normal facilities, but had heard they had quite a special >>> place. >>> >>> >>> There was a pause on the telephone line. "You must be reffering to our >>> temple". I then remembered Gijs actually mentioned a temple. >>> >>> >>> I was then given the name of the guardian of the temple. A few hours >>> later I >>> was there and had a wonderful conversation with a perfect stranger in an >>> amazing building: a Sufi temple, a perfect square with a golden dome >>> transparant enough to somehow pas on the light into the space. >>> >>> >>> The story of its foundation is, that Sufi teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan, >>> sent >>> from India to Eaurope to create a link between the East and the West, had >>> a >>> special experience during the summer school of 1922. He blessed the spot >>> and >>> gave it the name Murad Hassil, which means "wish for filled". >>> He said to his students that anyone who prays with honesty, would >>> experience >>> this blessing. >>> >>> >>> So, Wave Rider in the Netherlands will take place in the Sufi Temple, not >>> far from Amsterdam airport. >>> And by the way, it lies at on a dune at the seacoast. It comes including >>> real waves. >>> >>> >>> If you feel like coming, drop me a line. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Gerard Muller >>> g...@openspace.dk >>> >>> * >>> * >>> ========================================================== >>> osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu >>> ------------------------------ >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, >>> view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: >>> http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html >>> >>> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: >>> http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist >>> >>> >> * >> * >> ========================================================== >> osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu >> ------------------------------ >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, >> view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: >> http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html >> >> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: >> http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist >> >> > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
