Tenneson, I love the quote from your EX Director host. I find that getting this idea across to my clients ie with freedom people go beyond the call of duty offering their full potential, is what brings the most sparks in their eyes and the urge to try this weird but promising thing, OST. Concrete examples like the 36 topics is a great one.
I agree with Esther that trusting the process will create the safe climate needed and with Wendy about the added value of bringing the whole system in the room. Lisa, you may be in full open space as it is right now. The best to you and everyone. Diane From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tenneson Woolf Sent: 12 février 2009 11:57 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSLIST] RE : [OSLIST] Baby-step into O.S. -- questions Nice Esther. Heres a bit that I wrote recently about hosting with two groups that were crossing thresholds of how they meet. One in health care. The other a faith community. It relates to the issue you are raising Lisa. Thanks for stirring my thoughts on it In both, there was a feeling of launching. Launching a new era, visions of the future, born from deliberate interaction and conversation with each other. With both, the involvement of community, the invitation to create together, signaled or amplified a way of working that was different. With both, before starting, we could feel some of the concern that we have learned is rooted in desire to do the best work possible will this really work? Will we get done what we need too? Will community work? With both of these groups, we saw concern and angst shift to conviction and courage. We saw nervousness that unstructured agenda items would be neglected shift to surprise at how many agenda items were created and addressed by participants. IDWM Executive Director Adonna Bowman spoke it beautifully after the event, when she realized that the agenda we created as a group included 36 topics. If the executive committee had imposed those 36 topics, wed be lucky to have half the people care about even half of the topics. Yet here, everybody cared about all of them. It was remarkable. Tenneson Tenneson Woolf Lindon, Utah USA <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] 801 785 2276 801 376 2213 Cell <http://www.tennesonwoolf.com> www.tennesonwoolf.com <http://www.berkana.org> www.berkana.org <http://www.artofhosting.org> www.artofhosting.org And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. Nietzsche * * ========================================================== [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
