Diane,
Indeed I am ("in full open space right now"):
My venue hostess cancelled.
So I post-poned the event rather than search for a new one on short notice....
So, the vacuum/space gave me room to reflect and reconsider my limited party
invitation, having a hunch that the little bit of talk about the quasi-O.S.
plan was already circulating now or later.
The venue cancellation was giving me the opportunity to open wide the
invitation list (to avoid developing an us/them situation) with a new place and
time.
Then arrived the emails from Tenneson and Esther and Wendy each giving exactly
the right encouragement for the new situation, as the order of things would
have it.
Douglas Germann's reply had given me the courage (and space and 'permission' of
a sort) to carry on with what I'd begun, in its quasi-fashion, so I was able to
hear the other opinions, as well. (Besides, they were so kindly expressed.)
It seems now I'll either have to take a larger step into the selfless arena as
Wendy describes it and stay faithful to the facilitator role, ...or....the
communication may have already begun in the wider fully open space.
-- The temperature is so nice here in this pool, I'm not sure I'm eager to get
out to find out what's going on out there in my community of interest.
...Except that email responses to the cancellation are coming in, in support of
trying again.
thank you everyone,
lisafloyd
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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:55:43 -0500
From: [email protected]
Subject: [OSLIST] RE : [OSLIST] Baby-step into O.S. -- questions
To: [email protected]
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.
Here’s 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, we’d 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
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