Synchronosity: HOPE as in Harrison Owen Perth Experience HOPE Hotel Shanghai. Venue for his intended Shanghai stop Just funny.
Would have been great to have been there. Gijs -----Original Message----- From: "Brendan McKeague" <mckea...@iprimus.com.au> To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Sent: 2/04/09 23:56 Subject: [OSLIST] Wave Riders Gather in Western Australia Hi folks We had a great gathering of Wave Riders here in Perth, Western Australia, yesterday - about thirty people showed up to continue the momentum generated by the anticipation of Harrison's tour down-under (Harrison Owen Perth Experience - HOPE09), which as you know, has needed to be postponed until the right time. I'm sorry to report that everyone had a great time - even without the man in the hat :-) Harrison - we did miss you and honoured the presence of your spirit among us! First up, three people presented their stories around our theme of Leadership For High Performance in a Self Organising World - went like this: 1 For the first 90mins, Michael Wood gave his version of how organisational/systems thinking has changed over the past couple of decades - based on Wave Rider - a presentation with Ppt slides, inviting dialogue with the group - and generating a shared language around leadership, high performance and self-organisation. 2 After morning tea, we had two presenters, taking about 40 mins each: first (Dr) Neil Preston gave us solid, scientific stories about measuring the impact of OST meetings in organisations he's been working with and ways to help leverage the impact of the energy that's generated and captured through the Book of Proceedings...planting this deep within the organisational structure. Neil is an experienced Organisational Psychologist and has designed and recorded some great quantitative and qualitative evidence around self-organisation and health/well-being of people at work. 3 Then Kwame Selormey from a local community NGO, told the story: From Tolley Pond to Billabong, about an OST meeting he helped sponsor in a town that was seeking to create a climate of inclusivity and participation in an area that was diverse and somewhat fractured. One indigenous woman who attended the meeting 'championed' an Action Plan for cleaning up the local pond that was being used for a dumping ground for rubbish and shopping trolleys f * * ========================================================== 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
