Dear Julie, If you are contemplating a singular on line OST event for our global group, the best option is Gabriela Enders' Open Space Online http://www.openspace-online.com .
I wish to add a little more on the topic of global organizations and meetings. I like that you and your colleagues are adept at having meetings in which some are face to face and others are linked virtually. It is a testament of your work in and of itself that this is working for you. For the last eleven years I have steadily explored how to achieve successful, life nurturing, productive global organizations. The most passionate for me is the Genuine Contact community of professionals, now in its eleventh year. With lots of trial and error, staying true to our own five core beliefs, and consciously enacting both the principles of OST and the four immutable laws of Spirit of Angeles Arrien, we are now a lot wiser as a global organization. In 2006, ownership of Genuine Contact expanded to a co-ownership model, a legal structure was created now housed in Belize for as much neutrality as we could create, a leadership management team was formed of nine people from a number of different countries, and our organization has been guided by the Co-owners, the Leadership Management Team, and emergent leadership being enacted throughout our global community when people are inspired to do so. The meetings of all teams, workgroups, and co-owners take place in an on line environment. We have had a list serve for eleven years and only now have the good fortune to have a newly launched Virtual Home to give us greater opportunities for our sharing and collaboration. Using group purchasing power, we have ten Elluminate (Blackboard Collaborate) licenses, an online meeting platform that has allowed us to do most things that we want to in a meeting. Under the leadership of Thomas Herrmann, Laura Bolton, Marquis Bureau, Michael Nothdurft and some others, we now use Whole Person Process Facilitation (WPPF) as the meeting facilitation platform for all of our meetings, as adapted for the on line environment. It is highly participatory, with maximum choice and maximum freedom, yet more structured than OST. We have had good success, with groups of up to 25, of placing an OST meeting inside of the WPPF meeting container. I am deeply grateful to all who created this wonderful way of having our on line meetings and our online workshops. My work with clients is almost exclusively with global organizations with the kind of extraordinary leaders who understand about maximum choice and maximum freedom to get results. I am not an advocate of self organizing systems, although I am an advocate of self management within the organization's givens. Most weeks, I am in at least four global virtual meetings using the above, with executives, amazing leaders, and with whole organizations. I am interested in developing their capacity to participate in well done highly participatory meetings globally, and having shared experiences that these can facilitate genuine contact, be life nurturing and highly productive. If you are interested in having discussions about sustainability of exceptional performance of global organizations who make a lot of use of on line environments for their meetings, please contact me at [email protected] . All the best, Birgitt tingshaBirgitt Williams Author Genuine Contact Way Co-owner of the Genuine Contact program President and Senior Consultant, Dalar International Consultancy, Inc. www.dalarinternational.com Note: picture of the bells that have journeyed to numerous countries with me for twenty-two years as an international consultant. During the closing circle of every meeting, everyone in the meeting has held these bells. They have now been held by thousands of people, all doing their part to create life nurturing conditions for humanity. The bells have also been held in blessing and in prayer by countless people, who bless all who ever hold them, with the journey of the bells uniting all of their energies to make a difference for humanity, one person at a time, one organization at a time, one business at a time, one community at a time. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Julie Smith Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 1:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [OSList] deja vu Dear all ~ It's been a long time! I've just skimmed through the last several months of postings and find myself sitting here with a big silly grin. It's really amazing how vibrant and alive and connected everyone here still is. A real testament to what naturally happens when we self-organize. :) Two things bring me back here. One is that I recently came across a book of our conversation on the oslistserve that I compiled in 2002. The book is a little more than 300 pages and contains the remarkable conversation that unfolded here in the days from 8-25-01 until 9-27-01. Really. We created over 300 pages of conversation in the span of one month. We had a lot to say as we watched the world change on 9-11. I still count that experience as one of the highlights of my life. The name I gave to this compilation is A Partial Diary of the Collective Buddha. I included a bit of art to dress it up, put things in order, cleaned up the formatting and had it coil-bound with a cover to protect it. I like it a lot. For me, this book is a treasure. So much was felt and shared here, so many of us were so heart-moved. I long ago lost track of whatever computer I was using in 2002, so this copy is pretty much what I have. But still, I have this. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to take what I have back to the copy shop where I could cut off the binding and scan all the pages into a pdf document that I could then share. Is this something anyone is interested in having? If there is interest, I will find out more about how to make this available. Whether you are interested in the book or not, I look forward to hearing from you! The second reason I came back is to learn more about the ways in which Open Space is being used in virtual space. I'm pondering an open space event that serves a global community that doesn't have the capacity to get together in the same physical room. We are quite adept, however, at holding meetings in which we are connected in some combination of face-to-face, audio, and video conferencing. I know a bit of this has been done already, and I'm eager to learn from those who have done it. Can someone please point me to who I might connect with about this? Many thanks! Much love ~~~~~ Julie
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