Yes, Suzanne and I are trying to “open space” in ourselves to whatever shows up – and be prepared to be Surprised!
Coming from the world of A Small Group – my language is a bit different than Open Space language, but it has not slowed Suzanne and I down. Growing our event from 100 something to over 500 blew us away – but now we are back. How much freedom can we give people on this call? We give all that we are able within the limits of technology and invitations to continue the conversation via our http://global-conversation.posterous.com site, facebook page, and whatever else we think of… For me, the heart of it all (Open Space, A Small Group, and more) is creating a space to confront people with their freedom…and their power to choose…to choose their attitude, their actions, their words...to become engaged citizens of their lives and of this beautiful blue orb. AND to create a future distinct from their past simply by “showing up” as themselves. Suzanne and I are very excited! Whatever happens next is icing on the cake! We have received so many gifts from this collaboration and invitation that we are bursting with joy! Our friends giving their gifts and talents to this adventure, our friends meeting each other – some beginning to work together…and all since September – magic! Elaine S. Hansen <http://hansen-rd.com/> Hansen Resource Development Inc Skype: elaine.hansen 513.238.5999 iStock_Medium-stones-wee ...in the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything. Thomas Merton From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stanley Park Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 8:50 AM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: [OSList] 답장: Fwd: Your advice please! Thank you Suzanne for your care-filled posting. Much courageous encouraging others TRY the same. Begining is half done... Bravo!!! spark Director Open Space Institute of Korea http://openspace.kr 2011. 11. 18. 오후 10:14에 "Suzanne Daigle" <[email protected]>님이 작성: Dear Annette, ( a very long post giving background and detail -- my apologies) I was one of the individuals who posted a reply to Julie Smith's question. On Sunday, Elaine Hansen and I with a team of 15 to 20 people will be hosting a Virtual Conversation that is in the "spirit" of Open Space. The Conversation is around the theme of Brené Brown's Tedx talk The Power of Vulnerability <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o> and her book The Gifts of Imperfection <http://www.brenebrown.com/books/2010/8/8/the-gifts-of-imperfection.html> . A total of 500 people registered from the US, and Canada with about 60 to 75 others from 27-28 countries. This is all we think we can handle. We had to shut down registrations about 10 days ago. We have a wait list. It is a free event. We are not calling it Open Space nor do I even want to intimate it is Open Space Technology to you or others in this community. In my heart of heart though, we are "opening space" and it is out of my love and passion for Open Space that I wanted to do this event. To our guests from all over the world, we have been saying that it is a "virtual experiment" that we are "co-creating together" for me, it is an experiment in the direction of Open Space in cyber space. I have been longing for a way where people could have live conversations, hear each others' voices, post topics, create a marketplace, choose where they want to go, be bumble bees and butterflies, document what get's said and connect deeply as we do in Open Space. This is only a beginning. The main technology we are using at the event is Maestro Conference. Their conference call service (with a visual computer participant dashboard - not quite enough yet for what we need) allows us to breakout into small groups and also be in large groups. It happens primarily over the phone or using a computer "paid" phone service like Skype where individuals call an assigned US based telephone numbers with an access code unique to each participant. I have a very affordable paid subscription with Maestro which allows me to invite others (my account was for a max of 200 people). On November 2nd, I wrote the OS list inviting people to our event. To my surprise, Brian Curt, Founder and CEO of Maestro wrote to me that same day and said: "I'm on this list - we def have a goal to eventually have full inherently-OS-capable platform (where people can declare breakout topics, and move by topic to other "rooms"), but in the meantime there are some creative ways to use our platform to keep things "open". I was ecstatic and responded immediately saying that I knew a large community would love this to happen and that many OS folks would be glad to help. This morning, without being presumptuous towards Gabriela as I have not had the opportunity to experience what she and others have created, I am wondering if perhaps all of this could lead to an investor/shared vision/shared knowledge type of conversation with Maestro and/or others in this fast evolving collaborative technology world. In my case, I wanted to offer something free to participants and where my financial investment would not be too much. Until November 8th, I thought we would be good with my 200 level subscription. That's until Brené Brown blogged about us and accepted our invitation to join. Within 24 hours or so, we went from 175 to 500. I have no doubt we could have hit 1000, 2000 or more. I can admit to you here that as the emails started flying in, Elaine and I almost panicked. I was even brash enough to call the Maestro founder on his cell phone and he generously offered to support us at the 500-person level as well as offering one of their experienced people to help. (they have been amazing!). With my limited experience and the help of some wonderful people on our team who know this technology, it felt like 500 is as much as we can manage for now. Now for some of the nuts and bolts: 1. We used multiple technologies working as a team preparing this event: Skype, Tungle, Doodle, Youtube, freescreensharing, googledoc, etc. We are from Canada, US, and Juliane Neumann from Berlin. 2. We used Eventbrite to invite people because we could show who was coming from which country plus connect with them later with emails and gather their comments. Click here to see Invitation <http://globalconversation.eventbrite.com/> 3. It is a 2-hour event; we have sent notes to participants asking them to arrive 15 minutes early-- enough time for people to greet each other as they would at any OS event or sit down in a circle by themselves waiting for things to start. Our guests will be offered the opportunity as they arrive to be in small groups to say hi, share their name, why they came (as they would over a cup of coffee or getting their name tag). Cyber space on the phone can feel a bit dark and lonely cause you don't see each other. We are trying to create an invitational feel. 4. Two minutes before start time, we will bring everyone in a large main virtual space. Again because people do not have the physical feel, I will be welcoming everyone (3 minutes) and creating somehow the feel of sitting in a giant circle mentioning a few of our OS principles without referring directly to Open Space. 5. Elaine, who will be acting as the official host in the same way of an Open Space event, will briefly set the context of the meeting reaffirming to all why we are here. People came because of the topics and passion they have for Brené Brown's work. We know from their comments which they submitted to us that they are excited and inspired to have these conversations. Main ingredients of passion and responsibility are there! 6. I will then invite questions from the virtual floor (so to speak). By pressing 1 on their telephone key pad, people will signal that they have a topic/question. Individual by individual, we will give them the virtual mike and they will state topic/name/where they are from. Participants will have been advised to have a paper handy to write the topics they feel they have a passion to join. We will take 10 topics in the first round. And then people will be sent into small groups of 4, 5 and 6. Not perfect I know but this is as much as we can do with time and current technology. We will invite people to submit their questions/topics not spoken on our website (more on that later) 7. We will have two rounds of conversation of 25 minutes each. We will be asking for the second round of 10 topics after the first session is complete. 8. We will ask everyone to record notes and highlights and post them as soon as possible (can be typed notes, doodles, video comments, etc). Not the same as having an initiator and asking that someone in the group do this. Here we are asking everyone. We have set up a website for this. Lots of stuff on this site already. Have a look! Global Conversation <http://global-conversation.posterous.com/> 9. Three graphic recorders will be listening, silently going from group to group, creating in images and words illustrated gifts of what is being shared. 10. We will have a closing circle though on line, it will not be possible to hear the 500 voices in the time we have, but we will try to hear as many as we can. 11. We will leave the lines open afterwards (15-30 minutes after) for people to continue talking and sharing as we do in physical space when we hang out after an event. Initially we were planning on a World Cafe type event. I had not had the courage until I saw Harrison in Chile to go beyond that. He challenged me, nudged me and inspired me to go farther. I did and Elaine agreed as did the rest of our team. Navigating the technology world to introduce something like this with the essence and spirit of self-organizing is a journey itself. I have loved every magical minute of this work with the most wonderful team of people. Generosity, joy, support, fun, persistence are words that come to mind. Then I add love because as I read emails from our future guests, the excerpts of one which I share with you in closing, I know that Whatever happens on Sunday is the only thing that could have. Yes we will be a bit nervous as will our guests similar to what it feels like sitting in a circle for the first time. It's what creates the magic, the relationship, the bonding and the opening of space. In the end, that's all that matters. Excerpts from a participant note received this morning "So excited (and a bit nervous!) about this Sunday's event. I have never done anything like this before, but, in an effort to really put Brené's authentic living into practice, I felt I had to stretch my comfort zone!" When I signed up for this event, I didn't realize that "Conversation" in the title meant LITERALLY conversation! I thought it would be like a webinar - which I have never done either, but my husband has and they seemed to be pretty much a one-sided event. This sounds like it is going to be very different - in a good way! And then at the end of her note Thank you so much for all the effort and time and courage to do this. I read something this week from someone I follow on Twitter that said there is one word that can change the world - TRY. You and Elaine did just that - you TRIED something new. I can't wait to be a part of it and see how far it takes all of us! Somehow this note made everything we've done so far worthwhile. Thank you everyone for your patience reading with reviewing or editing. We still have a few more busy days ahead of us including setting up time for those participant guests who said they wanted to test their phone connections and get a feel for our event before the actual day. Suzanne (with much appreciation to Elaine Hansen and a most wonderful team) On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Michael M Pannwitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Ann... -- Suzanne Daigle NuFocus Strategic Group 7159 Victoria Circle University Park, FL 34201 FL 941-359-8877; CT 203-722-2009 www.nufocusgroup.com [email protected] twitter @suzannedaigle -- Suzanne Daigle NuFocus Strategic Group 7159 Victoria Circle University Park, FL 34201 FL 941-359-8877; CT 203-722-2009 www.nufocusgroup.com [email protected] twitter @suzannedaigle _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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