Hi Viv, You and Andrew together! Sure wish I could be with you. I know it will be full of life and lots of good learning.
Warm wishes from the winter desert, Christine Christine Whitney Sanchez, Partner Innovation Partners International Phoenix, AZ, USA +1.480.759.0262 www.innovationpartners.com On Jan 23, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Viv McWaters <v...@mcwaters.com.au> wrote: Hi all Andrew Rixon and I are pleased to offer an open pace learning event in Melbourne on February 13. Early bird closes tomorrow, so better be quick :) There's more info on my web site vivmcwaters.com.au and also here http://bit.ly/VCEPiE Cheers Viv Viv McWaters flavors.me/vivmcwaters +61 417 135 406 Bringing meetings to life. Doing work that matters. Connecting people and ideas. On 24/01/2013, at 8:06 AM, oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: > Send OSList mailing list submissions to > oslist@lists.openspacetech.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > oslist-ow...@lists.openspacetech.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of OSList digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: New York, New York...indeed the place to be this weekend > (Lisa Heft) > 2. Open Space Learning Workshops - April, May and December, USA > (Lisa Heft) > 3. Re: Incorporating self-organized training/learning sessions > into OST AND communicating OST to an uninitiated and distracted > leadership (Harrison Owen) > 4. Re: Incorporating self-organized training/learning sessions > into OST AND communicating OST to an uninitiated and distracted > leadership (Hege Steinsland) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:23:06 -0800 > From: Lisa Heft <lisah...@openingspace.net> > To: World wide Open Space Technology email list > <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> > Subject: Re: [OSList] New York, New York...indeed the place to be this > weekend > Message-ID: <a89dfbf9-3d0f-4ea1-bb18-c11e2ad40...@openingspace.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed"; > DelSp="yes" > > Koos - I so delight in those opportunities to share thoughts and > smiles with you and my other Open Space colleagues in any of these > face-to-face gatherings around the world. > I am still smiling from seeing you in London last October. > Like a little wellness infusion. > > And I look forward to seeing those of you who I know - and those I > have yet to meet - at the World Open Space on Open Space - which is > happening this year in Florida USA. > > I truly appreciate how being in the worldwide community of Open Space > facilitators, learners and enthusiasts is a connection to community, > values and mutual learning. > > I will see some of you in Florida in May, and some of you in our > workshop that happens directly before that. > > As Suzanne and Koos and others may know - my mothers' love (she is no > longer in the physical world), and my father's love (going strong at > age '89) goes with you. They love what we as a community are doing to > help individuals, organizations and communities remember, notice, > articulate, and do everything from designing airplane doors to sharing > knowledge at industry conferences from a place of dialogue - as we > trust the people and the process, come from a place of peace, and are > continuously amazed at how incredible people are... > > Warmly, > Lisa > > > On Jan 21, 2013, at 11:02 PM, Koos de Heer wrote: > >> Thank you for sharing this Suzanne. Having lost both my parents last >> summer, the things you write about the longing for feeling connected >> and the deep gratitude for those around us who offer this connection >> resonate deeply inside of me. This is one of the reasons I just had >> to go to WOSonOS in October. Indeed, Open Space is a great way of >> making this connection (which is always there) ? how should I say >> this ? tangible, palpable. >> >> Love >> >> Koos > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20130122/20fea639/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:17:03 -0800 > From: Lisa Heft <lisah...@openingspace.net> > To: OSLIST <OSList@lists.openspacetech.org> > Subject: [OSList] Open Space Learning Workshops - April, May and > December, USA > Message-ID: <d6026bce-61cf-409f-a4a9-a2a879bc8...@openingspace.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; > DelSp="yes" > > Hello, dear OSLIST colleagues: Thank you for sharing this with your > friends and colleagues - through email, tweets, other social networks, > or face-to-face over a good beverage. May this message find you well > and may your work be rich with learning and discovery - Lisa > > - - - - > > Imagine using a dialogue process to... > > carry a conversation across a nation in twenty live events > - enable soil, water, environmental and building scientists, engineers > and researchers to share knowledge across disciplines and geographic > regions in their passion for sustainability > - help six governmental agencies and their Mozambique partners think > about how to spend a billion dollars worth of HIV/AIDS funding in > Mozambique > - invite hundreds of tobacco control advocates, researchers and policy > makers to share their conflicting points of view (is the end goal safe > tobacco? elimination of tobacco?) without having to change each other > or agree > - involve every employee of a global Information Technology division > in their company's strategic planning process - from the > administrative assistant to the Chief Technology Officer > > Imagine a dialogue process you cannot break by someone standing up and > going on and on, by someone leaving a discussion, by only one person > arriving to a breakout session. > But in which you can completely reduce productivity and innovation by > helping participants during the process. > > Hear stories of... > > - a client hosting a youth event who wants to stop youth convening > their own amazing sessions > - 3,000 people engaged in dialogue - resulting in breakthrough > thinking, intimate conversation and a full record of proceedings > - conflict resolution work in world conflict zones with participants > facilitating their own discussions > - holding space when all the participants leave (will they return?), > when the police are approaching to shut the event down, or in the > middle of a war > > All of these are stories of Open Space. > Join us to learn about this dialogue process used around the world. > > - - - - > > Open Space Learning Workshops 2013 > For people of all levels of experience > > San Francisco California USA: April 3-5 -and- December 11-13 > St. Petersburg Florida USA: May 14-16 > (just before this year's World Open Space on Open Space in St. > Petersburg) > > Other dates, cities and countries to be announced. > > Facilitated by Lisa Heft > President Emerita, Open Space Institute US > Fellow, Columbia University's Center for International Conflict > Resolution > > - - - - > > You may have heard of Open Space or participated in something called > Open Space or 'an unconference' and wondered why it did not work - or > whether it was really this complete and effective form. > Or you may have experienced something that sparked your interest as > you watched a group self-organize in a highly productive process - and > wondered if it was this thing called Open Space. > > Join me for 2.5 days of mutual learning about preparing for, > facilitating and supporting productivity and effectiveness in Open > Space. > Together you will explore issues and opportunities in your own work > with groups, experience an Open Space, and explore all the elements of > pre-work that support the success of an Open Space event. > > Everything from developing a theme to exploring invitation and > outreach, design, planning, materials, how site, food and other > elements impact or enhance an Open Space event, why / why not to > hybridize this particular method, how to include action planning if > appropriate, 'what-ifs', 'when not to's', participant-driven forms of > documentation, ideas for the sustainability of ideas, relationships > and actions post-event, and more. > > Pricing - as with all of my workshops - is flexible - custom tailored > to what you as an individual can contribute and afford. > > For more information on content, schedule and pricing overview and to > register, > Contact me directly at > lisaheft [at] openingspace [dot] net > > I look forward to learning with and from you, Lisa > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20130122/69d2e5b9/attachment-0001.htm> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:00:02 -0500 > From: "Harrison Owen" <hho...@verizon.net> > To: "'World wide Open Space Technology email list'" > <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> > Subject: Re: [OSList] Incorporating self-organized training/learning > sessions into OST AND communicating OST to an uninitiated and > distracted leadership > Message-ID: <001c01cdf969$8f2cc290$ad8647b0$@net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Tricia ? By all means, jump in the pool. The water is fine! And it seems to > me that you are making life much too complicated. Two days in Open Space with > a theme of something like: ?Building our collective competence: Issues and > Opportunities? would probably allow the group to achieve all its objectives > and more. No need for separate themes on the several days, that just adds to > the noise in the air. In NYC we did in fact ?open the space? three different > times, but that was only to allow as many people as possible to assume the > role (or part of the role) of facilitator. So if your client is up for it, > just open the space and keep going. Actually I would try for 2.5 days with > the final day focused on actions for the future. The details on how to do all > this are pretty clear in the book, I think. Just make it simple and the Folks > will do what they need to do. It always happens. > > > > Harrison > > > > Harrison Owen > > 7808 River Falls Dr. > > Potomac, MD 20854 > > USA > > > > 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) > > Camden, Maine 04843 > > > > Phone 301-365-2093 > > (summer) 207-763-3261 > > > > www.openspaceworld.com > > www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST > Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > > From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org > [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Tricia Chirumbole > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:00 PM > To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org > Subject: [OSList] Incorporating self-organized training/learning sessions > into OST AND communicating OST to an uninitiated and distracted leadership > > > > Hello all! > > > > I am an OST newbie who is hoping to facilitate an Open Space for my main > client's annual meeting in a few weeks and I would like to get your thoughts > on incorporating hands on skill transfer into an Open Space. I did do some > book reading on OST and just attended the OST meeting in NYC this weekend, > but have never hosted an Open Space. > > > > Background on organization and situation: > > > > I do not provide facilitation for this organization. I am one of a number of > project managers who work on teams to conduct market research and strategy > consulting projects for their clients in the life sciences arena. > > > > They have agreed to my participation in the facilitation of the meetings and > I have referenced OST, but we have not yet discussed details on meeting > design and I am pretty sure they are not familiar with OST. > > > > This meeting will be a small group of only the US folks - 14 in total. We > will be meeting for 2.5 days. On an ongoing basis, we are all remote workers > across the US and in Europe and Japan and only see each other when we travel > to a client's location. > > > > The general theme identified is "collaboration and learning from one > another". The stated intent, so far, was to have us all take turns teaching > something to the group where we are the "expert", then to spend time just > working in parallel and helping each other on current projects or generating > learning moments. > > > > I am encouraging shifting the focus from trying to model collaboration and > getting all of our trainings under our belts in 2.5 days, to a focus on > developing a system for ongoing collaboration and expertise sharing, to > include discussions of where learning and teaching opportunities exist. I > think this topic would be great for an Open Space. > > > > I was thinking we could combine opportunities for hands on learning with > discussion of an ongoing structure by having two sessions (maybe 1.5 days > overall). > > > > My thoughts for day 1 and day 2 "prompts" > > > > 1) Sharing expertise and leveraging strengths across the organization > > 2) What do we need right now for high performance individually and > organizationally? Training, support, etc. > > > > My main question is, in the second prompt - "what do we need right now" - > could we frame this as an opportunity for hands on learning where the > sessions were either suggested by learners who knew of something specific > that they wanted to learn, or not specific I guess, as well as by teachers, > who felt that they had areas of expertise to share? > > > > We would all then self-organize and convene into sessions where we are not > just discussing topics/structures/etc, but we are actually engaging in > information and skill transfer. > > > > > Question 2: Also not sure which prompt should come first. > > > > I don't know yet if I will get them to buy into the Open Space process or if > I do, if I can get the time for 2 prompts, BUT, I wanted to ask thoughts of > the group before crafting my next communication with them. > > > > Thank you sooooooo much for reading through this long question and for any > insights provided! > > -- > Tricia Chirumbole > US: +1-571-232-0942 > Skype: tricia.chirumbole > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20130123/594bf4c9/attachment-0001.htm> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:35:51 +0100 > From: Hege Steinsland <steinslandh...@gmail.com> > To: World wide Open Space Technology email list > <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> > Subject: Re: [OSList] Incorporating self-organized training/learning > sessions into OST AND communicating OST to an uninitiated and > distracted leadership > Message-ID: <72c2cdc8-87b8-4aab-9ac1-fe96b0ed6...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello Tricia. > Im also quite new to this approach, and I had some wonderful help from the > list, just like you will receive now. Lisa and Harrison is so generous with > advice and courage :-) > And many others as well! > > My advice will also be, just go for it! > And then I will say; do some prework! Have a meeting or two with a group that > can share purpose, discuss a good theme and be ready along with you to let > selforganization happen. Make sure the top management are in to this. > > And then, just dive in and enjoy! > > All the best > > Hege > > >> Hello all! >> >> I am an OST newbie who is hoping to facilitate an Open Space for my main >> client's annual meeting in a few weeks and I would like to get your thoughts >> on incorporating hands on skill transfer into an Open Space. I did do some >> book reading on OST and just attended the OST meeting in NYC this weekend, >> but have never hosted an Open Space. >> >> Background on organization and situation: >> >> I do not provide facilitation for this organization. I am one of a number of >> project managers who work on teams to conduct market research and strategy >> consulting projects for their clients in the life sciences arena. >> >> They have agreed to my participation in the facilitation of the meetings and >> I have referenced OST, but we have not yet discussed details on meeting >> design and I am pretty sure they are not familiar with OST. >> >> This meeting will be a small group of only the US folks - 14 in total. We >> will be meeting for 2.5 days. On an ongoing basis, we are all remote workers >> across the US and in Europe and Japan and only see each other when we travel >> to a client's location. >> >> The general theme identified is "collaboration and learning from one >> another". The stated intent, so far, was to have us all take turns teaching >> something to the group where we are the "expert", then to spend time just >> working in parallel and helping each other on current projects or generating >> learning moments. >> >> I am encouraging shifting the focus from trying to model collaboration and >> getting all of our trainings under our belts in 2.5 days, to a focus on >> developing a system for ongoing collaboration and expertise sharing, to >> include discussions of where learning and teaching opportunities exist. I >> think this topic would be great for an Open Space. >> >> I was thinking we could combine opportunities for hands on learning with >> discussion of an ongoing structure by having two sessions (maybe 1.5 days >> overall). >> >> My thoughts for day 1 and day 2 "prompts" >> >> 1) Sharing expertise and leveraging strengths across the organization >> 2) What do we need right now for high performance individually and >> organizationally? Training, support, etc. >> >> My main question is, in the second prompt - "what do we need right now" - >> could we frame this as an opportunity for hands on learning where the >> sessions were either suggested by learners who knew of something specific >> that they wanted to learn, or not specific I guess, as well as by teachers, >> who felt that they had areas of expertise to share? >> >> We would all then self-organize and convene into sessions where we are not >> just discussing topics/structures/etc, but we are actually engaging in >> information and skill transfer. >> >> Question 2: Also not sure which prompt should come first. >> >> I don't know yet if I will get them to buy into the Open Space process or if >> I do, if I can get the time for 2 prompts, BUT, I wanted to ask thoughts of >> the group before crafting my next communication with them. >> >> Thank you sooooooo much for reading through this long question and for any >> insights provided! >> -- >> Tricia Chirumbole >> US: +1-571-232-0942 >> Skype: tricia.chirumbole >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20130123/582317da/attachment-0001.htm> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > End of OSList Digest, Vol 23, Issue 14 > ************************************** _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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