Discomfort usually comes (in my experience) when discussion gets stuck at either/or. Everything resolves as soon as both/and shows up. It is called the Law of Two Feet! Who says there can only be one WOSONOS? Anywhere it happens is the right place - and as often as folks care to make it so. I do find it somewhat amusing that the 75 odd souls who showed up in St. Petersburg feel called upon to "decide" for the "whole" community. Funny.
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> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lisa Heft Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 6:40 AM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations Galina - not only that, but one of our Millennials (a person of a younger generation) invited for 2060! These are invitations, not decisions. Serbia in 2014, yes. In the past, some people have invited for several years in a row (being at a WOSonOS themselves, or working with someone who was there who could represent them) - until whenever it happens is the right year. We had a very interesting and not always comfortable time thinking and talking in the big circle at the WOSonOS where to go next year. There were several invitations - and as you know from your own experience at a WOSonOS - if there is one country inviting, they tell us their story and we all celebrate. If there are two or more inviters, traditionally we sit in the big circle and have a conversation that can shift and move and get stuck and flow and become uncomfortable and shift again and flow again... until something is sensed and felt, together. It is how we have done it in the past. However it is not how we have to do it in the future. Our fabulous co-convenor, David O'Neill noted that this - decision, deciding, 'vote' - does not reflect Open Space. So how else could it be done. I was in a delightful evening butterfly conversation with Peggy Holman, Alan Stewart, Chuni Li, Karen Davis, Doug Germann, Jasmina Nikolic (our host for next year), Harold Shinsato, Tricia Chirumbole, Linda Stevenson, Gail West, and did I forget anyone? Perhaps you dear colleagues who sat in this particular conversation would like to share some of the places we went in the conversation about invitation, prepared invitation, emergent invitation, what-if's of process for invitation, support for invitation, and more - as we experienced at the WOSonOS and then reflected upon that evening... Traveling homeward after the WOSonOS, and looking forward to the next regional OSonOs' and the next WOSonOS, Lisa Lisa Heft Consultant, Facilitator, Educator President Emerita, Open Space Institute US Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution Opening Space On May 20, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Galina Tsarkova wrote: Thanks friends, for such long perspective for WOSONOS! Moscow www.bosca-russia.ru +7 495 749 8046 2013/5/19 Harold Shinsato <[email protected]> This might be crazy - but I thought I would post the invitations. Serbia - 2014 Spain - 2014 or 2015 Mexico - 2015 China - 2015 or 2016 Dallas, TX, USA - 2019 Chicago, IL - 2020 Virtual WOSonOS - 2025 If you have input on this - you might try to post it to OSList but you might also check into the live streaming as a comment. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wosonos -- Harold Shinsato [email protected] http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush> _______________________________________________ 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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