Dear Harold and you other os workers around the world,
here is what I can do every day as far as "easy" steps are concerned
--- talk to someone today about what it means to a groups, an
organísation and other similar critters to experience the force of
selforganisation (pointing out that being in an OST event usually delivers)
--- tell someone about a pretty good starting point to find out more
about OST (books on the subject written by the fellow who stumbled on
this and books by experienced os-practitioners on their work)
--- calling a sponsor and have a chat on how things are going days or
months or years after an os-event I facilitated
--- contacting someone I think would benefit from and contribute to the
spread of open space and invite her/him to come to Krakow (it would be
great to have sponsors in Krakow)
I guess there are many other "easy" steps for many of us.
What I think belongs to the things not to do is what I have experienced
in my former life as an OD consultant, supervisor, trainer: Creating
standards, defining what it is and isnt, having a way of certifying
os-workers/facilitators/supervisors/etc and creating institutions to
watch over, copyright, etc. a process that has been unfolding since the
big bang, packaging it like a "new", "revolutionary", "highly
effective", "etc" medicine... its a sure way down to ossification and
formalisation...
Greetings from a lovely morning in Berlin
mmp
On 17.08.2015 01:03, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote:
Hi Artur,
Thanks for asking the Open Space Institute - U.S. to take some action.
Be it a YouTube channel or something else.
The watering down of the true essence of Open Space, and then slapping
"Open Space" on it, confuses everyone about what we've been
*successfully* accomplishing for 30 years. It's not the first time it's
happened, nor will it be the last - but each time it happens - there are
*innocent* people who get the wrong message about what is open space.
As the OSI-US meeting is tomorrow - I will bring this to the agenda. And
as Harrison Owen said, we all are authorized to start "institutes". A
coherent group effort can make the best difference here, starting from
any of the other open space institutes, practice groups, stammtisch's, etc.
I'm glad for this conversation to continue as a starting point for
making some coordinated actions (like blog articles, twitter posts,
youtube videos, letters to the editor, etc.) The greater difference Open
Space makes - the more likely there will be this kind of co-opting
effect. But a smaller effort now can help others spread the word when
things like this happen.
What easy steps can we take today, so that more people say in the face
of yucky things like the Campus Europae Higher Education Open Space:
"Hey - that's *not* an open space! You should try an authentic one!"
Harold
On 8/16/15 3:43 AM, Artur Silva via OSList wrote:
Thanks for your answer, Hélène.
I am afraid that when we talk or write we have to use words. The point
is: shall we use "Open Space" without any further and correct
clarification or shall we always clarify what is our understanding of
what "Open Space" really is, in the context of OST?
But I agree with you that it would be much easier - and it is not
impossible - to use also images. For instance it would not be
difficult to create a channel on YouTube for Open Space (that is, Open
Space Technology) with many small films of successful OST events,
which could also be displayed - or linked from - the pages of OS
Institutes and practitioners around the world. I would suggest that
the OSI-US take the lead on creating that channel and selecting the
videos. I can provide the ones that were at the NING, I think
In a Pt OSonOS (Pt from Portugal), two years ago, in one of the
breakout sessions, there was a consultant lady, that was previously
the HR Director of the Portuguese delegation of a
larger pharmaceutical multinational. She told us that she was amazed
because*she understood for the first time what Open Space really was*,
even*if she had already attended some sessions organized for them by
consulting companies as being "Open Space" but where the facilitators
(?) were always intervening during all the session*. She finally
understood, from her experience at the Pt OSonOS, that what those
"facilitators" were doing was indeed closing the space for self
organization.
Have a nice Sunday
Artur
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*From:* helene <[email protected]>
*To:* Artur Silva <[email protected]>; World wide Open Space
Technology email list <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Saturday, August 15, 2015 6:53 PM
*Subject:* Re: [OSList] Campus Europae Higher Education Open Space
Hi Artur and all of us!
thank you Artur for your message!
I've already got such observations from a O.S.facilitator in France
who was upset about an official organisation (conseil régional) who
wanted her to organize a "so-called" O.S. which in fact would be no
O.S. (= not all of the problem as you told below, but with one big
distorsion: the contents of the different workshops of the O.S. were
decided before! and of course without the participants)
aren't you aware about living in a world where only words exist "really"?
so don't use words anymore!
best wishes to everybody
Le 15/08/2015 19:14, Artur Silva via OSList a écrit :
The question, Paul, is that talking to this or that DG at EU about
the "need to open the space" is not enough. There is a strong need to
explain what Open Space means!
In this case, they have used the name (Open Space), but nor the
procedures of an OST event, neither the spirit of Open Space.
Regards
Artur
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*From:* Paul Nunesdea <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* Artur Silva <[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]>; World wide Open Space Technology
email list <[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Saturday, August 15, 2015 5:14 PM
*Subject:* Re: [OSList] Campus Europae Higher Education Open Space
A blessing Artur!
I have engaged with one of EU DGs the DG Connect and talked
extensively about the need for opening space in their events.
Who knows they are talking to each other?
Best
Paul
From my iPhone
On 15/8/2015, at 17:00, Artur Silva via OSList
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>
wrote:
Good morning Open Spacers:
I have received from a friend this mail that announces a “Higher
Education Open Space” organized by the European Union. He sent me
this happy because EU was adopting Open Space and he expected me to
be happy with that.
Here is the mail I have received:
*« Campus Europae Higher Education Open Space*
https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/j3D5QLVQoIUZFJh6yH6JJUH9AetBjX2-b5eXIibKlI2I4l7xIPb79R7TtiWkjyOjR3-59RSECf9oIXEilr7o_cGrtkdBOO3hwE6oYtG7OndlbUQeFukscONjTK3vJhZB44LEe6HQYwR7j3fS6N2_F6U-KiSKDvAaoP2jq8M=s0-d-e1-ft#https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e0ba59dcb487a8983ceda27d9/images/081b2de9-cf33-4708-8890-fb8f96ab7807.pngThe
/Higher Education Open Space
<http://eucis-lll.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e0ba59dcb487a8983ceda27d9&id=7c89775e7c&e=3bba19aa9f>/
(HEOS)
2015, following up the /Council's communiqué after Yerevan/
<http://eucis-lll.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e0ba59dcb487a8983ceda27d9&id=e8bd74d07c&e=3bba19aa9f>
will
provide universities, students and stakeholder representatives an
open, innovative and creative space for discussion on joint
approaches to face these challenges. It also aims to contribute in a
concrete way to the modernisation of higher education and to build
alliances to reinforce the competitiveness and governance of
European universities. It will allow for policy discussions and
practical working sessions through two main events: a conference on
the 3rd of November on how to reach 20% of student mobility by 2020
while maintaining the quality of mobility flows; an Open Space on
the 4th-5th of November addressing topical issues of universities,
students and stakeholders in the field of the modernisation agenda.
Register until 30 September 2015!
<http://eucis-lll.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e0ba59dcb487a8983ceda27d9&id=79c041547d&e=3bba19aa9f>
/» /(end of the mail)//
/If one looks to the Program (//
<http://uni-foundation.eu/higher-education-open-space/conference>/http://uni-foundation.eu/higher-education-open-space/conference/)
one finds the Agenda below (after my signature)./
/There are a lot of speakers all the time!!! But even the sessions
that could be "open" are like this: /
/1) The session on /*”Disruptive innovation in the field of student
mobility”**has 4 experts speaking about it (no students, as far as I
can see)*
*2) The session of **“Group Discussion” (14:00 - 15:00) **has **4
predefined subjects**:*
·Funding strategies to increase exchanges
·Length matters: 1 semester vs. 1 year abroad
·Ad-hoc partnerships and international consortia
·The increasing importance of QA and recognition of credits
/*3) The*/*Round-table (15:30 - 17:00) **has 2 speakers****(Profs).***
**
*So my questions are:*
*-**Is this Open Space?***
*-**What is the concept of "Open Space" of the European Union?***
*-**Did they get that name (Open Space) from OST facilitators from
Europe or it was only the fact that “Open” is cool (and “Closed” is
awful) and they don’t even know what OST is?***
**
*I would like to have other opinions, especially from European
people more close to the center of Europe (somewhere in the line
from Brussels to Berlin…)*
*Regards and have a nice week end*
**
*Artur*
*(From Portugal, in the Southwest of Europe - or is it in the North
of Africa? See the map bellow...)*
**
*----------------*
/*Attachment 1 */
Agenda
*09:00 - 09:30: Arrival and registration*
*09:30 - 10:30: Opening session*
·Opening speech
·Keynote speaker on the renewed framework of ET 2020
Speaker: Representative of the European Commission, Directorate
Education, Audiovisual and Culture
·The challenges of universities to maintain quality in mobility
while intensifying their mobility flows
Speaker: Prof. Miguel Ángel Sotelo, President of the European
University Foundation
·The students’ perspective on the challenge of increasing mobility
Speaker: Safi Sabuni, President of the Erasmus Student Network
*10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break*
*11:00 - 12:30: Disruptive innovation in the field of student mobility*
·The automatic recognition of studies abroad
Speaker: Prof. Christoph Ehmann, Secretary-General of the European
University Foundation
·The Erasmus Without Papers network
Speaker: Valère Meus, International Relations Expert of the Ghent
University
·Solving the challenge of fair grade conversion
Speaker: Dr. Anthony Vickers, Bologna Expert, University of Essex
·Towards 100% of student mobility
Speaker: Prof. Éric Tschirhart, Vice-President of the University of
Luxembourg
*12:30 - 14:00: Lunch*
*14:00 - 15:00: Group discussions*
*Increasing the quantity and quality of student mobility*
·Funding strategies to increase exchanges
·Length matters: 1 semester vs. 1 year abroad
·Ad-hoc partnerships and international consortia
·The increasing importance of QA and recognition of credits
*15:00 - 15:30: Coffee break*
*15:30 - 17:00: Round-table*
*How universities can best reach 20% of student mobility and its
impact on society*
·Prof. Georg Winckler, former Rector of the University of Vienna and
former President of the EUA
·Prof. Éric Froment, former President of the University Lumière Lyon
2 and former President of the EUA
*17:00 - 17:30: Closing session*
*Attachment 2 *
Map – Portugal in the world (and Azores as part of Portugal)…
<https://www.google.pt/search?q=world+map+portugal&biw=1312&bih=921&tbm=isch&imgil=C2NUEHJZ0N389M%253A%253BCFLWhrA_yxek_M%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.hasslberger.com%25252Fterceira%25252Fpages%25252Fmap-terceira.html&source=iu&pf=m&fir=C2NUEHJZ0N389M%253A%252CCFLWhrA_yxek_M%252C_&usg=__5shYsIl1mtR9BUkQ2PY-5Dwwxt0%3D#imgrc=C2NUEHJZ0N389M%3A&usg=__5shYsIl1mtR9BUkQ2PY-5Dwwxt0%3D>https://www.google.pt/search?q=world+map+portugal&biw=1312&bih=921&tbm=isch&imgil=C2NUEHJ
Z0N389M%2
53A%253BCFLWhrA_yxek_M%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.hasslberger.com%25252Fterceira%25252Fpages%25252Fmap-terceira.html&source=iu&pf=m&fir=C2NUEHJZ0N389M%253A%252CCFLWhrA_yxek_M%252C_&usg=__5shYsIl1mtR9BUkQ2PY-5Dwwxt0%3D#imgrc=C2NUEHJZ0N389M%3A&usg=__5shYsIl1mtR9BUkQ2PY-5Dwwxt0%3D
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