Wow Chris, I have a story to add to your story. It was closer to midnight last Friday, I couldn't sleep and I went to Facebook. Saw on Open Space Technology FB that a young woman by the name of Amy Chen had posted inquiring where there might be training in Open Space. I immediately responded by private message and suggested New York at International House in January with Harrison Owen and Karen Davis. She answered me back right away saying she was really interested. We texted each other back and forth for about 20 minutes. I suggested we Facetime the next morning at 10 am. Well we did for an hour and a half. When Amy said she nearly fell off her chair when Harrison invited her to Beijing, well I literally got off my chair Saturday morning dancing on my kitchen floor after we hung up.
You see we had an ageless conversation, going everywhere and anywhere. Her history, my time in China, her huge interest in Open Space. It was an incredible conversation. I could hardly contain my enthusiasm imagining all the Open Space folks I wanted her to meet, some a little older than her, others much older. No matter. I imagined others we could invite to New York. I said you must come to Florida and meet the university students who co-hosted the World Open Space in 2013. About 30 of them. We talked about the future of work. I asked her if she knew Haier in China, a trailblazing self managed company. She said yes. They are famous. At the end I was exhausted with excitement. She was super energized. I suggested I'd sent her information on people I'd love her to meet, virtually or in person, I sent her tons of links, articles, etc. Totally fire hosed her. We talked about the round the world, round the clock virtual experiment celebrating Harrison's birthday. It was like the best ping pong match ever. I was totally bowled over by Amy too, for education and also for the workplace because Amy and others represent what's possible if we leap frog ahead, by opening space to engage and work together. All I can say Chris is thank you for connecting with her and connecting us all here. Fate then led you to introduce her to Harrison. How very cool it all is! Suzanne Is it possible to Open Space Education? I had almost given up asking this question when I was bowled over by this 23 year old chinese lady Amy the week before Independence Day 2015. It was her first trip abroad and she was interviewing anyone she could from over 50 nations at the 20th year of the creative children festival celebrated on the Mall Washngton DC. Her favorite interviewees were the children but there were also elders like Samara Ethiopian-American owner of the 5 billion person elearning satellite yazmi, or Bangladeshi Naila for 15 years muhammad yunus first female director of grameen mobile phone, or William a Chinese America retiree who has spent quarter of a century building friendships out of Chillicon Valley (Stanford), or Taddy Blecher founder of the Mandela extranet and the free university of entrepreneurship for the underprivileged. Amy seemed to grow about 10 years in self-confidence by the end of her 10 days in DC, but as she flew back to China I never really expected to see the likes of her again 3 months later i got a whats app message, it was Amy: is there anyone more innovative I can interview on my second trip. I said the only person i can think of is Harrison Owen in Maryland. She said what? Why didnt I see him first time? I said he lives summers on a boat in Maine. She said what? ...Thankfully they had lunch on her second voyage abroad. And he said to her if you are happy to cancel rest of our DC trip, why not come to Beijing and observe open space china with me. Amy gulped: am I a right person? of course, yes please. At the airport she said to me *I will be back* and next I want to interview a leader of a social business college. I said what? But while Amy was observing Harrison magic in Beijing, i was being debriefed on some research at the Vatican University. Their information was that the only college leadership team in USA they had found to be up for the pro-youth curriculum transformation of Pope Francis was in Brooklyn, thanks to the extraordinary female Dean there. So here we are last week with : a short video of Amy's first gig in Brooklyn and the Dean's review. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztwZi_g2F-8&feature=youtu.be https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/eel-comes-brooklyn-new-york-joann-d-rolle-ph-d-?trk=mp-author-card What will happen next could be fun... _______________________________________________ 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 Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
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