Hi Suzanne, Good to see you yesterday.
I realized this morning that Kennen (California) and Jose were not signed up on the roster of Participants for Letting Go OPTSD Stories. I wanted to make sure that they were included. Wishing you a safe flight. Scott On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Suzanne Daigle via OSList < [email protected]> wrote: > 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] > > _______________________________________________ > 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] > -- Scott Gassman IdeaJuice (917) 951 - 0258 [email protected]
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