Dear friends and colleagues, Twenty three years ago my staff and I realized that we had created an organization that benefited from the same quality and quantity of high performance and high play that was experienced in an OST meeting. I remember writing a letter to Harrison about what was beginning to happen....he edited and published that letter in my chapter in Tales from Open Space. I had gotten really curious about : "if all of this great leadership, vision, community, and self management happen in an OST meeting, it means that this is ALL present in the organization already. What can we in our organization do to achieve this kind of performance on a daily basis seeing as it is clear that we have this in us?". From our first OST meetings and the experiences we had, it took us some months to develop the first Conscious Open Space Organization. My hypothesis was: all organizations are open space organizations. Becoming conscious of ourselves as an Open Space Organization was vital to our well being.
I left the organization after three years of operating as a Conscious Open Space Organization. I wanted to find out, as an independent consultant, whether I could assist other leadership teams do the same kind of development in their organizations...or had my experience been a unique experience that couldn't be repeated? Several organizations, all of 100 staff or less participated with me...and they also successfully created Conscious Open Space Organizations. We learned a lot. Always, we began the intentional organizational transformation with a multi day OST meeting. After a few years, and with some changes, one of our international development clients demanded we change the name from Conscious Open Space Organization. We settled on Genuine Contact Organization, in keeping with it being a key component of the Genuine Contact program. And yet, always, we begin with a multi-day OST meeting...that has remained essential. Nov 5-9 I am teaching a small group of no more than 6 persons about the Genuine Contact Organization <http://www.dalarinternational.com/services/training/genuine-contact-organization/>. Residential workshops with me in our home in Raleigh, North Carolina are intense learning experiences, with lots of insights, ah ha's, oh no's...and making sense of the material offered in ways that are unique to each participant and their intended use of the learning. If you have interest in learning how to transform an organization into an organization that has the daily benefits we experience in an OST meeting, please contact me off list. I have a coupon code that will give you a significant discount on the tuition. Blessings to all, Birgitt -- Birgitt Williams President & Senior Consultant of Dalar International Consultancy, Inc. http://www.dalarinternational.com Co-founder of the Extraordinary Leadership Network http://www.extraordinaryleadershipnetwork.com Co-founder of the Genuine Contact™program and author of The Genuine Contact Way: Nourishing a Culture of Leadership http://www.genuinecontactway.com Co-owner of the Genuine Contact Co-owners Group Ltd. http://www.genuinecontact.net *Supporting leadership development for leading in a culture requiring agility and flexibility in a performance environment of constant change.* Leadership development at your own pace? Become a member of the Extraordinary Leadership Network http://www.extraordinaryleadershipnetwork.com to participate in an online leadership development program designed to increase the leadership skills and capacity you need to perform in a performance environment of constant change. PO Box 19373, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 27619 phone: 1-919-522-7750
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