Just to complete that thought, the MA program has a companion online PhD in Transformative Inquiry (shameless plug again) - and those students also join the OS during their week long residential retreat.
Jeff On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 7:24 AM Jeff Aitken <r.jeff.ait...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Michael: We enjoyed twice yearly OS retreats in the MA program for 7 > years while I worked there, and then I brought it into my small PhD program > in cultural recovery and wrote a dissertation with OS as my research "muse". > > Angeles Arrien taught at CIIS, and her wisdom on the OS "four principles > of detachment" (from her book The Four-Fold Way) was a key in my research. > Along with Harrison's palette of Hebrew stories and Kpelle ceremony and > Tibetan bardo teachings in his painting of OS. > > But it hasn't been a constant feature in the larger university. In 2010 > and 2011 I cohosted the faculty-staff opening retreat in OS with Heidi > Nobantu Saul. This year was the first that we returned to OS for our day of > re-gathering before the school year. > > The MA in Leadership has offered OS in several of their one-week > residential student retreats each semester. > > Jeff > > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 2:08 AM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList < > oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > >> Dear Jeff, >> >> congratulations! >> This appears to me to be an example of the sustained impact open space >> can have in groups, organizations and systems. >> >> Of course, I am curious how your life changed back in 1989 and also how >> the perpetual use changed the programme or the institution... >> >> Greetings from Berlin >> mmp >> >> Am 23.08.2019 um 09:49 schrieb Jeff Aitken via OSList: >> > Harrison came to my grad school in 1989 to offer two days of open space >> > on 'spirit in organizations'. It helped kick off our new MA in >> > 'organizational development and transformation', co-led by the awesome >> > duo Antonio Nunez and Howard Schechter. >> > >> > Changed my life... That program morphed into an online MA in Leadership >> > btw (shameless plug.) >> > >> > I'm happy to report that the 30th anniversary of Open Space at CIIS in >> > San Francisco was celebrated with a Faculty-Staff gathering using open >> > space to start the new school year. A deep, resonant, and creative time >> > was had, of course! >> > >> > Onward with blessings >> > Jeff >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > OSList mailing list >> > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >> > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >> > 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/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org >> > >> >> -- >> Michael M Pannwitz >> Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany >> ++49 - 30-772 8000 >> mmpannw...@gmail.com >> >> >> Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 487 resident Open >> Space Workers in 76 countries working in a total of 142 countries >> worldwide >> www.openspaceworldmap.org >> >> At my publisher you find books and task cards on open space, most in >> German, some in English, some as ebooks, some multilingual >> https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Kommunikation >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >> 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/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org >> >
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