Re: [OSList] Review the invitation + latest technology for documentation of conversations + help?
Hi John We are trying to do this with www.spacify.co.uk Not perfect but we are having a go.. Cheers Karl -- Karl Royle Head of Enterprise and Commercial Development Faculty of Education Health and Wellbeing Walsall Campus Gorway Road WS1 3BD Skype Karlr61 Twitter @karlroyle Web: wlv.academia.edu/KarlRoyle Phone 01902323006 Mobile 07815416698 Certified Scrum Master [cid:9A1B38F3-A49B-4B70-B960-5B71BA15B9B6] From: John Baxter via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.orgmailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Reply-To: John Baxter j...@jsbaxter.com.aumailto:j...@jsbaxter.com.au, World wide Open Space Technology email list oslist@lists.openspacetech.orgmailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Date: Wednesday, 24 December 2014 05:08 To: Leslie Zucker les...@lesliezucker.commailto:les...@lesliezucker.com, World wide Open Space Technology email list oslist@lists.openspacetech.orgmailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] Review the invitation + latest technology for documentation of conversations + help? Regards technology, I have seen used to some effect: Google Forms Google Docs Hackpad However the social technology needs to match. These all work very well if the group culture is to bring laptops to an event. They are little use if not. I also hosted an event with a (stationary) video camera set up in a booth for video recording. Not many of the hosts chose to record something, though I'm sure some of the video we collected was good! However editing and sharing it was not very efficient and I think it never got used. I am yet to see an elegant harvesting solution for a participatory event with relative strangers... John Baxter Cocreation Consultant CoCreate Adelaide Facilitator jsbaxter.com.auhttp://www.jsbaxter.com.au/ | CoCreateADL.comhttp://CoCreateADL.com 0405 447 829 | @jsbaxter_http://twitter.com/jsbaxter_ Thank you to everyone who came, helped or spread the good word about City Grill! Summary and links: cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/http://cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/ On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Leslie Zucker via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.orgmailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Hi everyone, Many happy holidays to all of you! It’s moments like this one in which my appreciation for this community bubbles over! I only open space about twice a year, and in the meantime, I fall out of knowing the best practices and newest innovations. Please forgive me if the answers to my questions are already nicely packaged somewhere and I don’t know about it. Just point me in the right direction and I’ll be very grateful. I am opening space in Washington DC on January 22nd. I have a few questions that I’d love some guidance on. All feedback and thoughts are very welcome and appreciated. 1. How’s this invitation? Any suggestions to make it a more irresistible offer? If you’d like to see the (not-yet-public) virtual invitation, it’s here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/space-for-dance-and-dancers-tickets-15038919814 A free, participatory dialogue about what matters to you - space for dance and dancers! And, because we know what else matters... free snacks and drinks will be provided. However you define dance (concert dance, social dance, competitive dance, street dance, whatever!) and however you define space, (for living, dancing, rehearsing, touring, hosting, traveling, whatever!) if you have needs, wants, ideas about space for dance and dancers in the metro DC area, come talk about them! The beginning (starting at 5:30 PM) is very important - don't miss that part! It's when you will propose topics of interest to you that others will join. The spirit of this event is that you are either inspired and learning or inspiring and contributing something interesting and related to space for dance and dancers. If, at any time, that is not true, then you are encouraged to change to a different conversation where it is. There are no key-note speakers or other presentations, it's truly a chance for you to be in conversations. It's a highly participatory experience and you are needed to make it work! The results of this event will be supplied (as we collectively produce our messages) to donors, studios, companies, presenters, artists, and more. Just a few of the places that will use the results of this event for future planning include: DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Artomatic, Cultural DC, Dance Metro DC, Center for the Creative Economy, ReCreative Spaces. Organized and facilitated by Leslie Zucker, Trainer, Facilitator and Life Coach for Life's Dancers +1 (202) 425 7637tel:%2B1%20%28202%29%20425%207637 les...@lesliezucker.commailto:les...@lesliezucker.com www.lesliezucker.comhttp://www.lesliezucker.com/ 2. What is the newest, best way to document the conversations? Is there a reliable smart phone app? Is there a website that allows anyone to contribute? I’d like the “newsroom”
[OSList] Need OS facilitator in Charlotte, NC Jan 16th
Title: TB Signature Hi, We are having a Lean Agile Open event in Charlotte Jan 16th. Can you recommend a good OS facilitator? Not sure what we can pay. It is a non-profit event, hosted by Agile Carolinas. But we can pay something, for sure. We need someone who is a bit sympatico with a Charlotte culture, which is perhaps too dominated by the banks. It is a culture that in my opinion is not yet familiar with OS. (Some of us are, and love it, but we expect many attendees will be newbies to OS.) The event is a public event, an 'unconference' for Lean and Agile topics, probably more Agile. For those who may be interested, we will also be discussing (well, I intend to) Open Agile Adoption. Otherwise, as a public event, I expect this to be a normal easy OS event. Nothing special or hard. Any suggestions for OS Facilitator? (You can contact me offline at jhlit...@kittyhawkconsulting.com) Thanks! Joe -- Joseph Little http://LeanAgileTraining.com Blog: Agile Business 917-887-1669 (cell) 704-376-8881 (office) ___ 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
Re: [OSList] First open space, advices needed :)
Thank you so much Chris. This is so beautiful and Crystal clear Tova נשלח מה-iPhone שלי ב-Jan 4, 2015, בשעה 23:21, Chris Corrigan via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org כתב/ה: All good things from people named John! My friend Toke Moeller often shares the insight that “purpose is the invisible leader” and I share that too. Purpose can be stated and unstated, and like everything in the realm of complexity, is always changing. In order for emergence to happen, it happens within boundaries, and that includes the emergence that later comes to redefine boundaries. My point earlier was that stated purposes can help a great deal AND you need to leave space for the possibility that any way you state it or understand, there is always a high chance that your purpose itself may not serve, or may be at odds with a different, hidden and often more powerful purpose. This gets summed by my other friend Tim Merry who says “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” This means that no matter how clever you are or how articulate you are about purpose, goals and intentions, if you are opening space, culture will show up, and it is sometimes the more powerful purpose. This is why holding space is often terrifying. Chris On Jan 4, 2015, at 12:40 PM, John Watkins johnw...@mac.com wrote: John, My experience is that open spaces (and open systems) are purpose-seeking systems, and getting clarity through emergence about purpose is probably one of the most important aspects of people opening space together. Purpose is dynamic and powerfully grounding in a sense of essence or the being-ness of the emergent group; it's like a strange attractor for the emergence of meaning and aligned action. Goals, on the other hand, are inert and static; they tend to shut down rather than open up space. If you set goals before you gather together and make meaning, often all they do is reinforce the limitations that we mistake for our goals, to cite one of my teachers. We end up with what we started with, not something with new potential and power. Goals can be helpful, though I prefer to think about intentions and aspirations and what I want to accomplish instead. So, I would go for purpose first, and use goals only as a crutch (this is a good purpose for them, BTW), or even, retrospectively, once purpose and meaning and intention and aligned actions are envisioned and something has been accomplished. John Watkins On Jan 4, 2015, at 2:37 AM, John Baxter via OSList wrote: I feel Chris like we have seemingly conflicting suggestions, but might be talking about different things. Reading about games recently (McGonigal's Reality is Broken) got me thinking about goals. And specifically, how goals are different from purpose. Don't know whether this will help but here goes. I am only just thinking this through so it is not well tested. Goals are an element of a good game. They are almost part of the rules of the game, like an agreement - something that we buy in to as part of participation. The most productive spaces I have been part of have had a clear goal for that space (that is understood and agreed to by all). I haven't used the word 'goal' to describe this before and maybe it is not the best one, but it feels right to me to use a different word than 'purpose' which always seem in reality to be impossible to pin down. I am always aware that there is a broad web of different intents and purposes and ideas that no individual will ever compute (even just those within themselves, let alone others!), that will always be fuzzy. Personally, having a solid 'goal' for a space is a fundamental part of holding that space, any space. It need not be written down, but I need to feel it, and ideally it is as transparent as possible in the invitation and for participants (part of the social contract of participation). Cheers John Baxter Cocreation Consultant CoCreate Adelaide Facilitator jsbaxter.com.au | CoCreateADL.com 0405 447 829 | @jsbaxter_ Thank you to everyone who came, helped or spread the good word about City Grill! Summary and links: cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/ On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Chris Corrigan via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Sometimes though, fuzzy purpose is really really useful. I’ve had situations where a group is really sure of what it is doing, and what it exists for and yet nothing is working. This happens a lot with mainline churches these days, many of whom are certain that they can recreate the “success” they had in the 1960s. They are certainly clear on their purpose, but the harder they try, the worse they make it for themselves. And so we have run OST meetings where the purpose was unclear and fuzzy and people simply proposed topics that interested them. And it turns out that that is a good way to
Re: [OSList] Need OS facilitator in Charlotte, NC Jan 16th
Old friends in the area are Hugh Huntington and Brigitt Williams. Hugh is at huntingto...@gmail.com Birgitt is reachable at birg...@dalarinternational.com Neither may be available, but should know of others who might be. Harrison Winter Address 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-2093 Summer Address 189 Beaucaire Ave. Camden, ME 04843 207-763-3261 Websites www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: OSList [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Little via OSList Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 9:45 AM To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: [OSList] Need OS facilitator in Charlotte, NC Jan 16th Hi, We are having a Lean Agile Open event in Charlotte Jan 16th. Can you recommend a good OS facilitator? Not sure what we can pay. It is a non-profit event, hosted by Agile Carolinas. But we can pay something, for sure. We need someone who is a bit sympatico with a Charlotte culture, which is perhaps too dominated by the banks. It is a culture that in my opinion is not yet familiar with OS. (Some of us are, and love it, but we expect many attendees will be newbies to OS.) The event is a public event, an 'unconference' for Lean and Agile topics, probably more Agile. For those who may be interested, we will also be discussing (well, I intend to) Open Agile Adoption. Otherwise, as a public event, I expect this to be a normal easy OS event. Nothing special or hard. Any suggestions for OS Facilitator? (You can contact me offline at jhlit...@kittyhawkconsulting.com) Thanks! Joe -- Joseph Little http://leanagiletraining.com/ http://LeanAgileTraining.com Blog: Agile Business 917-887-1669 (cell) 704-376-8881 (office) ___ 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
Re: [OSList] Review the invitation + latest technology for documentation of conversations + help?
Hi John We are trying to do this with www.spacify.co.uk Not perfect but we are having a go.. Cheers Karl -- Karl Royle Head of Enterprise and Commercial Development Faculty of Education Health and Wellbeing Walsall Campus Gorway Road WS1 3BD Skype Karlr61 Twitter @karlroyle Web: wlv.academia.edu/KarlRoyle Phone 01902323006 Mobile 07815416698 Certified Scrum Master [cid:9A1B38F3-A49B-4B70-B960-5B71BA15B9B6] From: John Baxter via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.orgmailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Reply-To: John Baxter j...@jsbaxter.com.aumailto:j...@jsbaxter.com.au, World wide Open Space Technology email list oslist@lists.openspacetech.orgmailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Date: Wednesday, 24 December 2014 05:08 To: Leslie Zucker les...@lesliezucker.commailto:les...@lesliezucker.com, World wide Open Space Technology email list oslist@lists.openspacetech.orgmailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] Review the invitation + latest technology for documentation of conversations + help? Regards technology, I have seen used to some effect: Google Forms Google Docs Hackpad However the social technology needs to match. These all work very well if the group culture is to bring laptops to an event. They are little use if not. I also hosted an event with a (stationary) video camera set up in a booth for video recording. Not many of the hosts chose to record something, though I'm sure some of the video we collected was good! However editing and sharing it was not very efficient and I think it never got used. I am yet to see an elegant harvesting solution for a participatory event with relative strangers... John Baxter Cocreation Consultant CoCreate Adelaide Facilitator jsbaxter.com.auhttp://www.jsbaxter.com.au/ | CoCreateADL.comhttp://CoCreateADL.com 0405 447 829 | @jsbaxter_http://twitter.com/jsbaxter_ Thank you to everyone who came, helped or spread the good word about City Grill! Summary and links: cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/http://cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/ On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Leslie Zucker via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.orgmailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Hi everyone, Many happy holidays to all of you! It’s moments like this one in which my appreciation for this community bubbles over! I only open space about twice a year, and in the meantime, I fall out of knowing the best practices and newest innovations. Please forgive me if the answers to my questions are already nicely packaged somewhere and I don’t know about it. Just point me in the right direction and I’ll be very grateful. I am opening space in Washington DC on January 22nd. I have a few questions that I’d love some guidance on. All feedback and thoughts are very welcome and appreciated. 1. How’s this invitation? Any suggestions to make it a more irresistible offer? If you’d like to see the (not-yet-public) virtual invitation, it’s here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/space-for-dance-and-dancers-tickets-15038919814 A free, participatory dialogue about what matters to you - space for dance and dancers! And, because we know what else matters... free snacks and drinks will be provided. However you define dance (concert dance, social dance, competitive dance, street dance, whatever!) and however you define space, (for living, dancing, rehearsing, touring, hosting, traveling, whatever!) if you have needs, wants, ideas about space for dance and dancers in the metro DC area, come talk about them! The beginning (starting at 5:30 PM) is very important - don't miss that part! It's when you will propose topics of interest to you that others will join. The spirit of this event is that you are either inspired and learning or inspiring and contributing something interesting and related to space for dance and dancers. If, at any time, that is not true, then you are encouraged to change to a different conversation where it is. There are no key-note speakers or other presentations, it's truly a chance for you to be in conversations. It's a highly participatory experience and you are needed to make it work! The results of this event will be supplied (as we collectively produce our messages) to donors, studios, companies, presenters, artists, and more. Just a few of the places that will use the results of this event for future planning include: DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Artomatic, Cultural DC, Dance Metro DC, Center for the Creative Economy, ReCreative Spaces. Organized and facilitated by Leslie Zucker, Trainer, Facilitator and Life Coach for Life's Dancers +1 (202) 425 7637tel:%2B1%20%28202%29%20425%207637 les...@lesliezucker.commailto:les...@lesliezucker.com www.lesliezucker.comhttp://www.lesliezucker.com/ 2. What is the newest, best way to document the conversations? Is there a reliable smart phone app? Is there a website that allows anyone to contribute? I’d like the “newsroom”
[OSList] Need OS facilitator in Charlotte, NC Jan 16th
Title: TB Signature Hi, We are having a Lean Agile Open event in Charlotte Jan 16th. Can you recommend a good OS facilitator? Not sure what we can pay. It is a non-profit event, hosted by Agile Carolinas. But we can pay something, for sure. We need someone who is a bit sympatico with a Charlotte culture, which is perhaps too dominated by the banks. It is a culture that in my opinion is not yet familiar with OS. (Some of us are, and love it, but we expect many attendees will be newbies to OS.) The event is a public event, an 'unconference' for Lean and Agile topics, probably more Agile. For those who may be interested, we will also be discussing (well, I intend to) Open Agile Adoption. Otherwise, as a public event, I expect this to be a normal easy OS event. Nothing special or hard. Any suggestions for OS Facilitator? (You can contact me offline at jhlit...@kittyhawkconsulting.com) Thanks! Joe -- Joseph Little http://LeanAgileTraining.com Blog: Agile Business 917-887-1669 (cell) 704-376-8881 (office) ___ 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
Re: [OSList] First open space, advices needed :)
Thank you so much Chris. This is so beautiful and Crystal clear Tova נשלח מה-iPhone שלי ב-Jan 4, 2015, בשעה 23:21, Chris Corrigan via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org כתב/ה: All good things from people named John! My friend Toke Moeller often shares the insight that “purpose is the invisible leader” and I share that too. Purpose can be stated and unstated, and like everything in the realm of complexity, is always changing. In order for emergence to happen, it happens within boundaries, and that includes the emergence that later comes to redefine boundaries. My point earlier was that stated purposes can help a great deal AND you need to leave space for the possibility that any way you state it or understand, there is always a high chance that your purpose itself may not serve, or may be at odds with a different, hidden and often more powerful purpose. This gets summed by my other friend Tim Merry who says “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” This means that no matter how clever you are or how articulate you are about purpose, goals and intentions, if you are opening space, culture will show up, and it is sometimes the more powerful purpose. This is why holding space is often terrifying. Chris On Jan 4, 2015, at 12:40 PM, John Watkins johnw...@mac.com wrote: John, My experience is that open spaces (and open systems) are purpose-seeking systems, and getting clarity through emergence about purpose is probably one of the most important aspects of people opening space together. Purpose is dynamic and powerfully grounding in a sense of essence or the being-ness of the emergent group; it's like a strange attractor for the emergence of meaning and aligned action. Goals, on the other hand, are inert and static; they tend to shut down rather than open up space. If you set goals before you gather together and make meaning, often all they do is reinforce the limitations that we mistake for our goals, to cite one of my teachers. We end up with what we started with, not something with new potential and power. Goals can be helpful, though I prefer to think about intentions and aspirations and what I want to accomplish instead. So, I would go for purpose first, and use goals only as a crutch (this is a good purpose for them, BTW), or even, retrospectively, once purpose and meaning and intention and aligned actions are envisioned and something has been accomplished. John Watkins On Jan 4, 2015, at 2:37 AM, John Baxter via OSList wrote: I feel Chris like we have seemingly conflicting suggestions, but might be talking about different things. Reading about games recently (McGonigal's Reality is Broken) got me thinking about goals. And specifically, how goals are different from purpose. Don't know whether this will help but here goes. I am only just thinking this through so it is not well tested. Goals are an element of a good game. They are almost part of the rules of the game, like an agreement - something that we buy in to as part of participation. The most productive spaces I have been part of have had a clear goal for that space (that is understood and agreed to by all). I haven't used the word 'goal' to describe this before and maybe it is not the best one, but it feels right to me to use a different word than 'purpose' which always seem in reality to be impossible to pin down. I am always aware that there is a broad web of different intents and purposes and ideas that no individual will ever compute (even just those within themselves, let alone others!), that will always be fuzzy. Personally, having a solid 'goal' for a space is a fundamental part of holding that space, any space. It need not be written down, but I need to feel it, and ideally it is as transparent as possible in the invitation and for participants (part of the social contract of participation). Cheers John Baxter Cocreation Consultant CoCreate Adelaide Facilitator jsbaxter.com.au | CoCreateADL.com 0405 447 829 | @jsbaxter_ Thank you to everyone who came, helped or spread the good word about City Grill! Summary and links: cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/ On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Chris Corrigan via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Sometimes though, fuzzy purpose is really really useful. I’ve had situations where a group is really sure of what it is doing, and what it exists for and yet nothing is working. This happens a lot with mainline churches these days, many of whom are certain that they can recreate the “success” they had in the 1960s. They are certainly clear on their purpose, but the harder they try, the worse they make it for themselves. And so we have run OST meetings where the purpose was unclear and fuzzy and people simply proposed topics that interested them. And it turns out that that is a good way to
Re: [OSList] Need OS facilitator in Charlotte, NC Jan 16th
Old friends in the area are Hugh Huntington and Brigitt Williams. Hugh is at huntingto...@gmail.com Birgitt is reachable at birg...@dalarinternational.com Neither may be available, but should know of others who might be. Harrison Winter Address 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-2093 Summer Address 189 Beaucaire Ave. Camden, ME 04843 207-763-3261 Websites www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: OSList [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Little via OSList Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 9:45 AM To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: [OSList] Need OS facilitator in Charlotte, NC Jan 16th Hi, We are having a Lean Agile Open event in Charlotte Jan 16th. Can you recommend a good OS facilitator? Not sure what we can pay. It is a non-profit event, hosted by Agile Carolinas. But we can pay something, for sure. We need someone who is a bit sympatico with a Charlotte culture, which is perhaps too dominated by the banks. It is a culture that in my opinion is not yet familiar with OS. (Some of us are, and love it, but we expect many attendees will be newbies to OS.) The event is a public event, an 'unconference' for Lean and Agile topics, probably more Agile. For those who may be interested, we will also be discussing (well, I intend to) Open Agile Adoption. Otherwise, as a public event, I expect this to be a normal easy OS event. Nothing special or hard. Any suggestions for OS Facilitator? (You can contact me offline at jhlit...@kittyhawkconsulting.com) Thanks! Joe -- Joseph Little http://leanagiletraining.com/ http://LeanAgileTraining.com Blog: Agile Business 917-887-1669 (cell) 704-376-8881 (office) ___ 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
Re: [OSList] Review the invitation + latest technology for documentation of conversations + help?
Hi John We are trying to do this with www.spacify.co.uk Not perfect but we are having a go.. Cheers Karl -- Karl Royle Head of Enterprise and Commercial Development Faculty of Education Health and Wellbeing Walsall Campus Gorway Road WS1 3BD Skype Karlr61 Twitter @karlroyle Web: wlv.academia.edu/KarlRoyle Phone 01902323006 Mobile 07815416698 Certified Scrum Master [cid:9A1B38F3-A49B-4B70-B960-5B71BA15B9B6] From: John Baxter via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.orgmailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Reply-To: John Baxter j...@jsbaxter.com.aumailto:j...@jsbaxter.com.au, World wide Open Space Technology email list oslist@lists.openspacetech.orgmailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Date: Wednesday, 24 December 2014 05:08 To: Leslie Zucker les...@lesliezucker.commailto:les...@lesliezucker.com, World wide Open Space Technology email list oslist@lists.openspacetech.orgmailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: Re: [OSList] Review the invitation + latest technology for documentation of conversations + help? Regards technology, I have seen used to some effect: Google Forms Google Docs Hackpad However the social technology needs to match. These all work very well if the group culture is to bring laptops to an event. They are little use if not. I also hosted an event with a (stationary) video camera set up in a booth for video recording. Not many of the hosts chose to record something, though I'm sure some of the video we collected was good! However editing and sharing it was not very efficient and I think it never got used. I am yet to see an elegant harvesting solution for a participatory event with relative strangers... John Baxter Cocreation Consultant CoCreate Adelaide Facilitator jsbaxter.com.auhttp://www.jsbaxter.com.au/ | CoCreateADL.comhttp://CoCreateADL.com 0405 447 829 | @jsbaxter_http://twitter.com/jsbaxter_ Thank you to everyone who came, helped or spread the good word about City Grill! Summary and links: cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/http://cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/ On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Leslie Zucker via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.orgmailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Hi everyone, Many happy holidays to all of you! It’s moments like this one in which my appreciation for this community bubbles over! I only open space about twice a year, and in the meantime, I fall out of knowing the best practices and newest innovations. Please forgive me if the answers to my questions are already nicely packaged somewhere and I don’t know about it. Just point me in the right direction and I’ll be very grateful. I am opening space in Washington DC on January 22nd. I have a few questions that I’d love some guidance on. All feedback and thoughts are very welcome and appreciated. 1. How’s this invitation? Any suggestions to make it a more irresistible offer? If you’d like to see the (not-yet-public) virtual invitation, it’s here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/space-for-dance-and-dancers-tickets-15038919814 A free, participatory dialogue about what matters to you - space for dance and dancers! And, because we know what else matters... free snacks and drinks will be provided. However you define dance (concert dance, social dance, competitive dance, street dance, whatever!) and however you define space, (for living, dancing, rehearsing, touring, hosting, traveling, whatever!) if you have needs, wants, ideas about space for dance and dancers in the metro DC area, come talk about them! The beginning (starting at 5:30 PM) is very important - don't miss that part! It's when you will propose topics of interest to you that others will join. The spirit of this event is that you are either inspired and learning or inspiring and contributing something interesting and related to space for dance and dancers. If, at any time, that is not true, then you are encouraged to change to a different conversation where it is. There are no key-note speakers or other presentations, it's truly a chance for you to be in conversations. It's a highly participatory experience and you are needed to make it work! The results of this event will be supplied (as we collectively produce our messages) to donors, studios, companies, presenters, artists, and more. Just a few of the places that will use the results of this event for future planning include: DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Artomatic, Cultural DC, Dance Metro DC, Center for the Creative Economy, ReCreative Spaces. Organized and facilitated by Leslie Zucker, Trainer, Facilitator and Life Coach for Life's Dancers +1 (202) 425 7637tel:%2B1%20%28202%29%20425%207637 les...@lesliezucker.commailto:les...@lesliezucker.com www.lesliezucker.comhttp://www.lesliezucker.com/ 2. What is the newest, best way to document the conversations? Is there a reliable smart phone app? Is there a website that allows anyone to contribute? I’d like the “newsroom”
[OSList] Need OS facilitator in Charlotte, NC Jan 16th
Title: TB Signature Hi, We are having a Lean Agile Open event in Charlotte Jan 16th. Can you recommend a good OS facilitator? Not sure what we can pay. It is a non-profit event, hosted by Agile Carolinas. But we can pay something, for sure. We need someone who is a bit sympatico with a Charlotte culture, which is perhaps too dominated by the banks. It is a culture that in my opinion is not yet familiar with OS. (Some of us are, and love it, but we expect many attendees will be newbies to OS.) The event is a public event, an 'unconference' for Lean and Agile topics, probably more Agile. For those who may be interested, we will also be discussing (well, I intend to) Open Agile Adoption. Otherwise, as a public event, I expect this to be a normal easy OS event. Nothing special or hard. Any suggestions for OS Facilitator? (You can contact me offline at jhlit...@kittyhawkconsulting.com) Thanks! Joe -- Joseph Little http://LeanAgileTraining.com Blog: Agile Business 917-887-1669 (cell) 704-376-8881 (office) ___ 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
Re: [OSList] First open space, advices needed :)
Thank you so much Chris. This is so beautiful and Crystal clear Tova נשלח מה-iPhone שלי ב-Jan 4, 2015, בשעה 23:21, Chris Corrigan via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org כתב/ה: All good things from people named John! My friend Toke Moeller often shares the insight that “purpose is the invisible leader” and I share that too. Purpose can be stated and unstated, and like everything in the realm of complexity, is always changing. In order for emergence to happen, it happens within boundaries, and that includes the emergence that later comes to redefine boundaries. My point earlier was that stated purposes can help a great deal AND you need to leave space for the possibility that any way you state it or understand, there is always a high chance that your purpose itself may not serve, or may be at odds with a different, hidden and often more powerful purpose. This gets summed by my other friend Tim Merry who says “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” This means that no matter how clever you are or how articulate you are about purpose, goals and intentions, if you are opening space, culture will show up, and it is sometimes the more powerful purpose. This is why holding space is often terrifying. Chris On Jan 4, 2015, at 12:40 PM, John Watkins johnw...@mac.com wrote: John, My experience is that open spaces (and open systems) are purpose-seeking systems, and getting clarity through emergence about purpose is probably one of the most important aspects of people opening space together. Purpose is dynamic and powerfully grounding in a sense of essence or the being-ness of the emergent group; it's like a strange attractor for the emergence of meaning and aligned action. Goals, on the other hand, are inert and static; they tend to shut down rather than open up space. If you set goals before you gather together and make meaning, often all they do is reinforce the limitations that we mistake for our goals, to cite one of my teachers. We end up with what we started with, not something with new potential and power. Goals can be helpful, though I prefer to think about intentions and aspirations and what I want to accomplish instead. So, I would go for purpose first, and use goals only as a crutch (this is a good purpose for them, BTW), or even, retrospectively, once purpose and meaning and intention and aligned actions are envisioned and something has been accomplished. John Watkins On Jan 4, 2015, at 2:37 AM, John Baxter via OSList wrote: I feel Chris like we have seemingly conflicting suggestions, but might be talking about different things. Reading about games recently (McGonigal's Reality is Broken) got me thinking about goals. And specifically, how goals are different from purpose. Don't know whether this will help but here goes. I am only just thinking this through so it is not well tested. Goals are an element of a good game. They are almost part of the rules of the game, like an agreement - something that we buy in to as part of participation. The most productive spaces I have been part of have had a clear goal for that space (that is understood and agreed to by all). I haven't used the word 'goal' to describe this before and maybe it is not the best one, but it feels right to me to use a different word than 'purpose' which always seem in reality to be impossible to pin down. I am always aware that there is a broad web of different intents and purposes and ideas that no individual will ever compute (even just those within themselves, let alone others!), that will always be fuzzy. Personally, having a solid 'goal' for a space is a fundamental part of holding that space, any space. It need not be written down, but I need to feel it, and ideally it is as transparent as possible in the invitation and for participants (part of the social contract of participation). Cheers John Baxter Cocreation Consultant CoCreate Adelaide Facilitator jsbaxter.com.au | CoCreateADL.com 0405 447 829 | @jsbaxter_ Thank you to everyone who came, helped or spread the good word about City Grill! Summary and links: cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/ On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Chris Corrigan via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: Sometimes though, fuzzy purpose is really really useful. I’ve had situations where a group is really sure of what it is doing, and what it exists for and yet nothing is working. This happens a lot with mainline churches these days, many of whom are certain that they can recreate the “success” they had in the 1960s. They are certainly clear on their purpose, but the harder they try, the worse they make it for themselves. And so we have run OST meetings where the purpose was unclear and fuzzy and people simply proposed topics that interested them. And it turns out that that is a good way to
Re: [OSList] Need OS facilitator in Charlotte, NC Jan 16th
Old friends in the area are Hugh Huntington and Brigitt Williams. Hugh is at huntingto...@gmail.com Birgitt is reachable at birg...@dalarinternational.com Neither may be available, but should know of others who might be. Harrison Winter Address 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-2093 Summer Address 189 Beaucaire Ave. Camden, ME 04843 207-763-3261 Websites www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: OSList [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Little via OSList Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 9:45 AM To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: [OSList] Need OS facilitator in Charlotte, NC Jan 16th Hi, We are having a Lean Agile Open event in Charlotte Jan 16th. Can you recommend a good OS facilitator? Not sure what we can pay. It is a non-profit event, hosted by Agile Carolinas. But we can pay something, for sure. We need someone who is a bit sympatico with a Charlotte culture, which is perhaps too dominated by the banks. It is a culture that in my opinion is not yet familiar with OS. (Some of us are, and love it, but we expect many attendees will be newbies to OS.) The event is a public event, an 'unconference' for Lean and Agile topics, probably more Agile. For those who may be interested, we will also be discussing (well, I intend to) Open Agile Adoption. Otherwise, as a public event, I expect this to be a normal easy OS event. Nothing special or hard. Any suggestions for OS Facilitator? (You can contact me offline at jhlit...@kittyhawkconsulting.com) Thanks! Joe -- Joseph Little http://leanagiletraining.com/ http://LeanAgileTraining.com Blog: Agile Business 917-887-1669 (cell) 704-376-8881 (office) ___ 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
