[OSList] Skye Open Space Hotline Question

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Are you involved in opening space. Are you interested in Open Space
Technology?  What can we change, learn from our commons of Open Space
Technology?   What's Love Got to Do with it?

It's not quite an Open Space event, but it is a space open to receive
whatever is alive for you right now.

The invitation is to share, listen, inquire, and be open to be surprised.

*Join the emergent conversation...*

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*Conversations in "Radical Aliveness"*
*Just-in-Time Coaching and Consulting*
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Twitter  @autognomics


*Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do
it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.* —Howard
Thurman
*"There is no final fact." * Alfred North Whitehead

*"Nature ever flows, stands never still. Motion or change is her mode of
existence."*
*- Ralph Waldo Emerson*
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[OSList] Skye My Take away from Opening Space for Peace

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Whenever it starts is the time it starts, the time when it ends is the time
when it ends, whoever comes seems to be just the right ones I need to meet
or the ones others need to meet, whatever happens is precisely what
happens, where-ever it happens, it will happen outside of my control, and
boy did expecting to be surprised show up with surprise again and again,
my butterfly self kept learning and learning, my bumblebee self kept
dropping in and dropping out all the while experiencing surprise.  Whe
Oh, yes, that one less thing to do,   kept leaving, and leaving me free to
just *sit the question.*  Then cam the question,what if I just "sit with I
don't know?"  That one law of freedom to move where I take responsibility
for staying or going just kept me conscious, present for almost 3 whole
days.  Thanks all for meeting in Open Space Technology (life as it is)
surprising me all weekend long.  I feel the ripples spreading faster than
the speed of LIFE - to 8 Billion, throughout LIfe-herself.  Loves, loves,
loves a.   Skye




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[OSList] Skye Listening for the Harmonies

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How does Open Space Technology help us experience harmony, wholeness?  This
may well be the most ineffable idea in today’s busy world.  Life seems to
present moments of such harmoniousness and we may notice them when they
happen and then forget them.  They don’t get highlighted as something
possible on any dependable scale, so they get passed over, dismissed as a
“nice” experience but most likely we don’t share them.  However, the
artists among us will capture them through their medium. We love the
feelings this work gives us, this reminder of those numinous realities.

What happens in OST?   What are those realities we experience more often
than not while participating in a concentrated time around an invitation
question, an urgency, a group of people sitting in circle, creating an
agenda and sitting with questions, getting to deeper ones?

I believe OST is micro of a macro reality that life’s organism ways provide
for us in every moment.  “Come to the circle, tell us your tale, you are
not the only one who is hurting.”  This phrase from a song written in the
80s by a friend, speaks of the power of OST.  There is something so
powerful about being reminded, you get to choose how and where and when you
give your attention.  It has been called an antidote to the world of
hierarchical dominating meetings, work life and organizationally dead
structures.

So I say, I want to capture the ineffable, but how silly that is.  And yet,
we can point to shared experience, to knowledge that goes beyond words, to
celebrate this most amazing, awe-generating process abiding in living
structures, living “becoming” events that are *alivenmaking*.  Let’s listen
for the harmonies, for the moments of felt sensing our wholeness, our
unity, and our differences at the same time.  This is a “both and world,”
not an “either/or” one.  It takes work only in that we remember what we can
easily forget with distractions and constant “busy-ness.”  Notice when
those moments of peacefulness enter into the “field” when we take a long
breath and let it out fully, sitting with one another without needing to
fix or change ourselves, or the other. What are your experiences of
“fulfillment” of listening in to deep knowledge of being alive?

One OST participant spoke of it as something one cannot talk about, but to
experience it is to have lived, feeling aliveness and we want it more and
more. Then we want others to have the experience so we try to talk about it.
I say, “Come to the Circle, tell us your tale, you are not the only one who
is hurting.”

The storyteller tells his tales and we remember those times his stories
happened in our lives, or we make sense of a story we have not understood
about our tale. Then we begin again with a new story.  Keep coming to the
circle, telling us your tales, one and all.

Blessings to all this week for great WOSONOS in DC.

Song *Healing Circle* is by Julia Hickory 1984, Album Joyful Noise and
Friends *Birdsong Morning*

*Healing Circle*

Come to the Circle

Listen to our tales

You will find you’re not the only one who’s hurting

And the light may shine in

This is where we begin

The magic of our healing



Alone in your room, you think you’re the only one

And you’re wondering if your might be crazy

So you lock all the pain and the shame deep inside

And your skies are always dark and hazy



But if you Come to the Circle

Tell us your tales

The light will shine in,

This is where we begin

The magic work of our healing.



You are not unimportant, we need all the words

And the melodies to harmonize

The darker the shadows, the brighter the sun

And your tears are the stars in our eyes.

So won’t you Come to the Circle

Tell us your tales

And the light will shine in

This is where we begin

The magic work of our healing


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*Autognomics*

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[OSList] Skye Poem on the Ineffable

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Come sit with me on a porch for a bit

Let’s watch the sunset, listen to the crickets

Smell the freshly cut grass, share a cuppa

And

Sense one another’s ways of knowing

As we share a story, pose a quandary or uncertainty

Allowing meaning new or old to emerge, and cohere

As we hold hope together

In how life is, how it creates in and with us

And

We grow richer in such resting in the all of it

Such is the opening of space

An invitation to sit together for a while

Whether on a porch, café, conference room, phone or internet

To listen together

To feel life’s magic wisdom

Recalled, shared, seen anew

And

We get to choose again from this richness

Our next act towards common goodness



Come, let’s sit together

Share a cuppa

Story, quandary or uncertainty

And

Hold hope together






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[OSList] Skye OST Hotline Today See ya soon

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You are warmly invited to an online Open Space Hotline hangout! What's
going on in your  life, your world? Where and how are you opening space?
And so much more.Who knows what may happen?


Come meet us TODAY on Zoom, *Tuesday, May 28 @12 PM Eastern Daylight Time*.
We will gather for 1+ hours - Law of Two feet applies!


** Feel free to pass it one to friends who are not on the list **


*Sign-up and post topics:* http://bit.ly/OShotline


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b. International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference


c. Meeting ID: 751 609 912


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*Autognomics*

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*Just-in-Time Coaching and Consulting*
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Twitter  @autognomics
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[OSList] Skye OST Hotline Today

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*See you soon *

*Sign-up and post topics:* http://bit.ly/OShotline


Join the call from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/751609912


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c. Meeting ID: 751 609 912


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[OSList] Skye. OSt hotline is on today May 14

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*See you soon *

*Sign-up and post topics:* http://bit.ly/OShotline


Join the call from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/751609912


a. Join by phone: +1 (415) 762-9988 <+1%20(415)%20762-9988> or +1 (646)
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b. International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference


c. Meeting ID: 751 609 912


Until then!
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[OSList] Skye OST Hotline Invite

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Welcome to OST Hotline call, all are invited.

Meet up on Zoom, *Tuesday March 19  @12 PM EST* for 1+ hours - Law of Two
feet applies!

** Feel free to pass it on to friends who may not see the invite here.

All are welcome. It's time for sharing and listening to reflections,
insights, questions, new directions, experience and applications of Open
Space Technology.

*Post topics:* At beginning of call in Zoom Chat.

*Join the call* from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/751609912


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c. Meeting ID: 751 609 912


Until then!


-- 
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*Just-in-Time Coaching and Consulting*
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[OSList] Skye Invite to OST Hotline Call

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Welcome all to OST Hotline.

Come meet us on Zoom
*Tuesday March 12 @12 PM EDT*.
*We just moved ahead an hour here in Eastern Time Zone. *

Each week we are learning from one another about OST.  Conversations are
open to any ideas, reflections, insights and always questions for how do we
spread the OST word.  The circle opens with topics, questions and whatever
happens is most likely a surprise. Last week we reclaimed the closing
circle to reflect on take-aways from the conversation. Lots of gems,
including how can we listen more deeply. Thanks all who have been coming.
We hope some who have not been for a while will come again.  If you've
never been on the call, please surprise us.  Here's how to meet up.

Come meet us on Zoom, *Tuesday March 12 @12 PM EDT*.
*We just moved ahead an hour here in Eastern Time Zone.  *

Come meet us on Zoom, *Tuesday March 12 @12 PM EDT*. We will gather for 1+
hours - Law of Two feet applies!

** Feel free to pass it one to friends who are not on the list

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c. Meeting ID: 751 609 912

See ya soon.

-- 
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[OSList] Skye Open Space Hotline Conversation March 5 Noon EST

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Welcome folks to the OST Hotline conversations. You are invited to bring
all  insights, questions, thoughts and urgencies about OST and you.

Tues. March *5 @12 PM EST*

This week Suzanne Daigle will share a few key experiences of recent trip to
Moscow. Then we'll open the conversation as usual for conversation deep,
wide or simple. What's up to talk about comes from whoever comes. You know
it does. It's always a surprise and amazing. Of course, the topic is always
OST.


Come meet us on Zoom, *Tuesday March 5 @12 PM EST*. We gather for 1+ hours
- Law of Two feet applies!

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Re: [OSList] Skye Hello and Welcome today to OS Hotline

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Just a follow up notice... We had 4 people on call today and the word
"urgency" came up. What makes urgency?  What moves us in a world of
overload with too much information?  How do we use technology to offer
urgency that might help us act in small ways when big urgencies use up so
much of our energy, that we feel too numb to do anything?

So, questions to myself I take away from today's conversation:
How can I notice this and use it to invite into circle the urgency of the
group, of the organization or community?
Can I and/or the inviting group identify a common obvious urgency ?  Do
invitations need to state the obvious urgency or does it just exist?  Or
does the urgency become clear in the OS circle?  What simple question can I
ask myself that would cause me to open more space to change the rest of my
life? Whew,  where did that come from?  I suspect not directly from the
conversation, but it's what came up in writing this.

 What simple question are  you asking yourself about Open Space World and
Technology,
oh, heck, what about OST makes you feel alive with sense of urgency?

Thanks all. Hope to see and hear from you next week, Tue. EST at noon.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 7:20 AM Skye Hirst  wrote:

> Hello all!!
>
> You are invited to our  OS Tue Hotline Call.  There are so many exciting
> events and questions happening within our community.  Please come with what
> you are most passionate about and let's meet up today. Talk soon.
>
>
> Come meet us on Zoom, *Tuesday February 26th @12 PM EST*. We will gather
> for 1+ hours - Law of Two feet applies!
>
> ** Feel free to pass it one to friends who are not on the list **
>
>
> *Sign-up and post topics:* http://bit.ly/OShotline
> 
>
> Join the call from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/751609912
> 
>
> a. Join by phone: +1 (415) 762-9988 or +1 (646) 568-7788 (US Toll)
>
> b. International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference
> 
>
> c. Meeting ID: 751 609 912
>
>
>
>
> --
> *Skye HIrst, PhD*
> *Autognomics*
> *Conversations in Radical Self-Knowing*
> *Just-in-Time Coaching and Consulting*
> jitcc.org
> Twitter  @autognomics
> 207-691-3172  mobile
>
> *"Nature ever flows, stands never still. Motion or change is her mode of
> existence."*
> *- Ralph Waldo Emerson*
>


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[OSList] Skye Hello and Welcome today to OS Hotline

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Hello all!!

You are invited to our  OS Tue Hotline Call.  There are so many exciting
events and questions happening within our community.  Please come with what
you are most passionate about and let's meet up today. Talk soon.


Come meet us on Zoom, *Tuesday February 26th @12 PM EST*. We will gather
for 1+ hours - Law of Two feet applies!

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Re: [OSList] Romy (Shovelton) in New York this week - would love to see some old time Open Spacers !

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

romy,  hello, we met ages ago in Camden, Me.  My husband and I were there
experiencing OS for first time.  Oh,how I would love to meet up with you.
Alas I'm in Maine, at the very least a 6 hour ride to see you.  Please know
I gather with you where-ever you might be.  Come on our OST hotline call
today if you can at noon.   Here is the zoom link  Join the call from PC,
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:13 AM Romy Shovelton via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Hello folks…. A slightly odd posting. I’m in New York City this week, and
> have a little space & time on Wednesday & Thursday and would adore to meet
> some old time Open Spacers, if there is anyone in the City at the moment.
> Known once as an elder of the OST world…. perhaps now just as an ‘ancient
> one’…. it would be wonderful to touch base with like minded OS people - for
> a cuppa/ cup of tea or some such - I *am* from the UK after all, so tea
> is how we meet each other!
>
> With warm wishes and deep appreciation for Harrison and this community…
>
> Romy
>
>
>
>
> *Romy Shovelton*
>
> *Executive Director*
> *Wikima* and the
> *5* Tyddyn RetreatMid Wales Venue & Holiday Cottages*
>
> www.wikima.com
> *www.walescottageandvenue.com *
> Facebook: Tyddyn Retreat
> Twitter: @MidWalesRetreat
> Instagram: tyddynretreat
>
> romy.shovel...@gmail.com
> r...@walescottageandvenue.com
> r...@wikima.com
> skype: romy shovelton
>
> +44 (0) 7767 370739
> +44 (0) 1686 420725
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Re: [OSList] Morning reflections from Harrison Owen

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Thanks so Harold

On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 11:21 AM Harrison Owen via OSList <
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> Harold... Many thanks. I was wondering where all that stuff was.
>
> ho
>
>
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Sat, Jan 26, 2019 10:39 pm
> Subject: [OSList] Morning reflections from Harrison Owen
>
> We had a wonderful time in New York this month at International House at
> Opening Space for Peace and High Performance. We enjoyed two wonderful
> talks, one on Saturday morning and the other on Sunday morning, January 19
> and 20. We hope you'll enjoy them!
>
> https://youtu.be/M_6dPhwJqbI - Saturday
> https://youtu.be/TXs0DXKfZyw - Sunday
>
> Warm Regards,
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Re: [OSList] Training humanoids in open space- the next frontier?

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Thank you for that one,

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 9:47 AM christopher macrae via OSList <
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> Does anyone know a robotics company that might train a humanoid in open
> space? Its actually a seriously urgent question if IHuman and AI are to
> make most of each other's spaces edu and belt road mapping make it
> simpler for youth to thrive as sustainability generation
>  - last year chinese leader xi jinpings joyfully big
> idea was to make education and AI the same thing-
>
> on my 9th trip to beijing i discovered that this month china has started
> AI curricula in girls primary schools as that's best way to feminise the
> future of education let alone of robots - as a child my favorite game was
> consequences
> 
>  if
> you can help with what the world said about girls ai please help with
> UNwomens articles at linkedin
> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hack-world-bank-now-jim-kims-gone-chris-macrae/
>
> rowp.tv edu and belt road mapping make it simpler for youth to thrive as...
>
> 
>
>
> Now that jim kim has been ejected by trump from DC he's spending next week
> linking in over 300 youth hubs at world economic forum- down the road in
> geneva they use a humanoid called sophia to welcome 5000 people conferences
> on what is sustainable future of trade
>
> pop1  pop2  pop3
> 
>  chris macrae norman macrae foundation -
> if economist journalists cant end poverty who can - bethesda  whatsapp +1
> 240 316 8157
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[OSList] OST Hotline. Come join in

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

We just sat in silence last week, and then heard about OST work folks are
doin in communities, with food providers,Tricia in Pittsburg, we hope to
learn how she is doin, Barry inspiring us with his work with real estate
brokers and Paul giving us fiesty challenges for doin simple call to action
invites, and that’s just the parts I can repeat so hope to see you 11/6
Tue 12 noon EST on your way to or from voting in US


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Re: [OSList] conversation & listening in Pittsburgh

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Thx Lucas this is great!!!

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 7:51 PM Lucas Cioffi via OSList <
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> Hello Tricia,
>
> I lived in Charlottesville during the race-based violence of 2017.  A few
> weeks afterwards, I held listening circles in the public space downtown.
> Here are the notes and lessons learned
> 
> that I and the other organizers compiled, and those notes might be helpful
> for your organizing.
>
> To provide a sense of what this looks like here's a photo of the news
> coverage
> ,
> and here is a blog post with photos
> 
> of where I did something very similar in 2015 (opening space with 4
> chairs).  Coincidentally this was right where the car drove into the crowd
> of people counter-protesting the alt-right rally in 2017.
>
> Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your community.
>
> Lucas Cioffi
> Hastings on Hudson, NY
> 917-528-1831
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 5:48 PM Tricia Chirumbole via OSList <
> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> My friends and I are holding daily conversation & listening spaces on the
>> streets near the Tree of LIfe Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA where the mass
>> shooting occurred this past Saturday .
>>
>> We are looking to establish a basic set of agreements and intentions for
>> listening and dialogue - both for alignment among our core team, and
>> highlights to post on signs and website for our volunteers and those who
>> stop by.
>>
>> We are promoting an open space to welcome people as they are , and want
>> to provide compassion-fueled support and listening and avoid closing people
>> down or getting embroiled in any negativity or political discourse.
>>
>> Any advice is most welcome :)
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Re: [OSList] conversation & listening in Pittsburgh

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Dear one, on the call Barry said the way to open more space is silence we
all were silent

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 5:48 PM Tricia Chirumbole via OSList <
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> Hi all!
>
> My friends and I are holding daily conversation & listening spaces on the
> streets near the Tree of LIfe Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA where the mass
> shooting occurred this past Saturday .
>
> We are looking to establish a basic set of agreements and intentions for
> listening and dialogue - both for alignment among our core team, and
> highlights to post on signs and website for our volunteers and those who
> stop by.
>
> We are promoting an open space to welcome people as they are , and want to
> provide compassion-fueled support and listening and avoid closing people
> down or getting embroiled in any negativity or political discourse.
>
> Any advice is most welcome :)
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[OSList] skye. OST Hotline invite please join us

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The Open Space Technology Hotline is coming to a device near you soon
-Tuesday, September 25 @12PM EDT for whomever wants to drop in and listen,
share a thought, ask a question, workshop an idea or just say hi!

Expect the unexpected :)

One+ hours of video conversation with amazing folks from around the world -
Law of Two Feet applies as always

Sign-up and post topics: http://bit.ly/OShotline  or just join in when we
start.

One person said "it inspires and nourishes".  It's great to meet folks from
all over the world doing OST or wanting to know more about it.

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Cheers. Meet up with you soon.

OS marketplace

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[OSList] Skye. All invite OSt Hotline tue 24th

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The Open Space Technology Hotline is coming to a device near you soon
-Tuesday, September 25 @12PM EDT for whomever wants to drop in and listen,
share a thought, ask a question, workshop an idea or just say hi!

Expect the unexpected 

One+ hours of video conversation with amazing folks from around the world -
Law of Two Feet applies as always!

If you wish Sign-up and post topics: http://bit.ly/OShotline or just join
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Cheers!

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[OSList] Exit, Voice, and Loyalty - Wikipedia

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Exit, Voice, and Loyalty - Wikipedia

I love seeing this old book show up in Seth Godins blog check it out.
Sounds a lot like OST; considerations competing needs to voice or exit or
loyalty play on this dance of living open space

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
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Re: [OSList] What is y/our biggest vision for OST ?

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

I just found this poem,  I think I wrote it, not sure,  but sounds
relevant.

Come into opening the circle of Living processes
Where life appears mysterious and wonderful
Where "can'ts"  do find "how-tos."
Where the diversity of us together
Is far more than the sum of the parts.

And it is something to do with us being embodied living beings - to-gather

Thank you so for your thoughtful inviting.oh heck,  opening the space

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 6:33 AM, Marai Kiele via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> Are you interested in fresh thinking regarding OST?
> Are you interested in making it better?
>
> I recently participated in the WOSonOS planning meeting and ever since
> I’ve been wondering:
> What could make me eager to go to Iceland?
>
> Right now, I am not eager. Yet.
>
> I have already been to three WOSonOS (2003 in Svenmark, 2005 in Canada,
> 2010 in Berlin) and several OSonOS.
> I don’t need another OST just to share some practices, experiences,
> stories.
> Just to see old friends (while I love meeting old friends!). Just to make
> new friends (while I love making new friends!).
>
> But none of this evokes the desire to go to Iceland for WOSonOS from me.
> How about you?
>
> So I’ve been contemplating:
> What would I need to happen there, so that I create the money and time to
> go?
> What would need to have evolved, so that afterwards I will celebrate
> having been there?
>
> Today I listened to a podcast by Seth Godin, who I appreciate for his
> honest and brilliant approach to marketing.
> Regarding the grandest possible vision for OST I invite you to listen to 1
> minute:
>
> http://hear.sethpodcast.com/?_branch_match_id=353283807642880233
>
> Stopp what is playing automatically
> Scroll down to the episodes and start „The Grand Opening"
> Listen to 10:57 - 11:58
>
> Please take 1,5 minutes, listen first, than continue reading. Thank you.
>
> *
>
> So referring to what he shared and applying it to OST:
>
> Can OST actually be made better?
> I know there is a strong perspective of every change = making it worse.
> I once thought that way. Not anymore.
>
> What if there actually were many things to make it better?
> Be it in the format, the marketing, how it is integrated into business…
>
> So that we relax and trust that… slowly and naturally… some day soon…
> everyone is going to know about it?
>
> And what could this year's WOSonOS have to do with it?
>
> Just wondering…
>
> Any thoughts, feelings, further questions?
>
> PS - some of you may remember me:
> I am located in Germany, back on this list after many years of absence. I
> was pretty active in this community starting in 2003… Left several years
> ago.
> One: I wasn’t learning as intensely as before and had a sense that the
> space for fresh thinking was closing.
> Two: Other topics captured my passion, including the Genuine Contact
> approach - which integrates OST and made it better ;-) - so I believe...
>
> With curiosity to explore together,
> Marai
>
> https://about.me/maraikiele
> http://genuinecontact.net/members/marai-kiele/
>
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Re: [OSList] the story I told when opening space in NYC in 2015

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Thank you for such a lovely thank you stay warm it’s 7 below here tonight
guess u grew up cold hugs

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 8:01 PM Suzanne Daigle via OSList <
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> Christine, merci pour le souvenir de ce Forum Ouvert où tu as ouvert une
> espace extraordinaire.  Thank you Christine for the indelible memory of
> this moment in 2015 when you opened the Space in New York. Your words are
> as powerfully resonant as when you told us the story then. Not too long,
> rest assured.  And Skye thank you for extending such a compelling call to
> action for our upcoming gathering.
>
> In honor of what you've both written, I created a collage of photos from
> years past and posted on Facebook. It's a time when each of you were in New
> York.
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/7189220743/?multi_permalinks=10156959599630744_id=1515286052533116_t=feedback_reaction_generic
>
> Suzanne xoxo
>
>
>
> Suzanne Daigle
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>
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>
>
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 5:22 AM, christine koehler via OSList <
> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear OS community,
>>
>> As I am preparing myself to open space (and also longing for not being
>> able to join you at the International House next week), I came across the
>> story I wrote just after the Paris attack in 2015 and that I told when
>> opening space for the Practice of Peace.
>> Reading it again after those years, I believe it is too long a story to
>> be used to open space.
>> However, I remember how meaningful it was for me at that time to be able
>> to connect the terrible events I had gone through and the hope I had (and
>> still have) that opening space might be one very meaningful way to act when
>> dealing with events that bring sorrow to life. How meaningful it was also
>> to be able to share my story with you.
>> This summer, while attending an Art of Hosting gathering, I met a man
>> from Austria whose son was deeply injured in the next attack, in November
>> of the same year, in Bataclan, the club where 130 persons were killed.  His
>> family is still today heavily impacted by those terrible days. This made me
>> think that those stories may still be worth sharing.
>>
>> Here it goes.
>>
>> "To begin this seminar and welcome you I could offer you the story of
>> this year theme *“Opening Space for Peace and High Performance in Work
>> and in Life: Navigating Chaos, Confusion and Conflict »*. The first part
>> « Peace and High performance » comes from Harrison. As he loves to tell
>> stories, I am sure he will be delighted to tell it to you when he will be
>> there this afternoon or in the coming days. And if you forget to ask him,
>> just read his book « Wave Rider: leadership for high performance » where
>> the story is being told.
>>
>> Instead I will tell you how strong those words echoed for me in the past
>> days, as we in France went through as you all know those terrible moments.
>>
>>
>> I was in my office on Wednesday, January 7, a  grey winter day in Paris,
>> preparing to receive guests I had invited via Twitter to listen together to
>> the launch of an online course some of you may know : Otto Scharmer’s U
>> lab, dealing with Transforming Business, Society, and Self. A theme dear to
>> my heart.  That’s at that precise moment that I learned that our satirical
>> newspaper Charlie Hebdo, has been attacked and that many of “them” were
>> dead. You may know what happened in those dreadful days: the initial 13
>> deaths,  the tracking, the shooting of several police officers, the Jewish
>> supermarket assaulted, more deaths and the killing of the 3 gunmen.
>>
>> I have seen this going on in front of my eyes. The supermarket is 15mn’s
>> walk away from my apartment. Charlie Hebdo’s newspaper is closed to the
>> university where my daughter is studying. One of the supermarket clients
>> studied in the same business school than my husband.  All those horrors
>> sounding suddenly so close. So during those days, I experienced a large,
>> very large palette of emotions: shock, anger, sadness,  fear, doubt,
>> confusion, more fear for the future: would our society split into opposite
>> camps ? would this lead to more chaos?
>>
>>
>>
>> After Charlie Hebdo’s shooting, a minute of silence was decided in all
>> public spaces. Private places did the same. Schools did the same. As they
>> did so, we suddenly discovered that there were some classes were children
>> would not silent, would not be shocked by what had happened but found it
>> absolutely normal. Suddenly the kids showed what we all knew was there and
>> had tried to forget.  Kids repeat what they hear at home. And so we all
>> heard via radio or TV that there are some places in our society where the
>> killing of others brings joy and comfort. Even if a minority, it shows us
>> that something has gone wrong.
>>
>> 

[OSList] Skye Just feel the need to say the obvious

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

*New mind for New Government By and For the People*

*What is happening and how?*

Winning, at all costs, to what end?  What mediates such excess, and drive?  The
answer is lots of people who care about something other than JUST
winning.  When
there are people with lots of money who want more of lots of money, when
the ends justify the means, we get a fools game like we’ve witnessed in the
US Congress.  We can point to that set of events and say how is this
happening?

*A world breaking down*

Constellations of events have converged to create a world that doesn’t
work, a world that breaks down trust, hope, morale and ethics agreements of
centuries in the making. For example; rule of law, checks and balances
between branches of government, rules against nepotism, no conflict of
interest in leadership roles, regulation where the masses are protected
against the control of the few (monopolies) control of public air ways
(FCC), and communication rights (TV, Radio, Cable and now Internet),
Protection of Environment for all (EPA) to name but a few.

*Totalitarianism in the making*

When there is no one to do the protecting, when the police and military
become those in charge with no counter balance of justice or consequence,
when leadership is singularly driven by acts of self-aggrandizement, using
money, legal minds who can work around the laws, and psychological trickery
to manipulate people vulnerable to advertizing, persuasion by distractions,
anxieties and fears, then you have what we have today, a totalitarianism in
the making.  The people who are participating unwittingly in this making
are like fools in play land; US Congressional players with their hands in
the pot grabbing what greed wants as the system falls apart.

*Becoming a counter balance*

Maybe a new idea is to wake up, to re-member – by being an active counter
balance, an antidote, to provide energy for new direction, actually, with
renewed capacity, to be a government by the people, and for the people.  Can
there exist a government such as this?  Even if the American ideal was just
that, an experiment in the making, can what was put in place by founding
fathers be re-invented with new minds that have deeper understanding of how
life works, how consciousness creates structures from spirit of intention,
from highest values of inclusion, valuing life-itself as highest value,
(inalienable rights)?  To make choices that are life-giving, that grow, not
kill, that support, not constrain, that free, not entrap, that create hope,
trust, and working together towards what works for the whole good of
life-itself in which we all share.

*Growing a New Mind*

How this can occur, many here know already, is best exemplified by Open
Space Technology.

Harrison Owen put a name to this living process he describes as Open Space
Technology. Over twenty years ago, he began to talk of this universal
process that goes on in nature, plays out over and over again when certain
conditions arrise. People closest to the work to be done, people most
impacted by what needs to change, come together, sit in a circle, listen to
their own passions and knowing and find ways to act with new awareness.
Through listening, being responsible for what needs to happen, plans for
actions emerge. Often action begins immediately in times of crisis. Leaders
emerge around projects and work to be done. Hearts and minds are changed
with new ways of knowing the situation at hand reveal.  Movement towards
harmonization happens with no controllers, no force required.

This is a dynamic inherent in life where people are driven by intentions
for life, liberty, and freedom to pursue one’s happiness, to follow one’s
“self-law” (acts of autonomy,) while doing so in collaboration with others
doing the same, like cells in our bodies.

I like how In Open Space Technology we can re-member and experience the
process of growing this *new mind for government for the people, and by the
people *every time we participate in it.

There are a few things to point out here that seem to occur naturally,
obvious, as they may be to many reading this.

1) There is *passion* around an issue that draws people together in
physical or digital space and time.

2) An *urgency* to action exists.

3) An *invitation is extended* to all those stakeholders who have a stake
in that passion and that urgency.

4) People *sit in a circle*, metaphorically or in real space-time reality,
take time to pause, reflect on reason for coming together, what brought
each to this moment and time.

5) The *circle is open* for people to begin their quest to find questions,
answers, and debate, resolve, and emerge with insights, actions for dealing
with the situation at hand.

Self-knowing actions

With minimum structure, no controls other than “self-knowing, self-law
actions” work gets done, plans made, spirits lifted, collaborations
generated, teams organized, leaders show up, a swell of possibility or
confrontation with “oh shit we don’t have 

Re: [OSList] Thinking...

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

What a Sunday Morning Reflection on the subject of your life's purpose of
being in Awe of the Sacred; Open Space: Life and Quest by entering into the
No-thingness,  to sit with you as you reflect with such elegant simplicity
and clarity all I can say is, thank you and amen.

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oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> I have been asked on occasions (by myself and others) what did I do –
> exactly. Truthfully I’ve never really had a good answer, but I’ve been
> trying. The latest effort may be viewed at http://openspaceworld.com/
> AweOfSacred_HarrisonOwen.pdf Please share if you care.
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Re: [OSList] How to organise self organisation - a learning journey? - A story about 20 years of Learnings about public engagement in Vorarlberg, Austria

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Yeah  Great video story!

For me this says so much about dynamic living process,  the processes of
engagement,  participative government,  emergence, that focus on what works
and allowing those with the "direct"  experience,  (history of living)
within a particular context to share their perspective knowing together
with others doing the same.   I call this living process "aliveness-making."

Thank you for sharing this good news of self-learning,  from the speaker's
own process of "unlearning"  as he lets go of controlling from top down to
recognizing what works does not require "experts"  or lots of money. He
learns that people who are alive in the context being given voice in what
they experience, directly know about the issues they are living and are key
resources for alive-making..

Relations of relations is key in this self-organization;  knowing the other
through choosing to act, to be in action together around an issue or issues
all participants are being impacted by.  With the "passion"   and
"urgency"  comes the desire to act, to act together, to call out the
"sense"  of the whole knowing, to access the greatest full awareness of the
issue and then through direct experience of process, the "good"  of the
aliveness making process spreads because it is sensed by all who experience
it as good for all.(alive-making for all)  Even those in government can see
the good in this alive-making process. Those who have as their "valuing
process"  the need to solve arising problems want to be successful, to find
effective action to provide solutions.  Those holding such valuing of alive
making processes get to win at what they are trying to do.

Of course, if there are a few in power who want to try to control the
masses in order to stay in power/over,  there is much to learn in how this
has been tried/done as well.  Keep those without money, resources,
information/knowledge separate and divided so they do not believe they can
be responsible for their own knowing acts of effectiveness.   Dumb down the
education system,  control the communication sources,  keep factions of
differences at war with one another, destroy leaders who can value
diversity and bring diversity into collaboration, participation, who
promote such action of aliveness making, greatest aliveness for greatest
whole aliveness.

The key antidote to such attempts at power over is promotion of adult/adult
government/people relationships of equal valuing of all life, promoting the
experiencing of such aliveness-making.

i appreciated in this video/story that the learning by the speaker was
continuous,  as life keeps changing,  so learning new acts of effectiveness
will keep emerging.  The uniqueness of each living arena requires
continuous learning and learning sharing,  aliveness and aliveness
sharing.  What is key here are values of organizational knowing by
organisms knowing their "self-knowing"   capacities to create again and
again new orders of acts for keeping this aliveness thriving, not just
surviving.

Thank you so much for this video story.  Thanks also to all in this OST
community who are continuously sharing emerging self- knowing.

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 8:11 AM, Toke Møller via OSList <
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> How to organise self organisation - a learning journey? - A story about 20
> years of Learnings about public engagement in Vorarlberg, Austria by
> Manfred Hellrigl Director of the Office for Future related issues part of
> the regional public administration for Vorarlberg, Austria at the SKL
> democracy conference in Stockholm 14 April 2015.
>
> Thank you Manfred and the Office for future related questions
>
> https://vimeo.com/125986884
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Re: [OSList] Research OST

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Oh dear me, I'm jumping in.I wrote this poem today as I consider the
living processes, one of which is self-ordering using an inherent value
intelligence discovered by Robert S. Hartman years ago.

So from this wide-angle lens on the subject of self-organization...   One
needs a different kind of knowing beyond words and numbers as measurement,
I suggest,  we need go beyond the observing of parts and  "things"  or
arti-facts.  How do we see process?   it's more a coherence knowing by
which we sense our self-organizing way, an infinitely complex process,  i
suspect, but   I offer for your consideringWhat if we are all ordering
ourselves to feel more and more whole coherence towards creating greatest
coherence of the whole? I'm way out here,  but I do welcome company in the
exploration.

Can you see Living Process?

“Sensing it” might be more accurately the pointer

What happened when you were 3 years old,

Can stay an awareness “sign” till woman grown

An act by other can infect you

As you remember smells and feelings

In your body-knowing of good, or ill.

Such senses shape in you,

You decide,

 This works, that doesn’t,

You come to value or disvalue one “kind” of person, more than another

The ways, the acts of tenderness, or disregard

A relating relationship becomes habit by repeated choosing

Because “effective” in some living way

You feel excitement, anticipation for such again,

Or dread, it might be repeated, take note to avoid.

A mindful moment can reveal

Such kaleidoscope realities

Woven throughout your living acts and actions

 Informing little girl continuously till woman grown

Contrasts butt up against one another

These living acts, with results, and consequences,

Require evaluating, comparing qualities you name “good”

Choosing again and again

What works, what doesn’t

Seeing, sensing living, becoming, evolving, emerging

Nothing fixed in relations of relating,

These acts and their results

Keep creating in you

A felt-sensing reality view,

Moment on moment

Forming functions of how to live

In this moment and the next.

Choosing acts of good, or ill

Or some measure in between

This is good, less good or bad,

Repeat or stop

Like soup in the making

You keep adding, referencing,

Sensing your way

 All acts, all relations of relations,

Seeking

A wholeness knowing,

A "never-will-be-againness."

Wondering at it all,

Or not,

Or some measure in-between.

Do you “sense” what I mean?





Skye Hirst,  2/23/17





On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 5:21 PM, David Osborne via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> I find the concept of researching self-organization in human systems to
> prove that it happens intriguing and I have no idea how one would approach
> it since it's all self-organizing and I'm not sure the human perspective of
> working / not working etc applies.
>
> As I first read one off the posts I thought it's kind of like proving fire
> isthen I realized hey.there is a combustion point ...things that
> accelerate of diminish fires...ways to start them etc etc.
>
> I think a second part of the challenge is that self-organizing is like
> gravity or electro magnetics in that it is invisible and we don't have a
> way of measuring it that I know of.
>
> These are my rambling musings and I'm interested in others perspectives.
>
> Best to all,
>
> David
>
>
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> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Royle, Karl via OSList <
> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>> I don’t think you can prove self organization but you could look at …. if
>> this is done in this way then results are.. kind of thing…. And you could
>> see if OS improves efficacy of groups and individuals, which it probably
>> certainly does (in the moment)
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *OSList  on behalf of
>> Birgitt Williams via OSList 
>> *Reply-To: *Birgitt Williams , World
>> wide Open Space Technology email list 
>> *Date: *Thursday, 23 February 2017 at 21:30
>> *To: *World wide Open Space Technology email list <
>> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>
>> *Subject: *Re: [OSList] Research OST
>>
>>
>>
>> Harrison---the point I was making is about research. If the research is
>> based on going down the path of proving self organization, it is not as
>> valuable to making the case for OST as OST works! It simply works, is
>> useful, creates results.
>>
>>
>>
>> Birgitt
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 4:16 PM Harrison Owen  wrote:
>>
>> Birgitt – I guess we differ. Proving that self organization works is
>> about as useful as proving that oxygen works for breathing. Seems to. And
>> are there other things going 

Re: [OSList] Now What?

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

I would only add that what is cracking up is more like a 2500 year old
paradigm that has served us to create and now it is at its end of all it
can do to create,  and now if its sticks around,  it will only destruct in
its dissolve. Definitely needed, much needed, is creation of absolutely new
ideas for how we create together, creating new societies of possibility
growing out of all we have learned thus far.  What's next?   I'd say, its
us, each of us to seek that knowing more at the intuitive than at the facts
of the matter, each of us.  Oh well,  both are necessary. "Both/and" points
to new reality, not an "either/or" only.  It appears to take about 2500,
give or take a few hundred years, to fulfill an epochal period.  A new
epoch just may be at the beginning.  Such times can be chaotic.  but
opening space gives us a huge way to provide some ways to call out and call
in a new forming.

Thanks Harrison for opening these ideas in me.  And thanks to the list for
existing as we grow/go through this "gift of the shift."   I heard this
today and like it. Sorry I don't know where it started.

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 5:09 PM, Harrison Owen via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Now What 
>
>
>
>
>
> In the space/time after the Inauguration when all the marchers have left
> town, The Question remains. Now what?
>
>
>
> Presumably, The Donald and friends will get on with the business of doing
> what they promised. And it seems that in spite of an embarrassing first
> several days, they are hard at work. Doubtless others are working equally
> hard in opposite directions. Some day we will find out the final result
> which could range from Planetary Disaster to American Triumph (as in *Great
> Again!*). Either is possible, neither is probable – and assuming that we
> are still here to pose the question: What Next?
>
>
>
> It might seem that I am treating the Trump Years as a trivial interlude.
> Truthfully, when considered in the context of the evolution of the species,
> that’s exactly what it is. Trivial. But somehow significant. Trump is but a
> blip in the flow of human history – however his significance lies in the
> fact that he represents one more symptom of the ending of our familiar
> world order.
>
>
>
> We in the USA, to which I might add Western Europe, much of Asia
> (including Australia and New Zealand), Southern Africa, and most of South
> America – have lived in a blessed time. Not without the occasional natural
> disaster, shootings, civil disturbances, or whatever. But it has been good.
> Folks in the Middle East and Central Africa will have a different view, but
> they are a painful, but distinct minority.
>
>
>
> My children, and their children as well, have never fired a gun in anger,
> missed a meal, or wondered if they had a place to sleep... Always there.
> Maybe not what they wanted – but there. Called: The Parents.
>
>
>
> Charlie Kenny, writing in *The Atlantic* (12/18/2015) said, “The world is
> better-educated, better fed, healthier, and more tolerant – and it looks
> set to get richer, too.” Yet The Donald Says: “The American Carnage ends
> here.” – With his inauguration. The implication is simple. Disaster is
> immanent and He is the Savior! But from what? If Kenny is right, it looks
> like we are in pretty good shape. Lots of problems for sure, but definitely
> headed in the right direction.
>
>
>
> It might surprise you to learn that I am more in agreement with The Donald
> than you might suspect. But my reasons would not be his, and any solution I
> can see would not include The Donald as Savior. I believe we as a species
> are truly at a Transformational Moment in which the world order as we have
> known it for the past 75 years or so is dissolving. The institutions,
> processes, world views, ideologies that we have lived by, with, and in --
> are no longer sufficient for our needs. And. Useful alternatives are not
> visible – and that would include, The Donald.
>
>
>
> Such a view may appear extreme but it is not mine alone. David Ignatius,
> writing in the *Washington Post* (Jan 20, 2017), titles his effort , *The
> world order is cracking up. *He says: “Donald Trump’s inauguration marks
> a global inflection point: He takes office at a moment when many analysts
> see a transition to a new economic and political order — one where the
> risks for the United States and its allies are likely to increase.”
>
>
>
> Personally, I doubt that the sky will fall tomorrow. However,  I am
> certain that whatever we may have taken to be “normal” will never be seen
> again.
>
>
>
> This Transformative Moment may be unique in its qualities, but such
> moments are by no means unique in human history. The people of Israel found
> their world torn apart in 400 BCE (The so called, *Babylonian Captivity*).
> It was a time of fear and terror. It was also a time of massive creativity
> and renewal as chronicled, and perhaps led by, such brilliant folks as the
> Prophet Isaiah (2nd 

[OSList] Skye One big Space Got Opened today

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

In my small state of Maine,  10,000 of us joined, no professional
organizers,  women managed the traffic,  I saw few police,  every single
county had big groups attending, that means every persuasion,  no one told
anyone what to do or where to go, law of two feet seemed to apply with
everyone carrying their own agenda sign and on and on it went just like
someone had done a great job planning it all.  Yet,  it was simply, one
woman said she had to do something and "the rest is history. "It was
amazing I hear something like 2.9 million marched today largest rally in US
history.

Today is truly a day for the history books. Women from all parts found
common reason - to go higher, and bring the world with them. Thank you one
and all who marched, where-ever and however you chose to do so. We are
marchin!  We are opening space big time. When the time is right,  and the
issues are urgent,  watch out, life just says,  let's do it, and we all
seem to know how.  Thanks Harrison for helping us to keep remembering this.

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Re: [OSList] Opening Space for Listening, after the US election

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

I am so sorry no one showed up. I was there.  I think perhaps folks are
just tired of talking.  Thanks this time I got on and I'm getting how it
works.  Let's try again soon.  Thank you so much for your efforts to keep
this in front of us as a option.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Lucas Cioffi via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Whether their side won or lost, I see that many of my friends across the
> political spectrum are hurting for reasons that may surprise the other
> side. People have stories they want heard.
>
> One powerful way to change minds is to tell your story to someone who has
> a different perspective, so I'm setting up a month of nightly video chat
> breakout tables that are open & free: http://americantownhalls.org/
> *These 30-minute interactive video chats start tonight and happen each
> evening at 7:30pm Eastern through December 17th.*  Please drop in
> anytime.  This is opening space but not OST; the format is breakout tables
> with no specific topics selected.
>
> If you know an American military veteran who may want to host the space
> one evening, there's a volunteer sign-up form at the bottom of the page
> (see link above).  This is also an experiment in seeing how people who have
> little formal training in dialogue can open space.
>
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Re: [OSList] OSI US - latest news

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

So much appreciation to all of you.  Thanks for keeping us up to date,
 beginnings and endings,  yes indeed, cycles of aliveness.  Hugs to all and
thanks to the whole OST community for your richness and nourishment.

On Tuesday, April 26, 2016, Suzanne Daigle via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Brimming with energy and new possibilities, a few weeks ago,  the 501c3
> OSI US Board formally elected a new slate of officers - a legal requirement
> which we always try to infuse with the true intent and meaning of Open
> Space Technology - operating in shared leadership guided by five amazing
> principles and our beloved Law of 2 Feet.
>
> Today, we're happy to introduce newly elected president, Tricia
> Chirumbole;  Harold Shinsato who continues to serve as treasurer whilst
> always doing so much more; Karen Davis as secretary and Kevin O'Brien, vice
> president. Daniel Mezick, Linda Stevenson, and I also serve on this board.
>
> At our annual gathering on the Practice of Peace and High Performance that
> took place in January at International House in New York city, Harrison
> spoke of endings and beginnings.  During this past year, in the world, in
> our work and our OSI US meetings, we've certainly felt the pull of endings
> and new beginnings, individually and collectively.
>
> Not always clear, at times feeling we were not doing enough, we sensed
> that it will be by opening more space with all of you, that (in Peggy
> Holman's words), we will be "taking responsibility for what we love as an
> act of service".
>
> Attached here is a picture from our last meeting (Daniel with us in
> spirit) which conveys the continuing joy of being part of this community
> and how much we look forward to a beckoning future with many more joining
> in.
>
> Suzanne Daigle
>
>
> Suzanne Daigle
> Open Space Facilitator
> NuFocus Strategic Group
>
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> 
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>
>

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Re: [OSList] Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Thanks Jeff, Harrison for bringing this into focus again.  I keep thinking
how can I say it so I can put it on a T-Shirt?  Maybe this is still too
much for a T-Shirt - but

We are not in charge of the universe, but we may well influence it by the
practice of  Opening Space; inviting people to be fully what they  (we) are
– with respect. mmm, The Practice of Opening Space.



On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Jeff Aitken via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Thank you Harrison for the initial posting and the reminder. Like everyone
> I had no clue in 2001 that the world would be like it is now, 15 years
> later. Both more exciting and more troubling, simultaneously. And
> hopefully, we are somewhat wiser!
>
> I especially like this snip:
>
> "In Open Space we simply come face to face with what we already are. What
> makes all this different (or at least can make this different) is the
> conscious awareness and acceptance of our own reality as a self-organizing
> system. The
> consequences of this awareness/acceptance include an understanding that we
> are not in charge of the universe. Further, that our continued existence
> (in all senses of that word) depends upon a positive, effective, open and
> symbiotic relationship with our environment at all levels. Should we choose
> differently, as in closure, control and disrespect, we will cease (lose,
> fail, go kaput) because the open, living, self-organizing system that we
> are will stop. So what can we do? Simple. Open some Space and invite people
> to be fully what they are – with respect."
>
> Jeff
> Lagunitas, California
> On Apr 9, 2016 1:29 PM, "Harrison Owen via OSList" <
> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>> Call it nostalgia, senility… whatever. But sitting here in Washington on
>> a very chilly April evening (snow is forecast) I did remember. Way back in
>> 2001 the world (our world) changed with an event some of us remember. The
>> years have passed, and probably most (certainly a lot) of people on earth
>> were not even alive when “it” happened.  So Remembrance is not a
>> possibility. I called it the “World Trade Towers.” You could call it
>> whatever made sense. And at the time it didn’t make a lot of sense – But we
>> tried.   And we have continued to try. I am not sure we have made too much
>> progress, but I did recall an article I wrote way back when. Dug it out.
>> Re-read it… and with some small changes of dates and places, I think I
>> would say pretty much the same thing today.
>> https://worldbusiness.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/vp102401.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>> Harrison
>>
>>
>>
>> Winter Address
>>
>> 7808 River Falls Dr.
>>
>> Potomac, MD 20854
>>
>> 301-365-2093
>>
>>
>>
>> Summer Address
>>
>> 189 Beaucauire Ave
>>
>> Camden, ME 04843
>>
>> 207 763-3261
>>
>>
>>
>> Websites
>>
>> www.openspaceworld.com
>>
>> www.ho-image.com
>>
>>
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[OSList] Skye OS Hotline today 4/5/16

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Sorry to tell you, but today is April 5th.  So come one and all to
OSHotLine today.

 Sorry I cannot make it, but I have a question for you.

What happens when we practice Opening Space?  Is it a tuning into the Space
that is already open,  and we suddenly become mindful of it?   Do we let go
of holding onto positions?  Does it bring out what assumptions we are
operating under and didn't know it?   Do we find our commons with one
another?  What else?  Thanks all.

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Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 58, Issue 14

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

"what's up? That you want to take responsibility for? "

 That phrase seems to jump off the page to me. Thanks for that.  It says so
much

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Susan Basterfield via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> I love that Anne!
>
> On 19/02/2016, at 10:21 AM, anne stadler via OSList <
> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
> Thomas Hermann's question:
>
> I love what you're doing, Thomas!
> And i encourage you to treat any meeting as a "real open space". By that i
> mean, open the space within yourself to welcome everyone.  Open up the room
> so people can easily take responsibility (tools etc easily at hand in same
> place each time.)   Open up the meeting by coming together in a "circle",
> then breaking into the chaos of people moving their chairs as they self
> organize. Open up the agenda by asking each time "what's up? That you want
> to take responsibility for?" Open up comfort and familiarity by cooking or
> eating together (people bringing food from home to share??) Do a very few
> consistent rituals: opening circle, self-organizing, food, closing circle
> for reflection/announcements, simple patterns, repeated each time.
>
> My sense is that You're creating a "hearth" for your community.
>
> Blessings!  Wish I lived near you!!
>
> Anne
>
>
> Your Self
> Occupy
> 100%
>
>
> A world that works for ALL is a world of love made visible
>
> Phone: 206-459-0227
> Skype: anne.m.stadler
>
> www.InClaritas.com 
> www.CharterforCompassion.org 
> www.ProtecttheSacred.org 
>
>
> On Feb 18, 2016, at 1:04 PM, via OSList 
> wrote:
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>   1. OST meeting 2 hours a week - X-posted OS-list and GC-list
>  (Thomas Herrmann via OSList)
>   2. How to shift a destructive "information-meeting" to a
>  constructive dialogue meeting? (Thomas Herrmann via OSList)
>
>
> --
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:23:46 +0100
> From: Thomas Herrmann via OSList 
> To: "'World wide Open Space Technology email list'"
>,"'GC list'"
>
> Subject: [OSList] OST meeting 2 hours a week - X-posted OS-list and
>GC-list
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> Dear friends in Open Space /GC-list
>
> Since a few months I facilitate a meeting every Sunday in my community as
> part of a Tillsammanscaf? (Together caf?) for people living in my community
> who want to contribute to making it a better place for everyone living
> here.
> It?s a 2-hour meeting where we start with having coffee/tea, then welcoming
> and sharing some news (especially if relevant things have been happening).
> Usually there are 50-100 participants sitting at long tables (due to
> logistics and the short time I have chosen not to use the circle. In ?real?
> meetings I always use the circle).
>
>
>
> It started as we felt we need to do something to create space for new
> inhabitants to meet those of us living for a long time here, so among the
> participants there are asylum seekers and refugees. When meeting in large
> group we translate everything to English, Arabic and Swedish ? small groups
> have to help each other.
>
>
>
> Next step in the meeting is that I ask who has a topic they want to raise
> for conversation today. Of course it?s more challenging than when we sit in
> a circle so we tried different things such as keeping topics from last
> meetings that anyone can put up again + invite more. We also tried to
> invite
> people during arrival/having coffee ? to put topics up. Normally we have
> 5-10 topics from playing the guitar, looking for internship and work,
> finding housing, learning language etc etc.
>
>
>
> I create spaces for people to meet in small circles to have their
> conversations (45-60 minutes) then we gather again and I invite each group
> to share a bit about what they did before we close the meeting.
>
>
>
> We are now thinking about alternative ways to develop this and I?d love to
> have more ideas. While writing one idea came to me. As we have been talking
> about having meetings dedicated to a specific theme, or to cook together
> during a meeting (we have 

Re: [OSList] Open Space: a Practice of Peace (long)

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Yes,  count me in.  Yes to all you've shared here too.  THanks

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Brendan McKeague via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Dear friends on the List - and beyond...
>
> I have recently been stirred by memories, current events and
> conversations.
>
> The recent passing of one of our Open Space Elders, Florian Fischer, my
> memories of Fr Brian Bainbridge (moved between spaces on Feb 2, 2012),
> birthday celebrations of Harrison, many ongoing acts of terror around our
> planet, community concerns about displaced people, refugees and asylum
> seekers, and a recent poem on this List (thanks Lucas), have prompted me to
> release an invitation to conversation.
>
> It always starts like this.
>
> It always starts with someone like you.
>
>
> And you've got your idea.
>
> And you're wondering what to do next.
>
>
> This is the way it happens.
>
>
> -Anonymous, 2016
>
>
>
> I have a story to share (not that unusual for an Irishman)
>
> I have passion for Open Space
>
> I have passion for Peace
>
> I have passion for Nonviolent Conflict Transformation
>
> I have passion for OPEN SPACE as a PRACTICE OF PEACE
>
>
> In 2003, Harrison wrote The Practice of Peace which was published by the
> existing OS Institutes in various places and later by the Human Systems
> Dynamics Institute (2004). This book was, and continues to be, a rich
> source of sustenance for my soul (
> http://openspaceworld.org/wp2/explore/books-videos/ )
>
> In 2003, there was a Practice of Peace Conference at The Whidbey Institute
> on Whidbey Island, Washington and another one two years later in
> Albuquerque, New Mexico (2005).
>
> I found a link here:
> http://practiceofpeace.com/pub_home.html
>
>
> I was unable to attend either of these although I was deeply inspired from
> afar by the stories emerging. I have continued to be inspired for over a
> decade by the stories of those who create space for peace in war-torn
> landscapes and conflict-crushed countries.
>
> Last year, I was privileged to visit the Western Cape region of South
> Africa working with colleagues on 'the spirituality and practice of active
> nonviolence'. We used a collaborative learning model, designed on the
> principles of Open Space, to engage and utilise the collective wisdom of
> those who joined us for a five-day program. Participants particularly loved
> being part of the OST meeting towards the end of our time together to
> co-create actions for the future. This experience confirmed my deep longing
> and commitment to encourage the use of OST as a peace-making practice.
>
>
> I would like to issue an invitation to conversation:
>
> to explore the creation of an 'Open Space Practice of Peace' gathering
> somewhere on our planet in 2016-17 (or whenever the time is right).
>
>
> My dream is to be part of a gathering of people who have used, are
> currently using, or would dearly love to use Open Space in powerful,
> conflict-energised situations.
>
>
> Please let me know if you are interested and I will convene a skype
> conversation (or something else) in the coming weeks to start the
> exploration.
>
> Cheers
> Brendan
>
> from an ever-warming Western Australia
>
>
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[OSList] Skye. A Stellar moment of connections

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Wow what a still moment at the right moment gave me last night was that
I felt the magic of many lives interwoven and as I sat with awareness
of them more and more  people came into my awareness, those connections of
a lifetime, the networks, the ways I've met them, how they helped or
influenced my choices,  what a giant web,  and that was only my web,  then
I imagined all the other webs of lives exchanges, connections.  It was a
stellar night, all in one still moment. Makes me wonder

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[OSList] Skye Invite for Still Moment tonight

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You may wish to join me tonight
It is the longest, darkest night of the year. The Earth stops for a moment
as if to take a breath before pushing on once again towards the light.
There is a quiet tranquility not often found in the busy days of the year.
This is truly something to be treasured. If you can step out of the
commercial and social whirlwind of the season and breathe this in for even
a few minutes you will experience the peace that we all seem to be looking
for at this time of year.

The Earth has so many lessons for us, balance being one of the big ones.
While we are stumbling around in the dark of the winter solstice our
friends in the southern hemisphere are enjoying the longest day of the
year. The Earth is always in balance which is why she works so well.
I'll be sitting still for a moment tonight at 11:47 PM EST. I hope you'll
join me where ever you may be.  Let's open this circle as wide as possible
and feel how connected we can be.  Enjoy the turning back to the light.
Please feel free to pass this on if you feel the urge. Otherwise,  you may
wish to choose one less thing to do right now.  Whatever happens,


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[OSList] Skye Solstice Sparks

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On this darkest day of Solstice as we turn  back to the light in this
hemisphere, this poem popped out.  It speaks in some way to how I
experience OST and the ever opening s(S)elf-knowing process it offers.
Thank you one and all for contributions/participations by those visible and
invisible from far and wide in this grand open spacing process, of  being
and becoming...



Dark, a spark

In the dark

Light knowing dark

Dark sensing light

Each recognizing

Other

Not as thing apart

One or other

Both being and becoming

Awareness

Knowing of full Self


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Re: [OSList] Time Bank News Flash

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

So exciting,  I'm feeling the shift.  Thanks Tony

On Friday, December 4, 2015, Tony Budak via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> I'm excited to share this with you, I know that you are far way,
> but good vibes and cosmic rays sent our way are deeply appreciated.  ;-)
>
> [image: TBMW News Flash]
> Monday's  Luncheon CHANGED location, save DATE / Time
> 
>
> Best,
> tony
>
>
>

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[OSList] [Shared Post] Gratitude: Where Healing the Earth Begins

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Skye Hirst (sk...@autognomics.org) thinks you may be interested in the 
following post:

Gratitude: Where Healing the Earth Begins
http://www.lionsroar.com/gratitude-where-healing-the-earth-begins/
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Re: [OSList] OS Hot-Gratitude Line - Tomorrow! Tuesday Nov 24 @12PM Eastern :)

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Me t!!!  Skye

On Monday, November 23, 2015, Tricia Chirumbole via OSList <
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> Hi all!
>
>
> I just want to say briefly that I am very grateful for all of the sharing,
> wisdom, laughter, and love that has come alive on the OS Hotline these past
> 2+ Years! Thank you :)
>
>
>
> Come meet us on Zoom,* tomorrow, Tuesday November 24th @12PM Eastern *
> *Standard Time**. *We will be on for 1+ hours - Law of Two feet applies!
>
>
> *Sign-up *and post topics: http://bit.ly/OShotline
>
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>
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>
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>
> b.  International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference
>
> c.  Meeting ID: 751 609 912
>
>
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> Tricia Chirumbole
>
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>
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Re: [OSList] Mercedes China

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

What a great birthday present!

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Mikk Sarv via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Great news!
>
> Mikk Sarv
>
>
>
> On 09 Nov 2015, at 22:33, Harrison Owen via OSList <
> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
> While I was having fun with Mrs. Song and all of her guests in Beijing, a
> funny thing was happening nearby. It seems that the Mercedes head office
> for China was having a big do and some significant part of it was all in
> Open Space. I only learned of it when two gentlemen, whom I didn’t know,
> dropped by. One was from Brazil, and the other from Italy and they were
> somehow responsible. Talk about not having all the facts! But I do know the
> Mercedes gathering was a pretty big deal, if only because the Mayor of
> Beijing was present. And that was just the tip of the iceberg because then
> the Premier of China showed up. And of course the Press was in attendance.
> Anyhow the evening news (Chinese TV version) was replete with the Premier
> in Open Space, surrounded by the appropriate signs, I’m told. Of course I
> couldn’t read them, but I did see the pictures.
>
> Harrison
>
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Re: [OSList] quite the inspiring conversation today on OS Hotline...

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Thank you sooo much for posting this.  What an inspiration of hope.  Skye

On Tuesday, October 20, 2015, Rosa Zubizarreta via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> ...which ranged over a lot of topics!
>
> At one point, the subject of immigration came up,
> and I mentioned the following example of a participatory public process
> recently held in Austria,
> leading to a community-wide effort to respond in constructive ways.
>
> Others on that call encouraged me to share it here, although the processes
> utilized
> were a combination of Dynamic Facilitation (for the microcosm group)
> and World Cafe (for the Civic Cafe's.)
>
> Here is a link to the 5 minute video with an
> overview of the process...
>
> and, to an English-language version of the report
> .
>
>
> with all best wishes,
>
> Rosa
>
>
> *Rosa Zubizarreta*
>
> *meet me at my DiaPraxis website  and on my
> Listening Arts blog *
>
>

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Re: [OSList] Moving through open space! - Inquiry/request

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Great,  I'm in.

On Friday, October 16, 2015, Tricia Chirumbole via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Thanks all! I have already expanded my thinking and knowledge thanks to
> this one thread - I knew I could count on this wonderful list :)
>
> *Invite: *Who wants to have a video call to explore this topic further?
> My hottest interest is in exploring meaningful ways to combine insights
> across disciplines. If there is interest, I would love to "co-learn" and/or
> experiment with others. No formal or long-term commitment needed
> :)The Law of The Full Body, Mind & Spirit applies :P
>
> Following is first a response to *Jeff's posts* and then to *Andrea &
> Skye's *posts!
>
> *Jeff:*
>
> Thanks Jeff for bring the Fourfold way into the discussion! I find that
> this maps perfectly to my experiences of allowing myself to be moved,
> versus premeditating and evaluating how I move – for me it is a powerful
> modality for stripping away limiting stories and having a clear experience
> of what it FEELs like to *notice without judgment* and to *be without
> expectation.*
>
>
>
> I see this spontaneous movement as an experience and expression of our
> unique truths. I believe that this experience is not only healing in
> itself, but that it builds “body memory” that allows one to recognize their
> truth and intuition in other environments and in other expressions.
>
>
>
> The really cool part to me is inviting collective movement expressions
> back into our cultural traditions and rituals as a way to deal with change,
> address conflict, heal from trauma, celebrate, and return to wholeness!
>
> Magalie says Hi back! Thanks for the good wishes - I am happy to keep you
> posted and I hope to meet in person some day :)
>
> *Andrea:*
>
> You rock. The work of David Grove that you reference that expands on Clean
> Language and brings attention to space and movement sounds fascinating and
> I would be very grateful to learn from you in any way!
>
>
>
> I have to admit, it sounded quite interesting, but left me a bit foggy.
> Here is a link if anyone is interested:
> http://www.powersofsix.com/powerofsix.php
>
>
> I definitely agree that the spaces that we are in, the forms that we
> choose to make, or which choose us, all simultaneously reflect and impact
> aspects of our consciousness and being. The more that we can become aware
> of this, the more connected we can become to the world around us and within
> us.
>
>
>
> Thanks for touching on a very important aspect of my current learning
> journey that I didn't say much about – that of “embodied awareness”, which
> is not necessarily focusing on movement or dance, but on awareness of the
> interplay among thoughts, body, emotions, and environment.
>
> Increasing our sensitivity to how and where we have sensation in our
> bodies under different circumstances can provide another great opportunity
> for self-learning, and for noticing without judgment. Additionally, it can
> be a resource for us in working with our triggers and energies
>
> Looking forward to learning more!
>
> Tricia Chirumbole
>
> Facilitator. Coach. Champion.
>
> Co-Creative Culture Building
> Mojo Collaborative
> www.mojocollaborative.com
>
> 571-232-0942
> skype: tricia.chirumbole
> twitter: @themojozone
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Jeff Aitken via OSList <
> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
> > wrote:
>
>> My several early experiences of open space were gatherings of 2 to 5
>> days, with informal themes like transformation (no pressing business
>> issues.)
>>
>> These were wonderful spaces to practice two feet movement such as
>> 'following the belly' into the next place and encounter. Often this took me
>> away from conversation, into exploration of the wild environment of the
>> location, to find insight to bring back to the circle.
>>
>> This wide freedom and responsibility was key to my understanding of the
>> power of open space as a field beyond, yet with accountability to, a circle.
>>
>> And later to frame open space as an example of Angeles Arrien's 'braided
>> way' - not exactly indigenous science or ceremony, but able to host both
>> indigenous and non-indigenous ways of knowing and practice.
>>
>> I know Magalie and am excited about your collaboration! Love to stay
>> connected around it.
>>
>> Jeff
>> On Oct 12, 2015 9:30 AM, "Tricia Chirumbole via OSList" <
>> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> I am writing today to learn from you and invite you to contribute to a
>>> learning journey into the world of "mindful movement".
>>>
>>> For the past year I have been on a journey to learn about and experiment
>>> with the practice of "mindful  movement" - as a practitioner and a
>>> facilitator.
>>>
>>> I am interested to learn if any of you "use" any movement or "body
>>> awareness" practices in your 

Re: [OSList] Moving through open space! - Inquiry/request

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Thanks ANdrea for this reference and Thanks Tricia for this conversation.
Andrea,  any chance we could talk further about your experience with David
Grove, I've been a fan of his for years after first seeing him in a
workshop he led I had the privilege to attend.  I hope we can find a way to
talk further on your experience with him.  And thanks for reference to
Phillip Harland's work too.  Skye

On Thursday, October 15, 2015, Andrea Chiou via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Hi Tricia,
>
> As a faciiltator, you and others know that there is usually a stated
> problem in (someone's) mind.  If one gets the problem written on a piece of
> paper - and one asks the owner of that problem (which as written could be
> invisible to everyone else if in a group, or shared) to place that problem
> somewhere in the room or outside. Then to ask the person to place
> themselves where they need to be Then the facilitator can ask 'clean
> space' questions about the space between - One of the questions  is: and
> what do you know about that from there? (the answers to those specific
> questions might turn out to cause the person being facilitated to 'move' or
> to place the problem in a different location, after which you would cycle
> back to the questions anew)...  it is a fascinating methodology... using
> the psychic space between...
>
> I am a novice interested person - it is something that evolved from David
> Grove's work in the therapeutic world - and is intensely interesting to
> me.  He evolved it after years of working using Clean Language questions
> with trauma patients - and it was also quite powerful. Unfortunately he
> died rather suddenly in 2008. Also, he didn't write much - because he was
> so busy trying to perfect what he was already so good at - by practicing.
> He wasn't interested in writing much and left that to others who followed
> him around...
>
> The Power of Six, by Phillip Harland is quite the definitive introduction
> to the technique.  We not only have embodied feelings, but we perceive
> space in different ways as part of our thinking - though much is
> unconscious.   This technique surfaces so much by acknowledging space as an
> attribute
>
> Throwing this into the mix if anyone wants to explore or learn along those
> lines...
>
> Best,
>
> Andrea
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Tricia Chirumbole via OSList <
> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I am writing today to learn from you and invite you to contribute to a
>> learning journey into the world of "mindful movement".
>>
>> For the past year I have been on a journey to learn about and experiment
>> with the practice of "mindful  movement" - as a practitioner and a
>> facilitator.
>>
>> I am interested to learn if any of you "use" any movement or "body
>> awareness" practices in your work as facilitators, coaches, etc, or for
>> yourself or in other worlds that you may inhabit.
>>
>> Additionally, I am curious if you have any interest in experimenting with
>> incorporating movement or embodied awareness into your work. I won't
>> suggest for what applications or in what manner yet, as this is part of my
>> open-ended R process. I have some ideas, but I want to learn your
>> impressions, experiences, needs, and questions first.
>>
>> If you would like to share anything in this thread, or if you would like
>> to have a separate email/video/phone chat with me - I would LOVE to speak
>> with you :)
>>
>> Ultimately, I am looking to engage with a handful of "people who work
>> with people" to experiment with some movement practices and see if we can
>> develop anything of value that can be built upon and passed on to others.
>> At the same time a colleague of mine, Magalie of Dancing Without Borders,
>> will be doing the same thing with a group of people and we will be
>> comparing notes. Magalie's focus is on working 1:1 with "visionary leaders"
>> focused on "new paradigm" work...though I do believe that is all of us!
>>
>> If this does not make sense in any way, please do not hesitate to ask me
>> for clarification - many thanks in advance!
>>
>> Tricia Chirumbole
>>
>> Facilitator. Coach. Champion.
>>
>> Co-Creative Culture Building
>> Mojo Collaborative
>> www.mojocollaborative.com
>>
>> 571-232-0942
>> skype: tricia.chirumbole
>> twitter: @themojozone
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Re: [OSList] An invitation for future invitations to WOSONOS

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Love this summary, Pernilla.  Works for me.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Pernilla Luttropp via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Hi all!
> Thanks all for your input, stories and further thinking out of my
> invitation for future invitations. It’s a rich conversation, it brings
> clarity and some new questions to me.
>
> To me it seems like naming The one and only (W)osonos might not be that
> important anymore, or at least not for a while. The possibility of having a
> multitude of gatherings all over the world and at different times seem to
> open up for more space, breathing and fun (and brings us back to core
> practice, as some of you pointed out).
>
> If that is the case (the future will tell) there would maybe be a few less
> things to do:
> - The invitation doesn’t have to come from a well prepared team or from an
> area with an Open space community (whatever that is). It could be a single
> person who wants to open up their place and welcome others to join.
> - No ‘voting’ at the end or the ceremony when the stick is handed over to
> the Selected Team. Instead we could find out ways to celebrate the
> multitude and richness of invitations, maybe to the tunes of “the more the
> merrier” or “we can’t get enough of complexity”.
>
> What stands out for me is Michael’s question on Who is osonos really for?
> Is it a gathering for people who are more or less familiar to Open Space? A
> place where we pass on knowledge and experiences, even traditions? Were we
> take the liberty to be somewhat exclusive and excluding for a while? I
> certainly have a need for those kind of meetings every now and then.
>
> I reckon the ambition with most (w)osonoses is to be open for newcomers as
> well. So how do we keep it new without burdening it with ‘traditions’? An
> event where the we try to avoid saying “we usually do…”. An event where the
> newcomers have the same opportunity to co-create the event as the
> ‘old-timers’. An event that is opening up for something new to happen that
> no one knew about before? Like Paul pointed out in a Hotline call – why do
> we put numbers on the (w)ononos’es at all, isn’t every event no 1?
>
> How do we make Open Space instead of doing it?
>
> And thanks Jan, for the link to ‘How to make a decision without making a
> decision’. I my view the only tool I have for this, as a facilitator and
> participant within an Open Space, is time - lots of time.  I usually only
> get one day for an Open Space and if it’s a tough decision and if the
> question doesn’t seem ‘ripe’ enough, I simply don’t invite for that
> process. I find it too painful.
> And that reminds me of what Chris said; this “teaches us a lot about our
> personal orientation to the practice of holding space. Also, it provides us
> with many opportunities to examine, reflect and develop the personal
> practice of opening space.”
>
> The show goes on!
>
> Pernilla
>
>
>
>
> Den 2015-10-11 19:46, skrev "Lisa Heft - via OSList" <
> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>:
>
> Hello, Barbara - good to hear your voice.
>
> Just sharing what I have heard, regarding one aspect you mention - there
> have been conversations about a WOSonOS in a few locations in Africa, but
> those prospective hosts - at least the ones I have talked with - have felt
> that though we others want it to be there to share about OST, they
> themselves have not had a community of practice to host it, so they (these
> different people, from different countries, in the different years I have
> chatted with them) have preferred to build their community of OST
> facilitation learners and facilitators first, before hosting. Because when
> one hosts, the most people who attend are from the immediate region. And
> also because in these conversations there has usually just been one person
> in their region, so they did not have the capacity and sometimes not the
> interest to be an event host, as their energies were more about learning
> and facilitating things. That’s just the pattern I have seen - some of you
> others may have been involved in other conversations over the years.
>
> My own question: With your first #2 item below - do you mean have a
> session about the next WOSonOS live, at the WOSonOS itself? Because that is
> what Karolina did at this year’s WOSonOS. She posted and hosted a session
> on a day previous to the Closing Circle day at the conference, and made
> sure it was timed so I could be there to answer any Access Queen questions
> anyone might have. Other possible hosts chatted with me before that for
> their own private questions and conversations. Or maybe you mean something
> different than hosting a session up at the WOSonOS event itself - and it’s
> just going into my head in a different way. Thanks for clarifying for me.
>
> And personally, I agree with you - I love keeping the closing circle free
> for the group’s’ reflection about its WOSonOS conversations and learnings.
> Plus one more delicious thing: often in a 

Re: [OSList] Reflections on VOSonOS Day 3

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Sooo great  wishing all well in the concluding days.  I'm off for the
weekend.  Congrats all for making this happen.  Eager to continue one on
one and OShotline whenever possible.  A great big hug to Lucas and
Michael.  Skye

On Friday, July 10, 2015, Lucas Cioffi via OSList 
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

 Good day, Everyone.

 All within one hour this morning, I had the great pleasure of speaking in
 groups of 2 and 3 with people from Norway, German, Portugal, and
 Australia.  Waking up at 5:50am my time knocked me out of my regular
 routine and gave me space to be present.

 After the audio and video chats, I was browsing some links that people
 shared about their work during this morning's sessions.  Then I started
 searching through the OS List archives to find people I spoke with.  The
 email below jumped out at me, especially the video highlighted in yellow at
 the bottom.  Having met Alan Stewart yesterday, reading that email below
 was quite a different experience for me than it was when he sent it a few
 months ago.  The difference this time is that I could actually hear him
 reading this email to me in his warm and inviting tone, now that we had a
 chance to have a conversation

 I've been on this list for about 6 years and have never attended a
 WOSonOS.  Hearing Alan mention the Marysville WOS2002 during a session
 yesterday and the fondness with which he described it made me very curious
 to learn more.  The video he shared in yellow (below) easily communicates
 how special that event was for all who attended.

 The OS community has been rolling with tremendous momentum for 20+ years
 before I started subscribing to the list in '09.  I always felt that I
 missed the party, since so much has happened before I got here, but having
 been on Tricia's OS Hotline events on Tuesdays over the past few months and
 having participated in these online VOSonOS sessions over the past two
 days, I get a sense of how active this community is right now–all the great
 work and all the edges of the OS folks are currently exploring.

 Marysville was overcome by a devastating fire in 2009, seven years after
 the video below.  It's a reminder to me that the work of opening space is
 both temporary and urgent.  I look forward to the remaining two days of
 VOSonOS and I also look forward to reading this list with a more personal
 connection, now that I've been able to meet and learn from many of you over
 the past two days.  Have a great weekend, wherever you are.

 Lucas Cioffi
 Founder, QiqoChat
 Charlottesville, VA
 Mobile: 917-528-1831



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 Subject: [OSList] This Was My Town [[Marysville]
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 G'day fellow participants at WOS2002 and All

 I 'happened' on this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0LpKT_-Kmw
 recently through hearing Greg Champion, a well known singer and song
 writer http://gregchampion.com.au/music/ in Australia, on our local
 radio in Adelaide.

 For it captures the grief experienced when most of the lovely little town
 of Marysville (near Melbourne) in which WOS2002 was held was destroyed in a
 huge bushfire in 2009.



 After playing the song several times it came over to me as a beautifully
 crafted and poignant reminder of the wondrous time which was had by those
 who were fortunate and privileged to participate in this particular
 international get together of OST practitioners.  And of how ephemeral
 life can be.

 The venue for our gathering, the majestic largely wooden construction
 Marylands Hotel - in the heart of Marysville - suited our purposes
 beautifully, not least as we all housed under one roof. One of my favourite
 memories was going on a night walk in the nearby forest.

 There was nothing left of Marylands after the 2009 fire.

 A sense of this place, its setting, and the process of the WOS event can
 be seen in this exquisite little video
 http://openspaceworld.ning.com/video/wosonosinoz-2002 made by David
 Smith.

 Also featured in the video is the facilitator of the event, Fr Brian
 Bainbridge. Brian, as many would recall fondly, was a staunch promoter of
 OST and attended every WOS up until WOS2009 held in Taipei in Taiwan. Sadly
 he died shortly after this.



 Please pass this on if you wish to others who you consider may appreciate
 seeing and hearing it.

 Looking forward.

 Go well

 Alan

 Alan Stewart, PhD
 www.multimindsolutions.com
 Conversare.net http://conversare.net
 Adelaide

 ‘If there’s dancing count me in.’





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[OSList] Skye Open Space(ing) and Improvisation

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Paul Levy's and others conversation about Self and self-organizing and
improvisation helped me recall something from an acting method I studied
years ago.


The method tried to teach us to work “off the moment” to be present to the
moment and not want to control it, predict it, name it, or repeat it . It
was the challenge of this acting method.  I feel this may have relevance to
SELF-organizing and self-organizing.


Oscillation, between poles of contrasting “felt senses” creates a
vibration, and if allowed, a hum.  To know solitude, is to know also know
connection.  To know light we need darkness.  To know ourselves, we learn
of others and to know ourselves we can know others.  And in that regard, to
know ourselves small “s,” we can know the larger more inclusive “S” and
whenever possible, to feel the larger “Self” we feel our “self” included.


The ole song comes to mine; “To know him/her is to love him/her/us.”


In this acting discipline, we practiced paying attention to the now, to the
“felt sense” within, to sense what wants attention, what impulses are
obvious as they arise within.  Sometimes the impulse came from the other,
something obvious that stood out, grabbed our attention as a beginning for
our interaction, for an action, or reaction.  To sustain such focus for any
length of time was exceptionally challenging.  It meant working off each
moment.  From such a process was the foundation of “improvisation.” But it
was more than creating novelty. It was the awakening process of authentic
behaviors within an actor or actors.  When these authentic moments
occurred, the audience was stirred, compelled to enter into the dynamic.  As
an audience, we recognized a moment that would never be again, a once in a
lifetime event was occurring.  And we were included; we belonged as humans
in that process. The audience/humans recognized the connection, the
belonging to a universal connection of being alive. Such moments lifted us
all, including the actors.


I believe Open Space(ing) offers this opportunity for authenticity, for
oscillation between contrasting poles, an inclusion, an allowing that often
opens us to what is always available, but doesn’t always occur and yet when
it does, we are drawn into it, we feel included beyond “your opinion and my
opinion. And yet our different opinions are included for consideration as a
source of improvisation/organization, for greater/deeper Self/self knowing.
In this dance of life, new possibilities arise that may never have occurred
without it, and may never occur again just so.


To work “off the moment” to be present to the moment and not want to
control it, predict it, name it, or repeat it was the challenge of this
acting method.  I feel this may have relevance to SELF-organizing and
self-organizing.  Maybe the word “(S) (s) elfing” applies and allows for
the oscillations of living process and the *hum.*   Thanks all.


-- 
*Skye Hirst, PhD*
President - The Autognomics Institute
*Conversations in Radical Self-Knowing*
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[OSList] Skye Opening the Question of Race to the Question of Belonging

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

This On Being  discussion with John A. Powell gave me such a life of
hopefulness I wished to share it here as perhaps an invitation for
conversation somewhere - maybe even on the VOSOS coming up soon. I heard so
many Open Space-like references so often brought up in our conversations.
Here is the link to the program.

http://www.onbeing.org/program/john-a-powell-opening-the-question-of-race-to-the-question-of-belonging/7695

-- 
*Skye Hirst, PhD*
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Re: [OSList] 30 Years ... and Counting!

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

*“You learn more and more that everything exists at once with its opposite,
so the contradictions of life are never-ending and somehow the mediation
between these opposites is the game of life.”  Milton Glaser  *

On Saturday, June 27, 2015, Harrison via OSList 
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

 Paul – I cannot dispute that something called “Harrison Owen” was present.
 But I was just giving you an “inside report” of my experience. I never
 doubted my presence, but how, why, or for what purpose I showed up remained
 pretty much of a constant mystery to me prospectively. Retrospectively it
 all seems to make some sort of sense, and with a little effort I can spin a
 marvelous tale. Or at least I enjoy it.



 Specifically, I never got a job that I went after. I never went after a
 job that I got. I did “choose” a career, but that blew up in the first few
 years. Very honestly, I always seems to be well on my way to the next part
 of my life before I had even a small clue. Talk about life plan. Is that
 self organization? I don’t know, but it works for me.



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 Harrison



 You had everything to do with it. You were there, and it could never
 happened without you, for you are it-self.





 Warm wishes



 Paul

 On Saturday, 27 June 2015, Michael Herman via OSList 
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 i want to add something to what you're saying about acting UPON the system
 and acting IN the system, paul.  i think there's a third way.



 it's common, as you say, for people to separate and try to have some
 effect UPON the Self, the circle, the system.  we call it managing,
 directing, imposing, controlling, and improving – and the shape is the same
 even if we're trying to improve open space.  it's all outside and
 unsatisfied.  then there is, as you say, acting IN the system.  people
 announcing sessions, floating around as butterflies, and so on.



 the third way takes a certain kind of person and/or a good deal of
 practice, maybe even a little luck (a few martinis, perhaps?).  the third
 way is when little individual separate selves manage to speak up AS the
 Self.  this is just the opposite of the manager self attempting to speak
 for the Self.



 in those moments, mostly fleeting, of necessity, because it's hard to hold
 that form, hard to stay on that wave, (or maybe because there's often so
 little that can or must be said or done), when we speak AS the gathered
 Self, we are still our selves, but our selves are not in charge.  we do and
 become things, as harrison suggests, that we might not otherwise choose or
 intend or even want.  but whatever happens...



 the wave of Self picks us up and moves us AND we are that wave.  we must
 always and everywhere be holding space for ourselves and diving for cover
 in Self, or is that holding space for ourSelves and diving for cover in
 self?  grin



















 --

 Michael Herman
 Michael Herman Associates
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 http://OpenSpaceWorld.org



 On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Harrison via OSList 
 oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

 Paul... Being the contrarian that I am, I rather think that the “Self” in
 question is -- itself -- a product of self organization. Weird, I guess –
 but that has definitely been my life experience.  The “self” that I am
 definitely was not the product of my intent or design. It may not have
 happened “all by itself,” but I didn’t have too much to do with it, as
 least as I am aware. How about those bananas?



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[OSList] Fwd: #9 -- take your time -- 6/3/15

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

This story and video by Paul Schaffer and Sammy Davis, Jr.  seems deeply
related to the OPen Space practice of music, improvization, showing up with
your talent/passion, letting it happen  within rhythm structures,  using
all your experience and knowing the power of collaboration.  This video
made me cry.  What a life,  what a gift, what a moment that happened only
once just that way.

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Paul Shaffer frantically tries to reach Sammy Davis Jr. to select a song
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Every time I called [Sammy Davis Jr. to try and select a song or discuss
rehearsal] he was either working or sleeping. He never did return my calls.
The morning of the show I was feeling some panic. Sammy was flying in, and
we still didn't know what he wanted to sing. At 10 a.m., the floor manager
said I had a backstage call. It was Sammy calling from the plane.


  'Once in My Life' will be fine, Paul' he said. 'Key of E going into F.'


  'Great!' I was relieved. I was also eager to work out an arrangement.
... We whipped up a chart, nursed it, rehearsed it, and put it on tape.
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[OSList] Fwd: finding things with crowds -- 5/5/15

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

There is something about this I thought the OS community would find of
interest, from The Organized Mind by Levitin,  Skye

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Today's selection --from *The Organized Mind* by Daniel J. Levitin.
Accomplishing the impossible through crowdsourcing:

Crowdsourcing -- outsourcing to a crowd -- [is] the technique by which
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difficult or impossible to solve any other way. Crowdsourcing has been used
for all kinds of things, including wildlife and bird counts, providing
usage examples and quotes to the editors of the* Oxford English Dictionary*,
and helping to decipher ambiguous text. ...

In December 2009, DARPA offered $40,000 to anyone who could locate
ten balloons that they had placed in plain sight around the continental
United States. DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an
organization under the U.S. Department of Defense. DARPA created the
Internet (more precisely, they designed and built the first computer
network, ARPANET, on which the current World Wide Web is modeled). At issue
was how the United States might solve large-scale problems of national
security and defense, and to test the country's capacity for mobilization
during times of urgent crisis. Replace 'balloons' with 'dirty bombs' or
other explosives, and the relevance of the problem is clear.

On a predesignated day, DARPA hid ten large, red weather balloons, eight
feet in diameter, in various places around the country. The $40,000 prize
would be awarded to the first person or team anywhere in the world who
could correctly identify the precise location of all ten balloons. When the
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team would use satellite imagery, but that's where the problem gets tricky.
How would they divide up the United States into surveillable sections with
a high-enough resolution to spot the balloons, but still be able to
navigate the enormous number of photographs quickly? Would the satellite
images be analyzed by rooms full of humans, or would the winning team
perfect a computer-vision algorithm for distinguishing the red balloons
from other balloons and from other round, red objects that were not the
target? (Effectively solving the *Where's Waldo?* problem, something that
computer programs couldn't do until 2011.)

Further speculation revolved around the use of reconnaissance planes,

[OSList] Opening Space on the Heels of Starbucks' Race Together Campaign

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Yeah   ANd off we go.  A movement of self-sharing,  self-knowing
shoulder to shoulder Skye

On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Tricia Chirumbole via OSList 
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','oslist@lists.openspacetech.org'); wrote:

 Lucas,

 Thank you so much for this! For your courageous actions and for sharing
 them with us in a spirit of giving and curiosity!

 This touched me and inspired me to action!

 I am now finally going to get my butt out into the public square and try
 something similar to what you have done. I am going to invite others to
 join me, and maybe, I will take a few kids along with me.

 *Listening resources  thoughts *for those who would like to explore this
 further:

 My belief in the power of listening was rekindled when I participated in a
 training in Seattle with a wonderful group that some of you may know, The
 Compassionate Listening Project. http://www.compassionatelistening.org/

 These folks do incredible work and have cultivated a deep and mindful
 practice in the art of listening. At this training I met another incredible
 woman who had started something in Seattle that is similar to what Lucas
 has done, which she calls *The Free Listening Project
 http://www.freelisteningproject.com/ - *They go into public spaces with
 a silent invitation on their T-shirts and/or a sign: *No advice, No
 judgment, No Interruptions...just Listening *- I have wanted to do this
 ever since, but for some reason have not - thank you again for the
 inspiration Lucas! Imagine if there was a critical mass of people offering
 to listen, witness, hear and share our suffering and our empathy..

 *Thich Nhat Hanh*, believes that practicing deep listening is the only
 way that we will achieve world peace, and that this deep listening begins
 with learning to listen to our own suffering with empathy. He advocates for
 an army of listeners to heal our suffering.

 *Listening for world peace *is described in this article:
 http://www.lionsroar.com/in-engaged-buddhism-peace-begins-with-you/

 For some who may not be familiar, Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist
 monk who was a leader in the peace movement during the Vietnam and a leader
 in a practice known as Engaged Buddhism.

 I love that what you did, Lucas, mixes listening with the invitation for
 dialogue among 2+ people and that we are spreading open source social
 technology that is not owned by any helping organization,
 evidenced-based academic methodology, or well-planned government
 program :)

 My last thought - I hear the desire for this all over, for both listening
 and being heard, for talking about real things without the pall of needing
 to debate or convince, with the invitation to share anything in a space of
 respect, to tell storiesI was just at a community swap - clothes 
 stuff - and this guy was telling people about an idea that he had, telling
 it with self-ridicule  laughing it off. He wanted to have a* crying,
 comforting party* - OK, yes, that may come across as a little odd and
 off-putting, but in essence it is the same thing we are talking about here.
 His motivation, people suffer, why suffer alone? - yes! I suggested that
 he make the invitation a little broader and invite people to come and share
 their stories  listen to one another, or frame it in some way that invites
 people to go deep or vulnerable if they choose, which may include crying,
 but invited all feelings and reactions :) If he was really into the crying
 part, he could serve raw onion dip :P

 Thanks for listening!



 Tricia Chirumbole
 US: +1-571-232-0942
 Skype: tricia.chirumbole


 On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Lucas Cioffi via OSList 
 oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

 Hi All,

 This is cross-posted on the NCDD listserv, and I'm sharing it with the OS
 List, because-- even though it's not about OST-- it's about opening space,
 and I welcome your thoughts!

 I was partially inspired by Michael Herman's quote from four days ago:

 the other thing i do is never set out big circles in the breakout
 spaces.  i set three chairs to mark each breakout space, with more chairs
 piled to the sides.  the three chairs are pushed right together close,
 their front edges forming a closed triangle.  set this way, they are
 impossible to use.  the first person has to move them to whatever distance
 feels right to them.  after three people come, everyone needs to move them
 to make room for others.  in this way, i dictate nothing.  they literally
 open the space at the center of each breakout group.  i've done it this way
 every time since my first time, when i set big chairs and watched some
 small groups squirm in spaces that were too big for them.


 I happen to live in Charlottesville, Virginia where a recent violent
 arrest of a student and race-related protests have gotten some national
 media attention.  Over the past two days I tried an experiment in creating
 pop-up civic space for dialogue.

 This is 

Re: [OSList] Opening Space on the Heels of Starbucks' Race Together Campaign

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

I just saw this documentary on Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement
in Kenya. Amazing inspiration on so many fronts this film about Open Space
and community and self-knowing as first steps in change and the history of
what is happening now.
http://takingrootfilm.com/

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:16 PM, facilit8 - Amanda Bucklow via OSList 
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

 You have persuaded me that the 'two way street' is better for responsible
 traffic control, Michael. :-)

 It takes guts to do that kind of thing. So power to those who are willing
 to be vulnerable to the unknown.

 I am really enjoying the information on Fran Peavey. The Ganges story
 could translate in many places. I am working in Kenya at the moment and no
 one has the ‘space' to speak about the terrible corruption and how to stop
 it, which goes to driving licences and baggage handling at the airport.
 There are many worthy initiatives and each is good and makes a difference.
 Critical mass and courage in the face of very real threats to personal
 safety are building. We/they need to open more space like this.

 A


 On 26 Mar 2015, at 17:04, Michael Herman via OSList 
 oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

 i think the free speech part is important, amanda, at least in the U.S.
 where we've made such a big deal about it for so long.  it might be our
 most basic right, a proxy for all our other rights.  and yet it doesn't
 work unless somebody's also listening.  responsibility.  it seems important
 to be able to do these things together, in small flash groups like lucas
 has been doing and also to make it a signal that has application and
 implications for the largest political conversations.  one of the steele
 election reforms, for instance, is ending gerrymandering, the practice of
 cobbling together sprawling election districts where (and so that) speech
 can go on without listening.

 it's exciting, at the moment, to have lucas' experiment running alongside
 daniel's experiment, too.





 --

 Michael Herman
 Michael Herman Associates
 312-280-7838 (mobile)

 http://MichaelHerman.com http://michaelherman.com/
 http://OpenSpaceWorld.org http://openspaceworld.org/


 On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:47 AM, facilit8 - Amanda Bucklow 
 ama...@facilit8.com wrote:

 This is so exciting! I don’t know quite why is should be so exciting but
 it is for me. I am with you Michael on all your points. I might even be
 tempted to drop the ‘free speech’ part and just go with ‘free listening’
 although I like the 'two way street’.

 Thanks for the note about Fran Peavey - I will look her up and the bits
 on your web site.

 warm wishes
 Amanda



 On 26 Mar 2015, at 16:25, Michael Herman mich...@michaelherman.com
 wrote:

 AWESOME!

 and a few thoughts to mix in...

 1. if you haven't seen or heard of her, lucas, you might have a look for
 fran peavey.  the gist of her story is that at a higher point of cold war
 tension and nuclear worries, she sold her house and stuff, bought a plane
 ticket, and packed a bit of old sheet with American willing to listen
 written on it in marker.  I think she went first to Japan, and started a
 practice of sitting on benches and other public places with her sign laid
 out next to her.  And then just waiting.  This developed into something she
 called strategic questioning.  It seems her old website has disappeared,
 but a while back i captured some favorite bits of it at
 http://www.michaelherman.com/cgi/wiki.cgi?StrategicQuestions

 2. i'm sure there are any number of ways to add rules and guidance and
 structure to what you've done, as you've wondered here.  i'd say resist the
 temptation.  years ago i was sitting in a circle in racine wisconsin, one
 big circle of 40 folks, talking about the future of their city and how to
 organize things in support.  things got a little tense, scraped the wall in
 spots, shall we say, but i sat and did nothing, witnessing, holding,
 trusting, i suppose.  when i shared the story with harrison, he said
 something like, well, you've earned your stripes and your pay.  this
 seems like one of those moments to be fully present and do as little,
 signal as little as possible.

 3.  that said, you already have made signs, so i'm going to say that's
 part of the practice, already.  you already used the words free speech.
  i said don't add anything and now i want to suggest adding just a very
 little bit to that and wonder if that won't be enough guidance on the micro
 as-its-happening level AND the macro social change level.  my thought is
 that the signs might say free speech / free listening  make it look like
 a street/traffic sign, play with making the free listening part in a font
 style that is an outline of the letters.  add a verb if you must.  whatever
 and as little as you can.  but i think the combination of free speech/free
 listening might turn out to be some very robust and portable guidance.

 thank you!  m



 --

 Michael Herman
 Michael Herman Associates

[OSList] Skye Come On for Holiday Chat

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

It's a bit late but we'll be on osi-us,   bring your cuppa  and let's
celebrate.   Talk soon.

-- 
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*Conversations in Radical Self-Knowing*
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*Conversations in Radical Self-Knowing*
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It's a bit late but we'll be on osi-us,   bring your cuppa  and let's
celebrate.   Talk soon.

-- 
*Skye Hirst, PhD*
President - The Autognomics Institute
*Conversations in Radical Self-Knowing*
www.autognomics.org
@autognomics

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Re: [OSList] Summer research: 'self organisation'

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

This week of weeks has brought me into searching my own knowing about
differences, love, racism,  perhaps all the isms,  the rules of law (human
made) and where and how to find meaning and right action for myself in the
face of so much violence and fear .   The OS conversations bring me back
over and over again to my own process of inquiry,  what do I believe,
think, feel,  know,  what inquiry am I engaged,  how can I be of help or is
helping others what i need be doing?  It's this inner search that has
brought to me, through conversations here and on the OShotline,  the quote
(below of Biko) and it deeply satisfies - because it expresses a coherence
of many thoughts, experience common throughout history and my personal
history.

At the heart of true integration is the provision for each man, each group
to rise and attain the envisioned self. Each group must be able to attain
its style of existence without encroaching on or being thwarted by another.
Out of this mutual respect for each other and complete freedom of
self-determination there will obviously arise a genuine fusion of the
life-styles of the various groups. This is true integration.  Steve Biko

Satisfaction/fulfillment comes during a process of inquiry, of integration
of widest possible variables that feels coherent, a connection to the
wholeness.  It feels peaceful,  a resting point, connection with a truth
throughout that connection.   Perhaps that's a feeling of the Ultimaticity
you speak Julie, don't know.


THanks all for the healthy inquiry here.. Thanks for all the questions,
seeking the next question and perhaps together we infuse one another,  know
ourselves more deeply and in the process find what is most effective in our
actions as one living being living  together with other living beings doing
the same.  And thank you Pernilla for this link to Biko.
http://newafricanmen.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/why-i-am-against-so-called-transformation/


On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Julie Smith via OSList 
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

 Dear Harrison ~

 Perhaps the crux of this biscuit we’re munching is Ultimaticity.  (The
 word just occurred to me and I just looked it up and it doesn’t appear to
 exist, so a good place to begin, yes?)

 Really I’m just borrowing from Ken Wilber again.  Somewhere along the way
 he said we all have a feeling-sense of what is Ultimate.  For some of us,
 what is Ultimate is magical or religious or spiritual.  For others what is
 Ultimate is found in the the natural world, and for others the Ultimate is
 found in the wonders of science.

 What has been interesting to me as I’ve bumped in and out of the Open
 Space community over the years is this pervading attraction to to the
 mystery of self-organization, along with this inkling that there is
 something of Ultimaticity about that.

 Then a decade or so ago I fell into awareness of Adi Da Samraj, an
 unfolding that has shattered all my previous understandings of
 Ultimaticity.  And then over time there emerged a synchronicity where at
 the same time that I was observing these conversations on the OS list-serve
 about self-organization, I would come across statements about
 self-organization in Adi Da Samraj’s teaching, including statements from 
 *Not-Two
 Is Peace, *which I just now opened randomly to this:

 “The self-ordering system of humankind must be free to put itself in
 order.  Humankind will self-organize itself if it is free to do so, and it
 must no longer be prohibited from so doing by the separatist factionalisms
 of the “tribal” mind.

 So Harrison, you often speak of self-organization in terms that evoke a
 sense of Ultimaticity.  This community experiences a tacit heart-response
 to what is right and true about that.  When I feel and see all of this
 happening, I am heart-moved to share Adi Da Samraj’s teaching related to
 self-organization with you, because that teaching connects directly with
 what is already happening here.

 Love,

 Julie



 On Dec 5, 2014, at 8:19 AM, Harrison Owen hho...@verizon.net wrote:

 Good old OSLIST suffered something of a glitch, sending/not sending bits
 and pieces. In order to make a semi-intelligible piece I have done a little
 editing and hopefully no deep violence to Julie Smith’s ideas... And Julie,
 sorry it took so long, but this birthday thing sort of got in the way.
 Ho J

 ***

 Julie said: “The more I’ve been thinking about the relationship between
 self-organizing with self-correcting and self-rightening, the more complex
 it all looks.  Take cancer for example, or gangs.  Are these both examples
 of self-organization?  Self-organization that is destructive (not
 self-correcting or self-rightening) rather than constructive?  So maybe
 self-organizing is not inherently good, but is only good if done in a way
 that is self-rightening and self-correcting?”

 Harrison: “Julie – I rather suspect that self organization covers a much
 larger territory than the more limited 

Re: [OSList] Summer research: 'self organisation'

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

This week of weeks has brought me into searching my own knowing about
differences, love, racism,  perhaps all the isms,  the rules of law (human
made) and where and how to find meaning and right action for myself in the
face of so much violence and fear .   The OS conversations bring me back
over and over again to my own process of inquiry,  what do I believe,
think, feel,  know,  what inquiry am I engaged,  how can I be of help or is
helping others what i need be doing?  It's this inner search that has
brought to me, through conversations here and on the OShotline,  the quote
(below of Biko) and it deeply satisfies - because it expresses a coherence
of many thoughts, experience common throughout history and my personal
history.

At the heart of true integration is the provision for each man, each group
to rise and attain the envisioned self. Each group must be able to attain
its style of existence without encroaching on or being thwarted by another.
Out of this mutual respect for each other and complete freedom of
self-determination there will obviously arise a genuine fusion of the
life-styles of the various groups. This is true integration.  Steve Biko

Satisfaction/fulfillment comes during a process of inquiry, of integration
of widest possible variables that feels coherent, a connection to the
wholeness.  It feels peaceful,  a resting point, connection with a truth
throughout that connection.   Perhaps that's a feeling of the Ultimaticity
you speak Julie, don't know.


THanks all for the healthy inquiry here.. Thanks for all the questions,
seeking the next question and perhaps together we infuse one another,  know
ourselves more deeply and in the process find what is most effective in our
actions as one living being living  together with other living beings doing
the same.  And thank you Pernilla for this link to Biko.
http://newafricanmen.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/why-i-am-against-so-called-transformation/


On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Julie Smith via OSList 
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

 Dear Harrison ~

 Perhaps the crux of this biscuit we’re munching is Ultimaticity.  (The
 word just occurred to me and I just looked it up and it doesn’t appear to
 exist, so a good place to begin, yes?)

 Really I’m just borrowing from Ken Wilber again.  Somewhere along the way
 he said we all have a feeling-sense of what is Ultimate.  For some of us,
 what is Ultimate is magical or religious or spiritual.  For others what is
 Ultimate is found in the the natural world, and for others the Ultimate is
 found in the wonders of science.

 What has been interesting to me as I’ve bumped in and out of the Open
 Space community over the years is this pervading attraction to to the
 mystery of self-organization, along with this inkling that there is
 something of Ultimaticity about that.

 Then a decade or so ago I fell into awareness of Adi Da Samraj, an
 unfolding that has shattered all my previous understandings of
 Ultimaticity.  And then over time there emerged a synchronicity where at
 the same time that I was observing these conversations on the OS list-serve
 about self-organization, I would come across statements about
 self-organization in Adi Da Samraj’s teaching, including statements from 
 *Not-Two
 Is Peace, *which I just now opened randomly to this:

 “The self-ordering system of humankind must be free to put itself in
 order.  Humankind will self-organize itself if it is free to do so, and it
 must no longer be prohibited from so doing by the separatist factionalisms
 of the “tribal” mind.

 So Harrison, you often speak of self-organization in terms that evoke a
 sense of Ultimaticity.  This community experiences a tacit heart-response
 to what is right and true about that.  When I feel and see all of this
 happening, I am heart-moved to share Adi Da Samraj’s teaching related to
 self-organization with you, because that teaching connects directly with
 what is already happening here.

 Love,

 Julie



 On Dec 5, 2014, at 8:19 AM, Harrison Owen hho...@verizon.net wrote:

 Good old OSLIST suffered something of a glitch, sending/not sending bits
 and pieces. In order to make a semi-intelligible piece I have done a little
 editing and hopefully no deep violence to Julie Smith’s ideas... And Julie,
 sorry it took so long, but this birthday thing sort of got in the way.
 Ho J

 ***

 Julie said: “The more I’ve been thinking about the relationship between
 self-organizing with self-correcting and self-rightening, the more complex
 it all looks.  Take cancer for example, or gangs.  Are these both examples
 of self-organization?  Self-organization that is destructive (not
 self-correcting or self-rightening) rather than constructive?  So maybe
 self-organizing is not inherently good, but is only good if done in a way
 that is self-rightening and self-correcting?”

 Harrison: “Julie – I rather suspect that self organization covers a much
 larger territory than the more limited 

Re: [OSList] Summer research: 'self organisation'

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

This week of weeks has brought me into searching my own knowing about
differences, love, racism,  perhaps all the isms,  the rules of law (human
made) and where and how to find meaning and right action for myself in the
face of so much violence and fear .   The OS conversations bring me back
over and over again to my own process of inquiry,  what do I believe,
think, feel,  know,  what inquiry am I engaged,  how can I be of help or is
helping others what i need be doing?  It's this inner search that has
brought to me, through conversations here and on the OShotline,  the quote
(below of Biko) and it deeply satisfies - because it expresses a coherence
of many thoughts, experience common throughout history and my personal
history.

At the heart of true integration is the provision for each man, each group
to rise and attain the envisioned self. Each group must be able to attain
its style of existence without encroaching on or being thwarted by another.
Out of this mutual respect for each other and complete freedom of
self-determination there will obviously arise a genuine fusion of the
life-styles of the various groups. This is true integration.  Steve Biko

Satisfaction/fulfillment comes during a process of inquiry, of integration
of widest possible variables that feels coherent, a connection to the
wholeness.  It feels peaceful,  a resting point, connection with a truth
throughout that connection.   Perhaps that's a feeling of the Ultimaticity
you speak Julie, don't know.


THanks all for the healthy inquiry here.. Thanks for all the questions,
seeking the next question and perhaps together we infuse one another,  know
ourselves more deeply and in the process find what is most effective in our
actions as one living being living  together with other living beings doing
the same.  And thank you Pernilla for this link to Biko.
http://newafricanmen.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/why-i-am-against-so-called-transformation/


On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Julie Smith via OSList 
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

 Dear Harrison ~

 Perhaps the crux of this biscuit we’re munching is Ultimaticity.  (The
 word just occurred to me and I just looked it up and it doesn’t appear to
 exist, so a good place to begin, yes?)

 Really I’m just borrowing from Ken Wilber again.  Somewhere along the way
 he said we all have a feeling-sense of what is Ultimate.  For some of us,
 what is Ultimate is magical or religious or spiritual.  For others what is
 Ultimate is found in the the natural world, and for others the Ultimate is
 found in the wonders of science.

 What has been interesting to me as I’ve bumped in and out of the Open
 Space community over the years is this pervading attraction to to the
 mystery of self-organization, along with this inkling that there is
 something of Ultimaticity about that.

 Then a decade or so ago I fell into awareness of Adi Da Samraj, an
 unfolding that has shattered all my previous understandings of
 Ultimaticity.  And then over time there emerged a synchronicity where at
 the same time that I was observing these conversations on the OS list-serve
 about self-organization, I would come across statements about
 self-organization in Adi Da Samraj’s teaching, including statements from 
 *Not-Two
 Is Peace, *which I just now opened randomly to this:

 “The self-ordering system of humankind must be free to put itself in
 order.  Humankind will self-organize itself if it is free to do so, and it
 must no longer be prohibited from so doing by the separatist factionalisms
 of the “tribal” mind.

 So Harrison, you often speak of self-organization in terms that evoke a
 sense of Ultimaticity.  This community experiences a tacit heart-response
 to what is right and true about that.  When I feel and see all of this
 happening, I am heart-moved to share Adi Da Samraj’s teaching related to
 self-organization with you, because that teaching connects directly with
 what is already happening here.

 Love,

 Julie



 On Dec 5, 2014, at 8:19 AM, Harrison Owen hho...@verizon.net wrote:

 Good old OSLIST suffered something of a glitch, sending/not sending bits
 and pieces. In order to make a semi-intelligible piece I have done a little
 editing and hopefully no deep violence to Julie Smith’s ideas... And Julie,
 sorry it took so long, but this birthday thing sort of got in the way.
 Ho J

 ***

 Julie said: “The more I’ve been thinking about the relationship between
 self-organizing with self-correcting and self-rightening, the more complex
 it all looks.  Take cancer for example, or gangs.  Are these both examples
 of self-organization?  Self-organization that is destructive (not
 self-correcting or self-rightening) rather than constructive?  So maybe
 self-organizing is not inherently good, but is only good if done in a way
 that is self-rightening and self-correcting?”

 Harrison: “Julie – I rather suspect that self organization covers a much
 larger territory than the more limited 

Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 45, Issue 25

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Yes, and here's a link to see the guitar strings each vibrating in their
own way and together harmonies are created,  and also one of artist Lisa
Sparks with feelings vibrations in bowls of water.  I hope you can see a
relation to what is happening in OS wherever, whenever life is happening.

http://www.thelisapark.com/#/   Lisa Sparks Vibrations

http://youtu.be/TKF6nFzpHBU  Guitar Vibrations

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Daniel Mezick via OSList 
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

  Hi Anne,

 Roberta my wife and I recently viewed a show on TV together (NOVA) about
 sociobiology. And there was this scientist E.O. Wilson. He's this weird
 guy that studies ants. And this term stigmergy comes up during the
 viewing.

 Later, we discuss the topics of ants and signaling. We discuss ants,
 signs, signals, symbols and words. Words like music. We discuss how some
 truly great musicians play from pure feel, and cannot read music at all,
 and may in fact be illiterate. They play the instrument using
 here-and-now sensing, and feelings. They make amazing sounds.

 How the instrument physically makes sound can be precisely described. Yet
 how the musician makes his or her sound cannot. And we discuss how some
 people are very good at using the instrument to make a very specific sound
 (without being able to clearly explain how) while others are good at
 describing in general terms how the instrument can produce many sounds
 (without being good at making any pleasing sounds at all with the
 instrument.)

 Today we talked about Open Space in light of the word 'stigmergy' and this
 show on NOVA, and music.

 And how perhaps Open Space is maybe a kind of instrument. That produces
 vibrations. Some folks just know how to play the instrument to produce very
 specific, purposeful, pleasing vibrations. Another set of people can
 clearly explain how the instrument can produce arbitrary vibrations. And
 how maybe some people belong to both groups, and can play the instrument
 well, and also clearly explain how it actually the instrument makes various
 vibrations.



 Daniel






 On 11/30/14 12:12 AM, Anne Stadler via OSList wrote:

   Re studying self-organization
 Thanks all.

  Yes HO all IS self-organization.
 However i'm not interested in just any kind of self organization.  OST or
 Opening space is oriented to facilitating self authorization; ease of
 emergence; rapid achievement of flow state and high degree of coherence.
  That's my experience gained in a seven year experiment in using OST to
 evolve an Open Space Learning Community of Practice (Spirited Work).

  So one thing that pops out for me if one were to research this, maybe
 one needs to track a few things:
 1.  Level of self authorization?
 2.  Ease of initiating
 3.  Ease of emergence
 4.  Level of group flow state?
 5.  Level of group coherence?

  Another observation: re using well-established words.  As an example
 you gave us stigmergy, Daniel. Where is that well-established?  Except
 in certain academic fields?  I am a first follower Open Spacer (that is
 literally true! Since 1989).  I have no idea what you're talking about, i'm
 sorry to say.  So If you're also interested in influencing and involving
 users of OST, I would encourage no professional jargon, if possible. It
 renders the enterprise meaningless to an person for whom OST taps into
 natural human patterns and ways of collaboration.

  Thanks for this conversation you all!

  Anne



   Your Self
 Occupy
 100%


  A world that works for ALL is a world of love made visible

  Phone: 206-459-0227
 Skype: anne.m.stadler

 Www.CompassionateSeattlehome.org
 www.CharterforCompassion.org
 www.ProtecttheSacred.org


 On Nov 29, 2014, at 8:10 PM, via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
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1. Re: Summer research project idea: 'self organisation'
   (John Baxter via OSList)
2. Re: Summer research project idea: 'self organisation'
   (John Baxter via OSList)
3. Re: Summer research project idea: 'self organisation'
   (John Baxter via OSList)
4. Re: Summer research project idea: 'self organisation'
   (Harrison Owen via OSList)
5. Re: Summer research project idea: 'self organisation'
   (Julie Smith via OSList)
6. Re: Summer research project idea: 'self organisation'
   (Artur Silva via OSList)
7. Re: Summer research project idea: 'self organisation'
   (Artur Silva via OSList)
8. Re: Summer 

Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 45, Issue 25

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Yes, and here's a link to see the guitar strings each vibrating in their
own way and together harmonies are created,  and also one of artist Lisa
Sparks with feelings vibrations in bowls of water.  I hope you can see a
relation to what is happening in OS wherever, whenever life is happening.

http://www.thelisapark.com/#/   Lisa Sparks Vibrations

http://youtu.be/TKF6nFzpHBU  Guitar Vibrations

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Daniel Mezick via OSList 
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

  Hi Anne,

 Roberta my wife and I recently viewed a show on TV together (NOVA) about
 sociobiology. And there was this scientist E.O. Wilson. He's this weird
 guy that studies ants. And this term stigmergy comes up during the
 viewing.

 Later, we discuss the topics of ants and signaling. We discuss ants,
 signs, signals, symbols and words. Words like music. We discuss how some
 truly great musicians play from pure feel, and cannot read music at all,
 and may in fact be illiterate. They play the instrument using
 here-and-now sensing, and feelings. They make amazing sounds.

 How the instrument physically makes sound can be precisely described. Yet
 how the musician makes his or her sound cannot. And we discuss how some
 people are very good at using the instrument to make a very specific sound
 (without being able to clearly explain how) while others are good at
 describing in general terms how the instrument can produce many sounds
 (without being good at making any pleasing sounds at all with the
 instrument.)

 Today we talked about Open Space in light of the word 'stigmergy' and this
 show on NOVA, and music.

 And how perhaps Open Space is maybe a kind of instrument. That produces
 vibrations. Some folks just know how to play the instrument to produce very
 specific, purposeful, pleasing vibrations. Another set of people can
 clearly explain how the instrument can produce arbitrary vibrations. And
 how maybe some people belong to both groups, and can play the instrument
 well, and also clearly explain how it actually the instrument makes various
 vibrations.



 Daniel






 On 11/30/14 12:12 AM, Anne Stadler via OSList wrote:

   Re studying self-organization
 Thanks all.

  Yes HO all IS self-organization.
 However i'm not interested in just any kind of self organization.  OST or
 Opening space is oriented to facilitating self authorization; ease of
 emergence; rapid achievement of flow state and high degree of coherence.
  That's my experience gained in a seven year experiment in using OST to
 evolve an Open Space Learning Community of Practice (Spirited Work).

  So one thing that pops out for me if one were to research this, maybe
 one needs to track a few things:
 1.  Level of self authorization?
 2.  Ease of initiating
 3.  Ease of emergence
 4.  Level of group flow state?
 5.  Level of group coherence?

  Another observation: re using well-established words.  As an example
 you gave us stigmergy, Daniel. Where is that well-established?  Except
 in certain academic fields?  I am a first follower Open Spacer (that is
 literally true! Since 1989).  I have no idea what you're talking about, i'm
 sorry to say.  So If you're also interested in influencing and involving
 users of OST, I would encourage no professional jargon, if possible. It
 renders the enterprise meaningless to an person for whom OST taps into
 natural human patterns and ways of collaboration.

  Thanks for this conversation you all!

  Anne



   Your Self
 Occupy
 100%


  A world that works for ALL is a world of love made visible

  Phone: 206-459-0227
 Skype: anne.m.stadler

 Www.CompassionateSeattlehome.org
 www.CharterforCompassion.org
 www.ProtecttheSacred.org


 On Nov 29, 2014, at 8:10 PM, via OSList oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
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 Today's Topics:

1. Re: Summer research project idea: 'self organisation'
   (John Baxter via OSList)
2. Re: Summer research project idea: 'self organisation'
   (John Baxter via OSList)
3. Re: Summer research project idea: 'self organisation'
   (John Baxter via OSList)
4. Re: Summer research project idea: 'self organisation'
   (Harrison Owen via OSList)
5. Re: Summer research project idea: 'self organisation'
   (Julie Smith via OSList)
6. Re: Summer research project idea: 'self organisation'
   (Artur Silva via OSList)
7. Re: Summer research project idea: 'self organisation'
   (Artur Silva via OSList)
8. Re: Summer 

Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 45, Issue 25

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

Yes, and here's a link to see the guitar strings each vibrating in their
own way and together harmonies are created,  and also one of artist Lisa
Sparks with feelings vibrations in bowls of water.  I hope you can see a
relation to what is happening in OS wherever, whenever life is happening.

http://www.thelisapark.com/#/   Lisa Sparks Vibrations

http://youtu.be/TKF6nFzpHBU  Guitar Vibrations

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Daniel Mezick via OSList 
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

  Hi Anne,

 Roberta my wife and I recently viewed a show on TV together (NOVA) about
 sociobiology. And there was this scientist E.O. Wilson. He's this weird
 guy that studies ants. And this term stigmergy comes up during the
 viewing.

 Later, we discuss the topics of ants and signaling. We discuss ants,
 signs, signals, symbols and words. Words like music. We discuss how some
 truly great musicians play from pure feel, and cannot read music at all,
 and may in fact be illiterate. They play the instrument using
 here-and-now sensing, and feelings. They make amazing sounds.

 How the instrument physically makes sound can be precisely described. Yet
 how the musician makes his or her sound cannot. And we discuss how some
 people are very good at using the instrument to make a very specific sound
 (without being able to clearly explain how) while others are good at
 describing in general terms how the instrument can produce many sounds
 (without being good at making any pleasing sounds at all with the
 instrument.)

 Today we talked about Open Space in light of the word 'stigmergy' and this
 show on NOVA, and music.

 And how perhaps Open Space is maybe a kind of instrument. That produces
 vibrations. Some folks just know how to play the instrument to produce very
 specific, purposeful, pleasing vibrations. Another set of people can
 clearly explain how the instrument can produce arbitrary vibrations. And
 how maybe some people belong to both groups, and can play the instrument
 well, and also clearly explain how it actually the instrument makes various
 vibrations.



 Daniel






 On 11/30/14 12:12 AM, Anne Stadler via OSList wrote:

   Re studying self-organization
 Thanks all.

  Yes HO all IS self-organization.
 However i'm not interested in just any kind of self organization.  OST or
 Opening space is oriented to facilitating self authorization; ease of
 emergence; rapid achievement of flow state and high degree of coherence.
  That's my experience gained in a seven year experiment in using OST to
 evolve an Open Space Learning Community of Practice (Spirited Work).

  So one thing that pops out for me if one were to research this, maybe
 one needs to track a few things:
 1.  Level of self authorization?
 2.  Ease of initiating
 3.  Ease of emergence
 4.  Level of group flow state?
 5.  Level of group coherence?

  Another observation: re using well-established words.  As an example
 you gave us stigmergy, Daniel. Where is that well-established?  Except
 in certain academic fields?  I am a first follower Open Spacer (that is
 literally true! Since 1989).  I have no idea what you're talking about, i'm
 sorry to say.  So If you're also interested in influencing and involving
 users of OST, I would encourage no professional jargon, if possible. It
 renders the enterprise meaningless to an person for whom OST taps into
 natural human patterns and ways of collaboration.

  Thanks for this conversation you all!

  Anne



   Your Self
 Occupy
 100%


  A world that works for ALL is a world of love made visible

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Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

yeah,  indeed flash mob Open Space always a great  possibility.  Thanks,
Skye

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Royle, Karl via OSList 
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

  Great!

 Sent by iPhone
 Karl Royle
 Head of Enterprise and Commercial Development

  Faculty of Education Health and Wellbeing
 University of Wolverhampton
 01902323006
 07815416698
 @karlroyle. On Twitter
 Karlr61 Skype
  Www.academia.edu/karlroyle

 On 11 Nov 2014, at 20:51, paul levy via OSList 
 oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

   http://rationalmadness.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/w3.jpg

 I wonder if anyone reading this has experiences to share of what I am
 about to describe. Most published stories of open space tend to go by the
 book. The book is often referred to as the *user *
 http://www.openspaceworld.com/users_guide.htm*guide*
 http://www.openspaceworld.com/users_guide.htm“, and it tends towards a
 process that is largely based on an* instruction manual*
 http://elementaleducation.com/wp-content/uploads/temp/OpenSpaceTechnology--UsersGuide.pdf.
 Dogmatic application manual can then lead, in my humble opinion, not to one
 less thing to do, but often one more thing to do. These are “guides” not
 rules, and that is the spirit in which they were written. In many cases,
 the user guide proves remarkably resilient and applicable. Yet there is
 always the next moment, the new story, the moment that needs something
 playful.

 There’s a lot in the manual (and the many trainings that have come into
 being from it) about sponsors and invitations, and the things that need to
 be done before an Open Space to ensure the open spacer er… opens space. I
 have no difficulty with the manual. It’s full of good advice and is the
 foundation you might just need to open some space. But, hey, what about
 this… I’m at a company away day that is looking at product innovation. It
 is business critical, and it is floundering. Powerpoint after Powerpoint
 has resulted in a stifled audience, and when they get to breakout sessions,
 the flipcharts look empty, the energy is low, and it all looks a bit too
 quiet. There’s a feeling in the room that the event is dying on its feet.
 Several sessions are lost in badly facilitated action planning. I am on the
 team and the lead facilitator looks to me for any ideas. It must be because
 I am silent and looking knowing and wise.

 Actually I’m seething inside at this over-facilitated, over-designed,
 overplanned conference crash. Do you mind if I… I ask, a bit pompously and
 the lead facilitator is up for whatever help he can get. I leap up, and
 step into the mess. I have a loud voice and it can’t get any worse than
 this. An idea has just occurred to me and I decide to hurl it into the
 cluttered room. “Er, hey.” I roar. “Why don’t we open some space?” I’m
 loud. It goes silent.

 This is what I say: “This is crap isn’t it?” Silence. “Can everyone bring
 their chairs and let’s get into a big circle. Tuts, irritation, doubt and
 mostly relief. Two minutes later there’s a big circle.

 I introduce open space in about four minutes and quickly crab some flip
 chart paper and tack it to the wall, creating four corners at new breakout
 spaces.

 I ask people to take their chairs with them and, within about ten minutes
 we have a whole bunch of different sessions, many based around action.

 The bosses in the room are gobsmacked.

 We have a two hour open space until wrap up and there’s a huge buzz in the
 room from this pop-up open space.

 The invite was improvised and spontaneous.

 The space opened because it wanted and needed to. It popped up and out as
 if it were the most natural thing in the world. It transformed the day and
 sent the clutter fleeing for cover. It was done without fuss and chairs
 from the main circle quickly went into breakout and back again. The
 facilitator team were edgy because they felt they were supposed to be doing
 something and I dragged them away for coffee. We chatted a bit about
 “emergence” and I was looked on as if I’d done some kind of magic. I was
 young and enjoyed the attention. I was also looked as as if I was a bit
 weird. Well, I am a bit weird. I do wonder if pop-up open space could and
 should happen a lot more.

 A lot of open spacers I know loved improvisation and spontaneity, yet when
 it comes to open space are a bit locked in the process in the book of
 instructions – the manual that tends to overplay the “prep” for the event.
 So, I’m waving a flag for pop-up, guerilla open space. Why not open some
 space even for the process of open space? Let’s shimmy it a little and see
 what falls out.

 “Flash mob” open space has, I think, a big future. My intuition tells me a
 fair number of facilitators have done it, and a fair few of them haven’t
 reported it, telling instead there more “responsible” by-the-book open
 space stories. But why not? Why not open some space on the spur of the
 moment? The invite is still there -it just takes a hell of a lot 

Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

yeah,  indeed flash mob Open Space always a great  possibility.  Thanks,
Skye

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Royle, Karl via OSList 
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

  Great!

 Sent by iPhone
 Karl Royle
 Head of Enterprise and Commercial Development

  Faculty of Education Health and Wellbeing
 University of Wolverhampton
 01902323006
 07815416698
 @karlroyle. On Twitter
 Karlr61 Skype
  Www.academia.edu/karlroyle

 On 11 Nov 2014, at 20:51, paul levy via OSList 
 oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

   http://rationalmadness.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/w3.jpg

 I wonder if anyone reading this has experiences to share of what I am
 about to describe. Most published stories of open space tend to go by the
 book. The book is often referred to as the *user *
 http://www.openspaceworld.com/users_guide.htm*guide*
 http://www.openspaceworld.com/users_guide.htm“, and it tends towards a
 process that is largely based on an* instruction manual*
 http://elementaleducation.com/wp-content/uploads/temp/OpenSpaceTechnology--UsersGuide.pdf.
 Dogmatic application manual can then lead, in my humble opinion, not to one
 less thing to do, but often one more thing to do. These are “guides” not
 rules, and that is the spirit in which they were written. In many cases,
 the user guide proves remarkably resilient and applicable. Yet there is
 always the next moment, the new story, the moment that needs something
 playful.

 There’s a lot in the manual (and the many trainings that have come into
 being from it) about sponsors and invitations, and the things that need to
 be done before an Open Space to ensure the open spacer er… opens space. I
 have no difficulty with the manual. It’s full of good advice and is the
 foundation you might just need to open some space. But, hey, what about
 this… I’m at a company away day that is looking at product innovation. It
 is business critical, and it is floundering. Powerpoint after Powerpoint
 has resulted in a stifled audience, and when they get to breakout sessions,
 the flipcharts look empty, the energy is low, and it all looks a bit too
 quiet. There’s a feeling in the room that the event is dying on its feet.
 Several sessions are lost in badly facilitated action planning. I am on the
 team and the lead facilitator looks to me for any ideas. It must be because
 I am silent and looking knowing and wise.

 Actually I’m seething inside at this over-facilitated, over-designed,
 overplanned conference crash. Do you mind if I… I ask, a bit pompously and
 the lead facilitator is up for whatever help he can get. I leap up, and
 step into the mess. I have a loud voice and it can’t get any worse than
 this. An idea has just occurred to me and I decide to hurl it into the
 cluttered room. “Er, hey.” I roar. “Why don’t we open some space?” I’m
 loud. It goes silent.

 This is what I say: “This is crap isn’t it?” Silence. “Can everyone bring
 their chairs and let’s get into a big circle. Tuts, irritation, doubt and
 mostly relief. Two minutes later there’s a big circle.

 I introduce open space in about four minutes and quickly crab some flip
 chart paper and tack it to the wall, creating four corners at new breakout
 spaces.

 I ask people to take their chairs with them and, within about ten minutes
 we have a whole bunch of different sessions, many based around action.

 The bosses in the room are gobsmacked.

 We have a two hour open space until wrap up and there’s a huge buzz in the
 room from this pop-up open space.

 The invite was improvised and spontaneous.

 The space opened because it wanted and needed to. It popped up and out as
 if it were the most natural thing in the world. It transformed the day and
 sent the clutter fleeing for cover. It was done without fuss and chairs
 from the main circle quickly went into breakout and back again. The
 facilitator team were edgy because they felt they were supposed to be doing
 something and I dragged them away for coffee. We chatted a bit about
 “emergence” and I was looked on as if I’d done some kind of magic. I was
 young and enjoyed the attention. I was also looked as as if I was a bit
 weird. Well, I am a bit weird. I do wonder if pop-up open space could and
 should happen a lot more.

 A lot of open spacers I know loved improvisation and spontaneity, yet when
 it comes to open space are a bit locked in the process in the book of
 instructions – the manual that tends to overplay the “prep” for the event.
 So, I’m waving a flag for pop-up, guerilla open space. Why not open some
 space even for the process of open space? Let’s shimmy it a little and see
 what falls out.

 “Flash mob” open space has, I think, a big future. My intuition tells me a
 fair number of facilitators have done it, and a fair few of them haven’t
 reported it, telling instead there more “responsible” by-the-book open
 space stories. But why not? Why not open some space on the spur of the
 moment? The invite is still there -it just takes a hell of a lot 

Re: [OSList] Fwd: Guerilla Open Space?

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

yeah,  indeed flash mob Open Space always a great  possibility.  Thanks,
Skye

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Royle, Karl via OSList 
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

  Great!

 Sent by iPhone
 Karl Royle
 Head of Enterprise and Commercial Development

  Faculty of Education Health and Wellbeing
 University of Wolverhampton
 01902323006
 07815416698
 @karlroyle. On Twitter
 Karlr61 Skype
  Www.academia.edu/karlroyle

 On 11 Nov 2014, at 20:51, paul levy via OSList 
 oslist@lists.openspacetech.org wrote:

   http://rationalmadness.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/w3.jpg

 I wonder if anyone reading this has experiences to share of what I am
 about to describe. Most published stories of open space tend to go by the
 book. The book is often referred to as the *user *
 http://www.openspaceworld.com/users_guide.htm*guide*
 http://www.openspaceworld.com/users_guide.htm“, and it tends towards a
 process that is largely based on an* instruction manual*
 http://elementaleducation.com/wp-content/uploads/temp/OpenSpaceTechnology--UsersGuide.pdf.
 Dogmatic application manual can then lead, in my humble opinion, not to one
 less thing to do, but often one more thing to do. These are “guides” not
 rules, and that is the spirit in which they were written. In many cases,
 the user guide proves remarkably resilient and applicable. Yet there is
 always the next moment, the new story, the moment that needs something
 playful.

 There’s a lot in the manual (and the many trainings that have come into
 being from it) about sponsors and invitations, and the things that need to
 be done before an Open Space to ensure the open spacer er… opens space. I
 have no difficulty with the manual. It’s full of good advice and is the
 foundation you might just need to open some space. But, hey, what about
 this… I’m at a company away day that is looking at product innovation. It
 is business critical, and it is floundering. Powerpoint after Powerpoint
 has resulted in a stifled audience, and when they get to breakout sessions,
 the flipcharts look empty, the energy is low, and it all looks a bit too
 quiet. There’s a feeling in the room that the event is dying on its feet.
 Several sessions are lost in badly facilitated action planning. I am on the
 team and the lead facilitator looks to me for any ideas. It must be because
 I am silent and looking knowing and wise.

 Actually I’m seething inside at this over-facilitated, over-designed,
 overplanned conference crash. Do you mind if I… I ask, a bit pompously and
 the lead facilitator is up for whatever help he can get. I leap up, and
 step into the mess. I have a loud voice and it can’t get any worse than
 this. An idea has just occurred to me and I decide to hurl it into the
 cluttered room. “Er, hey.” I roar. “Why don’t we open some space?” I’m
 loud. It goes silent.

 This is what I say: “This is crap isn’t it?” Silence. “Can everyone bring
 their chairs and let’s get into a big circle. Tuts, irritation, doubt and
 mostly relief. Two minutes later there’s a big circle.

 I introduce open space in about four minutes and quickly crab some flip
 chart paper and tack it to the wall, creating four corners at new breakout
 spaces.

 I ask people to take their chairs with them and, within about ten minutes
 we have a whole bunch of different sessions, many based around action.

 The bosses in the room are gobsmacked.

 We have a two hour open space until wrap up and there’s a huge buzz in the
 room from this pop-up open space.

 The invite was improvised and spontaneous.

 The space opened because it wanted and needed to. It popped up and out as
 if it were the most natural thing in the world. It transformed the day and
 sent the clutter fleeing for cover. It was done without fuss and chairs
 from the main circle quickly went into breakout and back again. The
 facilitator team were edgy because they felt they were supposed to be doing
 something and I dragged them away for coffee. We chatted a bit about
 “emergence” and I was looked on as if I’d done some kind of magic. I was
 young and enjoyed the attention. I was also looked as as if I was a bit
 weird. Well, I am a bit weird. I do wonder if pop-up open space could and
 should happen a lot more.

 A lot of open spacers I know loved improvisation and spontaneity, yet when
 it comes to open space are a bit locked in the process in the book of
 instructions – the manual that tends to overplay the “prep” for the event.
 So, I’m waving a flag for pop-up, guerilla open space. Why not open some
 space even for the process of open space? Let’s shimmy it a little and see
 what falls out.

 “Flash mob” open space has, I think, a big future. My intuition tells me a
 fair number of facilitators have done it, and a fair few of them haven’t
 reported it, telling instead there more “responsible” by-the-book open
 space stories. But why not? Why not open some space on the spur of the
 moment? The invite is still there -it just takes a hell of a lot