Re: [OSList] Is Open Space Education Possible?
Hi Suzanne, Good to see you yesterday. I realized this morning that Kennen (California) and Jose were not signed up on the roster of Participants for Letting Go OPTSD Stories. I wanted to make sure that they were included. Wishing you a safe flight. Scott On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Suzanne Daigle via OSList < oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > Wow Chris, I have a story to add to your story. It was closer to midnight > last Friday, I couldn't sleep and I went to Facebook. Saw on Open Space > Technology FB that a young woman by the name of Amy Chen had posted > inquiring where there might be training in Open Space. I immediately > responded by private message and suggested New York at International House > in January with Harrison Owen and Karen Davis. She answered me back right > away saying she was really interested. We texted each other back and forth > for about 20 minutes. I suggested we Facetime the next morning at 10 am. > Well we did for an hour and a half. When Amy said she nearly fell off her > chair when Harrison invited her to Beijing, well I literally got off my > chair Saturday morning dancing on my kitchen floor after we hung up. > > You see we had an ageless conversation, going everywhere and anywhere. Her > history, my time in China, her huge interest in Open Space. It was an > incredible conversation. I could hardly contain my enthusiasm imagining all > the Open Space folks I wanted her to meet, some a little older than her, > others much older. No matter. I imagined others we could invite to New > York. I said you must come to Florida and meet the university students who > co-hosted the World Open Space in 2013. About 30 of them. We talked about > the future of work. I asked her if she knew Haier in China, a trailblazing > self managed company. She said yes. They are famous. At the end I was > exhausted with excitement. She was super energized. I suggested I'd sent > her information on people I'd love her to meet, virtually or in person, I > sent her tons of links, articles, etc. Totally fire hosed her. > We talked about the round the world, round the clock virtual experiment > celebrating Harrison's birthday. > It was like the best ping pong match ever. I was totally bowled over by > Amy too, for education and also for the workplace because Amy and others > represent what's possible if we leap frog ahead, by opening space to engage > and work together. > All I can say Chris is thank you for connecting with her and connecting us > all here. Fate then led you to introduce her to Harrison. How very cool it > all is! > Suzanne > Is it possible to Open Space Education? > > I had almost given up asking this question when I was bowled over by this > 23 year old chinese lady Amy the week before Independence Day 2015. It was > her first trip abroad and she was interviewing anyone she could from over > 50 nations at the 20th year of the creative children festival celebrated on > the Mall Washngton DC. Her favorite interviewees were the children but > there were also elders like Samara Ethiopian-American owner of the 5 > billion person elearning satellite yazmi, or Bangladeshi Naila for 15 years > muhammad yunus first female director of grameen mobile phone, or William a > Chinese America retiree who has spent quarter of a century building > friendships out of Chillicon Valley (Stanford), or Taddy Blecher founder of > the Mandela extranet and the free university of entrepreneurship for the > underprivileged. Amy seemed to grow about 10 years in self-confidence by > the end of her 10 days in DC, but as she flew back to China I never > really expected to see the likes of her again > > 3 months later i got a whats app message, it was Amy: is there anyone > more innovative I can interview on my second trip. I said the only person i > can think of is Harrison Owen in Maryland. She said what? Why didnt I see > him first time? I said he lives summers on a boat in Maine. She said > what? > ...Thankfully they had lunch on her second voyage abroad. And he said to > her if you are happy to cancel rest of our DC trip, why not come to Beijing > and observe open space china with me. Amy gulped: am I a right person? of > course, yes please. At the airport she said to me *I will be back* and > next I want to interview a leader of a social business college. I said > what? But while Amy was observing Harrison magic in Beijing, i was being > debriefed on some research at the Vatican University. Their information > was that the only college leadership team in USA they had found to be up > for the pro-youth curriculum transformation of Pope Francis was in > Brooklyn, thanks to the extraordinary female Dean there. > > So here we are last week with : a short video of Amy's first gig in > Brooklyn and the Dean's review. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztwZi_g2F-8=youtu.be > https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/eel-comes-brooklyn-new-york-joann-d-rolle-ph-d-?trk=mp-author-card > What will happen next
Re: [OSList] Is Open Space Education Possible?
Dear Jeff May i introduce amy/alizee i think you may find she is a perfectionist with boundless energy and very concerned to try to learn how to live up to harrison's spirit and goals especially of what i call stage 2 the open space itself i am very much more concerned with stage 1 - the invitation process- its not that I dont love stage 2 but I am an introverted maths guy and have zero skills as a mass real-time facilitator right now the invitation challenge concerning me in usa is how to spread enough awareness among 7000 students in the poorest college in the CUNY (public new york) system that they could be spending part of their time engaging academics in formats that are nearer open space than podium lectures and endless examinations; next months challenge will be planning 2016 exchanges between black and chinese youth as we are hopeful that amy has found a part of new york development agencies who want such a new york-china goodwill movement- fortunately her fiends at the vatican like maurizio want to triangularise this youth movement by including latin/franciscans who first introduced us to the Brooklyn college's leadership team If you are ever in new york or dc, amy would do a much better job than me in showing you round this sort of open space education challenge but i would be game too if i can be of any use Tomorrow our brooklyn college leadership has dared itself to show michael moores new film (kindly lent to us by the only half good mass media studio in new york) to hundreds of students - it starts with the claim that the exponentially increased cost of college education since the 1970s has been part of a most depressing way of controling black youth so that they have little role in developing anything - we are hoping the audience will be in live tweet mode after that heaven help us we may need all the facilitation skills we can outreach to chris macrae dc 240 316 8157 From: Jeff Aitken <r.jeff.ait...@gmail.com> To: christopher macrae <chris.mac...@yahoo.co.uk>; World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Sent: Sunday, 6 December 2015, 7:49 Subject: Re: [OSList] Is Open Space Education Possible? Very exciting Chris and Harrison and it was fun to meet Amy via the video.(Also curious about the theater and therapy connection she mentioned, as i have a friend who wants to take drama therapy back home to China.)Good to read JoAnn's report too. What may be next? In addition to the conferences JoAnn mentioned.Best Jeff Rainy night, north of San Francisco Is it possible to Open Space Education? I had almost given up asking this question when I was bowledover by this 23 year old chinese lady Amy the week before Independence Day 2015.It was her first trip abroad and she was interviewing anyone she could fromover 50 nations at the 20th year of the creative children festival celebrated onthe Mall Washngton DC. Her favorite interviewees were the children but therewere also elders like Samara Ethiopian-American owner of the 5billion person elearning satellite yazmi, or Bangladeshi Naila for 15 yearsmuhammad yunus first female director of grameen mobile phone, or William aChinese America retiree who has spent quarter of a century building friendshipsout of Chillicon Valley (Stanford), or Taddy Blecher founder of the Mandelaextranet and the free university of entrepreneurship for the underprivileged.Amy seemed to grow about 10 years in self-confidence by the end of her 10 daysin DC, but as she flew back to ChinaI never really expected to see the likes of her again 3 months later i got a whats app message, it was Amy: is there anyone more innovative I caninterview on my second trip. I said the only person i can think of is Harrison Owenin Maryland. She said what? Whydidnt I see him first time? I said he lives summers on a boat in Maine.She said what? ...Thankfully they had lunch on her second voyage abroad. Andhe said to her if you are happy to cancel rest of our DC trip, why not come toBeijing and observe open space china with me. Amy gulped: am I a right person?of course, yes please. At the airport she said to me I will be back and nextI want to interview a leader of a social business college. I said what? But whileAmy was observing Harrison magic in Beijing,i was being debriefed on some research at the Vatican University. Their information wasthat the only college leadership team in USAthey had found to be up for the pro-youth curriculum transformation of PopeFrancis was in Brooklyn, thanks to the extraordinaryfemale Dean there. So here we are last week with : a short video of Amy's firstgig in Brooklyn and the Dean's review. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztwZi_g2F-8=youtu.be https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/eel-comes-brooklyn-new-york-joann-d-rolle-ph-d-?trk=mp-author-card What will happen next could be fun... ___ O
Re: [OSList] Is Open Space Education Possible?
Wow Chris, I have a story to add to your story. It was closer to midnight last Friday, I couldn't sleep and I went to Facebook. Saw on Open Space Technology FB that a young woman by the name of Amy Chen had posted inquiring where there might be training in Open Space. I immediately responded by private message and suggested New York at International House in January with Harrison Owen and Karen Davis. She answered me back right away saying she was really interested. We texted each other back and forth for about 20 minutes. I suggested we Facetime the next morning at 10 am. Well we did for an hour and a half. When Amy said she nearly fell off her chair when Harrison invited her to Beijing, well I literally got off my chair Saturday morning dancing on my kitchen floor after we hung up. You see we had an ageless conversation, going everywhere and anywhere. Her history, my time in China, her huge interest in Open Space. It was an incredible conversation. I could hardly contain my enthusiasm imagining all the Open Space folks I wanted her to meet, some a little older than her, others much older. No matter. I imagined others we could invite to New York. I said you must come to Florida and meet the university students who co-hosted the World Open Space in 2013. About 30 of them. We talked about the future of work. I asked her if she knew Haier in China, a trailblazing self managed company. She said yes. They are famous. At the end I was exhausted with excitement. She was super energized. I suggested I'd sent her information on people I'd love her to meet, virtually or in person, I sent her tons of links, articles, etc. Totally fire hosed her. We talked about the round the world, round the clock virtual experiment celebrating Harrison's birthday. It was like the best ping pong match ever. I was totally bowled over by Amy too, for education and also for the workplace because Amy and others represent what's possible if we leap frog ahead, by opening space to engage and work together. All I can say Chris is thank you for connecting with her and connecting us all here. Fate then led you to introduce her to Harrison. How very cool it all is! Suzanne Is it possible to Open Space Education? I had almost given up asking this question when I was bowled over by this 23 year old chinese lady Amy the week before Independence Day 2015. It was her first trip abroad and she was interviewing anyone she could from over 50 nations at the 20th year of the creative children festival celebrated on the Mall Washngton DC. Her favorite interviewees were the children but there were also elders like Samara Ethiopian-American owner of the 5 billion person elearning satellite yazmi, or Bangladeshi Naila for 15 years muhammad yunus first female director of grameen mobile phone, or William a Chinese America retiree who has spent quarter of a century building friendships out of Chillicon Valley (Stanford), or Taddy Blecher founder of the Mandela extranet and the free university of entrepreneurship for the underprivileged. Amy seemed to grow about 10 years in self-confidence by the end of her 10 days in DC, but as she flew back to China I never really expected to see the likes of her again 3 months later i got a whats app message, it was Amy: is there anyone more innovative I can interview on my second trip. I said the only person i can think of is Harrison Owen in Maryland. She said what? Why didnt I see him first time? I said he lives summers on a boat in Maine. She said what? ...Thankfully they had lunch on her second voyage abroad. And he said to her if you are happy to cancel rest of our DC trip, why not come to Beijing and observe open space china with me. Amy gulped: am I a right person? of course, yes please. At the airport she said to me *I will be back* and next I want to interview a leader of a social business college. I said what? But while Amy was observing Harrison magic in Beijing, i was being debriefed on some research at the Vatican University. Their information was that the only college leadership team in USA they had found to be up for the pro-youth curriculum transformation of Pope Francis was in Brooklyn, thanks to the extraordinary female Dean there. So here we are last week with : a short video of Amy's first gig in Brooklyn and the Dean's review. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztwZi_g2F-8=youtu.be https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/eel-comes-brooklyn-new-york-joann-d-rolle-ph-d-?trk=mp-author-card What will happen next could be fun... ___ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org ___ OSList mailing list To post send
[OSList] Is Open Space Education Possible?
Is it possible to Open Space Education? I had almost given up asking this question when I was bowledover by this 23 year old chinese lady Amy the week before Independence Day 2015.It was her first trip abroad and she was interviewing anyone she could fromover 50 nations at the 20th year of the creative children festival celebrated onthe Mall Washngton DC. Her favorite interviewees were the children but therewere also elders like Samara Ethiopian-American owner of the 5billion person elearning satellite yazmi, or Bangladeshi Naila for 15 yearsmuhammad yunus first female director of grameen mobile phone, or William aChinese America retiree who has spent quarter of a century building friendshipsout of Chillicon Valley (Stanford), or Taddy Blecher founder of the Mandelaextranet and the free university of entrepreneurship for the underprivileged.Amy seemed to grow about 10 years in self-confidence by the end of her 10 daysin DC, but as she flew back to ChinaI never really expected to see the likes of her again 3 months later i got a whats app message, it was Amy: is there anyone more innovative I caninterview on my second trip. I said the only person i can think of is Harrison Owenin Maryland. She said what? Whydidnt I see him first time? I said he lives summers on a boat in Maine.She said what? ...Thankfully they had lunch on her second voyage abroad. Andhe said to her if you are happy to cancel rest of our DC trip, why not come toBeijing and observe open space china with me. Amy gulped: am I a right person?of course, yes please. At the airport she said to me I will be back and nextI want to interview a leader of a social business college. I said what? But whileAmy was observing Harrison magic in Beijing,i was being debriefed on some research at the Vatican University. Their information wasthat the only college leadership team in USAthey had found to be up for the pro-youth curriculum transformation of PopeFrancis was in Brooklyn, thanks to the extraordinaryfemale Dean there. So here we are last week with : a short video of Amy's firstgig in Brooklyn and the Dean's review. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztwZi_g2F-8=youtu.be https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/eel-comes-brooklyn-new-york-joann-d-rolle-ph-d-?trk=mp-author-card What will happen next could be fun... ___ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
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Very exciting Chris and Harrison and it was fun to meet Amy via the video. (Also curious about the theater and therapy connection she mentioned, as i have a friend who wants to take drama therapy back home to China.) Good to read JoAnn's report too. What may be next? In addition to the conferences JoAnn mentioned. Best Jeff Rainy night, north of San Francisco Is it possible to Open Space Education? I had almost given up asking this question when I was bowled over by this 23 year old chinese lady Amy the week before Independence Day 2015. It was her first trip abroad and she was interviewing anyone she could from over 50 nations at the 20th year of the creative children festival celebrated on the Mall Washngton DC. Her favorite interviewees were the children but there were also elders like Samara Ethiopian-American owner of the 5 billion person elearning satellite yazmi, or Bangladeshi Naila for 15 years muhammad yunus first female director of grameen mobile phone, or William a Chinese America retiree who has spent quarter of a century building friendships out of Chillicon Valley (Stanford), or Taddy Blecher founder of the Mandela extranet and the free university of entrepreneurship for the underprivileged. Amy seemed to grow about 10 years in self-confidence by the end of her 10 days in DC, but as she flew back to China I never really expected to see the likes of her again 3 months later i got a whats app message, it was Amy: is there anyone more innovative I can interview on my second trip. I said the only person i can think of is Harrison Owen in Maryland. She said what? Why didnt I see him first time? I said he lives summers on a boat in Maine. She said what? ...Thankfully they had lunch on her second voyage abroad. And he said to her if you are happy to cancel rest of our DC trip, why not come to Beijing and observe open space china with me. Amy gulped: am I a right person? of course, yes please. At the airport she said to me *I will be back* and next I want to interview a leader of a social business college. I said what? But while Amy was observing Harrison magic in Beijing, i was being debriefed on some research at the Vatican University. Their information was that the only college leadership team in USA they had found to be up for the pro-youth curriculum transformation of Pope Francis was in Brooklyn, thanks to the extraordinary female Dean there. So here we are last week with : a short video of Amy's first gig in Brooklyn and the Dean's review. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztwZi_g2F-8=youtu.be https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/eel-comes-brooklyn-new-york-joann-d-rolle-ph-d-?trk=mp-author-card What will happen next could be fun... ___ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org ___ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
