[OSList] What's Open Space got to do with Group Relations?

2015-12-10 Thread Daniel Mezick via OSList
What's Open Space got to do with Group Relations? Wait. What is Group Relations? It's this, and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENHO1yUtCRo http://www.tavinstitute.org/what-we-offer/group-relations/ So: What's Open Space got to do with Group Relations? Probably nothing, right? Wait.

Re: [OSList] Open Space wherever, however, whenever, with whomever as often as you can

2015-12-10 Thread helene via OSList
thanks for all of this! we are trusting in unlimited love so perhaps we don't like to get aware of our limits (= inner limits and/or OS limits) but indeed: if we invite very widely or even aim at "Trump-ists" and, for instance, at a OS 50% of the participants happen to be,that sort of very

Re: [OSList] What's Open Space got to do with Group Relations?

2015-12-10 Thread Daniel Mezick via OSList
OK. Good one. Like. But wait. Aren't those similarities just really juicy? What about those? On 12/10/15 4:36 PM, Jeff Aitken wrote: As Harrison often says, these other folks work way too hard... On Dec 10, 2015 1:21 PM, "Jeff Aitken"

Re: [OSList] What's Open Space got to do with Group Relations?

2015-12-10 Thread Daniel Mezick via OSList
Not to mention the 100% present-tense, "here and now" orientation of both Open Space and GR Conferences On 12/10/15 3:15 PM, Daniel Mezick via OSList wrote: What's Open Space got to do with Group Relations? Wait. What is Group Relations? It's this, and this:

Re: [OSList] What's Open Space got to do with Group Relations?

2015-12-10 Thread Jeff Aitken via OSList
As Harrison often says, these other folks work way too hard... On Dec 10, 2015 1:21 PM, "Jeff Aitken" wrote: > Hi Dan, > > This may be a difference: > > Easy to facilitate such that the facilitator can take a nap, pick up > coffee cups, and hold space in the hotel bar

Re: [OSList] What's Open Space got to do with Group Relations?

2015-12-10 Thread Jeff Aitken via OSList
Sure! I'm sorry to be an Eeyore this week. Jeff On Dec 10, 2015 1:49 PM, "Daniel Mezick" wrote: > OK. Good one. Like. > > But wait. Aren't those similarities just really juicy? What about those? > > On 12/10/15 4:36 PM, Jeff Aitken wrote: > > As Harrison often says, these

Re: [OSList] What's Open Space got to do with Group Relations?

2015-12-10 Thread Jeff Aitken via OSList
Hi Dan, This may be a difference: Easy to facilitate such that the facilitator can take a nap, pick up coffee cups, and hold space in the hotel bar until the closing which requires a higher level of attention? : ) Jeff On Dec 10, 2015 12:21 PM, "Daniel Mezick via OSList" <

Re: [OSList] What's Open Space got to do with Group Relations?

2015-12-10 Thread Michael M Pannwitz via OSList
Dear Dan, reading through the "items", I see nothing I specifically associate with open space. --- Nothing is 100% --- all os events I have seen are highly structured --- All kinds of things are potentially triggering --- Everything is about leadership and authority and other stuff --- I

Re: [OSList] Open Space wherever, however, whenever, with whomever as often as you can

2015-12-10 Thread Harrison Owen via OSList
Dan – Can’t really disagree with a lot of what you are saying – Trump has clearly found a resonant chord, articulating many thoughts and feelings that should have been exposed to some fresh air and open discussion – even if very unpleasant. And Open Space has proved itself useful and effective

Re: [OSList] What's Open Space got to do with Group Relations?

2015-12-10 Thread Daniel Mezick via OSList
Michael, Thanks for your response to my post about Group Relations. Have you attended many of these? There is more than a little irony in the assertion that "nothing is 100%." Can you see why? Regards, Daniel On 12/10/15 5:19 PM, Michael M Pannwitz wrote: Dear Dan, reading through the

Re: [OSList] What's Open Space got to do with Group Relations?

2015-12-10 Thread Daniel Mezick via OSList
Am I the Trigger character then? On 12/10/15 4:59 PM, Jeff Aitken wrote: Sure! I'm sorry to be an Eeyore this week. Jeff On Dec 10, 2015 1:49 PM, "Daniel Mezick" > wrote: OK. Good one. Like. But wait. Aren't those similarities just

Re: [OSList] What's Open Space got to do with Group Relations?

2015-12-10 Thread Jeff Aitken via OSList
Ok who is the taoist Piglet? On Dec 10, 2015 4:22 PM, "Daniel Mezick" wrote: > Am I the Trigger character then? > > On 12/10/15 4:59 PM, Jeff Aitken wrote: > > Sure! I'm sorry to be an Eeyore this week. > > Jeff > On Dec 10, 2015 1:49 PM, "Daniel Mezick"

Re: [OSList] Open Space wherever, however, whenever, with whomever as often as you can

2015-12-10 Thread Daniel Mezick via OSList
hi Helene, Hmm, I actually experience your English as very good! And I experience your thinking as /excellent/: "...So i think we have but one way: let things happen, trying nothing, giving up ends and means more and more people will /progressively participate and feel the effects of OS,

Re: [OSList] Live for the next 7 hours: OSonOSinOZ

2015-12-10 Thread Michael Herman via OSList
thanks, suzanne. listening now... -- Michael Herman Michael Herman Associates 312-280-7838 (mobile) http://MichaelHerman.com http://OpenSpaceWorld.org On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Suzanne Daigle via OSList < oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > Lucas and Michael, > > This

Re: [OSList] Live for the next 7 hours: OSonOSinOZ

2015-12-10 Thread Suzanne Daigle via OSList
Lucas and Michael, This continues to be so exciting! Totally in the spirit of opening space everywhere, anywhere and all the time. >From Manila to the world of OZ to Denver where I am with a dozen trailblazing folks opening space around self-management and high participation in organizations.

Re: [OSList] What's Open Space got to do with Group Relations?

2015-12-10 Thread Carmela Ariza via OSList
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