Re: [OSList] Deep Visioning

2016-09-21 Thread Rotem Ofer via OSList
Hi Christine, - The Web site was only English. The Local workshops were facilitated by the local HR specialists and were made in the local language. - The process was over 6 months. - The website designed to enable to collect the crowd wisdom - the employees were encouraged to

Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 65, Issue 16

2016-09-21 Thread anne stadler via OSList
Open Space colleague and a dear friend to us all has done > something pretty amazing. Sharing it with you now on this special day. > > I am also reminded of the wonderful Open Space gatherings that have taken > place at International House in New York for the past 20 years or so, &g

Re: [OSList] Safety

2016-09-21 Thread David Osborne via OSList
Harrison .and I suspect the *genuine invitation* to be yourself, follow your passion, take responsibility.coupled with a *genuinely psychologically safe place* for it to happenadds significantly to all the amazing things that follow. As you know even the invitation versus "you must

Re: [OSList] Safety

2016-09-21 Thread Harrison Owen via OSList
Harold - having worked with a number of wonderful people all over the world who were not in anything that anybody might consider a "safe space" (people kept dying/killed) - the promise of safety would be a little off the wall. The only promise was . Be yourselves, follow your passion and take

Re: [OSList] Safety

2016-09-21 Thread Harold Shinsato via OSList
Wow - thank you Peggy and Birgitt - very valuable. I'm curious about two things. What is the difference between focus on welcoming, and a focus on safety - and how can the sponsor help make the space welcoming? The second - the reason safety has become much more important to me is the story

Re: [OSList] Safety

2016-09-21 Thread Birgitt Williams via OSList
Hi Harold, I believe that the greatest issues about safety come about when a facilitator attempts to reassure people that 'this is safe space'. We can never know if the space for conversations is actually safe, despite the safeguards built in by the four principles and the one law of OST. Those

Re: [OSList] Safety

2016-09-21 Thread Peggy Holman via OSList
Great question Harold! I always wince when people say the space needs to be safe. If you make space so safe that it leaves the opportunity for messiness out, nothing happens. Sometimes I’ve said "safe enough”. Ultimately, as you said, a sense of safety comes from within. Rather than safety, I

[OSList] Safety

2016-09-21 Thread Harold Shinsato via OSList
Dear People(s) of Open Space, What is the importance of safety? What, if any, work is needed in the "pre-work" to help ensure safety? It seems that safety is doomed if the "givens" are that the people in the organization must either be silent or agree with the "powers that be" on

Re: [OSList] [GC] Time challenge - multiple short OSTs? (x-posted OS/GC-lists)

2016-09-21 Thread Thomas Herrmann via OSList
Wow thanks everyone contributing in this thread! I love the examples and learn from them and get strengthened. Often there is worry of negativity and criticism, but when space is opened passion and responsibility shows up :) Great example Michael H and Peggy. This keeps happening, isn't it?!

[OSList] International Day of Peace

2016-09-21 Thread Suzanne Daigle via OSList
Claudia Gross, an Open Space colleague and a dear friend to us all has done something pretty amazing. Sharing it with you now on this special day. I am also reminded of the wonderful Open Space gatherings that have taken place at International House in New York for the past 20 years or so, hosted