Re: [OSList] OST meeting for ca. 500 people

[Harrison Owen via OSList]

Soo… A biggie! How about 2108? Logistical expert is Michael Pannwitz & Co in 
Berlin. All German Psychiatrists in two Circus Tents. Wonderful!

 

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Subject: [OSList] OST meeting for ca. 500 people

 

Hi.

I would like to ask about your experience regarding the venue requirements for 
OST event for ca. 500 people.
How much space (m2) is minimum?

What else are important areas organisers should take under consideration, so 
event would be safe and valuable for all participants?

I would appreciate your thoughts.

Thank you,

 

Wojtek

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Re: [OSList] OST meeting for ca. 500 people

[gerardo de luzenberger via OSList]

Ciao Wojciech,

I did a coouple of 500 participants OS last year.
A lot of learnings about space, breakouts, reporting, ., if you like we
can have a skype call
in the next days on that
ciao
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Il giorno mer 26 giu 2019 alle ore 15:32 Wojciech Zawisz via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> ha scritto:

> Hi.
> I would like to ask about your experience regarding the venue requirements
> for OST event for ca. 500 people.
> How much space (m2) is minimum?
> What else are important areas organisers should take under consideration,
> so event would be safe and valuable for all participants?
> I would appreciate your thoughts.
> Thank you,
>
> Wojtek
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[OSList] OST meeting for ca. 500 people

[Wojciech Zawisz via OSList]

Hi.
I would like to ask about your experience regarding the venue requirements
for OST event for ca. 500 people.
How much space (m2) is minimum?
What else are important areas organisers should take under consideration,
so event would be safe and valuable for all participants?
I would appreciate your thoughts.
Thank you,

Wojtek
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Re: [OSList] Orgs that Failed to Implement Self-Organization?

[Michael M Pannwitz via OSList]

Dear David,

you are touching basic issues, which I enjoy.
Getting to basic issues fuels a wider dialog.

Yes, self-organizing has been around since the Big Bang, in everything.

And it shows up regurlary and predictably in OST gatherings. Regardless 
of the conditions that are characteristic of any such gathering. And it 
shows up more or less impressively or noticeably in all kinds of 
situations that are in no way OST events: Tahir Place, Playground, New 
York City, Fridays for Future, neighborhood events... and on and on.


If there is a gathering and it is announced that it will have the form 
of an OST event and that promise is not met, selforganizing will happen 
nonetheless and sometimes with high action that can cause the event to 
close. And while it is certain that there will be change (everything 
changes all the time) there is no predicting what kind of change will 
happen or that a particular change will emerge.


If you go at this with the assumption that the influence of the "force 
of selforganization" can be "seen" in the manifestation of what we 
perceive as "selforganizing" in groups, organizations and systems... 
such as a group of small children selforganizing their activities 
without any apparent leadership (parents) or hired facilitators (us) 
having productive fun... it might be worth taking a closer look at that 
"force".
Taking a closer look aint easy because little is really known (in the 
Scientific meaning of "know") about the "force of selforganization". I 
suspect that has to do with the universal nature of the force. A 
characteristic that is not satisfyingly "researchable" with our limited 
abilities and skills.


One way of looking at it which I find useful for the unfolding of 
selforganization is paying attention to some of the prerequisites that 
expand time and space for the "force" to thrive in. Mind you, its there, 
it will unfold. However, it can be hampered... especially observeable in 
groups, organizations and systems that we ourselves have thought up and 
supplied with all sorts of "control" mechanisms.


Harrison has described how he saw the prerequisites that some deep 
thinkers discovered to be prerequisites for the emergence of "life" 
considerable time after the Big Bang also apply for an OST event. His 
quest into this realm was definitely influenced by the "force of 
selforganisation" which, however, had no idea what this would lead to 
(in the sense that we have "ideas").
Ok, he described the "adapted" prerequisites that, when in place, would 
have a positive influence on the chances for the  "force" to get more 
time and space for its play.


In my practice of OST as facilitator, getting the clients ("hosts") to 
check on the prerequisites led to either accepting the contract for an 
OST event or to suggest that they needed something else or to offer ways 
to them to have more of the prerquisites in place. This often resulted 
in changing from "mandated participation" to "voluntary participation" 
with the additional work of producing a real invitation, or expanded 
"diversity of participants" (not only inviting teachers of the school 
but everybody that has to do with the school or is effected by the 
school such as neighbors or financed the school, parents, or works in 
the school or offers experience in his business to students in the 
school).


Other prerequisites that are often mentioned such as high level of 
conflict, complex issue, open question no single person or group has an 
answer to, decision time of yesterday... also need to be checked on by 
the client/sponsor.


As you have noticed, one of the challenges for a facilitator (struggling 
with being totally present and entirely invisible) is meeting ones own 
care and passion while working as a facilitator.
Care and passion, especially when joined by responsibility, powerfully 
move wicked issues into action. Without these elements, little will 
happen in the circle, market place, in the breakout sessions and the 
ensuing action planning. But what actually happens among the 
selforganizing participants is not the playground of facilitators. That 
is best illustrated by the facilitator also disappearing bodily just 
after the marketplace phase... taking a nap. This is a tough number for 
many of us. But it is the acid test. Often not tolerated by sponsors (is 
this what we are paying you for?) and participants (where is your 
responsibility? Dont you see that this is a whole mess?).


From this perspective, care, passion and responsibility seen that way 
get into the way of the work of the facilitator... and the more freely 
unfolding "Force of Selforganization".


This I vaguely realized for the first time during an OT-Conference in 
Higlands, North Carolina (conducted as an OS) when an Indin Shaman, 
invited by HO, offered a session for us one evening to meet our 
ancestors. He sat in the center drumming, all of us sitting on the floor 
around him. After a while he said: "I love