Re: [OSList] Open Space in Charlottesville

uestion about how things will work, ask >>> one of the people with their hands held up. >>> >>> Chris. >>> >>> ___ >>> CHRIS CORRIGAN >>> www.chriscorrigan.com >>> >>> >>> On Aug 31, 2017, at 1:50 PM, Birgitt

Re: [OSList] Open Space in Charlottesville

>> indifference"; >>> >>> - love for the beauty and eloquent simplicity of OST >>> - love for the - as yet to emerge - potential of the self organising >>> meeting >>> >>> The facilitator need not hope for the best nor fear the worst. Their

Re: [OSList] Open Space in Charlottesville

his request to the NCDD list too. > Thank you! > > Lucas Cioffi > Charlottesville, VA > Mobile: 917-528-1831 <(917)%20528-1831> > Lucas Cioffi > Founder, QiqoChat.com > Charlottesville, VA > Mobile: 917-528-1831 <(917)%20528-1831> > > On Fri, Sep 1, 201

Re: [OSList] Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution

Dear friends and colleagues, Doris and Anna Caroline are making a timely offer to join them in The Netherlands to learn about conflict, conflict resolution, and cross cultural conflict resolution. As Anna Caroline writes with her example, we teach that before assuming that the best first approach i

[OSList] Chris Weaver

dear friends and colleagues, I have not seen posts about the passing of our good friend Chris Weaver and so with deep respect and love for Chris, I note his passing here. Funeral will be Sunday in Asheville, North Carolina for this truly beautiful man who contributed so much to humanity, especially

[OSList] Fwd: Chris Weaver memorial

Dear friends and colleagues, Following is what is being circulated about the memorial service for Chris Weaver on Sunday. Chris once had a vision to develop a special school in the Olivette Community and wrote a book about it "Living School Design 1.0: Principles, Structures, Methodologies. Note t

[OSList] residential workshop coming up re organizational transformation based on OST

Dear friends and colleagues, Twenty three years ago my staff and I realized that we had created an organization that benefited from the same quality and quantity of high performance and high play that was experienced in an OST meeting. I remember writing a letter to Harrison about what was beginnin

[OSList] a talking circle in memory of Chris Weaver

Dear friends and colleagues, Chris Weaver, active in this OST community, was also active and beloved in our Genuine Contact community. In the Genuine Contact community, we are holding two talking circles so that we can do an online memorial for Chris Weaver. Why two? We couldn't get one common date

Re: [OSList] a talking circle in memory of Chris Weaver

correction: we are using Zoom, not Blackboard. My apologies for causing confusion, Birgitt On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 4:47 PM Birgitt Williams < birg...@dalarinternational.com> wrote: > Dear friends and colleagues, > Chris Weaver, active in this OST community, was also active and beloved in > our Gen

Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 82, Issue 3 re: conflict, conflict resolution, avoidance and Open Space

Dear Colleagues, I am interested in questions, and how people get wrapped up in answering a question, without first giving some discernment to whether or not it is the right question. Oh...I miss Fr. Brian Bainbridge when I get to thinking like thishe would have been a great one to have this co

Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 82, Issue 3 re: conflict, conflict resolution, avoidance and Open Space

viour. Even >> calling an open space meeting is a kind of narrowing of the constraints and >> degrees of freedom such that people need to encounter one another. >> >> For innovation work, testing, criticizing and breaking new ideas is an >> invaluable part of the creati

Re: [OSList] What is y/our biggest vision for OST ?

Dear Marai, Thank you for your invitation to imagine. Just yesterday I wrote a blog post about the benefits from the power of imagination...and using meetings as a catalyst to soar. Within participative

[OSList] creating clarity so participants can make an informed choice when responding to an invitation to a participatory meeting (like OST)

Dear friends and colleagues, This note is for you if -if you would like to improve the harvest and actions from an OST meeting. -if you measure the success of an OST meeting two or more months after the OST meeting looking at the difference that the meeting made I have a workshop happening tomor

Re: [OSList] OST in India

Hi Heidi, I have worked in India a lot in years 2007 to the present. OST was always part of the work as was capacity building so that I left behind people in every organization that I worked in who were taught the facilitation of OST, and also how to Work with OST within the institution for maximum

Re: [OSList] Hope Never Dies!

Okay folks, how come y'all are not using your Law of Two Feet?? If you are not learning something or contributing, time to move on. I believe that we all learned that from a master. If it doesn't have heart and meaning to me, I am out of 'there'. Hugs all around, Birgitt On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 3:

Re: [OSList] Hope Never Dies!

nsson > Facebook sida: EPS Human Invest AB > twitter:@EvaPSvensson > > *"Jag kan inte lära dig något. Allt jag kan göra är att ställa frågor till > dig, och låta dig själv finna svaren." Sokrates* > > > > > > > > > 3 apr. 2018 kl. 21:30 skrev Birgit

Re: [OSList] back full circle about 'planning meeting'

reached a ‘next level’ in the spiral… 😉 > > > > Thanks once again for your entertaining and informative workshop! > > > > Warm regards, > > Jeroen Vermeer > > > > *Van:* OSList *Namens *Birgitt > Williams via OSList > *Verzonden:* dinsdag 3 april 2018 19:13 &g

Re: [OSList] Open Space as Yarning Space (long)

> Hi Brendan, > > Lovely story. Thank you. Here is where my sense of humor took me regarding 'yarning circles' For forever, women, especially in days when 'the woman's place was in the home, etc etc, had 'yarning circlies with the different meaning of the word 'yarning' as in spinning wool, w

[OSList] Dead Moose Society...just in case you don't know about it!

Dear friends and colleagues who work with Open Space Technology, Ever so long ago (1997) and not so far away (Ontario, Canada) a few of us came up with a new society that we named The Dead Moose Society. I came across the invitation again just now doing some researchand want to share the invita

Re: [OSList] Dead Moose Society...just in case you don't know about it!

Here is one of my favorite Dead Moose stories from my archives. Twenty years later, I still know Monica and she is still opening space where and when she can...as is her friend. This story also is one of the early examples that touched me deeply of an OST meeting working...and having less than desi

Re: [OSList] A Question About Safety

Hi Sara, For all sorts of reasons, people give up their leadership of their lives, allowing their lives to be led by someone else, something else. We ask a question within our work, which is dedicated to nourishing a culture of leadership, "are you leading your life and if not, who or what is?". Th

[OSList] Beyond an OST meeting...the inspired organization

As much as I love OST meetings, what I love even more is when the outcomes make a significant difference in an organization. For some, the excitement comes in sustaining the new paradigm after using an OST meeting or series of meetings to shift from one paradigm to another. For others, the exciteme

[OSList] Carol Hiltner

I received a message from our friend Raffi Aftandelian with a request to post the following to this list. Carol has promoted OST in all of the ways she can, opening space in all sorts of ways. If you know Carol or don't, you may wish to reach out to give her thanks. Birgitt Friends, I just learne

Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2019 Invocations

Dear friends and colleagues in Open Space, out of a beautiful sea of possibilities, the one that I choose to put forward for the theme of the WOSONOS 2019 is "Take Up Space. YOU are meant to be here with your whole being". in genuine contact, Birgitt *Birgitt Williams* *Supporting Next Level Lead

Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2019 Invocations

USA 27613 Phone: 01-919-522-7750 On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 5:35 AM Juliane Martina Roell (Structure & Process) via OSList wrote: > Birgitt Williams via OSList schrieb am 02.04.19 um 18:49: > > Dear friends and colleagues in Open Space, > > out of a beautiful sea of possibilit

Re: [OSList] OST as a way to go in addressing climate change and other perils

Dear Al, My perspective is that the more that there is focus on what is not wanted, the more that the 'not wanted' gets energized. Within this perspective, I would not focus on a 'peril'. Earth has her own frequency, and is a beautiful living being whom I trust to look after herself. Humans are p

Re: [OSList] Companies using OST regularly

Hi François, The initial reason that I created the prototype that became the Genuine Contact program (international Genuine Contact Organization at www.genuinecontact.net) was based on my experience of multiple OST meetings in the same organization. Among the modules that we would teach in house i

[OSList] Who Opens the Space?

Dear friends and colleagues, "Who Opens the Space" I believe that I open the space for myself. I show up. I make a conscious choice about how much space I choose to open for myself, for myself as a whole person to participate. Sometimes the space feels safer to me than other times. Regardless, it

Re: [OSList] [GC] Who Opens the Space

Dear friends and colleagues, I have been enjoying the contributions, the variety of viewpoints. I look forward to more. Today, I was thinking about a different angle for going into this topic of 'who opens the space?'. The different angle is 'who closes the space?'. In my OST training with Harriso

[OSList] great learning opportunity for learning more about thriving in change...Summer Academy June 22-28 in Ontario, Canada

Dear friends and colleagues, this note is for those who make use of an OST meeting (or more than one) as part of an intentional change process in an organization. I and my partners are hosting a seven day learning intensive referred to as the Summer Academy. The theme for the days is Genuine Contac

Re: [OSList] great learning opportunity for learning more about thriving in change...Summer Academy June 22-28 in Ontario, Canada

Hi all, I have been passionate for over three decades now about how to succeed with organizational transformation. In 1992 I had my first (of seven) trainings in OST with Harrison Owen. I was mesmerized and have been in love with OST ever since. OST became an essential ingredient every time I led a

Re: [OSList] number of breakout groups

There are considerations regarding break-out spaces and the main space that go beyond the metrics presented so far. Clients, over time have helped me to understand 1.I need to pay attention to sound so that the break out circles are not all clustered in the main room, near each other, making it su

Re: [OSList] Government community engagement

Hi Eric, It seems that you have a longer term consulting assignment with pre-determined outcomes asked of you. The County Recovery Manager probably reports to some type of Council, and thus has a particular mandate and pre-determined outcomes. During the year, meetings have taken place. The meeting

Re: [OSList] Current Success with OST in K-12?

Jakesuggest you/your wife go through the archives. There was great and groundbreaking work done by the late Chris Weaver using OS in schools and he wrote to us all about it as he went. Birgitt *Birgitt Williams* *Supporting Next Level Leadership "Leading So People Will Lead"* Author, Senior C

Re: [OSList] open message to Nick Martin

Hi all, I would appreciate some clarification please. 1.I remember taking/sponsoring OST training with Harrison as the trainer, seven times, in those early days of helping OST get better understood to those interested in better understanding it. I see on this list frequently comments about Harriso

Re: [OSList] open message to Nick Martin

ways FREE. > Birthright of every creature on the planet. It's who we are, how we are, > what we do ... rather like breathing. Can't patent, can't copy write, Of > course you could just STOP (breathing). > > Harrison > > > > > -Original Message--

Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2019 registrations open

Dear Harold, I love the theme and recognizing the spirit of OST. I became a fan of OST when it was very much focused on opening space for spirit to do the work of spirit...always life nurturing and working with what is present. I love that before the WOSONOS there is a training in Working with OS

[OSList] avoid the traps of promising safety or comfort

Dear friends and colleagues in OST, My blog today may be of interest to you. We promise engagement...but never safety or comfort in genuine contact, Birgitt *Birgitt

Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2019 registrations open

e same time, I don't want to > take a spot that someone just learning about OST might benefit from. > > What are your thoughts? > > -- > Shalom, > > Chris Kloth > ChangeWorks of the Heartland > 254 South Merkle Road > Bexley, OH 43209-1801 > ph 614-239-1336 > fax 6

Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 99, Issue 10

your Genuine Contact work evolve from a distance. I >> noticed the pre-OSONOS session is from a module in your Genuine >> Contact program. I am wondering, as someone who still uses OST, if >> there is something in particular your approach might be distinct... >> something to

[OSList] action reflection learning track for leaders who have experienced OST in their organizations

Dear friends and colleagues in Open Space, When you facilitate an OST meeting in an organization, it is the formal leader who opens the space inside his/her organization for this meeting to take place. Whether the leader feels well versed in what OST is or is simply going along with something that

Re: [OSList] action reflection learning track for leaders who have experienced OST in their organizations

ike this come up for you? If yes, will you say something > about it? > > Kindly, > Thomas Perret > > > > The answer has consistently been about the leadership capacity of the > leadership team to lead an organization of people who are engaged in the > ways that were vi

Re: [OSList] action reflection learning track for leaders who have experienced OST in their organizations

h I would say. > > I am fascinated by accountability/responsibility and how things shift with > it. > > One question came up there: I’m not sure about the difference between > accountability and responsibility – will you tell me how you see it? > > Kind regards, > Thom

Re: [OSList] action reflection learning track for leaders who have experienced OST in their organizations

ry person takes responsibility for their share of governance and > action then we have the whole organism working together for success. The > best part is that the “local networks” are primed to support collaboration > and synergy based on success for all. > > Regards > Rob

[OSList] sacred space

Dear friends and colleagues, Over the years, I have given considerable thought and reflection to the concept of open space, including what Open Space Technology is, what it does. I have considered why it is a life nurturing strategy to use Open Space Technology as often as possible, everywhere in t

Re: [OSList] Open Space training before WOSonOS

Dear friends and colleagues, I have a little story to share about the development of the module *Working *with Open Space Technology. I fell in love with OST in 1992 when Harrison came to Ontario, Canada to offer his first four day Canadian OST training. The setting was the Five Oaks Conference Cen

Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 100, Issue 29

Dear Anne, how wonderful that you will join WOSONOS this year. I have so many happy memories of our times at what was then OSONOS and of my times joining you in Seattle and your visit to us in Ontario. We certainly got up to a lot of creativity, high spirits, high play, and more. As much as we are

Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 100, Issue 29

y Owen via OSList < oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > Greetings Anne and Birgitt! > > The website with the full invitation and registration is here > https://osius.org/wosonos2019 > > I would LOVE to see you both there. > > b > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 7:

Re: [OSList] Large Open Space with Anglican Church Australia

Congratulations Michael and Brendan , Among the many aspects of this story that are just great, the one I am appreciating the most is that you did your OST design so that all sessions were given 90 minutes, using the gift of time within the space, time for meaningful conversations. in genuine cont

[OSList] about Law of Two Feet

Dear friends and colleagues, I am getting ready to publish our company newsletter today in which I will be referencing the Working with OST workshop coming up just before WOSONOS and facilitated by Anna Caroline Turk and Thomas Herrmann. Today, my blog

Re: [OSList] OST for Org Design? - Hugh Huntington?

Hi Jake, Hugh Huntington moved to Marshall, NC and can be found via a search on facebook. I don't have other contact info for him as I lost touch over the years although thanks to fb we are 'friends'. It was great to see his name pop up in your mail, and great to see you referring to Tales of Open

Re: [OSList] Brief OST Case Studies - Feel Free to Add

Hi Jake, I appreciated the way that you organized this case study data. I appreciated a lot that the way that you reported the data gives OST its due credit while simultaneously not claiming that it does more than it does in a given business situation. Mostly it is presented a a chosen tool/method

Re: [OSList] Brief OST Case Studies - Feel Free to Add

Thank you for your generosity Harrison. Your early books are the ones that I so loved, the ones self published. When I went to the link to openspaceworld.com to get Tales from Open Space, I had a moment of even more delightyou have several of those early books available as a pdf for download.

Re: [OSList] Possible Relationship between Clean Language and Open Space

Hi Jake, Something more to think about relates to your sentence "But, I now see how Open Space also encourages introspection. In Open Space, participants have no recourse to authority; instead, they must rely on themselves." From my perspective, every individual has recourse to authority...the auth

[OSList] genuine contact

Dear friends and colleagues, the Genuine Contact program was developed throughout the 1990's, with one of its primary roots in Open Space Technology. In those early years of working with OST, studying with Harrison, participating in great conversations with wonderful people, I was fascinated with w

Re: [OSList] Brief OST Case Studies - Feel Free to Add

that we are always ready to blame things like OST for > poor outputs, a scapegoat. When things work and we have outstanding > outcomes we must include OST as part of the fabric of success. How much we > include it is dependent on the faith of the decision makers and their > openness

Re: [OSList] Brief OST Case Studies - Feel Free to Add

for > poor outputs, a scapegoat. When things work and we have outstanding > outcomes we must include OST as part of the fabric of success. How much we > include it is dependent on the faith of the decision makers and their > openness to the power of good process. > >

Re: [OSList] Additional Organizational Open Space Case Studies?

Hi Jake, thanks for digging this old case study up. It was published by the Open Space Institute of Canada but the correct name of the study doesn't have the word 'institute' in it. My quest path from that first great experience was to find out if the same experience and results could be created i

[OSList] occasional paper Endings and Beginnings by HO

Dear Harrison, I hope that the name of the occasional paper is correct Endings and Beginnings. I remember that as a valuable paper that I used to hand out to clients. I just looked for it among the many and wonderful papers you have on https://www.openspaceworld.com/ and couldn't find this particu

Re: [OSList] Urgency criterion?

Hi Jake, I agree with Barry about the word urgency and it being subject to interpretation. When I read your question, my thoughts took me to an Open Space Technology meeting sponsored by Fast Company magazine. The theme we went with was 'issues and opportunities to create the life you love'. Ticke

Re: [OSList] [GC] Getting ready - Working with Open Space Technology in Washington Oct 22-24

Dear Thomas and Anna Caroline, I hold a picture of you and your participants having joy and fulfillment of hopes with this workshopand that a few more people sign up so that they also can benefit from your exquisite and unique way of offering this Working with OST module of the Genuine Contact

Re: [OSList] Urgency criterion?

gt; > Kindly, > Thomas > > ___ > > All is possible together > > On 10 Oct 2019, at 17.55, Birgitt Williams via OSList < > oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > > Hi Jake, > I agree with Barry about the word urgency and it being subject to > interpretati

[OSList] Leadership Competencies for Thriving in a Culture of Constant Change

Dear friends and colleagues, I love supporting leaders who have a desire to shift their organizational culture to value leadership in everyone, to nourish a culture of leadership. They understand the importance of a liberating structure and a participatory architecture to engage and support a cultu

Re: [OSList] Quite a few questions about Sponsors, empathy and a safe open space for all it’s participants

Hi all, during the OST, what makes a difference are decisions about the theme, length of the OST, length of sessions, who gets invited and how, reports or no reports, and whether there is an intention for prioritizing/action post the OST. The biggest reason for good prep with many things to consid

Re: [OSList] Quite a few questions about Sponsors, empathy and a safe open space for all it’s participants

l >> be important. >> >> Do you have interest to both sponsor and facilitate an open space >> meeting? Any concerns about it? >> >> Jeff >> San Francisco >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 5, 2020, 7:56 AM Birgitt Williams via OSList < &g

Re: [OSList] My Journey with Open Space and Genuine Contact // Podcast GC 2020

Dear Anna Caroline, I so enjoyed the podcast that you and Doris did...and I look forward to listening in throughout this year. I appreciate that your focus in what you will share throughout this year includes how we are supported as leaders, consultants, parents, lovers, friends. The principles of

Re: [OSList] From Open Space to objectives and key results (OKRs)?

Hi Jake, i believe it is helpful to conceptualize that the OST meeting is what takes place, and it supports divergent, innovative thinking, creativity, play. Then, when you get to the balance of what you are setting out to do which I am assuming is on the .5 day following the full OST day, you are

Re: [OSList] How do you "hold space?"

The sponsor opens the space in their organization. The facilitator has the privilege of opening the space for people to get in touch with what they are passionate about. The facilitator is very controlling when doing so, not allowing any space invaders to sabotage the creation of the container. The

Re: [OSList] How do you "hold space?"

the participants’. Which makes me think you > consider this important. Whereas you, Michael, wrote that you might wait a > moment and then sometimes the participants themselves deal with it. > > Will you tell me from your viewpoints what you consider beneficial with > your

[OSList] Learning to be the 'holder of space' via Reiki

Dear friends and colleagues in OST, When I embraced Open Space Technology, I probed deeply into circle work and into the essence of 'holding space'. A significant part of that journey was learning Reiki. For me, the energy work through me, in me, of me that I do using Reiki and working with OST fe

[OSList] an upcoming learning opportunity for those interested in the greatest potential of using Open Space Technology elements and essence in the daily life of an organization

Dear friends and colleagues, This post is intended for those of you who feel the heart felt desire to work with the elements and essence of Open Space Technology in the daily life of an organization. My own desire to do so, inspired by my first training with Harrison Owen in Open Space Technology s

Re: [OSList] Sad news

Hi Viv, thank you for posting about Rob, and also mentioning about Brian. I like that in your description of Rob you said he always had an opinion to share...this brought a smile to me despite the sad news of Rob's passing. adding myself to the circle of people sitting in memories and appreciation

Re: [OSList] Crowdsourcing Amazing Templates for Online Facilitation

Hi Lucas, I would find it helpful if you could provide your concept of what a template is. I looked the form you have and it didn't provide sufficient info for me. I would also appreciate your thoughts behind your concept that with the templates, "any facilitator can copy, remix and reuse the temp

Re: [OSList] Questions on continuous Open Space

Hi Jake, That short article is about 25 years old and was written near the start of my almost 30 year investigation and application of organizational transformation. Our process is inclusive of the enormous value of using a single multi-day OST meeting as the catalyst for leaders choosing a path t

Re: [OSList] This list serve is antiquated big time

Thank you Harold, I love the simplicity that has been maintained for our email list, and the independence to the extent possible for us to be in a platform that supports us. Thank you for your work on this over many years, and also to those who preceded you. A super super simple way to pay attenti

Re: [OSList] [GC] How to shift a destructive "information-meeting" to a constructive dialogue meeting?

Dear Thomas, I would very much like to hear the ideas that you and your colleagues have come up with. I believe you, who live there and are deep in your cultural reality, have probably already found the best ideas. None of the issues you mention are new…fear, hostility, mistrust to politicia

Re: [OSList] Tips for working with Translators during Open Space event

Great input so far. I would like to tell a beautiful little story. Thomas Herrmann once facilitated an OST meeting for us speaking only in Swedish, deliberately doing the opening and so on in a language that none of us understood. It worked wonderfully and we had a lot of fun. It helped that some

Re: [OSList] OpenSpace Agility: How Agile can be successful. First Workshop in Germany, June from 13th to 15th

Hi Thomas…and colleagues who are following this thread, I hope you are open to having an exploration on this list about your concept of OpenSpace Agility and the offer you are creating. I see that you are a Art of Hosting professional, so I assume you have explored a lot about openness, spirit, ho

Re: [OSList] OpenSpace Agility: How Agile can be successful. First Workshop in Germany, June from 13th to 15th

s to support the Open Space plus Agile experience, preferably by becoming active participants. Sincerely, Mark Sheffield On Mar 5, 2016, at 8:54 AM, Birgitt Williams via OSList < <mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: Hi Thomas…and coll

Re: [OSList] OpenSpace Agility: How Agile can be successful. First Workshop in Germany, June from 13th to 15th

dership. OpenSpace Agility, like Open Space Technology, requires extraordinary leadership in order for its utilization in organizations to have staying power beyond the inevitable leadership changes that happen. Thoughts? Cheers, Doug Marteinson +1-403-284-5144 > On Mar 7, 2016, at 8:19 AM, Birg

Re: [OSList] OpenSpace Agility: How Agile can be successful. First Workshop in Germany, June from 13th to 15th

Warm greetings to you all, I showed up with curiosity and an interest to understand OpenSpace Agile. Part of my wonder was what was behind the combination, how it was working out, and how the bridging was done between the two. I do have some answers and I thank you for that. I also now have many m

[OSList] embracing paradox as a leadership competency

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Facilitators, change agents, consultants, coaches, moderators and trainers, in my experience, struggle with their role and power as leaders. Years ago, I learned a lot from the late Angeles Arrien about the power of leadership: the power of position, the power of influ

Re: [OSList] embracing paradox as a leadership competency

e answers, then we are resigning ourselves to being a dependent community of followers yet reserving the right to sacrifice the leader when the answers do not address the real problem or prove unacceptable." Click here for the short article <http://timebankswork.net/tiki/tiki-

Re: [OSList] embracing paradox as a leadership competency

and life. A journey of continuing exploration that is as you've described it. Thank you!! Suzanne On Mar 14, 2016 9:58 AM, "Birgitt Williams via OSList" wrote: Thanks Michael, Tony, Daniel, Skye, and Marie, Great contributions. Thank you. I appreciated the images of oscillati

Re: [OSList] Open Space Technology Training in Vancouver June 2-3, 2016

> Hi Chris, > Looks like you have a great program planned. I value the importance of > designing and preparing for OST meetings, particularly for the purpose of > the greatest effectiveness in existent organizations. When this is done > well, the organization reaps greater and long term benefits fr

Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 59, Issue 26

Hi Christopher, i think you have a wonderful opportunity and I see that Vini has offered to be some help. I agree with Harrison and that no training is necessary to learn to facilitate an OST meeting...the training that most of us do is much more about working with OST...the before and the after.

[OSList] Engagement and leadership

Dear friends and colleagues, >From my perspective a key factor in boosting sustainability of outcomes after a participatory meeting, such as we do with Open Space Technology, is the capacity of leadership. I covered this topic in my blog today and wanted to draw it to your attention as it might be

[OSList] Whoever comes are the right beings

Dear friends and colleagues, If you are open to considering beings like angels, beings in other dimensions, spirit animals, and other teachers, helpers and guides, it may be time to shift the principle 'whoever comes are the right people' to 'whoever comes are the right beings'. Our company has hos

Re: [OSList] OST for big changes in company

Hi Karolina, An article that Harrison wrote a very long time ago has a title that I believe is called 'Endings and Beginnings'. I believe this article is from before OST was birthed, it is that long ago. It is probably archived on the wiki site. I have found it useful to circulate as a resource to

Re: [OSList] formal report on OS used in healthcare (malaria elimination) in rwanda

thanks for this Michael. it is great to have objective statements about the value of OST. I hope that the wiki site is still active and possibly this could be posted to it isn't lost to our knowledge base. I am not so sure that there is accuracy in saying that OST is new to health research...I thin

Re: [OSList] Open Space voices

David...thank you for your generosity! Brendan...thank you for posting the videos and for your sweet sharing. David...I would prefer YouTube so that these great resources won't be lost from the wider global community...as long as YouTube is in business. With appreciation, Birgitt ps...I am feelin

Re: [OSList] who are the right people

Hi Chris, I was attempting to understand what you are asking about and I realized I did not understand. I would appreciate you clarifying some of what you have written. -if you are saying only global youth can mobilize on these issues if sustainability is to be our future, do you want intergenerati

Re: [OSList] who are the right people

Hi Jeff, I believe that the best way 'in' is through the student councils, with the intention of setting up student council sponsored conversations. I also recommend that you contact people at organizations like Greenpeace who have been successful at getting events set up for them on campuses for a

[OSList] Fwd: who are the right people

Thanks for your answers Chris. I can see that good tips and suggestions are already coming forward. I don't want to assume you have this information. My work is often with international development agencies and this information is very important to their priorities. It is the United Nations 15 year

Re: [OSList] who are the right people

Dear David, Thank you for doing this! Even light editing is work and I appreciate your generosity in providing these resources. Dear all, In my search for resources and for our shared knowledge as it evolved over time, I just spent a delightful extended coffee break sitting on my front porch and s

Re: [OSList] who are the right people

es > 312-280-7838 (mobile) > > http://MichaelHerman.com > http://OpenSpaceWorld.org > > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Birgitt Williams via OSList < > oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > >> Dear David, >> Thank you for doing this! Even light editing i

Re: [OSList] Open Space online community numbers

Hi Harold, IF and only IF you are not seeking info about on line forums dedicated solely to OST, you may be interested in the discussions on the Genuine Contact community's online forum. We often discuss matters related to OST and to the ongoing use of OST in an organization. the Genuine Contact pr

Re: [OSList] Open Space online community numbers

also heard great things about you and your trainings on the hotline and >> hope to meet some day :) >> >> Tricia Chirumbole >> US: +1-571-232-0942 >> Skype: tricia.chirumbole >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Birgitt Williams via OSList < >&

Re: [OSList] A Little tremor...

Dear friends and colleagues, We do indeed have an interesting opportunity as people who care about facilitating OST to open space for conversations that would be useful, enlightening, and bridging across divides. Change is a constant. Accompanying change as constant is loss even if there are also g

Re: [OSList] A Little tremor...

ht of that I am fully flabbergasted on how, minutes after the > Brexit, before even anyone had time to scream "shit", the busy > EU-functionaries had all kinds of ideas on what the EU and the UK needed > to do immediately. > That stance is what probably got "us" into th

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