Lots of Questions - and your last (How to become a practitioner??) it the easiest. Do it! If you have a copy of The User's Guide, you have all you need to get started. As for more stories, you might want to check out "Tales from Open Space" (http://openspaceworld.com/Tales.pdf ) This is a collection written some years ago by lots of different people, but I think they are all still pretty current. And when you are on that site (Openspaceworld.com) you may want to look about a bit. Lots more papers and stuff which may not show up on Openspaceworld.org.
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 Skype hhowen Open Space Training <http://www.openspaceworld.com/> www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute <http://www.openspaceworld.org/> www.openspaceworld.org Personal website <http://www.ho-image.com/> www.ho-image.com OSLIST: To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: <http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html> www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Ivana Balazevic-Fisher Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 10:16 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: questions, questions Hi all, I have come accross the OS a few days ago. Since then I have been pondering about it, reading what I found on internet and ordering books that felt right to order. And pondering some more. Getting the feeling for it. I love the papers posted on the openspaceworld.org. If ever I read a bunch of papers that made me feel at home (the first word of choice was: sane, but then I changed it to feeling at home), it is these. With this in view, I would be interested to know/read about the stories behind the events that the practitioners do - if a company calls for an OS day - why does it do it? What is the story behind it? I found Harrison's stories more than illuminating and hence the question. Another question would be: what happens afterwards? Say a company did a marvellous OS event - people got self-organized, they bonded, the Spirit spoke and sang and danced. But my question is: what happens next? Because: until a day before the OS event everyone had their job to attend to as defined in a world prior to the OS event. What are the experiences of what happens afterwards? Because, it seems to me, for the whole thing to actually be implemented in real life and not only during the three days of the OS event - a company (organisation, or whatever) would need to keep the space open afterwards too, people would have to be allowed to switch their teams if that is required by the commitment they made at the OS event, they would need to keep talking in open and free ways where everyone is equal as in the OS event for the event to live longer than the 3 days... And example that prompted this question is the example of Hampton Roads in one of the papers posted on the website - there the event seems to have found a way into everyday reality - what are other experiences on the ground? Then: how does one become a practitioner? And: are there any workshops, events or similar organised in Europe some time soon - I live in Barcelona, Spain so for me the ideal would be in Barcelona (a very nice city if I can entice you to come over), but if not, then I could make it anywhere else in Europe (at least I hope so). Or even outside Europe, funds and luck permitting. Keep up the good work. Best regards, Ivana __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
