Absolutely wonderful little video! Thank you for taking it and thank you for posting it! It is inspiring to watch and absorb.
All the very best, Anna Christine -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] På vegne af oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org Sendt: 20. maj 2013 21:02 Til: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org Emne: OSList Digest, Vol 27, Issue 17 Send OSList mailing list submissions to oslist@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org You can reach the person managing the list at oslist-ow...@lists.openspacetech.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of OSList digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations (Harold Shinsato) 2. Re: WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations (Phelim McDermott) 3. Re: WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations (Artur Silva) 4. Re: Rough little video of HO walking the circle in the Already Always Open Space (Harrison Owen) 5. Health and healthcare applications. (Dawn Ellison) 6. Re: Health and healthcare applications. (Chris Corrigan) 7. Orphaning the Top Table and the Power of the Circle (paul levy) 8. Re: Orphaning the Top Table and the Power of the Circle (Jon Harvey) 9. Re: WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations (Galina Tsarkova) 10. Re: Rough little video of HO walking the circle in the Already Always Open Space (Eleder_BuM) 11. Re: WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations (Lisa Heft) 12. Re: WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations (Phelim McDermott) 13. And what about WOSonOS Florida? (was: Re: Rough little video of HO walking the circle in the Already Always Open Space (Artur Silva) 14. Re: WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations (Bhavesh Patel) 15. Re: WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations (Phelim McDermott) 16. Pass on a message to Alan from Adelaide? (Tricia Chirumbole) 17. Re: Orphaning the Top Table and the Power of the Circle (Harold Shinsato) 18. Re: WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations (Harrison Owen) 19. Re: WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations (Lisa Heft) 20. Re: WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations (Lisa Heft) 21. Re: Orphaning the Top Table and the Power of the Circle (paul levy) 22. Re: WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations (Harrison Owen) 23. The OSLIST Biannual Restricted Form Poetry Contest - Summer 2013 - before May 24 midnight (Lisa Heft) 24. Re: WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations (Artur Silva) 25. Re: WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations (K?ri Gunnarsson) 26. Re: Orphaning the Top Table and the Power of the Circle (Artur Silva) 27. Re: WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations (Harrison Owen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 14:09:10 -0600 From: Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com> To: Artur Silva <arturfsi...@yahoo.com>, World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations Message-ID: <51993166.7090...@shinsato.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Artur, Sorry - just got your email. The consensus acceptance of invitation was to Serbia for WOSonOS 2014. It's gotten quite late so I think everything else will need to wait. Harold On 5/19/13 2:04 PM, Artur Silva wrote: > Harols. I am trying to follow the discussions, buit the sound is very > bad. I can understand almost nothing. > Gerard (that is not from Spain) made the offer of Spain, *in the name > of what Spanish community of facilitators?* Ian is not Spanish, if I > understand well. I don't know any facilitator in Spain except Eleder > (Basque country).Can you please ask that. > Artur > > *From:* Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com> > *To:* World wide Open Space Technology email list > <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> > *Sent:* Sunday, May 19, 2013 8:47 PM > *Subject:* Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations > > Michael, > > If you want to track the online happenings right now - there are posts > to twitter with tag #wosonos2013. > > Serbia, Jasmina Nikolic > Spain, Ian Barber > Mexico, Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring > China, QingHua Song, Hulu Chen > Dallas, TX - Devon Morris > Chicago, IL - Devon Morris > Virtual WOSonOS - Devon Morris > > The conversation continues. > > On the floor from St. Petersburg, Florida, USA - WOSonOS 2013. > > Love, > Harold > > On 5/19/13 1:05 PM, Michael Herman wrote: >> interesting, thanks, and... got names to go with these, harold? >> >> >> -- >> >> Michael Herman >> Michael Herman Associates >> 312-280-7838 (mobile) >> >> http://MichaelHerman.com >> http://OpenSpaceWorld.org >> >> >> >> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com >> <mailto:har...@shinsato.com>> wrote: >> >> This might be crazy - but I thought I would post the invitations. >> >> Serbia - 2014 >> Spain - 2014 or 2015 >> Mexico - 2015 >> China - 2015 or 2016 >> Dallas, TX, USA - 2019 >> Chicago, IL - 2020 >> Virtual WOSonOS - 2025 >> >> If you have input on this - you might try to post it to OSList >> but you might also check into the live streaming as a comment. >> http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wosonos >> >> -- >> Harold Shinsato >> har...@shinsato.com <mailto:har...@shinsato.com> >> http://shinsato.com >> twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >> <mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org> >> To unsubscribe send an email to >> oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >> <mailto:oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org> >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails toosl...@lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org> >> To unsubscribe send an email tooslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org> >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > <mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > <mailto:oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org> > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com <mailto:har...@shinsato.com> http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If it is urgent please call me on 07956 187298. _____________________________________ www.improbable.co.uk @openspacer On 19 May 2013, at 21:09, Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com> wrote: > Artur, > > Sorry - just got your email. The consensus acceptance of invitation was to Serbia for WOSonOS 2014. > > It's gotten quite late so I think everything else will need to wait. > > Harold > > On 5/19/13 2:04 PM, Artur Silva wrote: >> Harols. I am trying to follow the discussions, buit the sound is very bad. I can understand almost nothing. >> >> Gerard (that is not from Spain) made the offer of Spain, in the name of what Spanish community of facilitators? Ian is not Spanish, if I understand well. I don't know any facilitator in Spain except Eleder (Basque country).Can you please ask that. >> >> Artur >> >> From: Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com> >> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> >> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 8:47 PM >> Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations >> >> Michael, >> >> If you want to track the online happenings right now - there are posts to twitter with tag #wosonos2013. >> >> Serbia, Jasmina Nikolic >> Spain, Ian Barber >> Mexico, Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring >> China, QingHua Song, Hulu Chen >> Dallas, TX - Devon Morris >> Chicago, IL - Devon Morris >> Virtual WOSonOS - Devon Morris >> >> The conversation continues. >> >> On the floor from St. Petersburg, Florida, USA - WOSonOS 2013. >> >> Love, >> Harold >> >> On 5/19/13 1:05 PM, Michael Herman wrote: >>> interesting, thanks, and... got names to go with these, harold? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Michael Herman >>> Michael Herman Associates >>> 312-280-7838 (mobile) >>> >>> http://MichaelHerman.com >>> http://OpenSpaceWorld.org >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com> wrote: >>> This might be crazy - but I thought I would post the invitations. >>> >>> Serbia - 2014 >>> Spain - 2014 or 2015 >>> Mexico - 2015 >>> China - 2015 or 2016 >>> Dallas, TX, USA - 2019 >>> Chicago, IL - 2020 >>> Virtual WOSonOS - 2025 >>> >>> If you have input on this - you might try to post it to OSList but you might also check into the live streaming as a comment. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wosonos >>> >>> -- >>> Harold Shinsato >>> har...@shinsato.com >>> http://shinsato.com >>> twitter: @hajush >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OSList mailing list >>> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >>> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >>> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OSList mailing list >>> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >>> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >>> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > -- > Harold Shinsato > har...@shinsato.com > http://shinsato.com > twitter: @hajush > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It's gotten quite late so I think everything else will need to wait. ??? Harold On 5/19/13 2:04 PM, Artur Silva wrote: Harols. I am trying to follow the discussions, buit the sound is very bad. I can understand almost nothing. >? >Gerard (that is not from Spain) made the offer of Spain, in the name of what Spanish community of facilitators? Ian is not Spanish, if I understand well. I don't know any facilitator in Spain except Eleder (Basque country).Can you please ask that. >? >Artur?? > > >From: Harold Shinsato mailto:har...@shinsato.com >To: World wide Open Space Technology email list mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org >Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 8:47 PM >Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations > > > >Michael, > >If you want to track the online happenings right now - there are posts to twitter with tag #wosonos2013. > >Serbia, Jasmina Nikolic >Spain, Ian Barber >Mexico, Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring >China, QingHua Song, Hulu Chen >Dallas, TX - Devon Morris >Chicago, IL - Devon Morris >Virtual WOSonOS - Devon Morris > >The conversation continues. > >On the floor from St. Petersburg, Florida, USA - WOSonOS 2013. > >??? Love, >??? Harold > >On 5/19/13 1:05 PM, Michael Herman wrote: > >interesting, thanks, and... got names to go with these, harold? ? >> >> >>? >>-- >> >>Michael Herman >>Michael Herman Associates >>312-280-7838 (mobile) >> >>http://MichaelHerman.com >>http://OpenSpaceWorld.org >> >> >> >> >>On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com> wrote: >> >>This might be crazy - but I thought I would post the invitations. >>> >>>Serbia - 2014 >>>Spain - 2014 or 2015 >>>Mexico - 2015 >>>China - 2015 or 2016 >>>Dallas, TX, USA - 2019 >>>Chicago, IL - 2020 >>>Virtual WOSonOS - 2025 >>> >>>If you have input on this - you might try to post it to OSList but you might also check into the live streaming as a comment. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wosonos >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Harold Shinsato >>>har...@shinsato.com >>>http://shinsato.com >>>twitter: @hajush >>>_______________________________________________ >>>OSList mailing list >>>To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >>>To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >>>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >>>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >>> >>> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > >_______________________________________________ >OSList mailing list >To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > > > >_______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com/ twitter: @hajush -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thank you. ho Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) Camden, Maine 04843 Phone 301-365-2093 (summer) 207-763-3261 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Christy Lee-Engel Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:32 AM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: [OSList] Rough little video of HO walking the circle in the Already Always Open Space Dear Open Spaceniks, On the eve of the lush and delightful-sounding Florida WOsonOs, below is the link to a video I took on my phone of Harrison walking the opening circle of the last day of a different lively gathering, which was called "Connecting for Community <http://connecting4community.wordpress.com/> " and took place in Cincinnati a few weeks ago. One of the ways in which that gathering was very lively was that the space opened itself! The day before Harrison was scheduled to do it, participants lovingly yet vigorously inverted the offered design of the gathering, and insisted on getting into conversations around what we cared to talk about and take action on. The first two days of the three day gathering were scheduled to be a combination of inspiring short talks by (truly) brilliant and beloved elders, mixed with small group conversations provoked by what we'd just heard. But for many, it wasn't enough of getting to find out who else was in the room, and too much on the side of being talked to by elder men. So, like grass pushing up through the sidewalk, a lot of life spoke up when the whole group convened at the end of the second morning! Although by that afternoon, we'd gone back into something like the beginning format. Anyway, I went to the gathering in part because I knew that Harrison was coming to facilitate the day of Open Space. When he started walking around the circle at the appointed time, early on the third morning, it occurred to me to use the video recorder on my new phone (which I don't really know how to use, as you'll see if you watch the video) - I experienced it as sort of a "master class," getting to hear the spiel, and see the gestures and body language that I've read the words of many times, as Harrison not only facilitated our gathering, but basically taught everyone listening how to open space ourselves, "whenever and wherever." Here's the link: https://vimeo.com/65488850 Although it's rough, I think it's still fun to watch at least a moment or two of what it looks like to walk that opening circle with more than 25 years of it in your bones. It is also pretty great to see how people leaped up to write their sessions, as soon as he invited us to! (please note - I've found that the echo-y sound is best understood if you can listen through earphones ;-)) Sending warm wishes for a rich and deep and surprising time to everyone at the international WOSonOs, and to the rest of us, too! love from Seattle, Christy Christy Lee-Engel, ND, EAMP Director, Center for Spirituality, Science and Medicine <https://www.facebook.com/BastyrSpiritualityScienceMedicine> Bastyr University Acupuncture and Naturopathic Medicine practice: Core Chiropractic and Wellness <http://corechiropracticseattle.com> 206.708.7172 We're all just walking each other home - Ram Dass -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Dawn Ellison, MD 612-839-4662 Sent from my iPad ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 22:13:02 -0500 From: Chris Corrigan <ch...@chriscorrigan.com> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Subject: Re: [OSList] Health and healthcare applications. Message-ID: <cao8x+wbwp+uenpqqveynnbizur-1gct2o9cqakknvx+yjdm...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi dawn.... Here is the site we used to harvest from an Open Space on addressing addictions related stigma in the health care system in Vancouver Coastal Health Region. We used a 1.5 day OST gathering to bring together people from throughout the system to create 18 prototypes and experiments to see if we could make a shift in the way health care practitioners were treating people with addictions. the site is a bit spammy now but you can read the results of the meetings and see some of the projects that were started. The project folded about a year ago during a reorganization and the staff and leadership were juggled off the file. Chris On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Dawn Ellison <ihc.d...@mac.com> wrote: > Dear mates, > > I am grateful for a rich experience at WOSONOS 2013. I am holding the > intention for more opportunities to apply participatory methods to > healthcare and to community building around health. > I welcome stories of ripples of gatherings that have occurred in > healthcare or in communities with a health(broad definition) theme. I am > happy to share my stories as well. > > Happy to be on this journey with you! > > Dawn Ellison, MD > 612-839-4662 > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > -- --- CHRIS CORRIGAN Facilitation - Training - Process Design Open Space Technology Weblog: http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot Site: http://www.chriscorrigan.com *Upcoming workshops* * * Authentic Leadership In Action<http://aliainstitute.org/blog/track/2013-aoh/> - Halifax, NS, Canada *Designing Strategic Change from the Inside Out* June 16 - 21, 2013 * * * Art of Hosting <http://aohrivendell.withtank.com/> - Participatory Leadership and Social Collaboration November 11-14, 2013, Bowen Island, BC, Canada. * Upcoming Art of Hosting in Toronto, Montreal, Chicago and San Francisco. Email me for more information. * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachmen ts/20130519/15a12407/attachment-0001.htm> ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 07:54:12 +0100 From: paul levy <p...@cats3000.net> To: OSList@lists.openspacetech.org Subject: [OSList] Orphaning the Top Table and the Power of the Circle Message-ID: <caanjsbbf_6ptporse+iz7zftbop7iwcznevugh0vleeyo-c...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I remember a conference where the audience took over - at least for a while. It was a revolution that left the top table (the ones who had the bottles of mineral water and the little flowers in vases) paralysed with perplexity. A formal presentation using a lot of bullet-pointed Power Point had just stopped for five minutes of questions and answers - the fifth presentation in a row without a break. Garish neon lights blared down from the ceiling in a room with no natural light. Yes, you are correct - I said "revolution". Now, that it an interesting word. We talk of a revolution of the people. We also talk of a revolution of the planets. Revolution hints at a circle. Now, everyone was sitting in rows, as in a traditional classroom, facing the top table that was in a row facing the classroom style audience. The speaker stood at a lectern facing the audience as well. The chairperson invited questions. And then it happened. Someone in the audience raised their hand and was invited to pose their question. And pose it she did. But not in the direction of the top table. She sort of turned to her side and posed it to her row. She was interested, you see, in what other people thought of the issue underlying her question. Had other people had the same experience? Did they have any solutions. She seemed to pose it along her row and then to the rows behind her, as her arm swept around her and backwards in a kind of inclusive gesture. She finished her question and then someone near the back started to answer it. Soon, another person, nearer the front added a useful thought and then a small whispering conversation began in a corner between three people who were resonating with the original question. It lasted for about four minutes and, at one point, the whole room were now looking, not at the top table, but inwards, towards a rough central point in the rows. The circle was forming, even in rows of seats! And the circle was powerful. Fora while those who were supposed to be "at the top" at the top table were flummoxed, silent, mere onlookers on the outside of a forming community circle. It was a vibrant four minutes. Then the chair person raised his voice and attempted to restore "order". He never quite got it back! For at least a while afterwards, when questions were asked they are posed by the questioner into the centre of the room, rather than directed to the front. An in that four minutes a lot of ground was covered. The buzz continued into the coffee break and the top table was left, orphaned, without a clear role. The people wanted to talk to each other, to form a circle, to dialogue, to self-organise their own conversation. And this had happened: Space had opened. And this was happening: Space was opening. What I loved about witnessing this was realising the power of the circle. The circle wants to form - it is the natural form for people in social setting settings. I believe the circle is always there, in archetype, whenever human beings come together; it kind of hangs there, as potential, above the group. It seizes the chance to realise in real, especially when there is a top table and a bunch of rows of seats. All it needs is the impulse to self-organise; and that occurs with a gesture. It is the gesture usually of one person made, not in a way that reinforces the linear hierarchy - the top table - but the gesture that addresses itself to the central point of the natural circle. Then the attention of all turns towards it and a circle is formed - even when there are rows of seats. Space opens in a circle. And circles open space. Of course, it is often better to start with a circle of chairs, but even when that is not so, just direct your comments into the mess, into the heart of the community, and watch that circle form. Written on the way to our Open Space on Open Space in London, on May 20th 2013. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Atb Jon On 20 May 2013 07:54, "paul levy" <p...@cats3000.net> wrote: > I remember a conference where the audience took over - at least for a > while. It was a revolution that left the top table (the ones who had the > bottles of mineral water and the little flowers in vases) paralysed with > perplexity. > > A formal presentation using a lot of bullet-pointed Power Point had just > stopped for five minutes of questions and answers - the fifth presentation > in a row without a break. > > Garish neon lights blared down from the ceiling in a room with no natural > light. > > Yes, you are correct - I said "revolution". Now, that it an interesting > word. We talk of a revolution of the people. We also talk of a revolution > of the planets. Revolution hints at a circle. > > Now, everyone was sitting in rows, as in a traditional classroom, facing > the top table that was in a row facing the classroom style audience. > > The speaker stood at a lectern facing the audience as well. > > The chairperson invited questions. > > And then it happened. Someone in the audience raised their hand and was > invited to pose their question. And pose it she did. But not in the > direction of the top table. She sort of turned to her side and posed it to > her row. She was interested, you see, in what other people thought of the > issue underlying her question. Had other people had the same experience? > Did they have any solutions. She seemed to pose it along her row and then > to the rows behind her, as her arm swept around her and backwards in a kind > of inclusive gesture. She finished her question and then someone near the > back started to answer it. Soon, another person, nearer the front added a > useful thought and then a small whispering conversation began in a corner > between three people who were resonating with the original question. > > It lasted for about four minutes and, at one point, the whole room were > now looking, not at the top table, but inwards, towards a rough central > point in the rows. > > The circle was forming, even in rows of seats! > > And the circle was powerful. Fora while those who were supposed to be "at > the top" at the top table were flummoxed, silent, mere onlookers on the > outside of a forming community circle. > > It was a vibrant four minutes. Then the chair person raised his voice and > attempted to restore "order". He never quite got it back! For at least a > while afterwards, when questions were asked they are posed by the > questioner into the centre of the room, rather than directed to the front. > > An in that four minutes a lot of ground was covered. The buzz continued > into the coffee break and the top table was left, orphaned, without a clear > role. The people wanted to talk to each other, to form a circle, to > dialogue, to self-organise their own conversation. > > And this had happened: Space had opened. > > And this was happening: Space was opening. > > What I loved about witnessing this was realising the power of the circle. > The circle wants to form - it is the natural form for people in social > setting settings. I believe the circle is always there, in archetype, > whenever human beings come together; it kind of hangs there, as potential, > above the group. It seizes the chance to realise in real, especially when > there is a top table and a bunch of rows of seats. All it needs is the > impulse to self-organise; and that occurs with a gesture. It is the gesture > usually of one person made, not in a way that reinforces the linear > hierarchy - the top table - but the gesture that addresses itself to the > central point of the natural circle. Then the attention of all turns > towards it and a circle is formed - even when there are rows of seats. > > Space opens in a circle. And circles open space. Of course, it is often > better to start with a circle of chairs, but even when that is not so, just > direct your comments into the mess, into the heart of the community, and > watch that circle form. > > Written on the way to our Open Space on Open Space in London, on May 20th > 2013. > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Moscow www.bosca-russia.ru +7 495 749 8046 2013/5/19 Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com> > This might be crazy - but I thought I would post the invitations. > > Serbia - 2014 > Spain - 2014 or 2015 > Mexico - 2015 > China - 2015 or 2016 > Dallas, TX, USA - 2019 > Chicago, IL - 2020 > Virtual WOSonOS - 2025 > > If you have input on this - you might try to post it to OSList but you > might also check into the live streaming as a comment. > http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wosonos > > -- > Harold Shinsato > har...@shinsato.com > http://shinsato.com > twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush> > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -- Have a nice day! *BOSCA Travel* Tsarkova Galina, Chairman of board Russia, Moscow, 101000 Lubyansky proezd, 5, building 1 Tel/fax: +7 495 623 27 67 Cell: +7 903-549-80-46 E-mail: m...@boscatravel.ru Web | www.boscatravel.ru | : www.jordantravel.ru Skype: gtsarkova -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Congratulations Jasmina and all the practitioners of the world! 2013/5/18 Christy Lee-Engel <cdl...@gmail.com> > Hi mateys, > > Eleder, thanks so much for your warm note and for posting the video to > your blog! I am looking forward to the year that the WOSonOs is in > Bilbao, and might even have to make the trip for it [?] > > David, I would love to see your video of Father Brian, please! Did you > say you posted it? On the Open Space ning, or elsewhere? > > Christine, your note gives me an idea - I think I'll have some time to > transcribe what Harrison is saying - it wouldn't be hard, not because he > is "doing it by the book," but because he *is *the book, and the words > are familiar ones. If I manage to do that, I'll post it with the video onto > the ning site. > > Looking forward to dipping into this year's WOsonOs "virtual tapas menu" > this weekend! > love, Christy > > Christy Lee-Engel, ND, EAMP > > Director, Center for Spirituality, Science and Medicine<https://www.facebook.com/BastyrSpiritualityScienceMedicine> > *Bastyr** **University* > > Acupuncture and Naturopathic Medicine practice: Core Chiropractic and > Wellness <http://corechiropracticseattle.com> > 206.708.7172 > * > We're all just walking each other home - Ram Dass* > > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:09 AM, christine koehler < > chris.alice.koeh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Christy for sharing. >> I regret that my English is not good enough to fully understand what he >> says. I'll have to try again with headphones.. >> >> Christine >> >> >> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:16 AM, <imagi...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: >> >>> There is my video of the late Brian Bainbridge walking the circle at the >>> Australian OSonOSinOZ from 2002. I have the short clip ? about 5 minute4s, >>> posted here some time ago, but also about 11 hours of footage of the entire >>> event. Happy to share. >>> >>> David >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Dr David Smith >>> BSc(Hons) PhD FRSA >>> Director, imaginACTION pty ltd >>> >>> 50 Sweyn Street >>> Balwyn North >>> Victoria 3104 >>> AUSTRALIA >>> >>> t +613 9857 8688 >>> m 0411 444 048 >>> da...@imaginaction.net.au >>> www.imaginaction.net.au >>> >>> >>> imaginACTION >>> *Overall Winner, >>> Australian Achiever Awards >>> Victorian TV, Film, Audio and Video* >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto: >>> oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] *On Behalf Of *Eleder_BuM >>> *Sent:* Thursday, 16 May 2013 5:51 PM >>> *To:* World wide Open Space Technology email list >>> *Subject:* Re: [OSList] Rough little video of HO walking the circle in >>> the Already Always Open Space >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks so much, Christy for this gift. >>> >>> I appreciate very much to have a video of Harrison walking the circle. >>> >>> In fact, I think that is a very good learning tool for facilitators: >>> watching other colleagues opening the space. >>> >>> Do you know about other videos of colleagues opening space (the complete >>> or parcial stuff)? >>> >>> Big hug from rainy, pouring, lovely Bilbao, in these days of celebration >>> for the worldvwide OS community, >>> >>> @Eleder_BuM <http://twitter.com/Eleder_BuM> >>> www.burumapak.blogspot.com (Basque) >>> >>> www.in-fluyendo.blogspot.com (Sp.) www.flowandshow.blogspot.com (En)<http://www.flowandshow.blogspot.com/> >>> >>> http://www.bilbohiria.com/gaika/berbaz (radio interviews) >>> >>> >>> >>> 2013/5/16 Christy Lee-Engel <cdl...@gmail.com> >>> >>> Dear Open Spaceniks, >>> >>> On the eve of the lush and delightful-sounding Florida WOsonOs, below is >>> the link to a video I took on my phone of Harrison walking the opening >>> circle of the last day of a different lively gathering, which was called "Connecting >>> for Community <http://connecting4community.wordpress.com/>" and took >>> place in Cincinnati a few weeks ago. >>> >>> One of the ways in which that gathering was very lively was that the >>> space opened itself! The day before Harrison was scheduled to do it, >>> participants lovingly yet vigorously inverted the offered design of the >>> gathering, and insisted on getting into conversations around what we cared >>> to talk about and take action on. The first two days of the three day >>> gathering were scheduled to be a combination of inspiring short talks by >>> (truly) brilliant and beloved elders, mixed with small group conversations >>> provoked by what we'd just heard. But for many, it wasn't enough of getting >>> to find out who else was in the room, and too much on the side of being >>> talked to by elder men. So, like grass pushing up through the sidewalk, a >>> lot of life spoke up when the whole group convened at the end of the second >>> morning! Although by that afternoon, we'd gone back into something like the >>> beginning format. >>> >>> Anyway, I went to the gathering in part because I knew that Harrison was >>> coming to facilitate the day of Open Space. When he started walking around >>> the circle at the appointed time, early on the third morning, it occurred >>> to me to use the video recorder on my new phone (which I don't really know >>> how to use, as you'll see if you watch the video) - I experienced it as >>> sort of a "master class," getting to hear the spiel, and see the gestures >>> and body language that I've read the words of many times, as Harrison >>> not only facilitated our gathering, but basically taught everyone listening >>> how to open space ourselves, "whenever and wherever." >>> >>> Here's the link: https://vimeo.com/65488850 >>> Although it's rough, I think it's still fun to watch at least a moment >>> or two of what it looks like to walk that opening circle with more than 25 >>> years of it in your bones. It is also pretty great to see how people leaped >>> up to write their sessions, as soon as he invited us to! >>> (please note - I've found that the echo-y sound is best understood if >>> you can listen through earphones ;-)) >>> >>> Sending warm wishes for a rich and deep and surprising time to everyone >>> at the international WOSonOs, and to the rest of us, too! >>> love from Seattle, Christy >>> >>> Christy Lee-Engel, ND, EAMP >>> >>> Director, Center for Spirituality, Science and Medicine<https://www.facebook.com/BastyrSpiritualityScienceMedicine> >>> >>> *Bastyr** **University* >>> >>> Acupuncture and Naturopathic Medicine practice: Core Chiropractic and >>> Wellness <http://corechiropracticseattle.com> >>> 206.708.7172 >>> * >>> We're all just walking each other home - Ram Dass* >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We had a very interesting and not always comfortable time thinking and talking in the big circle at the WOSonOS where to go next year. There were several invitations - and as you know from your own experience at a WOSonOS - if there is one country inviting, they tell us their story and we all celebrate. If there are two or more inviters, traditionally we sit in the big circle and have a conversation that can shift and move and get stuck and flow and become uncomfortable and shift again and flow again... until something is sensed and felt, together. It is how we have done it in the past. However it is not how we have to do it in the future. Our fabulous co-convenor, David O'Neill noted that this - decision, deciding, 'vote' - does not reflect Open Space. So how else could it be done. I was in a delightful evening butterfly conversation with Peggy Holman, Alan Stewart, Chuni Li, Karen Davis, Doug Germann, Jasmina Nikolic (our host for next year), Harold Shinsato, Tricia Chirumbole, Linda Stevenson, Gail West, and did I forget anyone? Perhaps you dear colleagues who sat in this particular conversation would like to share some of the places we went in the conversation about invitation, prepared invitation, emergent invitation, what-if's of process for invitation, support for invitation, and more - as we experienced at the WOSonOS and then reflected upon that evening... Traveling homeward after the WOSonOS, and looking forward to the next regional OSonOs' and the next WOSonOS, Lisa Lisa Heft Consultant, Facilitator, Educator President Emerita, Open Space Institute US Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution Opening Space On May 20, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Galina Tsarkova wrote: > Thanks friends, for such long perspective for WOSONOS! > > Moscow > www.bosca-russia.ru > +7 495 749 8046 > > > > > 2013/5/19 Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com> > This might be crazy - but I thought I would post the invitations. > > Serbia - 2014 > Spain - 2014 or 2015 > Mexico - 2015 > China - 2015 or 2016 > Dallas, TX, USA - 2019 > Chicago, IL - 2020 > Virtual WOSonOS - 2025 > > If you have input on this - you might try to post it to OSList but > you might also check into the live streaming as a comment. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wosonos > > -- > Harold Shinsato > har...@shinsato.com > http://shinsato.com > twitter: @hajush > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I have to say this part of WOSonOS is the most difficult bit as a host and it does currently feel very UN open spacey Best regards, Phelim McDermott ----------------------------- I generally pick up emails only at the beginning and end of the working day. I am currently aiming to respond the following day. If it is urgent please call me on 07956 187298. ___________________///////////// Sent from my iPhone On 20 May 2013, at 11:40, Lisa Heft <lisah...@openingspace.net> wrote: > Galina - not only that, but one of our Millennials (a person of a younger generation) invited for 2060! > > These are invitations, not decisions. Serbia in 2014, yes. > > In the past, some people have invited for several years in a row (being at a WOSonOS themselves, or working with someone who was there who could represent them) - until whenever it happens is the right year. > > We had a very interesting and not always comfortable time thinking and talking in the big circle at the WOSonOS where to go next year. There were several invitations - and as you know from your own experience at a WOSonOS - if there is one country inviting, they tell us their story and we all celebrate. If there are two or more inviters, traditionally we sit in the big circle and have a conversation that can shift and move and get stuck and flow and become uncomfortable and shift again and flow again... until something is sensed and felt, together. > > It is how we have done it in the past. However it is not how we have to do it in the future. > Our fabulous co-convenor, David O'Neill noted that this - decision, deciding, 'vote' - does not reflect Open Space. > So how else could it be done. > > I was in a delightful evening butterfly conversation with Peggy Holman, Alan Stewart, Chuni Li, Karen Davis, Doug Germann, Jasmina Nikolic (our host for next year), Harold Shinsato, Tricia Chirumbole, Linda Stevenson, Gail West, and did I forget anyone? > > Perhaps you dear colleagues who sat in this particular conversation would like to share some of the places we went in the conversation about invitation, prepared invitation, emergent invitation, what-if's of process for invitation, support for invitation, and more - as we experienced at the WOSonOS and then reflected upon that evening... > > Traveling homeward after the WOSonOS, and looking forward to the next regional OSonOs' and the next WOSonOS, > > Lisa > > Lisa Heft > Consultant, Facilitator, Educator > President Emerita, Open Space Institute US > Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution > Opening Space > > On May 20, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Galina Tsarkova wrote: > >> Thanks friends, for such long perspective for WOSONOS! >> >> Moscow >> www.bosca-russia.ru >> +7 495 749 8046 >> >> >> >> >> 2013/5/19 Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com> >>> This might be crazy - but I thought I would post the invitations. >>> >>> Serbia - 2014 >>> Spain - 2014 or 2015 >>> Mexico - 2015 >>> China - 2015 or 2016 >>> Dallas, TX, USA - 2019 >>> Chicago, IL - 2020 >>> Virtual WOSonOS - 2025 >>> >>> If you have input on this - you might try to post it to OSList but you might also check into the live streaming as a comment. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wosonos >>> >>> -- >>> Harold Shinsato >>> har...@shinsato.com >>> http://shinsato.com >>> twitter: @hajush >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OSList mailing list >>> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >>> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >>> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachmen ts/20130520/61420c27/attachment-0001.htm> ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 04:06:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Artur Silva <arturfsi...@yahoo.com> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Subject: [OSList] And what about WOSonOS Florida? (was: Re: Rough little video of HO walking the circle in the Already Always Open Space Message-ID: <1369047979.55422.yahoomail...@web161906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Marvelous story and video, Christy. Thanks for having the idea and for sharing. I hope that someone followed your lead and have done something similar in some sessions of WOSonOS in Florida.? In that respect, I missed the photos and videos that where displayed during all the event at London WOSonOS (even if I was present myself ;-).? This time that I was not, I could follow some sessions, but no one has photos or videos to show? Congratulations and best wishes to Jasmina and her Serbian team. Regards Artur ? ________________________________ From: Christy Lee-Engel <cdl...@gmail.com> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:32 AM Subject: [OSList] Rough little video of HO walking the circle in the Already Always Open Space Dear Open Spaceniks, On the eve of the lush and delightful-sounding Florida WOsonOs, below is the link to a video I took on my phone of Harrison walking the opening circle of the last day of a different lively gathering, which was called "Connecting for Community" and took place in Cincinnati a few weeks ago. One of the ways in which that gathering was very lively was that the space opened itself! The day before Harrison was scheduled to do it, participants lovingly yet vigorously inverted the offered design of the gathering, and insisted on getting into conversations around what we cared to talk about and take action on. The first two days of the three day gathering were scheduled to be a combination of inspiring short talks by (truly) brilliant and beloved elders, mixed with small group conversations provoked by what we'd just heard. But for many, it wasn't enough of getting to find out who else was in the room, and too much on the side of being talked to by elder men. So, like grass pushing up through the sidewalk, a lot of life spoke up when the whole group convened at the end of the second morning! Although by that afternoon, we'd gone back into something like the beginning format. Anyway, I went to the gathering in part because I knew that Harrison was coming to facilitate the day of Open Space. When he started walking around the circle at the appointed time, early on the third morning, it occurred to me to use the video recorder on my new phone (which I don't really know how to use, as you'll see if you watch the video) - I experienced it as sort of a "master class," getting to hear the spiel, and see the gestures and body language that I've read the words of many times, as Harrison not only facilitated our gathering, but basically taught everyone listening how to open space ourselves, "whenever and wherever." Here's the link: https://vimeo.com/65488850 Although it's rough, I think it's still fun to watch at least a moment or two of what it looks like to walk that opening circle with more than 25 years of it in your bones. It is also pretty great to see how people leaped up to write their sessions, as soon as he invited us to! (please note - I've found that the echo-y sound is best understood if you can listen through earphones ;-)) Sending warm wishes for a rich and deep and surprising time to everyone at the international WOSonOs, and to the rest of us, too! love from Seattle, Christy Christy Lee-Engel, ND, EAMP Director, Center for Spirituality, Science and MedicineBastyrUniversity Acupuncture and Naturopathic Medicine practice: Core Chiropractic and Wellness 206.708.7172 We're all just walking each other home - Ram Dass _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachmen ts/20130520/310a0c7b/attachment-0001.htm> ------------------------------ Message: 14 Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 14:12:36 +0300 From: Bhavesh Patel <bhavm...@gmail.com> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations Message-ID: <CAAho443mT0FGgiPp3suri6L9_2N2+3FNx5GFCmoD7WQt=k=4=a...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Does your "UN open spacey" mean that it feels like a United Nations open spacey... On 20 May 2013 13:52, Phelim McDermott <phe...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > Sounds like WOSonos was fun! Maybe those who are interested in inviting > can call a session about it DURING the open space and those who have an > interest can go to that session. Even if the decision doesn't get made > there a lot of the issues and questions will already have been processed in > some way. > > I have to say this part of WOSonOS is the most difficult bit as a host and > it does currently feel very UN open spacey > > Best regards, > > Phelim McDermott > ----------------------------- > I generally pick up emails only at the beginning and end of the working > day. I am currently aiming to respond the following day. If it is urgent > please call me on 07956 187298. > ___________________///////////// > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 20 May 2013, at 11:40, Lisa Heft <lisah...@openingspace.net> wrote: > > Galina - not only that, but one of our Millennials (a person of a younger > generation) invited for 2060! > > These are invitations, not decisions. Serbia in 2014, yes. > > In the past, some people have invited for several years in a row (being at > a WOSonOS themselves, or working with someone who was there who could > represent them) - until whenever it happens is the right year. > > We had a very interesting and not always comfortable time thinking and > talking in the big circle at the WOSonOS where to go next year. There were > several invitations - and as you know from your own experience at a WOSonOS > - if there is one country inviting, they tell us their story and we all > celebrate. If there are two or more inviters, traditionally we sit in the > big circle and have a conversation that can shift and move and get stuck > and flow and become uncomfortable and shift again and flow again... until > something is sensed and felt, together. > > It is how we have done it in the past. However it is not how we have to do > it in the future. > Our fabulous co-convenor, David O'Neill noted that this - decision, > deciding, 'vote' - does not reflect Open Space. > So how else could it be done. > > I was in a delightful evening butterfly conversation with Peggy Holman, > Alan Stewart, Chuni Li, Karen Davis, Doug Germann, Jasmina Nikolic (our > host for next year), Harold Shinsato, Tricia Chirumbole, Linda Stevenson, > Gail West, and did I forget anyone? > > Perhaps you dear colleagues who sat in this particular conversation would > like to share some of the places we went in the conversation about > invitation, prepared invitation, emergent invitation, what-if's of process > for invitation, support for invitation, and more - as we experienced at the > WOSonOS and then reflected upon that evening... > > Traveling homeward after the WOSonOS, and looking forward to the next > regional OSonOs' and the next WOSonOS, > > Lisa > > Lisa Heft > Consultant, Facilitator, Educator > President Emerita, Open Space Institute US > Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution > Opening Space > > On May 20, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Galina Tsarkova wrote: > > Thanks friends, for such long perspective for WOSONOS! > > Moscow > www.bosca-russia.ru > +7 495 749 8046 > > > > > 2013/5/19 Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com> > >> This might be crazy - but I thought I would post the invitations. >> >> Serbia - 2014 >> Spain - 2014 or 2015 >> Mexico - 2015 >> China - 2015 or 2016 >> Dallas, TX, USA - 2019 >> Chicago, IL - 2020 >> Virtual WOSonOS - 2025 >> >> If you have input on this - you might try to post it to OSList but you >> might also check into the live streaming as a comment. >> http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wosonos >> >> -- >> Harold Shinsato >> har...@shinsato.com >> http://shinsato.com >> twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >> >> > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachmen ts/20130520/78017b67/attachment-0001.htm> ------------------------------ Message: 15 Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 12:21:22 +0100 From: Phelim McDermott <phe...@mac.com> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations Message-ID: <43eff53b-a6d4-4eb2-aa97-4d0af6aeb...@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Aah a missing hyphen methinks... UN-open spacey. And nothing to do with Kevin either. Best regards, Phelim McDermott ________________________________ I generally pick up emails only at the beginning and end of the working day. I am currently aiming to respond the following day. If it is urgent please call me on 07956 187298. _____________________________________ www.improbable.co.uk @openspacer On 20 May 2013, at 12:12, Bhavesh Patel <bhavm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does your "UN open spacey" mean that it feels like a United Nations open spacey... > > > > On 20 May 2013 13:52, Phelim McDermott <phe...@mac.com> wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> Sounds like WOSonos was fun! Maybe those who are interested in inviting can call a session about it DURING the open space and those who have an interest can go to that session. Even if the decision doesn't get made there a lot of the issues and questions will already have been processed in some way. >> >> I have to say this part of WOSonOS is the most difficult bit as a host and it does currently feel very UN open spacey >> >> Best regards, >> >> Phelim McDermott >> ----------------------------- >> I generally pick up emails only at the beginning and end of the working day. I am currently aiming to respond the following day. If it is urgent please call me on 07956 187298. >> ___________________///////////// >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 20 May 2013, at 11:40, Lisa Heft <lisah...@openingspace.net> wrote: >> >>> Galina - not only that, but one of our Millennials (a person of a younger generation) invited for 2060! >>> >>> These are invitations, not decisions. Serbia in 2014, yes. >>> >>> In the past, some people have invited for several years in a row (being at a WOSonOS themselves, or working with someone who was there who could represent them) - until whenever it happens is the right year. >>> >>> We had a very interesting and not always comfortable time thinking and talking in the big circle at the WOSonOS where to go next year. There were several invitations - and as you know from your own experience at a WOSonOS - if there is one country inviting, they tell us their story and we all celebrate. If there are two or more inviters, traditionally we sit in the big circle and have a conversation that can shift and move and get stuck and flow and become uncomfortable and shift again and flow again... until something is sensed and felt, together. >>> >>> It is how we have done it in the past. However it is not how we have to do it in the future. >>> Our fabulous co-convenor, David O'Neill noted that this - decision, deciding, 'vote' - does not reflect Open Space. >>> So how else could it be done. >>> >>> I was in a delightful evening butterfly conversation with Peggy Holman, Alan Stewart, Chuni Li, Karen Davis, Doug Germann, Jasmina Nikolic (our host for next year), Harold Shinsato, Tricia Chirumbole, Linda Stevenson, Gail West, and did I forget anyone? >>> >>> Perhaps you dear colleagues who sat in this particular conversation would like to share some of the places we went in the conversation about invitation, prepared invitation, emergent invitation, what-if's of process for invitation, support for invitation, and more - as we experienced at the WOSonOS and then reflected upon that evening... >>> >>> Traveling homeward after the WOSonOS, and looking forward to the next regional OSonOs' and the next WOSonOS, >>> >>> Lisa >>> >>> Lisa Heft >>> Consultant, Facilitator, Educator >>> President Emerita, Open Space Institute US >>> Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution >>> Opening Space >>> >>> On May 20, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Galina Tsarkova wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks friends, for such long perspective for WOSONOS! >>>> >>>> Moscow >>>> www.bosca-russia.ru >>>> +7 495 749 8046 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 2013/5/19 Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com> >>>>> This might be crazy - but I thought I would post the invitations. >>>>> >>>>> Serbia - 2014 >>>>> Spain - 2014 or 2015 >>>>> Mexico - 2015 >>>>> China - 2015 or 2016 >>>>> Dallas, TX, USA - 2019 >>>>> Chicago, IL - 2020 >>>>> Virtual WOSonOS - 2025 >>>>> >>>>> If you have input on this - you might try to post it to OSList but you might also check into the live streaming as a comment. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wosonos >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Harold Shinsato >>>>> har...@shinsato.com >>>>> http://shinsato.com >>>>> twitter: @hajush >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> OSList mailing list >>>>> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >>>>> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >>>>> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OSList mailing list >>> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >>> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >>> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Looking forward to seeing everyone at > Lauderdale House v soon. > > Just thought of running a session on guerilla action & stealth open > space. Will anyone join me? > > So, got tea, coffee, milk & food to share. Come Paul, come all to our > UK reprise of #WOSONOS in North London > > Great greetings to all in Florida as you wend your way homewards. > > Atb > > Jon > > On 20 May 2013 07:54, "paul levy" <p...@cats3000.net > <mailto:p...@cats3000.net>> wrote: > > I remember a conference where the audience took over - at least > for a while. It was a revolution that left the top table (the ones > who had the bottles of mineral water and the little flowers in > vases) paralysed with perplexity. > > A formal presentation using a lot of bullet-pointed Power Point > had just stopped for five minutes of questions and answers - the > fifth presentation in a row without a break. > > Garish neon lights blared down from the ceiling in a room with no > natural light. > > Yes, you are correct - I said "revolution". Now, that it an > interesting word. We talk of a revolution of the people. We also > talk of a revolution of the planets. Revolution hints at a circle. > > Now, everyone was sitting in rows, as in a traditional classroom, > facing the top table that was in a row facing the classroom style > audience. > > The speaker stood at a lectern facing the audience as well. > > The chairperson invited questions. > > And then it happened. Someone in the audience raised their hand > and was invited to pose their question. And pose it she did. But > not in the direction of the top table. She sort of turned to her > side and posed it to her row. She was interested, you see, in what > other people thought of the issue underlying her question. Had > other people had the same experience? Did they have any solutions. > She seemed to pose it along her row and then to the rows behind > her, as her arm swept around her and backwards in a kind of > inclusive gesture. She finished her question and then someone near > the back started to answer it. Soon, another person, nearer the > front added a useful thought and then a small whispering > conversation began in a corner between three people who were > resonating with the original question. > > It lasted for about four minutes and, at one point, the whole room > were now looking, not at the top table, but inwards, towards a > rough central point in the rows. > > The circle was forming, even in rows of seats! > > And the circle was powerful. Fora while those who were supposed to > be "at the top" at the top table were flummoxed, silent, mere > onlookers on the outside of a forming community circle. > > It was a vibrant four minutes. Then the chair person raised his > voice and attempted to restore "order". He never quite got it > back! For at least a while afterwards, when questions were asked > they are posed by the questioner into the centre of the room, > rather than directed to the front. > > An in that four minutes a lot of ground was covered. The buzz > continued into the coffee break and the top table was left, > orphaned, without a clear role. The people wanted to talk to each > other, to form a circle, to dialogue, to self-organise their own > conversation. > > And this had happened: Space had opened. > > And this was happening: Space was opening. > > What I loved about witnessing this was realising the power of the > circle. The circle wants to form - it is the natural form for > people in social setting settings. I believe the circle is always > there, in archetype, whenever human beings come together; it kind > of hangs there, as potential, above the group. It seizes the > chance to realise in real, especially when there is a top table > and a bunch of rows of seats. All it needs is the impulse to > self-organise; and that occurs with a gesture. It is the gesture > usually of one person made, not in a way that reinforces the > linear hierarchy - the top table - but the gesture that addresses > itself to the central point of the natural circle. Then the > attention of all turns towards it and a circle is formed - even > when there are rows of seats. > > Space opens in a circle. And circles open space. Of course, it is > often better to start with a circle of chairs, but even when that > is not so, just direct your comments into the mess, into the heart > of the community, and watch that circle form. > > Written on the way to our Open Space on Open Space in London, on > May 20th 2013. > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > <mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to > oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > <mailto:oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org> > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com <mailto:har...@shinsato.com> http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) Camden, Maine 04843 Phone 301-365-2093 (summer) 207-763-3261 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Heft Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 6:40 AM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations Galina - not only that, but one of our Millennials (a person of a younger generation) invited for 2060! These are invitations, not decisions. Serbia in 2014, yes. In the past, some people have invited for several years in a row (being at a WOSonOS themselves, or working with someone who was there who could represent them) - until whenever it happens is the right year. We had a very interesting and not always comfortable time thinking and talking in the big circle at the WOSonOS where to go next year. There were several invitations - and as you know from your own experience at a WOSonOS - if there is one country inviting, they tell us their story and we all celebrate. If there are two or more inviters, traditionally we sit in the big circle and have a conversation that can shift and move and get stuck and flow and become uncomfortable and shift again and flow again... until something is sensed and felt, together. It is how we have done it in the past. However it is not how we have to do it in the future. Our fabulous co-convenor, David O'Neill noted that this - decision, deciding, 'vote' - does not reflect Open Space. So how else could it be done. I was in a delightful evening butterfly conversation with Peggy Holman, Alan Stewart, Chuni Li, Karen Davis, Doug Germann, Jasmina Nikolic (our host for next year), Harold Shinsato, Tricia Chirumbole, Linda Stevenson, Gail West, and did I forget anyone? Perhaps you dear colleagues who sat in this particular conversation would like to share some of the places we went in the conversation about invitation, prepared invitation, emergent invitation, what-if's of process for invitation, support for invitation, and more - as we experienced at the WOSonOS and then reflected upon that evening... Traveling homeward after the WOSonOS, and looking forward to the next regional OSonOs' and the next WOSonOS, Lisa Lisa Heft Consultant, Facilitator, Educator President Emerita, Open Space Institute US Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution Opening Space On May 20, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Galina Tsarkova wrote: Thanks friends, for such long perspective for WOSONOS! Moscow www.bosca-russia.ru +7 495 749 8046 2013/5/19 Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com> This might be crazy - but I thought I would post the invitations. Serbia - 2014 Spain - 2014 or 2015 Mexico - 2015 China - 2015 or 2016 Dallas, TX, USA - 2019 Chicago, IL - 2020 Virtual WOSonOS - 2025 If you have input on this - you might try to post it to OSList but you might also check into the live streaming as a comment. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wosonos -- Harold Shinsato har...@shinsato.com http://shinsato.com twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush> _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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So there are some people who cannot make it physically to a WOSonOS, but they can ask someone attending to represent them - as Arturo and I did for the London Team when we were at the Chile conference. If technology was available, and if it worked, and if those not- physically-with-us colleagues had their own access to technology, and and.... ... then perhaps yes someone who felt so inspired (like who knows - Access Queen gets inspired all the time to hold space for inviting) could post that session some time in the conference. And then there is the emergent inviter. The one such as Jasmina who felt called and perhaps surprised that she sprang to her feet and walked into the middle of the circle to invite. (Jasmina of course you can describe your own thoughts and feelings - I am describing a little of what I saw). It is oh-so-easy when there is only one inviter. It becomes more complex when there is more than one (country) inviter. So my thoughts turn to many things. - in our other work, what are other processes for feeling - sensing - sharing what is invited, and exploring it to see what calls? - is there a New Games / creative process that can offer this? An Agile / Scrum process? How to hold and welcome invitation and sit with it? How to center the conversation on the inviters, and not our thoughts about what should or could happen? (after all, it is the passion and responsibility of the inviting country persons that is stepping into the circle, and then we get all in our heads about it, and still... the ones who stood up and invited are the ones who had the passion and responsibility. How to hold that and not get all 'discuss-y'? I was asked to host the process for invitation / imagining and then sensing as a face-to-face group (and we had some of you watching and commenting virtually) - so I used the process I have experienced in the past 11 or 12 WOSonOSs I have been to. But I was not thinking. I did not think of how it had felt to me in all those past years. It felt not full of life. Not as vibrant as the discussion sessions. On the other hand, people have written or mentioned that that sitting- in-the-fire-see-what-shifts process was a really interesting experience. Not so much 'and now we are going to do this.' 'and now we are going to do this.' But truly - my body goes crazy, it can go on for hours, and yesterday I realized while doing it it was just like those 'consensus' processes which feel to me like ' the last person standing / with the stamina to stay in this conversation remains / gets to make the decision'. Because it is as nutritious as it is exhausting. So my thought is - and I had said this in Closing Circle - there are some WOSonOS traditions I really love over the years. You can guess that one of my favorite traditions is Global VIllage and Silent Auction and all the Access Queen seen and unseen actions and relationships. But other traditions may be meant to be released, eh? Such as this way of invitation and decision. Call it what you will, decision or otherwise - it helps us travelers and those with less financial abilities to know in advance where the next one will be, because for many people it takes quite a long time to generate the relationships and resources that will help us get there - whether 'it' is in our own country or across the world. And of course there are and can be OSonOSs all over the place, whenever they want to happen. But there is something special about this particular coming together, shared back and forth and across the world. It is morning as I leave Florida for home. Just wanted to share some of the thoughts playing in my head this morning. What do others think? Lisa (see you in Serbia! - if I say it, I know it will happen...) On May 20, 2013, at 3:52 AM, Phelim McDermott wrote: > Hi there, > > Sounds like WOSonos was fun! Maybe those who are interested in > inviting can call a session about it DURING the open space and those > who have an interest can go to that session. Even if the decision > doesn't get made there a lot of the issues and questions will > already have been processed in some way. > > I have to say this part of WOSonOS is the most difficult bit as a > host and it does currently feel very UN open spacey > > Best regards, > > Phelim McDermott -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachmen ts/20130520/7afe004e/attachment-0001.htm> ------------------------------ Message: 20 Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 06:06:35 -0700 From: Lisa Heft <lisah...@openingspace.net> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations Message-ID: <8211c05b-531d-4096-9efd-d5779ad05...@openingspace.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Thank you for that thought, as well, Harrison... Lisa On May 20, 2013, at 5:55 AM, Harrison Owen wrote: > Discomfort usually comes (in my experience) when discussion gets > stuck at either/or. Everything resolves as soon as both/and shows > up. It is called the Law of Two Feet! Who says there can only be one > WOSONOS? Anywhere it happens is the right place ? and as often as > folks care to make it so. I do find it somewhat amusing that the 75 > odd souls who showed up in St. Petersburg feel called upon to > ?decide? for the ?whole? community. Funny. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachmen ts/20130520/75344be7/attachment-0001.htm> ------------------------------ Message: 21 Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 14:12:40 +0100 From: paul levy <p...@cats3000.net> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Subject: Re: [OSList] Orphaning the Top Table and the Power of the Circle Message-ID: <CAAnJsbCCaMMKXZyuNnhT=-t9tttgmk6bztaxww7vcymxu4e...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thanks, Harold! You can see and hear more here... http://rationalmadness.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/insights-from-an-open-space- on-open-space-in-london-2013/ Paul On 20 May 2013 13:54, Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com> wrote: > Paul, awesome! There were several conversations in Florida that rather > than talking about "flattening" our hierarchies in organizations - what we > need is circling. Circle culture. Thanks for such an awesome story. > > Looking forward to the notes on Guerilla Action & Stealth Open Space - Jon! > > From Florida with Love, > Harold > > > On 5/20/13 1:07 AM, Jon Harvey wrote: > > And thus the #ukosonos begins. Looking forward to seeing everyone at > Lauderdale House v soon. > > Just thought of running a session on guerilla action & stealth open space. > Will anyone join me? > > So, got tea, coffee, milk & food to share. Come Paul, come all to our UK > reprise of #WOSONOS in North London > > Great greetings to all in Florida as you wend your way homewards. > > Atb > > Jon > On 20 May 2013 07:54, "paul levy" <p...@cats3000.net> wrote: > >> I remember a conference where the audience took over - at least for a >> while. It was a revolution that left the top table (the ones who had the >> bottles of mineral water and the little flowers in vases) paralysed with >> perplexity. >> >> A formal presentation using a lot of bullet-pointed Power Point had just >> stopped for five minutes of questions and answers - the fifth presentation >> in a row without a break. >> >> Garish neon lights blared down from the ceiling in a room with no natural >> light. >> >> Yes, you are correct - I said "revolution". Now, that it an interesting >> word. We talk of a revolution of the people. We also talk of a revolution >> of the planets. Revolution hints at a circle. >> >> Now, everyone was sitting in rows, as in a traditional classroom, facing >> the top table that was in a row facing the classroom style audience. >> >> The speaker stood at a lectern facing the audience as well. >> >> The chairperson invited questions. >> >> And then it happened. Someone in the audience raised their hand and was >> invited to pose their question. And pose it she did. But not in the >> direction of the top table. She sort of turned to her side and posed it to >> her row. She was interested, you see, in what other people thought of the >> issue underlying her question. Had other people had the same experience? >> Did they have any solutions. She seemed to pose it along her row and then >> to the rows behind her, as her arm swept around her and backwards in a kind >> of inclusive gesture. She finished her question and then someone near the >> back started to answer it. Soon, another person, nearer the front added a >> useful thought and then a small whispering conversation began in a corner >> between three people who were resonating with the original question. >> >> It lasted for about four minutes and, at one point, the whole room were >> now looking, not at the top table, but inwards, towards a rough central >> point in the rows. >> >> The circle was forming, even in rows of seats! >> >> And the circle was powerful. Fora while those who were supposed to be "at >> the top" at the top table were flummoxed, silent, mere onlookers on the >> outside of a forming community circle. >> >> It was a vibrant four minutes. Then the chair person raised his voice and >> attempted to restore "order". He never quite got it back! For at least a >> while afterwards, when questions were asked they are posed by the >> questioner into the centre of the room, rather than directed to the front. >> >> An in that four minutes a lot of ground was covered. The buzz continued >> into the coffee break and the top table was left, orphaned, without a clear >> role. The people wanted to talk to each other, to form a circle, to >> dialogue, to self-organise their own conversation. >> >> And this had happened: Space had opened. >> >> And this was happening: Space was opening. >> >> What I loved about witnessing this was realising the power of the circle. >> The circle wants to form - it is the natural form for people in social >> setting settings. I believe the circle is always there, in archetype, >> whenever human beings come together; it kind of hangs there, as potential, >> above the group. It seizes the chance to realise in real, especially when >> there is a top table and a bunch of rows of seats. All it needs is the >> impulse to self-organise; and that occurs with a gesture. It is the gesture >> usually of one person made, not in a way that reinforces the linear >> hierarchy - the top table - but the gesture that addresses itself to the >> central point of the natural circle. Then the attention of all turns >> towards it and a circle is formed - even when there are rows of seats. >> >> Space opens in a circle. And circles open space. Of course, it is often >> better to start with a circle of chairs, but even when that is not so, just >> direct your comments into the mess, into the heart of the community, and >> watch that circle form. >> >> Written on the way to our Open Space on Open Space in London, on May 20th >> 2013. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > > -- > Harold Shinsato > har...@shinsato.com > http://shinsato.com > twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush> > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachmen ts/20130520/78cd42f0/attachment-0001.htm> ------------------------------ Message: 22 Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 10:43:20 -0400 From: "Harrison Owen" <hho...@verizon.net> To: "'World wide Open Space Technology email list'" <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations Message-ID: <002a01ce5568$5fe620c0$1fb26240$@net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Lisa - Hate to say it, but you know I will. I think you are working much too hard! And I'm not really sure it is a question of "design" ("So I love thinking of the 'devil's advocate' questions when thinking of design.")-Just do it, just like we always do. For example, when it comes to invitation time just open the space for Invitations. Kind of an offshoot of "action planning." Whoever cares stands up with a sign (Spain, Serbia, wherever), Goes to a corner of the room, and waits until all other invitations have been made. When all the invitations are "posted" everybody else is invited to journey to that part of the world they feel drawn to. Time to discuss practicalities of location and date - and not incidentally put together an initial Host Team. People can wander from place to place, and after a short time (45min?) somebody with a mike passes from group to group for a "report." Report could be: Your invited to Serbia, Spring of 2014. Or maybe there are several. Wonderful! Or maybe a group concluded it is a wonderful idea, but not now. Done. No Sweat, no Strain. Alternative: Place a hat in the middle of the floor (my hat would do) - Anybody who cares deposits a folded piece of paper with the place specified and their name. Just before the Closing Circle, the names are drawn - We have the winners: EVERYBODY! Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) Camden, Maine 04843 Phone 301-365-2093 (summer) 207-763-3261 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Heft Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 9:05 AM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations Well that is an interesting thing to think about, and something we brought up in our own conversation last evening. (By the way the fabulous Suzanne Daigle was part of our conversation last night and you see my brain is fried by so much juicy interaction I forgot one of the most important people of all, our gracious WOSonOS host!) So I love thinking of the 'devils advocate' questions when thinking of design. So there are some people who cannot make it physically to a WOSonOS, but they can ask someone attending to represent them - as Arturo and I did for the London Team when we were at the Chile conference. If technology was available, and if it worked, and if those not-physically-with-us colleagues had their own access to technology, and and.... ... then perhaps yes someone who felt so inspired (like who knows - Access Queen gets inspired all the time to hold space for inviting) could post that session some time in the conference. And then there is the emergent inviter. The one such as Jasmina who felt called and perhaps surprised that she sprang to her feet and walked into the middle of the circle to invite. (Jasmina of course you can describe your own thoughts and feelings - I am describing a little of what I saw). It is oh-so-easy when there is only one inviter. It becomes more complex when there is more than one (country) inviter. So my thoughts turn to many things. - in our other work, what are other processes for feeling - sensing - sharing what is invited, and exploring it to see what calls? - is there a New Games / creative process that can offer this? An Agile / Scrum process? How to hold and welcome invitation and sit with it? How to center the conversation on the inviters, and not our thoughts about what should or could happen? (after all, it is the passion and responsibility of the inviting country persons that is stepping into the circle, and then we get all in our heads about it, and still... the ones who stood up and invited are the ones who had the passion and responsibility. How to hold that and not get all 'discuss-y'? I was asked to host the process for invitation / imagining and then sensing as a face-to-face group (and we had some of you watching and commenting virtually) - so I used the process I have experienced in the past 11 or 12 WOSonOSs I have been to. But I was not thinking. I did not think of how it had felt to me in all those past years. It felt not full of life. Not as vibrant as the discussion sessions. On the other hand, people have written or mentioned that that sitting-in-the-fire-see-what-shifts process was a really interesting experience. Not so much 'and now we are going to do this.' 'and now we are going to do this.' But truly - my body goes crazy, it can go on for hours, and yesterday I realized while doing it it was just like those 'consensus' processes which feel to me like ' the last person standing / with the stamina to stay in this conversation remains / gets to make the decision'. Because it is as nutritious as it is exhausting. So my thought is - and I had said this in Closing Circle - there are some WOSonOS traditions I really love over the years. You can guess that one of my favorite traditions is Global VIllage and Silent Auction and all the Access Queen seen and unseen actions and relationships. But other traditions may be meant to be released, eh? Such as this way of invitation and decision. Call it what you will, decision or otherwise - it helps us travelers and those with less financial abilities to know in advance where the next one will be, because for many people it takes quite a long time to generate the relationships and resources that will help us get there - whether 'it' is in our own country or across the world. And of course there are and can be OSonOSs all over the place, whenever they want to happen. But there is something special about this particular coming together, shared back and forth and across the world. It is morning as I leave Florida for home. Just wanted to share some of the thoughts playing in my head this morning. What do others think? Lisa (see you in Serbia! - if I say it, I know it will happen...) On May 20, 2013, at 3:52 AM, Phelim McDermott wrote: Hi there, Sounds like WOSonos was fun! Maybe those who are interested in inviting can call a session about it DURING the open space and those who have an interest can go to that session. Even if the decision doesn't get made there a lot of the issues and questions will already have been processed in some way. I have to say this part of WOSonOS is the most difficult bit as a host and it does currently feel very UN open spacey Best regards, Phelim McDermott -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Lisa > From: Lisa Heft <lisah...@openingspace.net> > Date: May 8, 2013 12:42:30 PM PDT > To: OSLIST <OSList@lists.openspacetech.org> > Subject: The OSLIST Biannual Restricted Form Poetry Contest - Summer > 2013 > > Dear Colleagues - > > Doug's recent poem inspires me to say... > > I now re-open the OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest ! > Restricted Form means some described form or boundary for the poem. > > Whoever feels so inspired - I invite you to create some original > poetry with two guidelines: > about Open Space > -and- > (in honor of Keith's recent post and our responses) > describing success and productivity in Open Space. > > Send your poetry directly to me at lisah...@openingspace.net > before midnight (in whatever time zone you live) on Friday, May 24. > > I will collect them and then show them back to you, dear readers - > so you may indicate your favorites - even though this is not a game > of favorites. It is a gift of riches. > It will, however, tell us who our new Poet Laureate of the OSLIST > will be - someone who will hold the space for poetry by sharing > and / or inviting poetry on our list for the next six months. > > All of you OSLIST members, including past Poet Laureates, are > invited to participate. > If you write your poem in your own language which may not be > English, please do add a translation in English. > > I welcome all your thoughtful words, > > Lisa > > Lisa Heft, > Past OSLIST Poet Laureate > - with a deep bow to my fellow Poet Laureates > Ralph Copleman , Chris Corrigan, Chris Weaver, Florian Fischer, > Laurel Doersam, Audrey Coward, Joelle Everett, Jeff Aitken, Teresa > Pokasony, Karen Sella, Anne Hiha, Esther Ewing, and Agneta Setterwall > > _____ > > A little history, from Chris Corrigan: > > ?For all those who might be curious, the OSLIST Biannual Restricted > Form Poetry Contest started in the spring of 2000 when I issued the > challenge to the list. Ralph Copleman actually began the whole > thing with a contest in the fall of 1999 (which I won) and so he is > the ?Poetry King? for all time. I just claimed the ?Poet Laureate? > title in an effort to have some fun. It was something of a one > martini idea, and I was out of gin at the time...? > > _____ > > And last - to inspire you - is the winning piece from our last Poet > Laureate, Agneta Setterwall.... > > ......... > > An open space? > I hesitate > > A call somewhere? > I hesitate > > An open door? > I hesitate > > And people too?! > I hesitate! > > Supposed to speak? > I hesitate!! > > Tell what I need... > I hesitate... > > Tell what I want? > I hesitate! > > And they all hear... > I doubt they do! > > They will not care! > I?m sure, I?m sure... > > And... there they come! > Oh my! They do! > > And now we talk! > We do! We do!!! > > ...they listen too... > ...and so do I... > > ...and what will come...? > Oh my! Oh my!!! > > -- Agneta Setterwall (Uppsala, Sweden) > > ......... > > Looking forward to your creativity, > Lisa > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachmen ts/20130520/e0d2623f/attachment-0001.htm> ------------------------------ Message: 24 Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 09:47:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Artur Silva <arturfsi...@yahoo.com> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations Message-ID: <1369068452.15335.yahoomail...@web161906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Harrison: In a previous mail you said: I do find it somewhat amusing that the 75 odd souls who showed up in St. Petersburg feel called upon to ?decide? for the ?whole? community. This suggestes me two questions: First: is not that what is always done in the end of a WOSonOS? Why puting the question this time? Second: Is not there a contradition between your quote above and the detailed descrition of "how to do" that you provided in this post (below)? Warm regards Artur PS: I suspect that you missed my heteredox contributions, so here it is a new one ;-) ? ________________________________ From: Harrison Owen <hho...@verizon.net> To: 'World wide Open Space Technology email list' <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations Lisa ? Hate to say it, but you know I will. I think you are working much too hard! And I?m not really sure it is a question of ?design? (?So I love thinking of the 'devil?s advocate' questions when thinking of design.?)?Just do it, just like we always do. For example, when it comes to invitation time just open the space for Invitations. Kind of an offshoot of ?action planning.? Whoever cares stands up with a sign (Spain, Serbia, wherever), Goes to a corner of the room, and waits until all other invitations have been made. When all the invitations are ?posted? everybody else is invited to journey to that part of the world they feel drawn to. Time to discuss practicalities of location and date ? and not incidentally put together an initial Host Team. People can wander from place to place, and after a short time (45min?) somebody with a mike passes from group to group for a ?report.? Report could be: Your invited to Serbia, Spring of 2014. Or maybe there are several. Wonderful! Or maybe a group concluded it is a wonderful idea, but not now. Done. No Sweat, no Strain. Alternative: Place a hat in the middle of the floor (my hat would do) ? Anybody who cares deposits a folded piece of paper with the place specified and their name. Just before the Closing Circle, the names are drawn ? We have the winners: EVERYBODY! ? Harrison ? ? Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA ? 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) Camden, Maine 04843 ? Phone 301-365-2093 (summer)? 207-763-3261 ? www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org ? From:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Heft Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 9:05 AM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations ? Well that is an interesting thing to think about, and something we brought up in our own conversation last evening.? (By the way the fabulous Suzanne Daigle was part of our conversation last night and you see my brain is fried by so much juicy interaction I forgot one of the most important people of all, our gracious WOSonOS host!) ? So I love thinking of the 'devils advocate' questions when thinking of design. ? So there are some people who cannot make it physically to a WOSonOS, but they can ask someone attending to represent them - as Arturo and I did for the London Team when we were at the Chile conference. ? If technology was available, and if it worked, and if those not-physically-with-us colleagues had their own access to technology, and and....? ... then perhaps yes someone who felt so inspired (like who knows - Access Queen gets inspired all the time to hold space for inviting) could post that session some time in the conference. ? And then there is the emergent inviter. The one such as Jasmina who felt called and perhaps surprised that she sprang to her feet and walked into the middle of the circle to invite. (Jasmina of course you can describe your own thoughts and feelings - I am describing a little of what I saw). ? It is oh-so-easy when there is only one inviter. It becomes more complex when there is more than one (country) inviter. ? So my thoughts turn to many things.? - in our other work, what are other processes for feeling - sensing - sharing what is invited, and exploring it to see what calls? - is there a New Games / creative process that can offer this? An Agile / Scrum process? How to hold and welcome invitation and sit with it? How to center the conversation on the inviters, and not our thoughts about what should or could happen? (after all, it is the passion and responsibility of the inviting country persons that is stepping into the circle, and then we get all in our heads about it, and still... the ones who stood up and invited are the ones who had the passion and responsibility. How to hold that and not get all 'discuss-y'? ? I was asked to host the process for invitation / imagining and then sensing as a face-to-face group (and we had some of you watching and commenting virtually) - so I used the process I have experienced in the past 11 or 12 WOSonOSs I have been to. But I was not thinking. I did not think of how it had felt to me in all those past years. It felt not full of life. Not as vibrant as the discussion sessions.? On the other hand, people have written or mentioned that that sitting-in-the-fire-see-what-shifts process was a really interesting experience. Not so much 'and now we are going to do this.' 'and now we are going to do this.' But truly - my body goes crazy, it can go on for hours, and yesterday I realized while doing it it was just like those 'consensus' processes which feel to me like ' the last person standing / with the stamina to stay in this conversation remains / gets to make the decision'. Because it is as nutritious as it is exhausting. ? So my thought is - and I had said this in Closing Circle - there are some WOSonOS traditions I really love over the years. You can guess that one of my favorite traditions is Global VIllage and Silent Auction and all the Access Queen seen and unseen actions and relationships. But other traditions may be meant to be released, eh?? ? Such as this way of invitation and decision. Call it what you will, decision or otherwise - it helps us travelers and those with less financial abilities to know in advance where the next one will be, because for many people it takes quite a long time to generate the relationships and resources that will help us get there - whether 'it' is in our own country or across the world. ? And of course there are and can be OSonOSs all over the place, whenever they want to happen. But there is something special about this particular coming together, shared back and forth and across the world. ? It is morning as I leave Florida for home.? Just wanted to share some of the thoughts playing in my head this morning. What do others think? ? Lisa (see you in Serbia! - if I say it, I know it will happen...)? ? ? ? On May 20, 2013, at 3:52 AM, Phelim McDermott wrote: Hi there,? ? Sounds like WOSonos was fun! Maybe those who are interested in inviting can call a session about it DURING the open space and those who have an interest can go to that session. Even if the decision doesn't get made there a lot of the issues and questions will already have been processed in some way.? ? I have to say this part of WOSonOS is the most difficult bit as a host and it does currently feel very UN open spacey Best regards, ? Phelim McDermott ? _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachmen ts/20130520/8411256c/attachment-0001.htm> ------------------------------ Message: 25 Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 17:31:11 +0000 From: K?ri Gunnarsson <kari.gunnars...@simnet.is> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations Message-ID: <caejhslmsynf-ug5nfzcf6vhzq5zux9kkav3vekwwatdv_yx...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Invitations full of wonder. Perhaps we have the chart in front of the horse. I do not see the invitations to next years wosonos as some resolution from our current discussions, but more of a invitation to continue the celebration of our common growth from the years past and future. Is it essential to do the next years invitations at the end of the event, we could just as easily do it at the beginning and use the Open Space to work with our hopes and sorrows where we can sleep on it and open more discussion in the morning news of the second day if needed. -- K?ri Gunnarsson k...@openspace.is gsm: +354 8645189 ------------------------------ Message: 26 Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 11:54:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Artur Silva <arturfsi...@yahoo.com> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Subject: Re: [OSList] Orphaning the Top Table and the Power of the Circle Message-ID: <1369076045.63316.yahoomail...@web161906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Marvelous story indeed, Paul. Thank you. Artur ________________________________ From: paul levy <p...@cats3000.net> To: OSList@lists.openspacetech.org Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 7:54 AM Subject: [OSList] Orphaning the Top Table and the Power of the Circle I remember a conference where the audience took over - at least for a while. It was a revolution that left the top table (the ones who had the bottles of mineral water and the little flowers in vases) paralysed with perplexity. A formal presentation using a lot of bullet-pointed Power Point had just stopped for five minutes of questions and answers - the fifth presentation in a row without? a break. Garish neon lights blared down from the ceiling in a room with no natural light. Yes, you are correct - I said "revolution". Now, that it an interesting word. We talk of a revolution of the people. We also talk of a revolution of the planets. Revolution hints at a circle. Now, everyone was sitting in rows, as in a traditional classroom, facing the top table that was in a row facing the classroom style audience. The speaker stood? at a lectern facing the audience as well. The chairperson invited questions. And then it happened. Someone in the audience raised their hand and was invited to pose their question. And pose it she did. But not in the direction of the top table. She sort of turned to her side and posed it to her row. She was interested, you see, in what other people thought of the issue underlying her question. Had other people had the same experience? Did they have any solutions. She seemed to pose it along her row and then to the rows behind her, as her arm swept around her and backwards in a kind of inclusive gesture. She finished her question and then someone near the back started to answer it. Soon, another person, nearer the front added a useful thought and then a small whispering conversation began in a corner between three people who were resonating with the original question. It lasted for about four minutes and, at one point, the whole room were now looking, not at the top table, but inwards, towards a rough central point in the rows. The circle was forming, even in rows of seats! And the circle was powerful. Fora while those who were supposed to be "at the top" at the top table were flummoxed, silent, mere onlookers on the outside of a forming community circle. It was a vibrant four minutes. Then the chair person raised his voice and attempted to restore "order". He never quite got it back! For at least a while afterwards, when questions were asked they are posed by the questioner into the centre of the room, rather than directed to the front. An in that four minutes a lot of ground was covered. The buzz continued into the coffee break and the top table was left, orphaned, without a clear role. The people wanted to talk to each other, to form a circle, to dialogue, to self-organise their own conversation. And this had happened: Space had opened. And this was happening: Space was opening. What I loved about witnessing this was realising the power of the circle. The circle wants to form - it is the natural form for people in social setting settings. I believe the circle is always there, in archetype, whenever human beings come together; it kind of hangs there, as potential, above the group. It seizes the chance to realise in real, especially when there is a top table and a bunch of rows of seats. All it needs is the impulse to self-organise; and that occurs with a gesture. It is the gesture usually of one person made, not in a way that reinforces the linear hierarchy - the top table - but the gesture that addresses itself to the central point of the natural circle. Then the attention of all turns towards it and a circle is formed - even when there are rows of seats. Space opens in a circle. And circles open space. Of course, it is often better to start with a circle of chairs, but even when that is not so, just direct your comments into the mess, into the heart of the community, and watch that circle form. Written on the way to our Open Space on Open Space in London, on May 20th 2013. _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Consistency is a virtue I have never been accused of?J ho Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) Camden, Maine 04843 Phone 301-365-2093 (summer) 207-763-3261 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Artur Silva Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 12:48 PM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations Hi Harrison: In a previous mail you said: I do find it somewhat amusing that the 75 odd souls who showed up in St. Petersburg feel called upon to ?decide? for the ?whole? community. This suggestes me two questions: First: is not that what is always done in the end of a WOSonOS? Why puting the question this time? Second: Is not there a contradition between your quote above and the detailed descrition of "how to do" that you provided in this post (below)? Warm regards Artur PS: I suspect that you missed my heteredox contributions, so here it is a new one ;-) _____ From: Harrison Owen <hho...@verizon.net> To: 'World wide Open Space Technology email list' <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations Lisa ? Hate to say it, but you know I will. I think you are working much too hard! And I?m not really sure it is a question of ?design? (?So I love thinking of the 'devil?s advocate' questions when thinking of design.?)?Just do it, just like we always do. For example, when it comes to invitation time just open the space for Invitations. Kind of an offshoot of ?action planning.? Whoever cares stands up with a sign (Spain, Serbia, wherever), Goes to a corner of the room, and waits until all other invitations have been made. When all the invitations are ?posted? everybody else is invited to journey to that part of the world they feel drawn to. Time to discuss practicalities of location and date ? and not incidentally put together an initial Host Team. People can wander from place to place, and after a short time (45min?) somebody with a mike passes from group to group for a ?report.? Report could be: Your invited to Serbia, Spring of 2014. Or maybe there are several. Wonderful! Or maybe a group concluded it is a wonderful idea, but not now. Done. No Sweat, no Strain. Alternative: Place a hat in the middle of the floor (my hat would do) ? Anybody who cares deposits a folded piece of paper with the place specified and their name. Just before the Closing Circle, the names are drawn ? We have the winners: EVERYBODY! Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) Camden, Maine 04843 Phone 301-365-2093 (summer) 207-763-3261 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Heft Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 9:05 AM To: World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations Well that is an interesting thing to think about, and something we brought up in our own conversation last evening. (By the way the fabulous Suzanne Daigle was part of our conversation last night and you see my brain is fried by so much juicy interaction I forgot one of the most important people of all, our gracious WOSonOS host!) So I love thinking of the 'devils advocate' questions when thinking of design. So there are some people who cannot make it physically to a WOSonOS, but they can ask someone attending to represent them - as Arturo and I did for the London Team when we were at the Chile conference. If technology was available, and if it worked, and if those not-physically-with-us colleagues had their own access to technology, and and.... ... then perhaps yes someone who felt so inspired (like who knows - Access Queen gets inspired all the time to hold space for inviting) could post that session some time in the conference. And then there is the emergent inviter. The one such as Jasmina who felt called and perhaps surprised that she sprang to her feet and walked into the middle of the circle to invite. (Jasmina of course you can describe your own thoughts and feelings - I am describing a little of what I saw). It is oh-so-easy when there is only one inviter. It becomes more complex when there is more than one (country) inviter. So my thoughts turn to many things. - in our other work, what are other processes for feeling - sensing - sharing what is invited, and exploring it to see what calls? - is there a New Games / creative process that can offer this? An Agile / Scrum process? How to hold and welcome invitation and sit with it? How to center the conversation on the inviters, and not our thoughts about what should or could happen? (after all, it is the passion and responsibility of the inviting country persons that is stepping into the circle, and then we get all in our heads about it, and still... the ones who stood up and invited are the ones who had the passion and responsibility. How to hold that and not get all 'discuss-y'? I was asked to host the process for invitation / imagining and then sensing as a face-to-face group (and we had some of you watching and commenting virtually) - so I used the process I have experienced in the past 11 or 12 WOSonOSs I have been to. But I was not thinking. I did not think of how it had felt to me in all those past years. It felt not full of life. Not as vibrant as the discussion sessions. On the other hand, people have written or mentioned that that sitting-in-the-fire-see-what-shifts process was a really interesting experience. Not so much 'and now we are going to do this.' 'and now we are going to do this.' But truly - my body goes crazy, it can go on for hours, and yesterday I realized while doing it it was just like those 'consensus' processes which feel to me like ' the last person standing / with the stamina to stay in this conversation remains / gets to make the decision'. Because it is as nutritious as it is exhausting. So my thought is - and I had said this in Closing Circle - there are some WOSonOS traditions I really love over the years. You can guess that one of my favorite traditions is Global VIllage and Silent Auction and all the Access Queen seen and unseen actions and relationships. But other traditions may be meant to be released, eh? Such as this way of invitation and decision. Call it what you will, decision or otherwise - it helps us travelers and those with less financial abilities to know in advance where the next one will be, because for many people it takes quite a long time to generate the relationships and resources that will help us get there - whether 'it' is in our own country or across the world. And of course there are and can be OSonOSs all over the place, whenever they want to happen. But there is something special about this particular coming together, shared back and forth and across the world. It is morning as I leave Florida for home. Just wanted to share some of the thoughts playing in my head this morning. What do others think? Lisa (see you in Serbia! - if I say it, I know it will happen...) On May 20, 2013, at 3:52 AM, Phelim McDermott wrote: Hi there, Sounds like WOSonos was fun! Maybe those who are interested in inviting can call a session about it DURING the open space and those who have an interest can go to that session. Even if the decision doesn't get made there a lot of the issues and questions will already have been processed in some way. 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