To add to this wonderful collection of large Open Space gatherings, the one I did was with about 2,100, 1,800 street kids and 300 teachers outside Bogota, Colombia. The kids were 14-22. They had all gone through a drug rehab program and we're now in a jobs program. I worked with Andres Agudelo, who was approached by a Catholic charity that had worked with street kids for 30+ years.
A story about it and pictures are here: http://peggyholman.com/papers/articles/good-work-for-2100-colombian-street-kids/ Peggy Sent from my iPad 425-746-6274 www.peggyholman.com > On Sep 26, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList > <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > > Dear Lisa, > > just to keep the record straight, the 2108 people os was co-facilitated by > Harrison Owen and me in Würzburg/Germany in 2003. > > This open space was convened on the last day of a 4 day international > conference with a total of 5000 participants on systems constellations. > > The Theme was > "Passion and Responsibility > In the Heart of Conflict - Constellations with Families, Organizations, > Ethnic Groups, Nations". > New was at that time the application of constellations for ethnic groups and > nations in conflict. > > The Theme for the last day in open space was > "NOW, my passion, my responsibility - beyond the conference" > > 232 issues were posted and delt with in 80 breakout spaces at three beginning > times... to this day we have no clue how people managed to work in the face > of 232 issues, it appeared to have been a simple task for them. > > This event, together with 792 other events are listed in >> http://www.openspaceworldscape.org/ > > a data base and a visualisation of locations on a google map and extensive > details to each event. > > You and everyone having facilitated events is invited to record those events > in this data base... except for the 2108 event mentioned above there is no > other of the really big events listed. > > By the way, Erich Kolenaty put together a photoshow, its right here >> http://www.transformation.at/documents/OS_Wuerzburg_minimized.pdf > > His title is "Welcome to the fotoshow of the world‘s hugest Open Space". > > Of course, we know better, there are a whole bunch of events with 2, 3 and > more thousands of participants. > > Not recorded. > > Have a great weekend, > greetings from Berlin, still feeling the Belgrade WOSonOS in my old bones and > looking for the next one in September of 2015 in Poland. > > mmp > >> On 23.09.2014 22:59, Lisa Heft - wrote: >> Hi, Raffi, hi, friends, and a deep bow to you, Harold for your amazing >> work behind the scenes to help the mechanics of this list support >> incredible communication and sharing. >> >> Mark Matlock and I did several face-to-face OS events in Los Angeles, >> Cincinnati and Atlanta, USA - the largest of which was, if I recall >> correctly, 3500. >> I have done quite a number of them at the 2400+ level. Peggy - I forget >> what your largest may have been? Michael P - was it 2108? Christine >> Whitney Sanchez - your largest? I name these folks because I am trying >> to recall who are my OSLIST colleagues who have done this sort of >> large-group OS… >> >> One thing I learned quite a bit from was the collective work done by >> Christine Whitney Sanchez, Gabriel Shirley and other amazing folks at >> the 51st Girl Scout Congress - how to weave dialogue (of various forms - >> different processes with different groups / amounts of people for >> different specific reasons) into an 11,000 person event. I was *so* >> honored to be on that team, doing among other things an Open Space >> meeting of I think it may have been 780 people. Verbal dialogue, >> internal dialogue… Open Space, World Cafe, story looms...lovely stuff. >> Such rich learning, in the pre-work, in the conference, and upon reflection… >> >> I don’t know how many people Kai Degner (then the mayor of Harrisonburg >> - yes - Harrison…burg... Virginia… ) had participating in his city-wide >> OS forums… >> >> Lisa >> >> On Sep 23, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Harold Shinsato <har...@shinsato.com >> <mailto:har...@shinsato.com>> wrote: >> >>> Hi OSList, >>> >>> Raffi's email below triggered complaints from Google about Raffi's >>> "Unauthenticated email from yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com>" that >>> unsubscribed at least 130 gmail and googlemail addresses from the >>> OSList. I've never seen a problem like this in all the years I've been >>> managing the OSList. Hopefully it is resolved. I think I've added you >>> all back. But it seems Raffi's email didn't make it through to the non >>> google people as well. >>> >>> Raffi asked me to resend it. Hopefully this will go through. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Harold >>> >>> Subject: >>> [OSList] largest ost? >>> From: >>> Raffi Aftandelian <raffi_1...@yahoo.com> >>> Date: >>> 9/23/14 10:39 AM >>> To: >>> OSlist <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> >>> CC: >>> Michael Pannwitz <mmpannw...@gmail.com>, "pe...@opencirclecompany.com" >>> <pe...@opencirclecompany.com>, "vir...@mail.ru" <vir...@mail.ru> >>> >>> friends, >>> >>> my friend and colleague Misha Pronin in Moscow is wondering what is >>> the largest ost event ever and where did it take place? >>> thanks! >>> >>> laramtsa, >>> >>> raffi >>> >>> ****** >>> >>> I am the culturally White middle class American taxpayer, >>> up to my chin in hypocrisy, double standards, a sense of entitlement, >>> and choking on overconsumption, >>> >>> blissfully in denial about how 60% of my federal income taxes go to a >>> military >>> >>> that sustains genocide and ecocide the world over >>> >>> ...all in the name of democracy, freedom, and happiness for all >>> >>> >>> -- a riff off of Thic Nhat Hanh's Please Call Me By My True Names >>> <http://www.julianmaddock.info/poetry/please-call-me-by-my-true-names.html> >>> ----- Пересланное сообщение ----- >>> *От:* Михаил Пронин <vir...@mail.ru> >>> *Кому:* Raffi Aftandelian <raffi_1...@yahoo.com> >>> *Отправлено:* воскресенье, 21 сентября 2014 12:24 >>> *Тема:* Самый большой ОП >>> >>> Раффи, подскажи какой самый большой ОП на сегодняшний день и где был? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Михаил Пронин >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > -- > Michael M Pannwitz > Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany > ++49 - 30-772 8000 > > > > Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 396 resident Open Space > Workers in 69 countries working in a total of 143 countries worldwide: > www.openspaceworldmap.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
