"what's up? That you want to take responsibility for? " That phrase seems to jump off the page to me. Thanks for that. It says so much
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Susan Basterfield via OSList < oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > I love that Anne! > > On 19/02/2016, at 10:21 AM, anne stadler via OSList < > oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > > Thomas Hermann's question: > > I love what you're doing, Thomas! > And i encourage you to treat any meeting as a "real open space". By that i > mean, open the space within yourself to welcome everyone. Open up the room > so people can easily take responsibility (tools etc easily at hand in same > place each time.) Open up the meeting by coming together in a "circle", > then breaking into the chaos of people moving their chairs as they self > organize. Open up the agenda by asking each time "what's up? That you want > to take responsibility for?" Open up comfort and familiarity by cooking or > eating together (people bringing food from home to share??) Do a very few > consistent rituals: opening circle, self-organizing, food, closing circle > for reflection/announcements, simple patterns, repeated each time. > > My sense is that You're creating a "hearth" for your community. > > Blessings! Wish I lived near you!! > > Anne > > > Your Self > Occupy > 100% > > > A world that works for ALL is a world of love made visible > > Phone: 206-459-0227 > Skype: anne.m.stadler > > www.InClaritas.com <http://www.inclaritas.com/> > www.CharterforCompassion.org <http://www.charterforcompassion.org/> > www.ProtecttheSacred.org <http://www.protectthesacred.org/> > > > On Feb 18, 2016, at 1:04 PM, via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> > wrote: > > 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. OST meeting 2 hours a week - X-posted OS-list and GC-list > (Thomas Herrmann via OSList) > 2. How to shift a destructive "information-meeting" to a > constructive dialogue meeting? (Thomas Herrmann via OSList) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:23:46 +0100 > From: Thomas Herrmann via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> > To: "'World wide Open Space Technology email list'" > <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>, "'GC list'" > <genuine-cont...@googlegroups.com> > Subject: [OSList] OST meeting 2 hours a week - X-posted OS-list and > GC-list > Message-ID: <00bd01d16a36$74035a10$5c0a0e30$@openspaceconsulting.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear friends in Open Space /GC-list > > Since a few months I facilitate a meeting every Sunday in my community as > part of a Tillsammanscaf? (Together caf?) for people living in my community > who want to contribute to making it a better place for everyone living > here. > It?s a 2-hour meeting where we start with having coffee/tea, then welcoming > and sharing some news (especially if relevant things have been happening). > Usually there are 50-100 participants sitting at long tables (due to > logistics and the short time I have chosen not to use the circle. In ?real? > meetings I always use the circle). > > > > It started as we felt we need to do something to create space for new > inhabitants to meet those of us living for a long time here, so among the > participants there are asylum seekers and refugees. When meeting in large > group we translate everything to English, Arabic and Swedish ? small groups > have to help each other. > > > > Next step in the meeting is that I ask who has a topic they want to raise > for conversation today. Of course it?s more challenging than when we sit in > a circle so we tried different things such as keeping topics from last > meetings that anyone can put up again + invite more. We also tried to > invite > people during arrival/having coffee ? to put topics up. Normally we have > 5-10 topics from playing the guitar, looking for internship and work, > finding housing, learning language etc etc. > > > > I create spaces for people to meet in small circles to have their > conversations (45-60 minutes) then we gather again and I invite each group > to share a bit about what they did before we close the meeting. > > > > We are now thinking about alternative ways to develop this and I?d love to > have more ideas. While writing one idea came to me. As we have been talking > about having meetings dedicated to a specific theme, or to cook together > during a meeting (we have access to a space with several cooking places) or > do something else together. > > I am thinking about opening space in a real way ? to create an agenda (in a > real open space way using the circle!) for example for the coming 3 > meetings > which would then be like break our spaces. That way it would not be so > repetitive and more time would be there for each break out/or it could also > develop to sometimes having a specific theme for one meeting? > > > > I would love your input, experiences, questions?. > > > > Tillsammans ? we can make difference > > > > Thomas Herrmann > > Open Space Consulting AB > > <http://www.openspaceconsulting.com/> www.openspaceconsulting.com > > Ni n?r oss per telefon: +46 (0)709 98 97 81 eller Epost: > <mailto:tho...@openspaceconsulting.com <tho...@openspaceconsulting.com>> > tho...@openspaceconsulting.com > > > > Open Space Consulting AB ?r ett f?retag med STORA ambitioner att guida > ledare, organisationer men ?ven lokalsamh?llen att n? sin fulla kraft f?r > att infria sina dr?mmar. Vi bidrar med kunskaper och praktiska verktyg f?r > att st?dja er att finna er b?sta v?g. > > > > Mer information > > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasherrmannopenspaceconsult > > Facebook F?retagssida: https://www.facebook.com/OpenSpaceConsulting > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20160218/f16d168f/attachment.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:34:12 +0100 > From: Thomas Herrmann via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> > To: "'World wide Open Space Technology email list'" > <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>, "'GC list'" > <genuine-cont...@googlegroups.com> > Subject: [OSList] How to shift a destructive "information-meeting" to > a constructive dialogue meeting? > Message-ID: <00c901d16a37$e8e4a860$baadf920$@openspaceconsulting.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear friends in Open Space/GC-list > > I have decided to focus my time and energy, as much as possible, to > contributing in a critical area here in Sweden. Last year we received 160 > 000 asylum seekers. Of course this means some challenges but also lots of > fantastic opportunities. Many many people are engaging as volunteers, > villages who have ?been sleeping? for decades wake up etc etc > > > > One of the challenges is that neighbours often become afraid when new > asylum > camps are opened near where they live. Or homes for lonely refugee children > (35 000 came last year). There are so many rumours going on, and shit is > spread on social media ? so many ?normal? people are very much afraid from > stories they heard ? often false ones but also that single events create > pictures in people?s heads. > > > > In my hometown one school which was being rebuilt to house lonely refugee > children was burnt down :( and we had many fires like that all over the > country :( > > > > What the authorities usually do when a new housing is to open is to invite > the public to a ?information-meeting? where they put some politicians, the > CEO of the company running the camp, some officials from the municipality > in > front of a crowd of people who are worried and some are even outright > hostile with racist ideas. You can imagine what usually happens? I was in > one of those meetings a couple of weeks ago, it was horrible. > > I think the usual impact is: > > * Increased fear and hostility towards people coming to our country > from war zones. > > * Increased mistrust to the politicians and municipality. > > * People at the front get more or less badly hurt. > > > > Not a very good result. In fact it?s outright dangerous to arrange these > kind of meetings. But mostly they don?t know better. Which is quite > surprising to me as there are thousands of trained facilitators in our > country. > > > > Since some time I have been working with colleagues in our Open Space and > Genuine Contact communities to create alternative ways to have such > meetings. We have some good ideas but would also like to hear what comes up > for you? Normally these meetings are conducted in the evening, length of > 2-3 > hours. Normally they are not well planned and not facilitated other than > trying to control them. They are called ?information meetings? which says a > lot. > > > > So I?d love to hear your experiences, ideas, suggestions? > > > > Thomas Herrmann > > Open Space Consulting AB > > <http://www.openspaceconsulting.com/> www.openspaceconsulting.com > > Ni n?r oss per telefon: +46 (0)709 98 97 81 eller Epost: > <mailto:tho...@openspaceconsulting.com <tho...@openspaceconsulting.com>> > tho...@openspaceconsulting.com > > > > Open Space Consulting AB ?r ett f?retag med STORA ambitioner att guida > ledare, organisationer men ?ven lokalsamh?llen att n? sin fulla kraft f?r > att infria sina dr?mmar. Vi bidrar med kunskaper och praktiska verktyg f?r > att st?dja er att finna er b?sta v?g. > > > > Mer information > > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasherrmannopenspaceconsult > > Facebook F?retagssida: https://www.facebook.com/OpenSpaceConsulting > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20160218/cd601cc3/attachment-0001.htm > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org > > ------------------------------ > > End of OSList Digest, Vol 58, Issue 14 > ************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.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 > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org > -- *Skye Hirst, PhD* President - The Autognomics Institute *Conversations in Radical Self-Knowing* www.autognomics.org @autognomics New Phone Number: 207-593-8074
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