Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 58, Issue 14

[Skye Hirst via OSList]

"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 
> www.CharterforCompassion.org 
> www.ProtecttheSacred.org 
>
>
> On Feb 18, 2016, at 1:04 PM, via OSList 
> wrote:
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>   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)
>
>
> --
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:23:46 +0100
> From: Thomas Herrmann via OSList 
> To: "'World wide Open Space Technology email list'"
>,"'GC list'"
>
> 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 

Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 58, Issue 14

[Susan Basterfield via OSList]

I love that Anne!

> On 19/02/2016, at 10:21 AM, anne stadler via OSList 
>  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 
> www.CharterforCompassion.org 
> www.ProtecttheSacred.org 
> 
> 
> On Feb 18, 2016, at 1:04 PM, via OSList  > wrote:
> 
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>> 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 > >
>> To: "'World wide Open Space Technology email list'"
>>>, 
>>"'GC list'"
>>> >
>> 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
>> 

Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 58, Issue 14

[anne stadler via OSList]

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
www.CharterforCompassion.org
www.ProtecttheSacred.org


> On Feb 18, 2016, at 1:04 PM, via OSList  
> wrote:
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> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
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> 
> 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 
> To: "'World wide Open Space Technology email list'"
>,"'GC list'"
>
> 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,