Re: [OSList] Learning opportunities in the UK

[Marai Kiele via OSList]

Dear Sue,

One great way I learned about OST was finding someone more experienced and 
being an assistant for some times.

Years back, when I followed Michael M Pannwitz around for three months, I 
learned a lot.
So additional to any course you could take, you could offer another experienced 
facilitator to help them?

Thinking back, I chose Michael M (cudos to you) very consciously, as he didn’t 
do shortcuts I saw some other facilitators make.
(some did Future Search, World Café, AI, OST etc, and sometimes mixed them up, 
which I didn’t appreciate).
He was very clear about the impact each aspect of OST had, and what would be 
lost by changing it.

What a great opportunity to openly say:

Thank you, Michael M Pannwitz, for that opportunity to be an OST 
apprentice !

( And I still have your OST material box :-) )

With Love, Marai


> Am 27.08.2019 um 09:12 schrieb Sue Lawson via OSList 
> :
> 
> Hi everyone,
> I've been following the list for a while but this is my first post...
> 
> I'm trying to find out if the are OST learning opportunities running in the 
> UK.
> 
> For the past few years a friend and I have been running annual librarycamp 
> unconferences using bits of OST - session proposals, marketplace, the four 
> rules - although we're not so good at the reporting, relying on volunteer 
> notetakers and it's not always successful. 
> 
> I'm naturally shy and not a confident facilitator. I'm not afraid to try but 
> I'd love to become better. My co-camper is more at ease but I want us both to 
> develop as facilitators.
> Our camps are free and we do it as a hobby. We're librarians by day and our 
> themes are around improving libraries or working through challenges public 
> libraries face nowadays. It's not a business, more a passion.
> 
> Thanks everyone.
> 
> Sue Lawson on behalf of Librarycamp.
> @shedsue 
> 
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, 19:03 Michael M Pannwitz via OSList, 
> mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> 
> wrote:
> Dear Michael,
> 
> "‘felt’ more calm and respectful than in previous years"
> I wonder why that was no surprise to you.
> Could it be part of the cultural shifting that you hope for?
> 
> Is there a "Next Meeting" for all of those that got into the 14 Action 
> Plans?
> 
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp
> Am 26.08.2019 um 09:14 schrieb Michael Wood via OSList:
> > A few weeks ago Brendan McKeague and Michael Wood co-facilitated what 
> > might be the largest ever Open Space in Australia (certainly with a 
> > church group) when the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane took the step of 
> > hosting most of the first day of Synod (the annual large gathering of 
> > representatives of Anglican parishes, schools and other organisations) 
> > for 6 hours in Open Space. 450 people attended around a very spacious 
> > question, ‘what is God calling us to be and do at this time’.  Three 
> > sessions of 1.5 hours each led to the posting of 56 conversation topics 
> > and 14 action plans. One of the interesting pieces of feedback at the 
> > end of Synod is that the remainder of Synod (which is conducted in a 
> > traditional Westminster Parliament format) ‘felt’ more calm and 
> > respectful that in previous years – no surprises there.  Although it’s 
> > early days the whole thing felt to me like an opening up of new 
> > possibility about the way we meet in the church and I personally hope it 
> > might be part of a cultural shift starting to happen. Time will tell.
> > 
> > Michael Wood. Perth, Western Australia.
> > 
> > 
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> 
> -- 
> Michael M Pannwitz
> Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
> ++49 - 30-772 8000
> mmpannw...@gmail.com 
> 
> 
> Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 487 resident Open 
> Space Workers in 76 countries working in a total of 142 countries worldwide
> www.openspaceworldmap.org 
> 
> At my publisher you find books and task cards on open space, most in 
> German, some in English, some as ebooks, some multilingual
> https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Kommunikation 
> 
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Re: [OSList] Large Open Space with Anglican Church Australia

[Brendan McKeague via OSList]

Thanks Birgitt - we did a bit of serious discernment around the session times, 
given the numbers involved, the transitions between spaces (and paradigms), and 
the time we had available to open the space.  

A couple of interesting variations to our usual practice emerged

1)  we decided to put the starting times on the Agenda Wall and not 
nominate the finishing times (ie Session 1: 10:30, Session 2: 12noon, session 
3: 1:30; reconvene for convergence: 2:45 - or something like that from memory)

2)  we then offered an invitation to Action Planning from 2:45-3:15’ish 
when participants could nominate the action areas they were interested in 
pursuing, the place where they could be found, and inviting others to join them 
around the grounds during afternoon break 3:15-3:50, before they all returned 
to the hall which by then had been reconfigured into the conventional Synod 
style - rows, microphones etc...

3)  we invited participants to continue having conversations throughout the 
remaining 1.5 days of the Synod and if they chose, to record these and submit 
for inclusion in the Book of Proceedings… an invitation to ‘keeping the space 
open’ for as long as they wished, in the context of their gathering. 

All in all, we embraced a few challenging contextual concerns around time, 
space, numbers…..and as usual, collective intention and openness to co-create 
with willing sponsors enabled us to experience yet another complex adaptive 
system in motion….

Yippee :)

Brendan 
 

> On 27 Aug 2019, at 8:08 am, Birgitt Williams via OSList 
>  wrote:
> 
> Congratulations Michael and Brendan ,
> Among the many aspects of this story that are just great, the one I am 
> appreciating the most is that you did your OST design so that all sessions 
> were given 90 minutes, using the gift of time within the space, time for 
> meaningful conversations.
> 
> in genuine contact,
> Birgitt
> 
> 
> Birgitt Williams
> Supporting Next Level Leadership "Leading So People Will Lead"
> Author, Senior Consultant, President Dalar International Consultancy, Inc 
> 
> Founder Genuine Contact Program 
> 
> Co-owner Genuine Contact Group, LLC 
> 
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> 
> 
> Learn with us for your skill and capacity development for leading and working 
> in the new leadership paradigm "Leading So People Will Lead"
> 
> Upcoming learning module: Working with Open Space Technology 
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> engage the people. Self-Study + One-to-One Mentoring + Mentoring Circle; 
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> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 3:14 AM Michael Wood via OSList 
> mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> 
> wrote:
> A few weeks ago Brendan McKeague and Michael Wood co-facilitated what might 
> be the largest ever Open Space in Australia (certainly with a church group) 
> when the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane took the step of hosting most of the 
> first day of Synod (the annual large gathering of representatives of Anglican 
> parishes, schools and other organisations) for 6 hours in Open Space. 450 
> people attended around a very spacious question, ‘what is God calling us to 
> be and do at this time’.  Three sessions of 1.5 hours each led to the posting 
> of 56 conversation topics and 14 action plans. One of the interesting pieces 
> of feedback at the end of Synod is that the remainder of Synod (which is 
> conducted in a traditional Westminster Parliament format) ‘felt’ more calm 
> and respectful that in previous years – no surprises there.  Although it’s 
> early days the whole thing felt to me like an opening up of new possibility 
> about the way we meet in the church and I personally hope it might be part of 
> a cultural shift starting to happen. Time will tell.
> 
> Michael Wood. Perth, Western Australia.
> 
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Re: [OSList] Learning opportunities in the UK

[Anna Caroline Türk via OSList]

Dear Sue,

what a wonderful passion you have! 
I share your passion for OST.
And want to let you know about a last minute learning opportunity next week in 
the Netherlands. https://www.dorisgottlieb.com/ost-2019 

Together with my colleagues Doris and Thomas we are facilitating "Working with 
Open Space Technology” - a 3 days training in the Netherlands. 

This is the last Ost training for a while in Europe and in English that I am 
aware of.
Otherwise I recommend a course with Birgitt Williams - it’s online including 
self study and 1 on 1 mentoring. 
https://www.dalarinternational.com/curriculum/open-space-technology/ 



Have a great day & let me know if I can support you in any way
Anna Caroline 




> On Aug 27, 2019, at 9:12 AM, Sue Lawson via OSList 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> I've been following the list for a while but this is my first post...
> 
> I'm trying to find out if the are OST learning opportunities running in the 
> UK.
> 
> For the past few years a friend and I have been running annual librarycamp 
> unconferences using bits of OST - session proposals, marketplace, the four 
> rules - although we're not so good at the reporting, relying on volunteer 
> notetakers and it's not always successful. 
> 
> I'm naturally shy and not a confident facilitator. I'm not afraid to try but 
> I'd love to become better. My co-camper is more at ease but I want us both to 
> develop as facilitators.
> Our camps are free and we do it as a hobby. We're librarians by day and our 
> themes are around improving libraries or working through challenges public 
> libraries face nowadays. It's not a business, more a passion.
> 
> Thanks everyone.
> 
> Sue Lawson on behalf of Librarycamp.
> @shedsue 
> 
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, 19:03 Michael M Pannwitz via OSList, 
> mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> 
> wrote:
> Dear Michael,
> 
> "‘felt’ more calm and respectful than in previous years"
> I wonder why that was no surprise to you.
> Could it be part of the cultural shifting that you hope for?
> 
> Is there a "Next Meeting" for all of those that got into the 14 Action 
> Plans?
> 
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp
> Am 26.08.2019 um 09:14 schrieb Michael Wood via OSList:
> > A few weeks ago Brendan McKeague and Michael Wood co-facilitated what 
> > might be the largest ever Open Space in Australia (certainly with a 
> > church group) when the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane took the step of 
> > hosting most of the first day of Synod (the annual large gathering of 
> > representatives of Anglican parishes, schools and other organisations) 
> > for 6 hours in Open Space. 450 people attended around a very spacious 
> > question, ‘what is God calling us to be and do at this time’.  Three 
> > sessions of 1.5 hours each led to the posting of 56 conversation topics 
> > and 14 action plans. One of the interesting pieces of feedback at the 
> > end of Synod is that the remainder of Synod (which is conducted in a 
> > traditional Westminster Parliament format) ‘felt’ more calm and 
> > respectful that in previous years – no surprises there.  Although it’s 
> > early days the whole thing felt to me like an opening up of new 
> > possibility about the way we meet in the church and I personally hope it 
> > might be part of a cultural shift starting to happen. Time will tell.
> > 
> > Michael Wood. Perth, Western Australia.
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Michael M Pannwitz
> Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
> ++49 - 30-772 8000
> mmpannw...@gmail.com 
> 
> 
> Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 487 resident Open 
> Space Workers in 76 countries working in a total of 142 countries worldwide
> www.openspaceworldmap.org 
> 
> At my publisher you find books and task cards on open space, most in 
> German, some in English, some as ebooks, some multilingual
> https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Kommunikation 
> 
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Re: [OSList] Learning opportunities in the UK

[Michael M Pannwitz via OSList]

Dear Sue Lawson,

if its not a passion, its not a business, simply slavery and drudgery.
Happy yourself with your passion, grand.

There is a bunch of enthusiastic os-workers in the UK, exactly 38 of 
them living today, maybe someone near you, have a look here

https://www.openspaceworldmap.org/country/GB


Greetings from Berlin from a formerly not very shy facilitator in process
mmp


Am 27.08.2019 um 09:12 schrieb Sue Lawson via OSList:

Hi everyone,
I've been following the list for a while but this is my first post...

I'm trying to find out if the are OST learning opportunities running in 
the UK.


For the past few years a friend and I have been running annual 
librarycamp unconferences using bits of OST - session proposals, 
marketplace, the four rules - although we're not so good at the 
reporting, relying on volunteer notetakers and it's not always successful.


I'm naturally shy and not a confident facilitator. I'm not afraid to try 
but I'd love to become better. My co-camper is more at ease but I want 
us both to develop as facilitators.
Our camps are free and we do it as a hobby. We're librarians by day and 
our themes are around improving libraries or working through challenges 
public libraries face nowadays. It's not a business, more a passion.


Thanks everyone.

Sue Lawson on behalf of Librarycamp.
@shedsue

On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, 19:03 Michael M Pannwitz via OSList, 
mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> 
wrote:


Dear Michael,

"‘felt’ more calm and respectful than in previous years"
I wonder why that was no surprise to you.
Could it be part of the cultural shifting that you hope for?

Is there a "Next Meeting" for all of those that got into the 14 Action
Plans?

Greetings from Berlin
mmp
Am 26.08.2019 um 09:14 schrieb Michael Wood via OSList:
 > A few weeks ago Brendan McKeague and Michael Wood co-facilitated
what
 > might be the largest ever Open Space in Australia (certainly with a
 > church group) when the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane took the step of
 > hosting most of the first day of Synod (the annual large
gathering of
 > representatives of Anglican parishes, schools and other
organisations)
 > for 6 hours in Open Space. 450 people attended around a very
spacious
 > question, ‘what is God calling us to be and do at this time’.  Three
 > sessions of 1.5 hours each led to the posting of 56 conversation
topics
 > and 14 action plans. One of the interesting pieces of feedback at
the
 > end of Synod is that the remainder of Synod (which is conducted in a
 > traditional Westminster Parliament format) ‘felt’ more calm and
 > respectful that in previous years – no surprises there.  Although
it’s
 > early days the whole thing felt to me like an opening up of new
 > possibility about the way we meet in the church and I personally
hope it
 > might be part of a cultural shift starting to happen. Time will tell.
 >
 > Michael Wood. Perth, Western Australia.
 >
 >
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 >

-- 
Michael M Pannwitz

Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
++49 - 30-772 8000
mmpannw...@gmail.com 


Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 487 resident Open
Space Workers in 76 countries working in a total of 142 countries
worldwide
www.openspaceworldmap.org 

At my publisher you find books and task cards on open space, most in
German, some in English, some as ebooks, some multilingual
https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Kommunikation
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[OSList] Learning opportunities in the UK

[Sue Lawson via OSList]

Hi everyone,
I've been following the list for a while but this is my first post...

I'm trying to find out if the are OST learning opportunities running in the
UK.

For the past few years a friend and I have been running annual librarycamp
unconferences using bits of OST - session proposals, marketplace, the four
rules - although we're not so good at the reporting, relying on volunteer
notetakers and it's not always successful.

I'm naturally shy and not a confident facilitator. I'm not afraid to try
but I'd love to become better. My co-camper is more at ease but I want us
both to develop as facilitators.
Our camps are free and we do it as a hobby. We're librarians by day and our
themes are around improving libraries or working through challenges public
libraries face nowadays. It's not a business, more a passion.

Thanks everyone.

Sue Lawson on behalf of Librarycamp.
@shedsue

On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, 19:03 Michael M Pannwitz via OSList, <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Dear Michael,
>
> "‘felt’ more calm and respectful than in previous years"
> I wonder why that was no surprise to you.
> Could it be part of the cultural shifting that you hope for?
>
> Is there a "Next Meeting" for all of those that got into the 14 Action
> Plans?
>
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp
> Am 26.08.2019 um 09:14 schrieb Michael Wood via OSList:
> > A few weeks ago Brendan McKeague and Michael Wood co-facilitated what
> > might be the largest ever Open Space in Australia (certainly with a
> > church group) when the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane took the step of
> > hosting most of the first day of Synod (the annual large gathering of
> > representatives of Anglican parishes, schools and other organisations)
> > for 6 hours in Open Space. 450 people attended around a very spacious
> > question, ‘what is God calling us to be and do at this time’.  Three
> > sessions of 1.5 hours each led to the posting of 56 conversation topics
> > and 14 action plans. One of the interesting pieces of feedback at the
> > end of Synod is that the remainder of Synod (which is conducted in a
> > traditional Westminster Parliament format) ‘felt’ more calm and
> > respectful that in previous years – no surprises there.  Although it’s
> > early days the whole thing felt to me like an opening up of new
> > possibility about the way we meet in the church and I personally hope it
> > might be part of a cultural shift starting to happen. Time will tell.
> >
> > Michael Wood. Perth, Western Australia.
> >
> >
> > ___
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> >
>
> --
> Michael M Pannwitz
> Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
> ++49 - 30-772 8000
> mmpannw...@gmail.com
>
>
> Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 487 resident Open
> Space Workers in 76 countries working in a total of 142 countries worldwide
> www.openspaceworldmap.org
>
> At my publisher you find books and task cards on open space, most in
> German, some in English, some as ebooks, some multilingual
> https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Kommunikation
> ___
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