Re: [OSList] Open the Commons - Wednesday June 17, 2020, 10:30 AM EDT

[Lisa Berkley, PhD via OSList]

Hi all, 

I am not sure if this is the best way to put out this request, so , whomever is 
the moderator, please let me know…

Does any one know of a consultant (or list of/recommendations for consultants) 
who have experiences addressing systemic racism and white privilege within 
small to mid-sized cities (20,000-25,000 population). If so, please let me know!

Thanks in advance,

Lisa Berkley, PhD
l...@innereconomy.com 
917-251-3360



> On Jun 15, 2020, at 22:59, Tony Budak via OSList 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
>  Reminder: Drop in Wednesday June 17, 10:30 AM EDT
> 
> 
> Our next interactive video conversations
> Wednesday June 17, 2020, 10:30 AM EDT
> 
> We'll have a Conversation with Gwendolyn Hallsmith 
> , 
> founder and Executive Director of Global Community Initiatives, 
> a non-profit organization established in 2002.
> 
> 1) author of three books and workbooks on monetary reform and complementary 
> currencies,
> 2) founder of the Headwaters Garden and Learning Center, an ecovillage and 
> community land trust in Cabot, Vermont,
> 3) City planner and author of the 100-year planning methodology used by 
> cities all over the world, including Calgary, Alberta, Newburgh, NY, and  
>  Montpelier, VT,
> 4) musical parody songwriter and singer.
> 
> We’ll talk about what we would love to be possible in our future. 
> “So you want to start a Commons based in Ann Arbor, Michigan?” 
> 
> Simply follow the prompts below.
> 1 – Download Zoom for audio/video  and then close 
> it.
> 2 – Go to our event page  and enter a 
> guest username.
> 3 –  Click “Join Video”.
> Join us, Wednesday, 10:30 AM EDT, June 17, 2020
> Please pass this invite to your colleagues.
> 
> A QiqoChat/Zoom 
> 
>  set up problem, call my cell 330-716-2722
> I can’t wait to see and hear from you.
> Stay Safe – Stay Well, Tony Budak
> 
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[OSList] Online Facilitator Interview Series Today: 400 German students and design thinking

[Lucas Cioffi via OSList]

Hi All,

You are invited to an interactive interview today (June 16th).

OSList's very own Rolf Schneidereit will share his lessons learned creating
space for 400+ German students, 1 llama, and 2 DJs to use design thinking
to address the UN's sustainable development goals over a two-day event
on QiqoChat.

The spirit of this event is seen in this engaging YouTube video
.

*Date: *TUE 16 Jun 2020
*Time: *3pm UTC / 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific

*You can RSVP and participate here
.*  See you there!

Lucas Cioffi
Lead Software Engineer, QiqoChat.com 
Scarsdale, NY
917-528-1831
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Re: [OSList] Where is Lisa? Here she is.

[gerardo de luzenberger via OSList]

Lovely Lisa,

fabulous access queen, thanks so much for your email.
A little gift for you - the dancing queen at Belgrade wosonos in 2014

Jon brought on behalf of you for the Silent Auctions
All the best
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Il giorno sab 13 giu 2020 alle ore 00:02 Lisa Heft via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> ha scritto:

> Hello, OSLIST friends -
>
> I have not written anything here since 2016 - although I am still sitting
> in the circle and listening in.
> Some of you are dear friends from across the years (note my new email, by
> the way). A few of you have mentioned that it might be nice if I wrote to
> the list about how I am doing.
>
> This message is long, because a) I have not visited in awhile, b) I am
> having a conversation with you here in my head over time, and c) in Open
> Space, even a group of 1 can have a rich conversation for an entire session
> or longer - and can then share their documentation of that exploration back
> to the rest of the group in their Book of Proceedings. Of course you have a
> choice to read it or delete it.
>
> Those of you who know me extra-well know that - since you have known me -
> I have while working as a facilitator and educator also been very involved
> in the care of elderly parents. What just a few of you know is that I have
> also been living with a health condition called ME/CFS
> . That condition has
> progressed. I am fortunate that I am still able to care for myself,
> although here is one way to describe this particular invisible-to-others
> disability: I have to rest in-between putting on my right shoe and my left
> shoe. But I can still put on my shoes ;o)(and hey, who needs shoes in
> COVID quarantine??)  To understand the impact of this health issue (for
> people who have it much much worse than I do), perhaps your country offers
> access to a sobering yet beautiful documentary called Unrest
> .  A few years ago I realized that true,
> radical wellness meant that I must release even those things I love (love
> love love facilitation and teaching about facilitation - love it). I did
> not feel sad releasing my client work - I felt lighter. I still grieve not
> being able to teach and facilitate, and in so many diverse settings,
> countries and cultures. But I knew immediately that it was the right thing
> to do. Last year my amazing father died, this year my amazing mother-in-law
> died, and after two decades of parental care, now my wife and I have more
> time and energy to care for our selves.
>
> Interestingly, I never thought of myself as disabled until recent years,
> because I simply lived my life. However, since my parents raised me in
> a richly-diverse world, I have always had a passion for seeing / imagining
> / designing with a priority of and focus on access and inclusion. So here I
> am in an embodied experience exploring things I always imagined might be
> someone else's experience. Fascinating.
>
> I write this next part simply to share my background, with those of you
> who have not yet met me: I have facilitated for 40-something years. My
> interest area is dialogic methods that scale up (only one facilitator
> needed for a group of 5 or 3000+), that work across country and culture
> (without requiring participants to learn someone else’s vocabulary; without
> working through the facilitators’s own cultural filter), and in which
> participants frame their own experience (rather than the facilitator doing
> so). When I say 'dialogic', I mean those processes which engage
> participants in internal and external dialogue (conversation with self,
> conversation with others). And when I say conversation, I do not mean
> everyone has to speak aloud. Witnessing - fully listening - is
> participation just as much as speaking. I use existing and custom-designed
> processes which engage participants in silent reflection, kinesthetic and
> graphic thinking, improv, role play, poetry creation, movement, and (no
> surprise!) such methods as Open Space, World Cafe and Focused Conversation
> Method. Here is another  way of showing who
> I am (there are so very many different ways of seeing / naming / showing
> one's self).
>
> And now I write this part to share what I feel so proud of - and because
> w

[OSList] Documents that explain OST beautifully?

[Lucas Cioffi via OSList]

Hi All,

If you have a document you use to explain OST to your participants and if
you wouldn't mind other facilitators using it, please share the link here.
Please also specify what copyright license applies (ie free to use without
attribution, free to use with attribution, etc).

If we had a small library of such documents, we could learn from each other
more quickly.

Lucas Cioffi
Lead Software Engineer, QiqoChat
Scarsdale, NY
917-528-1831
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Re: [OSList] Where is Lisa? Here she is.

[agusj via OSList]

 Hello Lisa,
Wonderful to read again your inspiring thoughts and reflections. Thank you!
I send you a big lovely hug!!
Agustín
On Friday, June 12, 2020, 03:43:56 PM GMT-5, Lisa Heft via OSList 
 wrote:  
 
 Hello, OSLIST friends -
I have not written anything here since 2016 - although I am still sitting in 
the circle and listening in. Some of you are dear friends from across the years 
(note my new email, by the way). A few of you have mentioned that it might be 
nice if I wrote to the list about how I am doing. 
This message is long, because a) I have not visited in awhile, b) I am having a 
conversation with you here in my head over time, and c) in Open Space, even a 
group of 1 can have a rich conversation for an entire session or longer - and 
can then share their documentation of that exploration back to the rest of the 
group in their Book of Proceedings. Of course you have a choice to read it or 
delete it. 
Those of you who know me extra-well know that - since you have known me - I 
have while working as a facilitator and educator also been very involved in the 
care of elderly parents. What just a few of you know is that I have also been 
living with a health condition called ME/CFS. That condition has progressed. I 
am fortunate that I am still able to care for myself, although here is one way 
to describe this particular invisible-to-others disability: I have to rest 
in-between putting on my right shoe and my left shoe. But I can still put on my 
shoes ;o)    (and hey, who needs shoes in COVID quarantine??)  To understand 
the impact of this health issue (for people who have it much much worse than I 
do), perhaps your country offers access to a sobering yet beautiful documentary 
called Unrest.  A few years ago I realized that true, radical wellness meant 
that I must release even those things I love (love love love facilitation and 
teaching about facilitation - love it). I did not feel sad releasing my client 
work - I felt lighter. I still grieve not being able to teach and facilitate, 
and in so many diverse settings, countries and cultures. But I knew immediately 
that it was the right thing to do. Last year my amazing father died, this year 
my amazing mother-in-law died, and after two decades of parental care, now my 
wife and I have more time and energy to care for our selves.  
Interestingly, I never thought of myself as disabled until recent years, 
because I simply lived my life. However, since my parents raised me in a 
richly-diverse world, I have always had a passion for seeing / imagining / 
designing with a priority of and focus on access and inclusion. So here I am in 
an embodied experience exploring things I always imagined might be someone 
else's experience. Fascinating.
I write this next part simply to share my background, with those of you who 
have not yet met me: I have facilitated for 40-something years. My interest 
area is dialogic methods that scale up (only one facilitator needed for a group 
of 5 or 3000+), that work across country and culture (without requiring 
participants to learn someone else’s vocabulary; without working through the 
facilitators’s own cultural filter), and in which participants frame their own 
experience (rather than the facilitator doing so). When I say 'dialogic', I 
mean those processes which engage participants in internal and external 
dialogue (conversation with self, conversation with others). And when I say 
conversation, I do not mean everyone has to speak aloud. Witnessing - fully 
listening - is participation just as much as speaking. I use existing and 
custom-designed processes which engage participants in silent reflection, 
kinesthetic and graphic thinking, improv, role play, poetry creation, movement, 
and (no surprise!) such methods as Open Space, World Cafe and Focused 
Conversation Method. Here is another way of showing who I am (there are so very 
many different ways of seeing / naming / showing one's self).  
And now I write this part to share what I feel so proud of - and because 
writing this shows me back to myself, with you as witness to my "prouds". I 
have much more life to live, but this is also a point of my life where I am 
reflecting a bit. I am so proud of having been able to learn so much from and 
with so many of you. I am amazed (but not surprised) about how Open Space (I 
will call it OS) works. I have used it in over 20 countries, and within those 
countries with participants of many mixes of cultures and countries of origin. 
I have used it when only one person showed up, and with groups of 3500. I have 
seen groups use it to figure out how to spend a billion dollars of funding over 
the next several years, in a way that was different than they did before, to 
bring positive impacts to programs, outcomes and communities. Survivors of 
foster care or violence or disaster articulating their unique and collective 
experience, grief and loss, and resilience. Communities impacted by 
institutionalizat