Re: 2nd Biannual OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest

will it work again? look at their faces. I did not sleep a wink, as usual. except for a dream: grandma Shoshanna beckons me to walk beside her - narrow Carpathian shtetl path. begin the circle walk. slowly speak those words and the words beneath: I love you - you - come follow your heart, there'

Re: New OS poem

Chris, in response to your challenge, here is my submission to the 2nd Biannual OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest: TRANSFERENCE I ring the bells, I talk I walk... around a circle pregnant with skepticism and fear Open Space, open mind open spirit and let the process of osmosis, deeply per

Re: An inquiry

Chris, Thank you for including parts of your invitation. I am curious about the description of OS you sent out with that invitation. I am still new at opening space, and would love to see some other examples of invitations from people who have been doing this for a while, particularly examples o

Re: Archives and Convergence

Speaking of convergence, I am planning a one day Open Space. My schedule is to Open the circle for about 30 participants around 9:00 a.m. with two sessions of one hour and fifteen minutes before lunch, and another session after lunch. Some mad copying, and then convergence around 3:00, with a clo

Re: 2nd Biannual OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest

will it work again? look at their faces. I did not sleep a wink, as usual. except for a dream: grandma Shoshanna beckons me to walk beside her - narrow Carpathian shtetl path. begin the circle walk. slowly speak those words and beneath them, hers: I love you - you - come, have some soup, tell us

Re: small os

Thanks for your detailed & thoughtful story, Chris. I had a small open space with an artist's collective who wanted to decide what to do with a large basement space. Twelve people; the second time they had been in os. I invited them to give their passion a short title, but when the bulletin board

Re: New OS poem

Wow...Elizabeth gets extra points for making her .sig file conform to the rules too! Chris "Elisabeth M. La Fontaine CMP" wrote: > Elisabeth M. La Fontaine CMPThe Paragon Group Inc.#800 - 920 Yonge > StreetToronto, ON. M4W 3C7 > e...@paragonevents.com > > -Original Message- > F

Re: 2nd Biannual OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest

It's okay Jeff...I'll take the second draft... CJC -- CHRIS CORRIGAN 108-1035 Pacific Street Vancouver BC V6E 4G7 Phone: 604.683.3080 Fax: 604.683.3036 (GO LEAFS GO!)

Re: An inquiry

Okay...here is the description of OS...What I love about this is that it was written by the sponsor...all of the following came true by the way... CJC Some Basic Information about the Open Space Process What is Open Space? Open Space is a “meeting technology” which draws on some very old pri

Re: Dissipative structures and long term OS

Hi Chris. Your notion of "the OS community" is familiar territory. I worked for a year to help a community public school in Seattle (not-coincidentally a focus school for Native American students/families) to develop into an ongoing Open Space community. One of our goals was to inspire/support g