Help!

2000-08-03 Thread loughrey
Harrison is coming to our fine city in September, sponsored by our local Faculty of Administration at the university and we are sending out invitations to local branches of national businesses. It would be useful to know what national groups for which any of you have done open space facilitation s

Re: Dismissed employees of the RED CROSS decide to do a Open Space

2000-08-03 Thread Beverly McCarthy
Reinhard, Thanks so much for sharing this story. OS process is truly a practical and effective means to touch the spirit even when human hopes are shattered. Congratulations to you for your good work. Bev McCarthy Ashford Group, Inc. 7398 St. Ives Place West Chester, Ohio 45069 USA be

New York OS Facilitators

2000-08-03 Thread Andrew Donovan
Dear Friends I am passing through New York Oct 12-16 on my way to Open Space on Opens Space in Berlin. I would be very interested in talking to any open space practioners working with open space in organisations. As Australia is a few years behind on the take up of OS I am keen to hear stories

Re: Request for Advice - Contributing to an OS when you can't be there

2000-08-03 Thread Audrey Coward
Meg Salter wrote: > First of all - hello to all! I believe this is my first time speaking > up with this group, though I have been following the conversations > avidly for some months.Your spirit and words are a real inspiration, > and often a good laugh too! Here's the situation. I am a member

Re: Request for Advice - Contributing to an OS when you can't be there

2000-08-03 Thread Barbara E. Sliter
My experience is that people put their time and energy into their priorities. These change over time and it is often hard to acknowledge that what was once important, isn't as important now. For example, if I am struggling financially, I probably don't have a lot of free time and energy to dev

Re: Request for Advice - Contributing to an OS when you can't be there

2000-08-03 Thread Maggie Shreve
Meg, Your situation sounds painfully familiar. I'm co-chair of the Chicago OD Network and work with other regionals at our national conference. We've heard or experienced similar problems all across the nation. While everything you want to do sounds great, there may be other pieces missing that

New York OS Facilitators

2000-08-03 Thread romy shovelton
Message text written by OSLIST >I am passing through New York Oct 12-16 on my way to Open Space on Opens Space in Berlin. I would be very interested in talking to any open space practioners working with open space in organisations. As Australia is a few years behind on the take up of OS I am keen t

Re: Request for Advice - Contributing to an OS when you can't be there

2000-08-03 Thread Eddie Palmer
Dear Meg, One of the simplest and most effective we've used is to have a Community or Talking Wall where people/groups can poster really colourful and effective posters with messages - if theyr'e good, people read them! Eddie Palmer Open Futures Edinburgh * *