Re: Theme brainstorm

2001-06-04 Thread Elena A. Marchuk
Dear Sharon, Yesterday we were just at this situation! Birgitt Williams, who is in Novosibirsk (West Siberia) proposed the topic for discussion for the OS training workshop "How to make the organization more effective". As she said later she thought there will be several topics which we will use

Re: Birgitt and Raffi

2001-06-04 Thread Elena A. Marchuk
Hi dear all, I was writing a letter to one of my friends whom I didn't see YET, but it occurs to me that I can share the ideas with all of you, except the choosing the topic which I've already mentioned in the other letter. The question was that I served this week as a taxi driver to my Rotarian

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2001-06-04 Thread pattillo
Harrison, I have so been on the list serv- just in small doses! Gail, I'd love to catch up with you university of Auckland contact. I'll send you contact details off line. Cheers Anne I've just completed an Open Space meeting with a group of international marine biologists from the Wester

Differences in OS

2001-06-04 Thread Viv McWaters
Hi all I've just completed three very different OS events in seven days. Apart from the fact that I wouldn't recommend this sort of schedule, it's been interesting to note the differences in each event. The first was a one-day community meeting about child care services with about 30 participants

Open Space with Bengali Youth

2001-06-04 Thread Lin Grist
I have been asked to do an open space with Bengali Youth (it will be all male) - probably in the early fall, but in the mean time I have to think about how to go about it. I am sure that Open Space is the process that will work best for the group, they are feeling alienated and not listened to. A

Re: Open Space with Bengali Youth

2001-06-04 Thread Ralph Copleman
Lin, Relax, I think you have a lot less to be concerned about that you may feel. 1. How to make young men who may not write in English feel comfortable about posting in the market place If they're uncomfortable writing in English, let them use another language. Someone else (a translator, a fr

Re: A Thank you Note...

2001-06-04 Thread uwe.weissflog
Dear Harrison, what a wonderful way to connect and be in the world. I loved your note - I have a feel you will probably never really retire. I saw that that you will be in Germany in November, where and when is this happening? I would love the opportunity to connect again. All the best Uwe Pathwa

Re: Theme brainstorm

2001-06-04 Thread Suzanne Maxwell
In a message dated 6/2/01 11:21:50 PM Mountain Daylight Time, shar...@pdesigns.com writes: << I have a theme question that I am struggling with and would appreciate input on. If you were doing Intro to OST session for people who had never been to an OST event what theme would you use for the

Update on OSonOS IX Vancouver BC

2001-06-04 Thread Chris Corrigan
Hi there folks: We're getting all geared up for OSonOS IX in Vancouver August 18-21, 2001. There is still time to register for the conference, which you can do by grabbing the registration form at http://www.openspaceworld.org/osonos.html The theme is Improving our practice of Open Space Technol

OST in a merger situation

2001-06-04 Thread Thomas Herrmann
Hi all. I am having a dialogue with a (maybe) client. He would like to have som examples of where OST has been used in merger situations. The company concearned has recently merged with two other companies. So far I only talked to the manager of the salesdepartment, about doing OST for the three sa