Re: The magic that happens...

Sorry, I'm not Doug, I'm Elena but Julie, can I ask you a question? I'm thinking about providing a special course in the Novosibirsk State University on "Democratic ways of managing things" and I do want to make an OS for the students of the 5th year (the last one, when they write the diploma wo

The magic that happens...

Julie-- I love that story about the high school class. People sometimes ask me why I do what I do and the answer I like best is "I like to see the light in peoples' eyes" << liberating and joyful means to connect Yes, I think that is part of the answer to the question, What is the magic we

SV: Improving working conditions/health amongst the staff of a large hospital

Hallo Thomas, It feels funny to write in another language to a neighbour (we live approx. 10 km apart) but I'll try. As you know I dont have any real practical experience from Open Space (yet) but I have a lot of experience from change work and involving people in organizations, thats why I dont g

Re: SV: Improving working conditions/health amongst the staff of a large hospital

Great to have you join, Eva, my response to Thomas would have been pretty identical! Years back, before I got in touch with os, I worked for a hospital-system that asked us to facilitate a yearly event (Communications Workshop, they called it) involving people from all of their three hospitals. We

SV: Improving working conditions/health amongst the staff of a large hospital

Hi Eva. It is so good to meet you here too! Welcome to this wonderful community, and thanks for sharing your thoughts. Regarding the task at hand, we have been talking about a really large OS-meeting or multiple smaller ones, for a start. One thing is that all 15 000 will probably not be able to c

SV: SV: Improving working conditions/health amongst the staff of a large hospital

Dear Michael. Thanks a lot for sharing your experiences. Well I am off for a few days, opening space. Looking forward to this, "see you later". The possibilities really are open ended, I am quite excited about this project. Regards Thomas > -Ursprungligt meddelande- > Från: OSLIST [mailto:

VB: SV: Improving working conditions/health amongst the staff of a large hospital

Elena, I got this mail "in person" but I think that your intention was to the whole mailing list so I hereby passed it further... :o) Eva -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Elena A. Marchuk [mailto:ma...@mail.nsk.ru] Skickat: den 2 september 2002 11:50 Till: e...@epshumaninvest.se Ämne: Re: S

Re: The magic that happens...

Dear Elena, When I met with high school students last week, my goal was to introduce them to the idea of OST, and to invite them to think about how they might use the OST process in their classroom and in their school. When one of the students asked if we could just do it (using Harrison's own wo

Re: The magic that happens...

Julie, please tell us more if you can about how this process unfolded. Love, Toni Petrinovich - Original Message - From: "Julie Smith" To: Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 10:20 AM Subject: Re: The magic that happens... > Dear Elena, > > When I met with high school students last week,

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Laughter

Doug wrote: OK, folks: Joelle you speak of "that place," and Harrison you talk about whether or not laughter is the causative factor or whether it "does the job," and both are perceptive answers. But I am not sure I yet see what is this something that happens in OST and these other methods. What

might be heresy, but...

Hello all- I'm a sometimes reader here who does some open space in addition to other consulting in my 20+ years in the field. I've spoken to Harrison off-line about this and would also like input from thel arger community. I have a client with whom we are doing some direction-setting work using

Re: The magic that happens...

OK, Doug--I don't have any real proof here, but here are some of my beliefs: I believe that humans are naturally self-organizing and self-healing, but we often fall into bad habits, or are forced into unnatural modes of being by the rules and practices of organizations, society, family of origin,

Re: The magic that happens...

Julie-- I have not had difficulties having written materials translated into other languages (Spanish, Russian)--even poems which I wished to share were translated by our more-than-competent translators. Elena gave us some help with putting training materials into Russian, for the women's leaders

Re: Laughter

In a message dated 9/2/02 1:22:35 PM, owe...@mindspring.com writes: << Laughter is one of the sounds we make when we are healing. >> Thank you, Harrison. Joelle * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscr

Re: might be heresy, but...

Susan-- I've facilitated in Open Space, and I've facilitated in another setting where the automated audience-response technology was used. I'm torn between the usefulness of quick answers about where the areas of agreement are (and the flashy appeal of being able to do this with simple hardware),

Re: The magic that happens...

Hi Toni, I'm not sure how to answer you question because I don't know what part of the unfolding you're interested in knowing more about. Julie > -Original Message- > From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Toni > Petrinovich > Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 1

Laughter

Harrison-- I love this! "Laughter is one of the sounds we make when we are healing." Neat! Thanks! :-Doug. Germann * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscribe, unsubscribe

The magic that happens...

Joelle-- Beautiful! Natural creativity, self-healing, and self-organizing, gotcha. Thanks. So we are kind of catalysts, giving people an opportunity to re-experience their own power. I think I agree, at least as far as the idea that they have this "natural" "magic" in them, and that we are the k

Re: The magic that happens...

You said that the teens requested Respect as the theme - what did they come up with? how did the sessions break out? how did they work with convening their sessions? etc. Blessings, Toni Sar'h - Original Message - From: "Julie Smith" To: Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 6:38 PM Subjec