Re: Poetry Contest

2003-04-08 Thread ICA Taiwan
My vote:1, 4, 5, 8, 10 -- Gail West, ICA 3F, No. 12, Lane 5, Tien Mou West Road Taipei 111 Taiwan Phone: (8862) 2871-3150, Fax: (8862) 2871-2870 * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscribe, uns

Open Space in Seattle--Creating the World We Want

2003-04-08 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
Friends-- One of my small contributions to waging peace will be to facilitate a public Open Space conference in Seattle on Sunday, May 4, around the theme, Creating the World We Want. Below, an invitation with more details, which you can pass on to friends. Hope to have old and new friends join

Fwd: Re: thesis on Open Space

2003-04-08 Thread Pannwitz, Michael M
Dear Adrienn, ok, I will post our exchange to the oslistserve (if you want to see possible responses you need to sign in, the procedure is quite simple, take a look at the bottom of my mail). Will your thesis be in English? I would like to receive it (pay the expenses, of course) peace mmp Dear Mr

Re: Poetry Contest

2003-04-08 Thread Averbuch
Audrey' I believe I didn't see Ralph Copelman's beautiful song. ? Tova * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, V

Re: Poetry Contest

2003-04-08 Thread Ralph Copleman
On 4/8/03 10:05 AM, "Averbuch" wrote: > Audrey' > I believe I didn't see Ralph Copelman's beautiful song. > ? > Tova Thanks for the compliment, Tova. My poem is the one about the space opened for me and my mother when I tell her jokes, and Audrey did include it later. Ralph * * ==

Re: Poetry Contest

2003-04-08 Thread Averbuch
My vote is 2 for#2 and 3 for #11 all the bst Shalom Tova --- Tova Averbuch 34 Rabinovitz st Holon 58672 Israel Tel:972-3-5523476 Mobile:972-58-305343averb...@post.tau.ac.il -- -Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu]On Beha

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OS and strategic planning

2003-04-08 Thread Jaime Pedreros Fitzgerald
Hello dear colleagues, Most of the OS literature I have reviewed mention that OS is not useful (or would not work) in strategic planning gatherings. I would like to mention that my first experience (november 2000) with OS with an business education institution consisted of "ways to enrich our stra

Re: OS and strategic planning

2003-04-08 Thread Michael Herman
jaime, try these stories... http://www.globalchicago.net/wiki/wiki.cgi?StrategicPlanning - peggy holman oslist blurb about washington state arts council http://www.globalchicago.net/ost/invitingorg/19weissflog.html - uwe weissflog story of strategic conversation at major corporation http://www.g

Re: OS and strategic planning

2003-04-08 Thread Peggy Holman
Jaime, I did a strategic planning process with the Washington State Arts Commission (WSAC) a few years back using 20 open space gatherings. The first and last were state-wide. The ones in the middle were held throughout the state, ranging from 5 to 75 people. In all, about 1,200 people particip

Re: OS and strategic planning

2003-04-08 Thread Ralph Copleman
Open Space does not work for strategic planning because almost nothing does. Strategic planning, in my long experience, rarely works. But that's a whole other story. What's important is that Open Space works GREAT if a system wants to engage in re-shaping its future or choosing a new one altogeth

Re: OS and strategic planning

2003-04-08 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
Ralph-- Can I quote you on this? You've put my own observations in very succinct form. We had fun on a project a few months ago with an opportunity to express some of our true thoughts and feelings about strategic planning. We subsequently helped this organization hold an Open Space, and some c

Re: OS and strategic planning

2003-04-08 Thread Birgitt Williams
A man walks into a psychiatrist's office snapping his fingers. The doctor asks why he is doing this? "To keep the tigers away," responds the man. "But there are no tigers in New York City," says the doctor. Where upon the man replies, "Effective, isn't it!" - Author unknown It is difficult to conv

OS and strategic planning wow!!

2003-04-08 Thread Jaime Pedreros Fitzgerald
Dear friends, Thank you very much for your valuable help. All the messages I have received during the last three hours encouraged me to make a "non conventional" approach for the proposal I will submit to the tax authority. It's 9:00 pm here and I am sure more suggestions and experiences are yet t

OS for people with disabilities (longish)

2003-04-08 Thread Douglas D. Germann, Sr.
Lisa and Joelle-- Great learning you are giving us. A few random thoughts if you will indulge me, please: I am told many elderly are hungry for touch, that no one touches them anymore. So offering a hand to shake or a double-handed handshake might be welcome. A recent OST I did had many elderly

Re: OS and strategic planning wow!!

2003-04-08 Thread Michael Herman
don't forget we have an "intro to openspace" in something like 12 languages at http://www.openspaceworld.org best wishes, m Jaime Pedreros Fitzgerald wrote: > English is not my mother > language and this limits my ability to express -- Michael Herman Michael Herman Associates 300 West North A

Send votes only to Audrey!

2003-04-08 Thread Jeff Aitken
Please don't send your poetry contest "sticky dot votes" to our whole oslist! Send only to Audrey Coward! I prefer they be confidential. her email address: audreycow...@bellnet.ca * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu --