Dear OS Listers,
As a member of the Practice of Peace organizing team and the OSI (US)
board, I am putting out the word to ask for help with distributing our
press release for the conference. I understand that some folks
distribute press releases as a common practice in their organizations,
and w
Thanks for your fast reply, Gerard - and also to you, Eva, for your hints.
I like your 'controlling the controllers' - this is the other side of the coin
of 'opening and holding space'...
~ Ilse
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- Original Message -
From: Gerard Muller
To: osl...@listserv.boise
Dear Ilse,
Your message made me think of an event where we really had made a big
effort to find the right theme. But during the event
about half the participants self-organised in groups that were not on
the agenda - there was clearlily another priority there that the
planning group had not seen.
Dear Ilse,
when I facilitated an OS for a school here in Sweden one of our
Swedish collegues who had done that before told me that they had put
up an "butterfly restaurant" for those who didn't want to participate
in the OS. But since it was a school and the school had some
responsability for the s
Thank youDear Francis, dear all
I am thinking about the story Francis told in Thomas Herman's Caravan in
Denmark: about an os-group you divided in two because participants hadn't come
voluntarily and so you allowed for the option to participate or not - including
the possibility to join in lat
I am writing a book cataloguing methods which value self-organising
systems and it occurred to me the following question could make for an
inspirational top 20 listing.if I can find some people here who will
help me answer it
Who are the individual people who have the most trust, authority, in
dep
Dear All,
Do any of you have experience with the following:
Many organisation consider the waste products as an unavoidable evil
one has to get rid of with as little effort and as low a cost as
possible,
rather than as an integral part of the production process, and an area
which is also eligi
Gerard,
When oil comes out of the ground it has a lot of contaminated water mixed up
with it, and Shell used to view this as a waste product, asking 'How the
hell do we dispose of it without damaging the environment?' (Yes, Shell is
very concerned with this!) During the past three or four years th
Hi Ms. Ilse --
I have had several OSs where the members of the corporation or the
students were required to be there. Of course I would have not
preferred it to be that way but in these instances that was just the way
it was. Everything always went well. Many of the participants either
get invo
