Police

2004-01-19 Thread Gerard Muller
Dear All, Has any of you facilitated an Open Space for a police force ? Greetings from Denmark, Gerard Muller Open Space Institute Denmark www.openspace.dk Phone: (+45) 21269621 * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ---

Re: Police

2004-01-19 Thread Eddie Palmer
Dear Gerard We've had the police involved with other groups, most memorably with young Asian people in Glasgow. Just a couple of points, becasue they are obviously just like ordinary people. They turn up, and on time, because they have been told to, and they always obey orders(!) (some British sa

Re: Police

2004-01-19 Thread Harrison Owen
Army, Navy, and Border Police (Immigration and Naturalization folks -- INS) is all I can offer. Nobody died, and it all worked like usual. Everybody was in uniform, but then again these were internal operations, and uniformed is they way they naturally come. They did dress down for the occasions --

Re: Police

2004-01-19 Thread toke
Dear Gerard. I have opened space twice with police participating both in Denmark and UK... they where very active, focussed and result-oriented participants.real contributors! no uniforms where seen... all humans like good open space - whoever they are have fun - toke mandag 19. jan 20

An OS experience and a question for advice

2004-01-19 Thread Doris Gottlieb
HI fellow Listers, Next week I am going to be doing an Open Space event for 2 days with a group of people who all took part in the same educational program for trainers and organizational advisors. Actually, I too am an “alumna” of this training program and several months ago an initiative came f

Re: An OS experience and a question for advice

2004-01-19 Thread Birgitt Williams
Hi Doris, it sounds to me as though you have had internal discussions (within yourself) of all of the key points of facilitating an OST meeting as someone that is inside of the system. You have already concluded that you are not going to take part in the subgroups and it seems that you have also di

Re: Police

2004-01-19 Thread Martin Leith
Gerard, Yes, a few years ago I facilitated a two day conference on The Future of National Police Training. The client was the Home Office (part of the British government) and most of the participants were senior police officers from the various police forces that exist in the UK. The conference

Re: Here you go... Soul Mates!

2004-01-19 Thread Julie Smith
Thank you for this beautiful quote, Anne. I was recently hired as Executive Director of a Montessori school, and almost immediately felt compelled to post a quote of the day as a way of revealing my soul to my new community. This quote from Clarissa Pinkola Estes is a beautiful description of the

Re: Here you go... Soul Mates!

2004-01-19 Thread Michael Herman
executive director! ...sounds like you're gonna be *in charge* julie! congrats! and the montessori regional conference winter last year ran in open space. proceedings were posted in wiki at http://www.globalchicago.net/ams maybe something of interest there. best of luck in the new gig. m Julie

Re: Here you go... Soul Mates!

2004-01-19 Thread ashley cooper
Title: Here you go... Soul Mates! here's another quote for the bulletin board, some related wisdom:   " Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I t

oops...Here you go... Soul Mates!

2004-01-19 Thread ashley cooper
Title: Here you go... Soul Mates! Unfortunately, this is not Nelson Mandela. The confusion arose because Mandela quoted it in his inauguration speech. It was written by Marianne Williamson.   This is an illustration of the power of the web. The quality (or accuracy) of what is found there depend

Re: Here you go... Soul Mates!

2004-01-19 Thread chris weaver
hi julie - congratulations from me too...and it's lovely to read your thoughts again after a couple-month pause... chris > From: Michael Herman > Organization: Michael Herman Associates > Reply-To: OSLIST > Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:15:02 -0600 > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Subject: Re

Re: Police

2004-01-19 Thread Chris Corrigan
Harrison has mentioned a few times that goal oriented people work well in Open Space, and it rather bears repeating in my mind, because it seems like the cynics who typically try to find fault with the process describe themselves this way too. The only time I had police and military in Open Space