Appreciative Inquiry meets The World Cafe meets Open Space

Hi Peggy, Alan, Harrison, and all you WC and OS combiners, If I may weave Appreciative Inquiry to this discussion - last October, Genevieve Treille, Christine Kohler and I piloted the "Transformative Large Group Conversations" training with a small international group outside of Paris. With parti

Re: Only "so long" (Long)

Ralph, Might you consider taking a (very bawdy) limerick in your pocket for the trip? I think you and I and some 400 or so other folks on this listserv know what you'll need to do with that poem. So we won't even go there... (somewhat) impishly, raffi mailto:ra...@bk.ru

guiding light

Hello everyone, I have only recently signed on to this listserv after visiting several OS web sites. What I have found on these sites and in these "conversations" have greatly expanded my learning and eagerness to join in the adventure. I am touched by your immense generosity and openness in

Fwd: [OSLIST]: World Cafe meets Open Space

Sorry...I forgot to put a subject line and it came back to me...here it is again. Hi everyone... I've been "listening" to the conversation intently as it has unfolded, both the earlier conversation on the Open Space Listserv which several European folks referred us to, as well as to the most

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Hi everyone... I've been "listening" to the conversation intently as it has unfolded, both the earlier conversation on the Open Space Listserv which several European folks referred us to, as well as to the most recent sequence following the wonderful Evolutionary Salon that Peggy and I (and o

IAF-Europe-Conference in Germany

Dear Colleagues, I would like to refer to the 11th IAF European Regional Conference which will take place from 7-9 October 2005 in Bad Honnef near Bonn, Germany ( www.ksi.de). As a registered participant you will have the opportunity to run a session during the conferen

Re: The World Cafe meets Open Space

Alan, Thanks for your questions. I've answered them below. Peggy - Original Message - From: Alan Stewart To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [OSLIST] The World Cafe meets Open Space G'day Peggy and All It's wonderful in

SV: AI and Solution focused management?

Kate and Peggy! Thanks for your responds, when I am thinking a bit more - the words solution focused has a both positive and bitter taste. Focus only on the solution can get the consequences that we skip the process and forget about the questions that make us reflect upon the current situation. Ev

Any OS facilitators in the San Francisco Bay Area under 24 years old?

Hello, dear colleagues - There is an opportunity (I do not know if it is paid or not - I am still finding out) for a young facilitator (under 24 years old) to do some Open Space at a conference here - for a youth forum component of the conference for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender folks (f

The NEW Question(s)

On Sun, 29 May 2005 07:27:40 -0600, Masud Sheikh: >It is a sad fact of life that one cannot treat all humans as "Thou" all of >the time. I guess it is good enough if we can treat most humans as "Thou" >some of the time. > And on May 31st, Masud added: The question is how do we choose the person we

Re: Attachments on the OSLIST

On Mon, 30 May 2005 11:52:55 -0700, Chris Corrigan wrote: >So, if you have something you'd like people to have, the best thing to do is >to post it somewhere on the web and send the link to the list. If you don't >know how to post something to the web, or you don;t have that kind of >access, emai