another thought for the day

2005-07-01 Thread Raffi Aftandelian
In the 1980's, we talked about organizational transformation (OT) Some in the late 1990's began talking about organizational health and balance (OHB) I prefer to talk about organizational joy (OJ) raffi society for constructive obnoxiousness (SCO) mailto:ra...@bk.ru *

thought for the day...and more

2005-07-01 Thread Raffi Aftandelian
If OST is in part about high play, might it be appropriate to call OST a Large Group Intervention Toy? Raffi charter member, founder Society for Constructive Obnoxiousness p.s. anyone else wanna join? p.p.s. membership is free, a courtesy donation to the Access Queen Fund would be welcomed, thou

AW: Who is Open Space Facilitator and member of YMCA?

2005-07-01 Thread Ralph Höfliger
Thanks Chris. No hurry, it’s July 2006 :-) Regards, Ralph _ Von: Chris Kloth [mailto:ch...@got2change.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 1. Juli 2005 14:54 An: ralph.hoefli...@complex-change.ch Cc: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Betreff: Re: Who is Open Space Facilitator and member of YMCA?

Re: thought for the day...and more

2005-07-01 Thread Masud Sheikh
Raffi Aftandelian wrote: >If OST is in part about high play, might it be appropriate to call OST >a Large Group Intervention Toy? > >Raffi >charter member, founder >Society for Constructive Obnoxiousness > >p.s. anyone else wanna join? > As you may know Raffi, in Pakistan some people can appoint

Re: What has been your biggest surprise in an Open Space annual meeting?

2005-07-01 Thread john engle
fremy's and my colleague, steven werlin, wrote an article about the open space on open space haiti gathering and other interesting stuff. here it is with a link to the rest of it: Life Goes On: Part Two Life goes on in the midst of the current difficulties in Haiti, for better and for worse.

Who is Open Space Facilitator and member of YMCA?

2005-07-01 Thread Ralph Höfliger
"Ubuntu, striving together for life and peace” is the topic of the next World Council of YMCA . The conference will take place in Durban, South Africa from 10-15 July. 600-800 members are expected from all over the world. In addition to the traditional cere

Re: OSLIST Digest - 29 Jun 2005 to 30 Jun 2005 (#2005-180)

2005-07-01 Thread Pat Black
Hi Peggy, You wrote: Sometimes the question is obvious, it just leaps forward when people = begin to answer questions about why invest the time and energy? What = are their dreams, hopes, aspirations? On several occasions, when it is a board or group of some size, I've = played with paired inter

Re: Who is Open Space Facilitator and member of YMCA?

2005-07-01 Thread Chris Kloth
Ralph Höfliger wrote: "Ubuntu, striving together for life and peace" is the topic of the next World Council of YMCA . The conference will take place in Durban, South Africa from 10-15 July. 600-800 members are expected from all over the world. Ralph, are

Fw: Who is Open Space Facilitator and member of YMCA?

2005-07-01 Thread Harrison Owen
I'm curious -- is YMCA membership a matter of money (they might charge less or nothing) or personal identity? If the former, I would be pretty sure that someone somewhere whould be willing to help -- and actually there are some pretty good folks in RSA. If it is a matter of personal identity --

Re: OST Stammtisch in New York

2005-07-01 Thread Marei Kiele
"Pannwitz, Michael M" wrote: > There is one in New York, wonder what day they will choose. Okay sweet > Michael M, I catch the worm:Yes, there is a Stammtisch coming into being in > New York City. As "Stammtisch" is a German origination obviously it was > necessary t

Re: Craig--Questions

2005-07-01 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
I agree that great questions are all in the context and the process. Good example for me was a client group that arrived, with a lot of excitement, at the theme, "Me, My Job and We" (with some related questions). Did not turn me on, but it did turn on the organization. We had a high level