Re: Questions for OSonOS

I am replying because I am not sure I was understood or maybe because I did not understand Judi, Tree, and Lisa's replies. What I am suggesting is that OSonOS has already started. That on one level we are already building the marketplace. That walking in to a partially pre-posted marketplace co

First Open Space Stammtisch in Bratislava!

You all invited to the first Open Space Stammtisch in Bratislava/Slovakia on September 5, 2005 at 19 hrs. (7 p.m.) in a pub in city centre (the exact venue will be announced in August). We want to celebrate the special event, so there will be free drinks for all! For those who still don’t know wha

Re: Questions for OSonOS

Hi Raffi! As to your posting on questions prior to OSonOS -- can I post them before -- no!! Whenever it starts is the right time -- you are already beginning to discuss them on this list and others -- so they are already out there. As to posting topics -- I'll see you in the circle of the Spac

While any of us yet live...

To our good friends-- We need to figure out some way to promote conversations. The conversations ought to be about the importance of conversation and dialogue, about consciously getting together. It is not just that this is what interests me; it is because this notion of making evolution conscious

Re: While any of us yet live...

Dear dear Douglas D. Germann: Thank you, with all my heart, for your letter below. This question of how to promote conversation among us also burns inside of me. I experienced a taste of what deep conversation can do last year, when Toke Moller conducted, with others, an "Art of Hosting Meaningf

Re: Deep power differentials in OST

Hi, Harrison, Joelle and others - (sorry for the delay in reply - I have been traveling and working away from home and in and out of email access) Thanks for your thoughts, folks. To clarify - I rarely assume that some folks need extra help to feel their power, as OS brings them that. And

Re: Questions for OSonOS

Your questions have been working me, Chris. I've been trying to wait until OSonOS to think them through for myself but they are working me today. My first thought when I read your questions, Chris, was this: I recalled that in my daughter's first grade school, there were a few simple principles p

Re: Questions for OSonOS

I want to echo Lisa's advice reminding us that posting questions at OSonOS (or any OS event) in-the-moment of co-creation works well. I participated in a think tank called Spirited Business for a long time. Almost all participants were longtime participants in Spirited Work, which is an ongoing C

Re: OS birthing pains

*Laffs* I like that Harrison! Cheers! Andrew -- Andrew Rixon B.Sc(hons) PhD Urban Water Infrastructure CSIRO- Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology http://www.cmit.csiro.au P.O Box 56 (Graham Road), Highett, 3190, Victoria, Australia Tel: +61 3 9252 6363 Fax:+ 61 3 9252

Re: Questions for OSonOS

Hi, Raffi - You mentioned wanting to have the Halifax host team put up questions for you for the OSonOS. But you're going to be there, yourself. So is Chris (right, brother Chris?), so is Brian. So Raffi, why don't you just bring your questions to put up yourself, if you still feel so inclined

Re: "Bylo chudo" or New Paradigm slavery-- long

Raffi Wrote: Harrison, you in your delightful semi-impish spirit trickster raven kind of way said you were almost afraid to ask what I thought the next paradigm was. I think I explained what I thought the next paradigm was+and I didn't quite understand why that thread died. Is it because I'm t

"Bylo chudo" or New Paradigm slavery-- long

Dear all, "Bylo chudo" is Russian for "a miracle happened." That is what one seasoned Muscovite open space facilitator said at the closing of the first day of the OST meeting on the future of my new consulting firm, essenceworks consulting group. And he had not even been able to be at the story