Re: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 & Strategy Cafes for thousands more

2006-02-05 Thread Funda Oral
I'm very excited to see what comes out of this initiative. Joelle so am i, thanks funda - Original Message - From: Joelle Lyons Everett To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 7:23 AM Subject: Re: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,

My Most Difficult Open Space Ever [long]

2006-02-05 Thread Lisa Heft
Christine and Claudia's story reminds me of a large event I did which was incredibly challenging for me. I have always wanted to write it up to share with you, and their story was an inspiration to do so. I wonder - do any of you, dear colleagues, have stories to share of your most difficult Open

Re: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 & Strategy Cafes for thousands more

2006-02-05 Thread Claudia Haack
Diane, The Website was created by GSUSA. That is they created the "frame". All the content, from entry to formatting was done by the volunteers. There were a couple of glitches with that one, but ultimately it turned out great and people are still actively using it (that's 3 months post convent

Re: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 & Strategy Cafes for thousands more

2006-02-05 Thread Diane Brandon
Christine and Claudia, Really nice ppt, and the websites that are linked are loaded with information. I see www.GSUSA.org and www.girlscouts.org/convention/conversationsummary.asp Who did the report website, your company, or GSUSA? I read some of the report sheets from individual sessions/tabl

Re: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 & Strategy Cafes for thousands more

2006-02-05 Thread Lisa Heft
Claudia and Christine - I am enjoying your description of all this and grateful for your inspiration and creativity. I am working with some colleagues to recommend many ways of including dialogue in the next International AIDS Conference - and your descriptions further help me in naming the oppor

Re: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 & Strategy Cafes for thousands more

2006-02-05 Thread Christine Whitney Sanchez
Here's another part of the story that demonstrates the power of Open Space. During the opening, the mikes failed. Not totally - there was one mike that was sort of semi-functional, but the second mike was useless. As you can imagine, with over 1,600 folks in the cavernous space where the event

Re: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 & Strategy Cafes for thousands more

2006-02-05 Thread Christine Whitney Sanchez
What a great idea, Michael. I just sent that suggestion to more than 100 Smooth Operators along with the reminder that they might want to join this list. Warm wishes from balmy Phoenix. Christine Christine Whitney Sanchez KAIROS Alliance Inc. 2717 E. Mountain Sky Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85048

Re: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 & Strategy Cafes for thousands more

2006-02-05 Thread Claudia Haack
Harrison, While I did share this "little funny story" verbally with the sponsors, I think it got lost in the sheer volume of other things that were accomplished and that are happening at the GS right now. Actually, I was trying to sort through so much at the time myself, that it really took the

Last day to vote for your favorite Poetry Contest poem!

2006-02-05 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
Friends--- For your enjoyment, here are the satiric poems submitted for the OSList Poetry Celebration and Contest.  Each reader is hereby given five (5) virtual sticky dots to distribute to the poems as they wish.  DO NOT REPLY TO THE OSLIST WITH VOTES.  E-MAIL YOUR VOTES TO jleshel...@aol.co

Re: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 & Strategy Cafes for thousands more

2006-02-05 Thread Harrison Owen
Claudia - I think that is precisely the sort of story that should be fed back into the system. At the very least it should be part of whatever report you all may be making to the sponsors. There is an enormous amount of learning about what happens in Open Space (and I think all self-organizing syst

Re: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 & Strategy Cafes for thousands more

2006-02-05 Thread Michael M Pannwitz
Dear Christine and Claudia, all of those that you trained in open space technology and that participated in this huge process will transport this way of working and being into all parts of the girl scout movement and eventually beyond into all segments of us-society and worldwide, great! Imagin

Re: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 & Strategy Cafes for thousands more

2006-02-05 Thread Claudia Haack
Yes, I am anxious to see myself what will happen with all this.  One of the funnier examples of how well Open Space works is reflected in this little story.  A rather large group of attendees was about 2 hours late.  They missed the opening of the space and arrived just at the tail end of the time

Re: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 & Strategy Cafes for thousands more

2006-02-05 Thread Joelle Lyons Everett
wow, Christine and Claudia, what a beautiful piece of work! I'm eager to reconnect with the local council (who had their own Open Space a couple of years ago) and hear what they have to say about the national event. Thanks for your vision, your courage, you willingness to hold space for Coun