Re: anecdote on OS

Right on! ho Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 Skype hhowen Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website

Re: Anecdote on Open Space

Some people just have a great fear of flying! Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 Skype hhowen Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute ww

anecdote on OS

Can't resist chiming in to say this reminds me of a favorite Brian Andreas story. I hope you can click on it here tiny urlhttp://tinyurl.com/zhahq or maybe here long url http://www.storypeople.com/storypeople/WebStory.do?storyID=1154&action=product&productCategoryID=1000 or vis

Re: USB-sticks/computer station during OST + some more..

Jimmy said: I anticipate resistance to saying "You can't write-up the notes until after the meeting." I would never say "can't" just suggest that they will find it easier and more fun to come to the news room. Some will, some won't, and some will never even hear what you say. But I certainl

Re: USB-sticks/computer station during OST + some more..

i missed that bit about folks not having to return to a central location, jimmy. i think that's not any trouble. it supports all kinds of chance meetings and moments of resting. i totally agree with harrison about the processing of the notes, i always do everything i can to set things up in such

Re: Poetry #6 in portuguese

Thank you dear Lisa for your effort. But I am afraid there was a misunderstanding (my fault, for sure). I could read your poem!!! (if not, I would not give you my votes, even if "after the fact"). My complain, was that in many other cases (but not all) I am not able to understan

Inviting the right people - a concern in a charged community

Good day, I posted this query to Harrison earlier today and am posting now to the larger community. I appreciate your insight... Thanks, Jeff I recently pitched an OS Event for a community transformation project. The customer is well versed in Complexity Theory as applied to large scale chan

OST entry in WIkipedia

Hi folks: Was just looking through the Open Space Technology entry on Wikipediaand thought that it was time that this little community of practitioners actually gave some attention to that entry. There are a couple of

Re: USB-sticks/computer station during OST + some more..

Lisa, Yes, those are all good points. And I largely concur. And I really prefer to not have people working on their computers during meetings. But, a lot of people are becoming accustomed to being online all the time. Having their laptops with them at meetings is the norm. Meeting locatio

Re: USB-sticks/computer station during OST + some more..

Hello Jimmy, I'll offer that I'm using weblog to document os events whenever we have the technical capacity and the desire for things to go forward (when we want more than just an event). I use wordpress, which has multiple admin access levels. It can be made public for all ppts to post directly

Re: USB-sticks/computer station during OST + some more..

The technology is definitely there to do what you are proposing, but I would caution against allowing the technology to fill up the space. Sometimes old ways are better, or at least they have a purpose. For example, having people take notes in their sessions on laptops certainly works technically -

Re: Inviting the right people - a concern in a charged community

Hi, Jeff - You wrote: < I recently pitched an OS Event for a community transformation project. The customer is well versed in Complexity Theory as applied to large scale change and has a negative opinion of OST. His argument is with the tenant that 'whomever show up are the right people'.

Re: Self-evolution

This looks very interesting. Wonder if you could be more specific as to title? If this is something you feel unseemly to publish here please email me directly at: lburle...@nc.rr.com. Thanks! Looking forward, Les Burleson -Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boise

Re: great succes for Open Space in the Netherlands

Carla -- you also give all those academic types a small push. You might ask why it is that the Academic Community has so far managed to ignore OS? Here is something that is 20 years old with 60,000+ applications in 100 Countries. This is the perfect opportunity for a little PhD research. These folk

USB-sticks/computer station during OST + some more..

Continuing this thread a month after the last post. I am working on an event that will happen the end of April, about half of it done in OS. It will be held at a university where the rooms have internet access. Many of the participants will have laptops. One possibility for the report gathe

Re: great succes for Open Space in the Netherlands

My (short?) answer, Carla, is that OST works because people care. While some care about big things (community) and others care only for smaller (personal) agendas, virtually everybody is definitely out there in the world trying to get something, get happy, make some money or make a difference, how

Poetry #6 in portuguese

Hello, everyone, and Artur especially – Artur, you had shared how difficult it is to understand a poem written in English – and I will guess, especially a satirical poem (one written using irony or sarcasm to expose human silliness). This is the poem I shared with OSLIST some time ago. For

Re: USB-sticks/computer station during OST + some more..

Hi, Jimmy - You said: Beware that you replace face-to-face interaction with the seeming ease of helping things along with technology. When two participants chat at the Newsroom (a central location) that may be the seed of a future collaborative project. When someone takes their notes

FW: great success for Open Space in the Netherlands

From: Patricia Haines [mailto:levelgr...@kaxy.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:04 AM To: hho...@verizon.net Cc: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: great success for Open Space in the Netherlands Carla: there's actually a quite large body of research and theory that Open Space would f

Re: great success for Open Space in the Netherlands

Carla wrote: "- why does Open Space work? (those academic boys and girls over ?here want to know something about theoretical background and start looking very upset as I told them that it just works)." Good work Carla! As to why OS works I believe the answer is -- Self-organization. I have spelled

Re: Self-evolution

Michael et al: if you haven't already seen it, check out the video or DVD of "What the (Bleep)Do We Know?" - a conversation, loosely disguised as a story, with quantum physicists and neurobiologists about the nature of 'reality' and our relationship to it as creators - makes a great gift for any

Re: great success for Open Space in the Netherlands

Carla: there's actually a quite large body of research and theory that Open Space would fit with, just as Future Searches do - check the Cornell Participatory Action Research Network website - may be distinct from Cornell as PARNet.com by now; that was the plan last fall but I've not kept up wit

great succes for Open Space in the Netherlands

Hi all Last week we had a meeting with about 20 OD consultants in the Netherlands. Some who lecture about OD at University, some who do research on OD and some who work as OD consultants (like me). I was invited to write an article an how Open Space works and why it works according to my expe