Re: OS with Artists

Dear Pat, Peggy and Michael I am truly thankful all of you for your kind help with this issue of finding the effective ways to raise the level of awareness of the artists community to the many possibilities that could emerge from improved collaboration I am sure that a genuine transformation

Re: Open Space for small groups

On 8/25/06, Lisa Heft wrote: In response to Justin's questions about holding a very small Open Space... Fabuloso Jaime wrote: > I remember a posting on the OSLIST about an OS meeting with as > few as 2 people! [...] Marvelous Thomas wrote: > I don't think that's the record Jaime. I remember

Re: Camps. Gatherings & Un-conferences

On 8/25/06, Diana Larsen wrote: As the person who opened and held the Space at Agile 2006. Oh! I didn't know that; but perhaps if I did, I would have been more delicate, and as a result would have learned less. :) Thank you for holding the Open Space, and thank you for being frank in your res

Re: Open Space for small groups

Hi, all - as you may tell, I have been away for a bit traveling and facilitating, and I am catching up with an ocean of emails, including delicious little fishes in that ocean: many thoughtful messages on OSLIST. In response to Justin's questions about holding a very small Open Space. Fabuloso

Re: Camps. Gatherings & Un-conferences

Hi Justin, As the person who opened and held the Space at Agile 2006. Everything you heard was true. (Lots of reasons I won't go into here.) With all its challenges, it still managed to be the most valuable part of the conference for a number of conference goers - they told me so. However

Re: Camps. Gatherings & Un-conferences

Michael -- I am sure your sense (knowledge) of the history is corrrect, and certainly better than mine. But I do know what happened at the Googleplex -- and it was all Open Space. ho ps We did not invent Open Space. It has been around for 14 billion years. ho Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr.

Re: AW: Working with visual artists at an Open Space

Reinhard, my friend -- Somehow I seem to have become the "bete noir" in all of this. But really, I love the visual domain. In odd moments I am a (sometime) professional photographer of some 40 years. More to the point, I "think" visually -- which is to say that I have an image well before I ever

Re: Camps. Gatherings & Un-conferences

I think the most recent new name for Open Space is "Foo Camp" or at least that is how the Editors of Nature titled the gathering at the Googleplex for the Bloggie set. If anybody is interested in all that (Nature that is) go to http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v442/n7105/full/442848a.html

Re: Camps. Gatherings & Un-conferences

there is a history to foo, harrison. of course. ted and some others may know it better than i. as i recall somebody decided to have a 'camp' and invite a bunch of friends. i think that he ran in pretty open, except the second year, he shaved the invite list down a little, or somebody was accid

Re: Found Poem -- June 8 to August 23, 2006 -- Opening Space for Conflict and Peace

My pleasure - there is beauty, I think, even in the struggle over the hard parts. Lisa ___ L i s a H e f t Consultant, Facilitator, Educator O p e n i n g S p a c e lisah...@openingspace.net w

Re: Camps. Gatherings & Un-conferences

On 8/25/06, Harrison Owen wrote: ps We did not invent Open Space. It has been around for 14 billion years. I'm curious, based on this and some other recent comments -- do y'all distinguish between "Open Space" as the philosophy and feeling of "whoever comes", "whatever happens", etc.; and "Op

AW: Working with visual artists at an Open Space

Dear Birgitt, your smile has arrived ,and I smile back. It is good to see, that we understand each other easily - even without drawings! One thing about a final presentation: Once I worked at the World Bank, in a narrow conference room in the basement, and had almost to step on peoples fe

AW: AW: Working with visual artists at an Open Space

insider, outsider, addendum, we can play with definitions ad infinitum. important for me, and i feel likewise for you, is not a role we play, but the reponsibility we feel to be there for the people. To do, to be what fits, as you say. If i see, that i can be of help for someone, i always jum

Re: problems posting

works! and welcome! m On 8/25/06, Bui K. Petersen wrote: Thanks Michael, This is a test with a different server. I hope it works. Búi On 22/08/2006 10:43 AM, Michael Herman wrote: > hi bui, it may be that you are using an email provider/server that has > a bad reputation for spamming. s

Re: Camps. Gatherings & Un-conferences

Hi Diana! Your question raises a related question for me -- Open Space Technology is often used a part of a conference, but not the whole conference, with varying success/satisfaction. For example, at NCDD 2006 the explicit use of OST was restricted in time to just a couple hours in the middle of

Re: problems posting

Thanks Michael, This is a test with a different server. I hope it works. Búi On 22/08/2006 10:43 AM, Michael Herman wrote: hi bui, it may be that you are using an email provider/server that has a bad reputation for spamming. sometimes boise state admin folks block servers notorious for spammi

Camps. Gatherings & Un-conferences

Hi, I've seen notices of gatherings where people will come together under an Open Space self-organizing process called variously Camps, Gatherings, Conferences and Unconferences. I'm intrigued. What other names have folks given an Open Space conference-type event besides Open Space? Cur

Re: advanced butterfly

On 8/23/06, Justin T. Sampson wrote: What happens in the presence of dominance relationships, such as a boss in a work setting? I'm thinking in particular of one work experience, which I left recently (hmm, Law of Two Feet). The CEO of the company held quarterly company meetings that she calle

Re: advanced butterfly [long]

On 8/23/06, Lisa Heft wrote: > Do you still see circumstances where you'd prefer or recommend > a small-group meeting with a more active facilitator over a > larger-group Open Space event? I venture to say that the Open Space facilitator is very active -- just not in ways similar to many other

Re: AW: Working with visual artists at an Open Space

Dear Reinhard I am following your posts closely because I am intrigued by your intensity in feelings and opinions and because I am a visual person. I do work here with polarized communities having them draw pictures instead of using spoken or written language because they are so armoured in spoke

Re: AW: AW: Working with visual artists at an Open Space

thank you, reinhard. what caught me in birgitt's last message is twice, i think, saying about "capturing". this word is important to me, because of the shape it describes. i thnk first in shapes and textures and flows, and only later in pictures and finally words. but i'm always working to mak

Re: Breaking Open (long)

Peggy, Thank you for the gift of this story. When you have time, I would appreciate hearing your reflections about whether you think you would have had the same experiences if you weren’t in the dual role of both sponsor and facilitator. It seems to me that, at the level of energy, it would have be