Hi Mark, (and hi all!)
Your Department of Defense example was very helpful in demonstrating how an
OST invitation can be made culturally and cognitively accessible.
In the case, Mark, I am curious about a number of things in your experience
with DoD:
1. Form and ritual- Did you use temple bells
Funda-cim,
I am sitting with Harrison and Kerry in the long distance cheering stands!
You are not alone.
I have been eating lots of Turkish (well, ok, Azerbaijani) sunflower seeds
recently. Might that be my way of cheering you on from afar?
Warmly,
raffi
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Raffi-cigim
Thanks for taking some space and time to cheer me up!
And enjoy the sunflower seeds! wherever they come from!
I know that i am not alone since i have been in this list and in this wonderful
world of
Open Space for sometime.
I have some work to do now about IAO gathering so that th
Greetings folks,
I am working through the implementation/accountability phase for the retreat
I facilitated last week and have been writing in my blog as we go . . .
Below is my accounting of this process thus far . . . Apologize for the
length.
I am approaching this from the stand-point of creat
Dear list,
even though I will not be in Istanbul for the Gathering on the
InterActive Organisation I know it starts on Friday, November 24th, in 5
days.
If you arrive in Istanbul on December 24th, however, you will discover
that it is a Sunday and that Funda will have extra chairs, etc. even o
hopps! sorry of course it should have been nov.24th
thanks michael!
- Original Message
From: Michael M Pannwitz
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 3:11:18 PM
Subject: Re: iao istanbul
Dear list,
even though I will not be in Istanbul for the Gathering on
no failure, no success either.
it can be a celebration when we feel good at the event, and when things seem
going "wrong" please feel it is a part of the bigger picture, the greater
one. why not celebrate it when we feel sad . celebration doesn't need
anything to do . Only thing we have to do i
Funda-cim,
I bought some more sunflower seeds today- my way of supporting you from afar!
Sunflower seeds as a metaphor, however, are appropriate more for
appreciative inquiry. They remind us of our innate heliotropic
(turning/growing to the light/sun) nature, which is at the heart of AI.
Lookin
Dear all
My outlook programme crashed a few minutes ago and despite some repairing it
means that I have lost all my OS postings!! I am not expecting you to send
me all your posts over the last few months of course...(!!) but if there
were some postings that you think I might miss - please send the
I'd like to reinforce this message. If I might, here is my example, part of my
story.
Earlier this year I had experience of something informed by Open Space. There
was a change programme in a company I was working with that brought its
practitioners together one afternoon, for 'something.' It
Jon,
You can always look up old OSlist messages via the web.
You can search the archives here:
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
You can also post from here
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/cgi-bin/wa?P1&L=oslist
If the list is not posting your messages, which is my situation r
i guess my "crazy" nature will help me to make this event happen
thanks my sweet neighbor
i will let you know.
F.
- Original Message -
From: "Raffi Aftandelian"
To:
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: iao istanbul
Funda-cim,
I bought some more sunflower seeds to
In Zen there is a saying
"a good situation is a bad situation and a bad situation is a good
situation"
I have certainly witnessed the wisdom and truth of this sentence many
times in my life.
Actually experiencing one right this moment...
filiz
-Original Message-
From: can uludag [mailto
Hello everybody,
I'm glad to telll you about the OST with handicapped people I've recently done
with a collegue Marianne Gerber. A successful experience !
On Saturday, November 11th 2006, 24 persons from the French and the German
speaking part of Switzerland representing 17 different han
Dear Funda:
Perhaps your "lapsus" with December 24th is trying to say that in IAO
Istanbul will arrive a new baby that will bring light and joy for all of
us !!
My deep solidarity feeling with you evoke this lovely quotation from John
Gardner:
"Meaning is not something you stumble across, l
I've taken to saying "if you think your handwriting is too messy, or have
trouble
getting down on the floor, feel free to ask a neighbor to help write your
topic". I
started saying that when I was working in a small rural town that had a very
high
illiteracy rate. People are often embarrass
Deb,
At the 2005 Girl Scout National Convention, I opened the space on the topic
of governance for over 1,600 delegates. The report for this project can be
found at http://i.b5z.net/i/u/540396/i/GSUSAfinalreport06.ppt
Thanks for asking and good luck with your article.
Christine
Christine Whi
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