structural adjustments to bridge cognitive gaps(was "My first time")

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

iao istanbul

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 * *

Re: iao istanbul

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

Building an Open Space Organization - LONG

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

Re: iao istanbul

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

Re: iao istanbul

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

Re: "Failure"

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

Re: iao istanbul

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

Help!!

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

Re: Bad experiences - was Proximity and Open Space after presentations

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

Re: Help!!

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

Re: iao istanbul

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

Re: "Failure"

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

OST with handicapped persons

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

Re: iao istanbul

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

Re: OST with handicapped persons

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

Re: What is the largest group size for OS?

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