Circles and open space

Thank you all for this wonderful conversation. What is arising for me as I sit with your questions and comments, is that underlying all of our passionate choices is the intention of opening more space wherever we are. I know that is always my intention and I trust and have faith that it is yours al

Open Space with Video Conferencing

G'day folks I am currently exploring with a client about the potential for using OST via a number of video-conferencing centres... Imagine the scenesix Distance Learning Centres (communication centres with contemporary technology) in six countries- up to 50 participants from each country in

Re: FW: The challenge of "luminaries"

Tree...just for some clarification about what I know of Kaliya's work... When the tech community first discovered "unconferencing" in about 2002 or 2003, several of us piped up about using Open Space Technology to run conferences. For as long as I can remember Harrison has been saying things like

Re: Open Space to Build Communities of Practice

Thanks Wendy, I'd appreciate that very much. If you could share the feedback that would be enormously helpful. It's a beautiful day here in the Northwest, Diana Diana Larsen www.futureworksconsulting.com co-author: "Agile Retrospectives" http://tinyurl.com/3dr5v3 Ask me about: "Secrets of Ag

Re: Open Space to Build Communities of Practice

Hi Dianna, In June I did a short OS session for the Organizational Systems Renewal program and alumni at Seattle U as part of their annual retreat. One of the primary goals was to explore and begin to create a CoP for Organizational Change practitioners connected to the OSR program. The feedback

Re: FW: The challenge of "luminaries"

Hi Tree, Many thanks for your questions. About luminaries: Kaliya defined luminaries well earlier: They are just more 'famous' then the other people there - they are normally keynoters, or at the very panalists regularly at a certain circuit of events. They can also be 'internet famous' or ju

Open Space on Open Space in French

Hello everyone! Registrations are going very well for the very first World Open Space on Open Space in French! We have close to 30 participants coming from Quebec, all over Canada as well as from Haïti. As you will remember, the event takes place this September on the 14, 15 and 16 in Val-D

Forum ouvert sur le Forum ouvert en français

Bonjour à tous! Les inscriptions au tout premier Forum ouvert mondial sur le Forum ouvert en français vont bon train! Nous avons maintenant près de 30 personnes inscrites, provenant du Québec, de toute la francophonie canadienne et même d’Haïti! Nous vous rappelons que l’événement se tiendr

Re: FW: The challenge of "luminaries"

Tangentially related to the subject of "luminaries": some reflections. At RoCoCoCamp I learned a new word. Wiki people talk about their world as a "do-ocracy". Isn't that lovely? In Open Space, the event is created by what we choose to do. The "do-ocracy" reveals the true luminaries - by the

SV: circles

Hi Kerry I came to think of one circle I arrived at a few years ago. I usually make a drawing in Power Point to show exactly where I want the circle and the small groups. So I did this time. When I arrived at the venue everything was set up just according to my wish but one detail. The chairs in t

Open Space to Build Communities of Practice

Hello all, I'm sending out a request for help. Has anyone opened and held space to help build an community of practice (CoP) inside a larger organization? Last year I worked with clients to hold an OS event to jump-start the creation of a community of practice inside a corporate organizat

Re: OS invitation to a mandatory meeting

Congratulations Kathleen - a big breakthrough into the space I have experienced many of these 'combo-events' and they have worked really well. Day 2 from 8:30 - 3:00 will be OS with 90 - 100 people. This day is usually called All Staff Meeting and is mandatory. Their question to me is how

Re: the circle, luminaries, personal growing edges

Kaliya - it sounds as though you have been both sponsor and facilitator of growing an 'open space culture' in your community over time... and you have been successful in achieving what you set out to do. The journey from semi-circle to circle worked! Cheers Brendan At 06:10 AM 22/08/2007, yo

Open Space, Circles, and Presence

As I have listened to this conversation (a very rich one!) random thoughts came to mind - which may actually fit together? The first one went something like this. We speak, understandably, about "doing an Open Space" - but I suspect that may box us into a corner we need not be stuck in. "Doing and

Circle, grid and OS - (was: 'The challenge of luminaries')

Kaliya mentioned using a grid instead of the post-its, and we're talking here a bit about what makes it Open Space. Just a note that some folks use a grid and some use the Post-it approach - some select one or the other depending on the situation. (see photos at http://www.openingspace.n

Re: The challenge of "luminaries"

Kaliya, about your adaptive meeting methodologies, interested to learn that you think you are doing OS when you do not 'do' OS. The first Open Space I went to was lead by Bill and Margo in 2002 - it was very groovy and spiritual - appropriate for the group. I picked up on the important e

Re: The challenge of "luminaries"

Ms. Tree - You said, Sometimes, even in open space, I show up and say what I think and I think it will be okay for me to say what I think because, hey, I am in open space and whatever happens is the right thing, including what I think. . . . but sometimes in this list, I have felt attacked be

circles

Hi One of the great moments in Open Space is watching people enter the conference room and be taken back by seeing a circle of chairs without rows or tables. It is that look of confusion and uncertainty which is priceless, especially when they try to figure out where to sit! This configurat

Re: Open Space and Circles

Hi, folks - I have had the honor of being present for one of Kaliya's facilitations of an OS conference for tech folks. So I can say that she really does OS - 'real' OS and is very clear on pre-work, process, principles space-holding and the whole thing. I'm not saying this to defend you Kali

Re: The challenge of "luminaries"

Sometimes, even in open space, I show up and say what I think and I think it will be okay for me to say what I think because, hey, I am in open space and whatever happens is the right thing, including what I think. . . . but sometimes in this list, I have felt attacked because I don't think the wa

Re: FW: The challenge of "luminaries"

Hi Peggy. Thanks for stimulating such a nice discussion. In your initial post, Peggy, you said that you were thinking that perhaps, in the future, you might talk to luminaries before hand. I am curious: did the luminary who said they were unhappy with the 'new-age' circle and the questions that