[OSList] Open Space Learning Workshops - April, May and December, USA

2013-01-22 Thread Lisa Heft
Hello, dear OSLIST colleagues: Thank you for sharing this with your friends and colleagues - through email, tweets, other social networks, or face-to-face over a good beverage. May this message find you well and may your work be rich with learning and discovery - Lisa - - - - Imagine using

Re: [OSList] New York, New York...indeed the place to be this weekend

2013-01-22 Thread Lisa Heft
Koos - I so delight in those opportunities to share thoughts and smiles with you and my other Open Space colleagues in any of these face-to-face gatherings around the world. I am still smiling from seeing you in London last October. Like a little wellness infusion. And I look forward to seein

Re: [OSList] Incorporating self-organized training/learning sessions into OST AND communicating OST to an uninitiated and distracted leadership

2013-01-22 Thread Lisa Heft
Welcome Tricia! The 'uninitiated' part of your title does not worry me. Everyone has a first time, and Open Space is one of those processes for which participants need no prior experience. It is the 'distracted leadership' part of the title I am curious about. Can you share more with us about

[OSList] Incorporating self-organized training/learning sessions into OST AND communicating OST to an uninitiated and distracted leadership

2013-01-22 Thread Tricia Chirumbole
Hello all! I am an OST newbie who is hoping to facilitate an Open Space for my main client's annual meeting in a few weeks and I would like to get your thoughts on incorporating hands on skill transfer into an Open Space. I did do some book reading on OST and just attended the OST meeting in NYC t

Re: [OSList] New York, New York...indeed the place to be this weekend

2013-01-22 Thread Harold Shinsato
Dear Suzanne, Thanks so much for this heartfelt report. Being privileged to be on the Open Space Institute board - I heard a much more comprehensive report just some hours ago now - and I felt powerfully the impact of having such a diverse group of people and watching stereotypes and preconce

Re: [OSList] Supporting the blind at an open space event

2013-01-22 Thread Harold Shinsato
Thank you Michael & Harrison, The need for the American Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 reflected a need for a change in consciousness to support those with disabilities. Despite a professional requirement to understand and look at Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act when government cont