Re: [OSList] An offering! (Nasty Banks!)

2013-02-09 Thread Brett Barndt
Hi there TKS It is now critical that we develop the vocabulary and taxonomy we need to understand these systems through and through. In the case of the US and the EU now, the money systems are now being arrayed against the home Metropolis in ways normally used against countries and nations "in the

[OSList] Opening Space in NYC - Post Newtown with Dispute Resolvers

2013-02-09 Thread Scott Gassman
After listening - reading posts on the "ACR-GNY" (Association of Conflict Resolution - Greater New York) list serv, post the Sandy Hook - Newtown, Connecticut, tragedy, I suggested on the list serve that we come together face to face via an Open Space to discuss our responses, thoughts, beliefs, o

Re: [OSList] A short story about Opening Space in Brazil

2013-02-09 Thread Harrison Owen
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[OSList] OS for "Dysfunctional Organization"

2013-02-09 Thread Harrison Owen
Some little while ago I reported doing an OS for what the sponsors described as a "dysfunctional organization." As you may recall, not only did the OS "work" (as usual) but the assembled group worked together with such energy and efficiency that I could see absolutely no indication that they were "

[OSList] shortest OST ever (longish)

2013-02-09 Thread Robyn Williams
As a modest practitioner I facilitate/communicate/educate for sustainability. Today after nearly 3 enjoyable/intense days of NOT open space I had my moment, 30 of them actually. The culmination of a post-grad course in Education for Sustainability (EfS & I was a student) was a conference of the 8

Re: [OSList] An offering! (Nasty Banks!)

2013-02-09 Thread Michael M Pannwitz
Dear Brett, in the meantime, there are some not so very difficult things one can do, or rather: I did and do. When still living in the USA in the sixties and early seventies, I worked in a horribly poor area in Southeast Missouri, the northernmost part of the Mississipi Delta where ordinary f