[OSList] Transcendentalizing OST

Dear truth seekers of OST, What happens after OSTdone with it's born-simplicity?☞ transcendence 一切唯心造 隨處作主 立處皆眞 Your mind creates everything. So, if you liberate yourself to be the master of your mind.. you would see the truth is right there!^^ Although OST is ultra simple, it helps anyone with

Re: [OSList] Smallest group OS

Hi, Adriana, Lisa and everybody! I've attended some Open Space events and Bar Camps that suffered from the same problems that Adriana mentioned (mostly Bar Camps). I've also attended some OS events in which the principles and process were explained in a very floaty, new agey way that made me a

[OSList] "The Power of Pre-Work" - August 7-9, San Francisco USA

Paul, you spoke of the power of pre-work. I look forward to sharing learning with you in-person - as we have done online and via emails. I know that will happen, somewhere, sometime in the world. For any of you who can travel to San Francisco this August, I am offering my workshop, "The Pow

Re: [OSList] And now, our new OSLIST Poet Laureate.... !

Thank you for your very kind and warm words, Susanna and Anne - As you well know, I do have a passion for diversity, access and inclusion. And as you also know, I believe in how amazing people are - even people whom I have not yet met. So for the Poet Laureate tradition, I love helping peop

Re: [OSList] Smallest group OS

So that is what I see happen a lot, as well, Adriana. People do not seem to take the time to explore the "why" behind process, behind facilitating - Open Space or other processes. In Open Space, for example, the principles and law may be listed somewhere on a link - but that is different tha

Re: [OSList] Smallest group OS

Lisa thank you for sharing this! I went to 2 OS recently with a lot of people from Agile community, coaches and srcum masters and what I noticed is that they did not take time to focus the group and neither to really explain the principles. They just read those and I feld that the energy was not th

Re: [OSList] Smallest group OS

Yes Paul - our mutual learning on this list is similar: Open Space is not Open Space without all the elements - whether online or in person: Opening Circle Co-created agenda (without the facilitator helping or clustering, synthesizing or rushing) Multiple discussions around the big room (wha

Re: [OSList] Smallest group OS

Hello, dear colleagues - I know of some of you who have done Open Space with... yourself. That is a very small group indeed. Erich and Arturo, I smile. (your message is copied below). And I give you a hug from across the world. My smallest group was... I was asked to give a post-conference work

Re: [OSList] Leadership denial?

Hi, And most of the time I lurk. Your email.. yes, isn't it awful when we can see something but are powerless to do anything about it. So: Why do you care so much? What does this association do for you that suggests it shouldn't die? Maybe you are being called to go and create something bett

[OSList] Leadership denial?

Hi Folks, I haven't spoken here in a while . . . here goes . . . I've gotta vent for a moment. I'm a member of an association which is literally on the brink of extinction because their entire source of income evaporated due to 2 things - The economic downturn . . . and the advent of new technolo