[OSList] small things

2013-12-05 Thread Michael Wood
Hi Tania, Great to hear you are having fun with Open Space Tania and welcome to the OSLIST. As Harrison has observed many times, self organisation delivers not only high performance but 'high play' and I am sensing some of the 'playfulness' of Open Space in your story of small beginnings. Best w

[OSList] raising spirit revisited

2013-12-05 Thread Michael Wood
Thanks Chris for your thoughtful response. So based on several responses received I am hearing some key themes in relation to the question of raising Spirit in organisations: 1. The need for grief to be recognised and processed/healed 2. The potential for an unhelpful burden of administrative o

Re: [OSList] Happy Birthday Harrison- a video to culminate his birthday week!

2013-12-05 Thread Harrison Owen
Carmella! It is all open space!! When the human spirit soars the Space is definitely OPEN! Nothing esoteric. It's what happens. Whatever, Whenever, Wherever, with whomsoever... Thanks for sharing!! ho Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 189 Beaucaire Ave. (s

Re: [OSList] Happy Birthday Harrison- a video to culminate his birthday week!

2013-12-05 Thread Paul Nunesdea
Camelia thanks for sharing this great video!! Just imagine an OS with opera singers each one announcing a song and others joining or not to sing along. This would be the opera that I would always like to go, I could choose to stay whenever the tune pleases me and use the law of 2 feet to avoid

Re: [OSList] Happy Birthday Harrison- a video to culminate his birthday week!

2013-12-05 Thread Carmella Mazzotta
Hello all, Check out this Youtube video of an effort to get more interest in opera in Spain. It was sent to me today and in honor of Harrison's birthday week, I want to share it with all on the listserve. I think you'll agree it is a bit of open space tech in an artsy successful way.no? Carmella

Re: [OSList] How to present OST?

2013-12-05 Thread Christoph Berendes
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Harrison Owen wrote: > I find that most people really don’t care about the “process.” As Eiwor > says – they just want results. As someone coming in to this community and civic engagement from a background with more business development, let me underline this. A

Re: [OSList] OST Training Design

2013-12-05 Thread Tova Averbuch
Thank you Diane , this conversation is very timely for me since I lately organized and led a training with 17 people . All the best from foggy NYC Tova ‫נשלח מה-iPad שלי‬ ‫ב-3 בדצמ 2013, בשעה 14:08, ‏Diane Gibeault כתב/ה:‬ > Hi Tova, > > I so agree with the benefits you describe below, of th