Greetings. I'm glad to be back aboard the listserv after a six month break
during which my family moved from Seattle to Asheville, North Carolina.
Does anyone out there know of any OS practitioners based in the Southern
Appalachians (let's say N Georgia, WNC, E Tennessee, or SW VA)? Thanks!
Chri
"What happens is the only thing that happens."
I'm with you.
That "only thing that could have" has stuck in my conscience like a fishbone
for more than a year.
-Chris Weaver
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>From: Murli Nagasundaram
>To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
>Subject: virtual OS / a proposal regarding one of
Hi Chris.
Your notion of "the OS community" is familiar territory. I worked for a
year to help a community public school in Seattle (not-coincidentally a
focus school for Native American students/families) to develop into an
ongoing Open Space community.
One of our goals was to inspire/support g
First, thanks to Harrison for the call to reach out to special interest
groups to spread the word. As an educator I'm thinking about teachers'
union magazines and such...
Second, I just drafted the invitation to my first Open Space. Chris
Corrigan's invitation (written by the aboriginal youth co
OPEN SPACE
You have arrived here
before, burning for air,
surfacing in a circle
of early spring lakewater
with loons around you.
Did even the ones
who love you understand
why you stepped off
the dock into black
water? The beckoning voice
was so soft: consider
the lilies. We carve
that first t
and the outgoing OSLIST Poet Laureate, and my wife Rhett,
and the Open Space Subcommittee Responsible for Enforcing Principles,
and all the splendid poets, and especially the Open Space
in which poems are conceived and into which they are born.
I can't resist the poet's cardinal sin of explaining
Chris,
If government reps, non-Aboriginal people whose business has been
affected, and First Nation members and supporters respond to an invitation,
it seems to me that a talking circle should preceed any breaking into focus
groups around solutions, so that the conflicting perspectives can be v
Alan, this is a marvelous story of a great success. I especially love that
the experience of OS in planning the facility may lead to the facility being
used for future OS events on other issues. Bravo. -Chris
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To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Subject: Re: OS in c
Dear Andrew,
I have been in three OS events which included a small number of young people
among adults, all with themes oriented around adult concerns.
My experience has been that the young people (in two cases 10 -
12-year-olds, in another high-school students) have not convened focus
groups, bu
On a tangent raised by Michael Pannwitz:
I too have done an OS for kids (10-12) in part to prepare them for
participation in a larger OS with their teachers and parents. I agree that
the children take to the process so quickly that it seems they need no
preparation...but I think the kids' OS in a
In response to Jimbo's "OS in Asia," Robert Chaffe wrote:
I feel that we need to be very careful as we close a session called Open
Space
that we do not loose the "spirit" by closing things down in the reductionist
way. The participants need to return to their "normal world" with the
"spirit"
know
Here's my teaspoon of dirt to the muddy water:
I visited metanet. It is beautiful and it looks and feels like open space.
The messages from Jimbo, Chris C. and others raise the critical issue of not
excluding people for whom web-based conversation is more difficult.
Harrison and Chris suggest ke
"And it's probably time for my biannual graitude to Harrison for
giving it away. Twice in the past three weeks I've had people remark on
that spirit of generosity that permeates the process. I trace it back
to the originator...still, a remarkable act of kindness."
-Chris Corrigan
GIVING IT AW
Dear Metta,
I'm honored.
This listserv is like a free bank of weird & wonderful seeds. We find
them, we scatter them, we cross-pollinate and grow more.
-Chris Weaver
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>From: Kimble/Zetty
> Dear Chris,
>
> This poem is just lovely!
>
> Would you mind if I share it with other
I'm with Peggy and Jeff and Eric. I want to return to OSLIST. The archives
are great and easy to access. And I can sure do without the "dot-com"
flashiness. -Chris Weaver
Hi people!
I'm excited today about a new application of OS that emerged in a meeting
this morning. I'd love feedback, especially on one particular aspect.
I'm working with a program called NCTeach, in North Carolina, which is a
newly-created way for people working in other fields to switch caree
Thanks, Esther and BJ. I took a walk in the woods after work, and when I
returned your advice in this matter shone clearly as the right choice. I
will trust in the process.
-Chris
Murli, and Jeff:
Ah, the elegance of a good convergence! I too raise a toast (of strong
lukewarm coffee, in the North Carolina night, full of fireflies). Salud!
-Chris
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>From: Chris Corrigan
>To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
>Subject: Re: Choosing a daily list
>Date: Thu, Jun 29
Dear OSLIST,
I'm all excited and bleary-eyed from one of those sweet breakthroughs into a
new application of Open Space. I've drafted an Open-Space-based design for
a mentorship project for new public school teachers (with help from Esther,
BJ, and Chris Corrigan). I'm striking while the iron is
, how to change
the agreements and relationships. There is a certain amount of courtesy
and testing of the relationship that needs to be explored in Open Space so
the program gets off to a good start.
-Original Message-
From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu]On Behalf Of
Hi Jeff.
I considered using the giant post-its, but was repelled by the cost.
Shortly afterward, I found an outstanding low-cost alternative: snot. With
proper attention to diet, it can hold even heavy posters for up to a week,
and it comes off even cheaply-painted walls with a cotton ball soaked
Mercy, I can't believe I just sent that around the world.
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pen in some cases whether
specifically encouraged or not. Since the new teachers probably have a lot
coming at them, I see value in an explicit suggestion to find someone to
work with if they so desire.
Peggy
- Original Message -
From: Rhett Hudson/Chris Weaver <mailto:rhe
Chris Corrigan wrote:
As far as behaving yourself goes...just take the lead from our Poet
Laureate.
Chris seems to have lowered the bar quite a bit lately...:-)
Chris (the sane one)
Well Chris, I read in my job description that a poet's supposed to go where
no one else wants to. But rest assur
Dear Kathleen,
Like Peg and BJ I am fascinated with your idea. I am working in a state
school system that also is conservative and test-driven. Like you I know
how many teachers yearn to deepen their practice, to support one another, to
open to spirit in their work with children and in the balan
Dear OSLIST,
The Open-Space-based mentoring program for new public school teachers in
North Carolina is moving forward in the planning with powerful synergy. In
the near future I will post a detailed report. I am most grateful for the
help I received on this list several weeks ago when the idea
Many thanks Sheila for your stories from Cardinal Stritch U. I gleaned
several points relevant to my situation.
I am not a university-level educator but would love to participate in the
collaborative development of courses using OST. Perhaps the Meta Network
would be a good place to do the work?
Dear OSLIST,
Wouldn't it be wonderful if some architects worked to design an ideal
community building expressly for Open Space events?
What would it look like?
Chris
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Dylene Cymraes, in the POETRY!SPACE of tmn.
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Thomas,
Could you:
Distribute the proceedings from the first OS to the second 100 prior to
their event;
Invite, but not require, people from the first to attend the second?
As for very clear reasons: To build on the wisdom of the first group, to
quickly synthesize, to not duplicate working groups?
Dear OSLIST,
This is a report on the progress of the teacher mentoring project in North
Carolina. We are holding our first OS event on August 22-23, and toward the
end of the message I will be asking for advice on the development of this
meeting.
There is a team of people here whose mission is t
OSONOS VIII - LAMENT OF THE HOME-BOUND
...there exists a catalogue about his work titled "friedrich kiesler.
inside the endless house".
i´ll show it if you want at osonos.
florian
When you find your place in the circle
we will be brushing our teeth.
When you look around at each face
we will butt
It helps me to stay humble and respectful
knowing that we are about this teeny window
into something bigger and more precious
and not of our making. -Birgitt
WINDOW
Rest your hands
on the smooth wood
of this windowsill.
No,
the window is not
the moon. Yet
some windows
entice the full moo
Dear Elena,
Your questions are important and similar to ones I have pondered myself this
very week.
It looks like that my proposal to provide a workshop for meeting of business
people and local government people, who visited US for their professional
exchange, with the idea to discuss
How do th
Harrison,
Your message is like a four course brunch, plus blueberry pie.
Chris
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From: Harrison Owen
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Subject: Re: [OSLIST] when a client hires Open Space Technology, is this
what she gets?
Date: Sun, Sep 3, 2000, 1:23 PM
At 10:28 PM 9/2/00 -0400, Bi
Jeff,
Thank you for your story. I can see great benefits in the practice of
creating a fresh bulletin board based on individual commitments, then
grouping these to form action groups. I also like the idea of sticky-dots
as a reflective process, as raw material for fresh commitments rather than
a
Jimbo,
Thank you for this description. I know I will use it. I have been puzzled
about the need for the whole group to share, support, & digest action plans
and honor their champions, but I too have found reporting too tiring and
un-Open-Space-ish. Your model extends the law of two feet and add
Chris, Birgitt, Michelle, Others,
This thread has explored ethical questions about opening space for a group
of victims of violence. In one of the entries in this thread, Chris
Corrigan wrote:
Just how much responsibility *I* am supposed to take for their healing is an
open
question in my mind..
Kerry Napuk wrote:
While reports on actual OST events and points on
process always are welcome, do all of us have to experience personal
notes of support and congratulations? It might help to clean up the
list serve if people directed personal comments to the originators.
I appreciate the notes
Dear OSLIST,
As the current (but soon-to-be-ousted) OSLIST Poet Laureate, I am preparing
a chapbook of Open Space poetry as an offering to the participants of OSonOS
VIII in Berlin. I am planning to include the poems from the POETRY!SPACE on
the meta network (link below).
If you have a poem post
Dear OSLIST,
The first OS poetry chapbook has been printed! It's called
and thus we come alive
POEMS FROM OPEN SPACE
Volume One, October, 2000
Thanks to: Corcom for the idea, Toke for the title line, Peggy and osi-usa
for covering initial printing, and Ward for making the delivery to Berlin!
WWW of US Congress Library and OSI - Open Society Institute
(Soros Foundation), and which I did not present to OSLIST - probably not
good.
Best wishes
Elena Marchuk, Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia
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From: Rhett Hudson/Chris Weaver <mailto:rhett&ch...@ma
Metta,
Well said; I am right with you.
Regarding whoever comes are the right people - I was able to stumble into
OSonOS VI in Monterrey on a shoestring budget, and it was a
life-course-altering experience, thanks largely to the lively international
diversity of the group (if you were in Monterrey
Dear OSLIST,
Here is what we need to proceed with this experiment.
THE IDEA is to open the space for an on-line discussion, parallel to the
discussions in Berlin and starting with the same topics, and see what
happens.
THE CONNECTION WE NEED is someone at OSonOS who is willing, sometime on
Satur
Dear Homebounders,
1. The space Michael opened is marvelous. Check it out:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/wwbb/Forum12/HTML/01.html
2. I have started a topic called "The BERLIN AGENDA WALL" to be a simple
list of the topics posted in Berlin, as grist for our virtual mill. I will
work with
Dear OSLIST,
The topics on the agenda wall in Berlin (at the Open Space on Open Space
conference) are now posted at the interactive online OSonOS! It is a
brilliant list; if you're a homebounder, be prepared for a fresh pang of
wishing-you-were-there! If one of the topics interests you, post it
Dear OSLIST,
It's that time again...
THE THIRD BI-ANNUAL OSLIST RESTRICTED FORM POETRY CONTEST!
But before I explain the rules, a brief history of this illustrious
competition is in order. About a year ago, someone (who was that, anyway?)
started a contest to write a poem of 26 lines, beginning w
Rainer,
You provide a beautiful description, and raise some profound questions.
In addition to the listserv, I invite you to post this offering at the
ongoing OSonOS online conference, "Berlin and Beyond." Choose a topic title
(You may need to open more than one!) and create a new topic. There
Remember, Chris, et.al...
You don't have to submit just one!
Chris
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>From: Chris Corrigan
>To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
>Subject: Re: [OSLIST] !!! POETRY CONTEST !!!
>Date: Thu, Oct 26, 2000, 12:35 AM
>
> Here's my entry...
>
> GETTING READY
>
> something opening
> up behind me
Artur,
As one of the initiators of the online OSonOS, I understand your points and
agree with you about shifting OSonOS discussions back to the list. To
provide a sense of closure to the online OSonOS, I would suggest setting an
ending time and inviting participants to make closing comments betwe
Dear Nuran,
Thank you for sharing this dialogue between you and Christina. I find it
most interesting and important.
I have worked in many schools in the USA where the staff has focused its
attention on issues of culture.
My thought, which you are welcome to share as you wish, is about the
poss
Let's keep the online OSonOS forum open through the week. It's still
simmering along at
http://www.openspaceworld.org/wwbbcgi/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=O
SONOS8+--+BERLIN+AND+BEYOND&number=12
On Friday Michael can schedule the closing...thanks. -Chris W.
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