Re: [OSList] Who is BS-ing Whom?

Ok... I don't know Mark or his motives. I do think this is a topic worthy of serious and considered conversation. The best example I have seen so far, of someone who is in favor of vaccines, attempting to understand the viewpoint of those who are hesitant or skeptical, is Norman Doidge's four-part

Re: [OSList] A phenomenal new book by one of our own: Initiating and Inviting Generative Change

thanks so much for the heads up, Peggy! just ordered it, and really looking forward to reading it... xo, Rosa * * *Rosa Zubizarreta * *DiaPraxis: Awakening the Spirit of Creative Collaboration * *coaching in participatory leadership * *advanced group f

Re: [OSList] Sat 18th Dec - Winter Solstice 2021 - Celebration, Reflection, Conversations & Play

Oooh!!! Looks lovely, Lucas!!! Looking forward to being there, Rosa * * *Rosa Zubizarreta * *DiaPraxis: Awakening the Spirit of Creative Collaboration * *coaching in participatory leadership * *advanced group facilitation services & learning opportuni

[OSList] Update, and more...

Hi all, my apologies in advance, if this is deemed inappropriate here... I am a huge fan of OS, as that was the first emergence-aligned practice that I ever encountered -- will always have fond memories of the Organization Transformation conference in Napa in the mid-90's, that was my first immer

Re: [OSList] Meeting of the tribes: Our gifts for crisis and change

Dear Michael, I see a very powerful "both / and" here... I very much appreciated reading your suggestion that the "exchange between tribes" be "achieved sustainably as a part of ongoing practice" by encouraging every exchange that any "tribe" is engaged in anyhow and anyway" to welcome > divers

[OSList] Upcoming deep-dive...

Hi all, In case anyone here is interested, there will be an upcoming Dynamic Facilitation 2-day deep dive in London , next month. I think the main connection that I will offer

Re: [OSList] A proposal for many worlwide OST events on "Climate Change and the Future of Earth"

We just hosted our Open Space "Deep Adaptation Dialogue " this Sunday. Will share harvest here soon. It was tiny (about 20 people or so) yet potent. I tend to prefer longer Open Spaces, yet was totally happy with how people "got it" abou

Re: [OSList] A proposal for many worlwide OST events on "Climate Change and the Future of Earth"

Hi all, sorry to be coming in late on this thread... am definitely interested. A related item... maybe this has already been mentioned on this list... Jem Bendell, catalyst for the Deep Adaptation movement, is a big fan of Open Space and has been promoting a number of Deep Adaptation gatherings ar

Re: [OSList] Companies using OST regularly

Dear Francois, thank you so much for initiating this thread, and also for compiling this information and sharing it. May this useful resource inspire many others! All best wishes, Rosa On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 2:29 PM Francois Knuchel via OSList < oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > Thank

Re: [OSList] Prerequisites for Selforganization/open space - in Haiti

Thank you for posting this very moving story, Michael... * * *Rosa Zubizarreta* *DiaPraxis: Awakening the Spirit of Creative Collaboration * *coaching in participatory leadership • advanced group facilitation services & learning opportunities* On S

Re: [OSList] OST encourages avoidance of conflict

Martina, I just read your post, on this long and interesting thread… You wrote… "Well, even if that were true (which I don't think it is): would it be a bad thing? I would rather have "conflict avoidance" than war. I would rather have "conflict avoidance" than rips in a community." What reson

[OSList] Awesome resource guides

Hi all, I recently came across these awesome resources created by The People's Supper . More great stuff on their resources page . *Collective Care in the Face of Violent Trauma: A Guidebook for Gathering*

Re: [OSList] Inviting your helpful suggestions...

t;- and, as always, *"Be Prepared to Be Surprised!"* > > Mark Pixley > > LEADERSHIP INC > Facilitating Organizational Change in Greater China > > 86-755-8211 1366 > 86-186 8895 0841 > skype: mjpixley > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 6:48 AM, Rosa Zubizarreta

[OSList] Inviting your helpful suggestions...

Hi there OS folks... anyone out there ever hosted an OS event that included folks with significant visual impairments? I would love to hear about any accommodations you may have devised, especially for the Village Market Place... thanks so much! (p.s. I sent this out a few days ago, but from th

Re: [OSList] OS and Planning

Thank you so much for that story, Birgitt! Really helpful... so much we can learn, from sharing stories of practice... all best wishes, Rosa *Rosa Zubizarreta* *meet me at my DiaPraxis website and on my Listening Arts blog * *

Re: [OSList] OS and Planning

Thank you!!! Great examples context context context all best wishes, Rosa *Rosa Zubizarreta* *meet me at my DiaPraxis website and on my Listening Arts blog * * * On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Harriso

Re: [OSList] Planning and Open Space ????

What a juicy conversation! Harrison, loved your post!!! Birgitt, loved your thoughts in response!!! Dreaming, dreaming Dragon dreaming... another wonderful way to play... lots of wonderful ways to play... what an awesome thread!!! all best wishes, Rosa *Rosa Zubizarreta* *meet me at m

Re: [OSList] Open Space undermined?

Well, seems to me that academia is evolving, like everything else -- though at a much slower rate! :-) I for one, am looking forward not just to more research "about" Open Space... but for Open Space itself, to be seen as a form of valid research... within an evolving (post-positivistic) frame,

Re: [OSList] Opening Space for Listening, after the US election

Hi Lucas, I am only now seeing this thread… and I want to begin by thanking you for your organizing efforts. I can relate to "having limited time to pursue volunteer community-building efforts"… and also, to the distinction you are making, between the work of opening space, and the work of invit

Re: [OSList] A Gift from Phelim

GREAT movie! Thanks for posting it, Harrison and great invite, Jeff, to point out the short phone call at the beginning... once I saw that, I was hooked for the rest of it! :-) :-) :-) *Rosa Zubizarreta* *meet me at my DiaPraxis website and on my Listening Arts blog

Re: [OSList] Questioning Questioning

Daniel, I am appreciating your invitation to explore SVO-p... Bhav, I am appreciating your inquiry about the different forms that invitations can take, in different cultures... and Lisa, I am appreciating your response to Bhav! more generally, I am appreciating the existence of this list... and

[OSList] Celebrating the opening of a much-needed space...

Hi all... here is, to me, a great example of someone "opening space"... Michael Moore is inviting any of us who care to join him... please spread the word, if so inspired.. all best wishes, Rosa

Re: [OSList] What's Open Space got to do with Group Relations?

Dear Carmela, thank you so much for sharing this. I will share widely. thank you, Rosa *Rosa Zubizarreta* *meet me at my DiaPraxis website and on my Listening Arts blog * * * On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Ca

Re: [OSList] not quite open space

great distinction, Michael... seems like you are pointing out one of the key underlying distinctions... are we welcoming all of whatever wants to emerge? or, only some of it... and yes, Thomas, no more boring meetings! *Rosa Zubizarreta* *meet me at my DiaPraxis website

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Re: [OSList] What's authority got to do with Open Space ?

dear Harrison, Happy Birthday!!! and thank you for so much... including, your ever-invigorating invitations to think further! I have a very different read of Daniel's choice of words than you do... If we realize that the key root of "authority" is "author", then each of us, by nature and defini

Re: [OSList] What's authority got to do with Open Space ?

Hi Daniel, congratulations on an amazing piece! As you mention, "authority" is a very loaded subject... My understanding is that the group relations perspective, holds (along with Koos!) that as adults, the ultimate authority for anything ultimately comes from ourselves. WE are the ones who "auth

Re: [OSList] quite the inspiring conversation today on OS Hotline...

an inspiration of hope. Skye > > > On Tuesday, October 20, 2015, Rosa Zubizarreta via OSList < > oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > >> ...which ranged over a lot of topics! >> >> At one point, the subject of immigration came up, >> and I menti

[OSList] quite the inspiring conversation today on OS Hotline...

...which ranged over a lot of topics! At one point, the subject of immigration came up, and I mentioned the following example of a participatory public process recently held in Austria, leading to a community-wide effort to respond in constructive ways. Others on that call encouraged me to share

Re: [OSList] The Tyranny of Structurelessness

this is lovely, Michael... >when people say, "oh, yes, the circle makes everyone equal," and i always like to point out that it >gives them equal access to the markers and paper and each other, but they are all still uniquely >important! *Rosa Zubizarreta* *Developing Participatory and Co-int

Re: [OSList] The Tyranny of Structurelessness

n Space. Everything that I had >>> ever learned told me that it could not work. Unfortunately it did (work) – >>> and not just once, but every time, hundreds of thousands of times. >>> Something was definitely weird. It seemed to me that I had to re-consider >>> all th

Re: [OSList] The Tyranny of Structurelessness

Hi Daniel, The writing you shared may well challenge some of our assumptions -- the word "structure" is at least as loaded in our culture as the word "power" or the word "leader" -- yet it does not, to my mind, challenge our practice of OST. Indeed, one of the great things about OST is that it's

Re: [OSList] The Tyranny of Structurelessness

Yay, Anna Caroline you speak my heart! thank you. *Rosa Zubizarreta* *Developing Participatory and Co-intelligent LeadershipAuthor of From Conflict to Creative Collaboration * *For more resources and learning opportunities, visit**www.DiaPraxis.com

Re: [OSList] The Tyranny of Structurelessness

Hi Daniel, Yes, this is a key piece... I see it as very similar in some ways to what Ken Wilber wrote later, about the "shadow side of the green meme". (Each meme has its own shadow, as well as its own gift...) So, I love "green". I love circles, I love non-hierarchy, etc. And, part of the "shado

Re: [OSList] "Building Self-Management Muscles"

Hi Christine, Thank you for the blog post link. I don't have a specific response to your question at the moment, just a larger concern about the need to put out positive news about successful participatory management efforts, especially given the negative press that the initiative at Zappo's has b

Re: [OSList] article in Spanda Journal

s, and > especially after, when coercive "push" style Agile adoptions lose momentum > and break down. These adoptions typically break down after the expensive > (and often quite authoritative) Agile coaches leave. > > Kind Regards, > Daniel > > > > On 7/19/15

Re: [OSList] Zappos Being Zapped

rganizations evolve > resilient structures and processes that equip them to navigate in a sea of > constant change. And they do this on their own." > > Have a great day... and, by the way, to see the effect of "Mandating stuff > is a recipe for disaster." on a large syste

[OSList] article in Spanda Journal

hi all, Some of you here may enjoy Tom Atlee's recent article on "Conversation in the Conscious Evolution of Social Systems" in the recent Spanda Journal issue on Systemic Change . In it, he has a whole section on OST starting on page 190. Earlier in

Re: [OSList] Zappos Being Zapped

Yes, Daniel, as you wrote, "mandating a process change is a recipe for disaster." REGARDLESS of what the process is... but ESPECIALLY if it's one that's supposed to "help people feel more empowered". for me, it's sad to see what's happening at Zappo's. especially because i happen to think that in

Re: [OSList] Great interview with Anne Stadler

Thank you, Peggy! Looking forward to this... Rosa *Rosa Zubizarreta* *www.DiaPraxis.com * Author of *From Conflict to Creative Collaboration* *recent Dynamic Facilitation deep dives:* May 26-28 near* Bonn, Germany

Re: [OSList] A Friend... Robert Steele

Interesting to see this thread here! The first time I heard about Robert Steele, was after he had contacted my friend and colleague Tom Atlee. Robert is a huge fan of Tom's book on co-intelligence, "The Tao of Democracy", and has written a very enthusiastic and extensive recommendation

Re: [OSList] Great formats for breakout sessions?

Hi Lucas, There's a published article about some folks in CA who combined Open Space with offering Dynamic Facilitation during the breakout sessions. I think their only DF training was from reading the manual, and I believe they got interesting-yet-mixed results. I'll look for the reference for yo

Re: [OSList] Fwd: reporting back from MIX...

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Re: [OSList] Fwd: reporting back from MIX...

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[OSList] Fwd: reporting back from MIX...

Hi all, In spite of the old-style format, I found the MIX to be an extremely inspiring gathering. Below some extracts from an e-mail I wrote to a friend... *** The conference format was (almost) completely didactic, lecture-style, jam-packed, hardly any breaks

Re: [OSList] Open Space by the book?

Chris, any chance you will publish your book in a paper version at some point? Consider me old-fashioned, but I very much enjoy holding a book in my hands... with all best wishes, Rosa *Rosa Zubizarreta* *Diapraxis: Facilitating Creative Collaborationhttp://www.diapraxis.com

Re: [OSList] rest of the world catching up with Open Space...

seems very 1985. I’m pretty sure > that even in the hallowed belly of McKinsey, this thinking is pretty > dated. Being the self-appointed guardians of what is the gold standard of > management consulting, it kind of bugs me when they publish stuff the rest > of the world has known for

Re: [OSList] rest of the world catching up with Open Space...

ronted with a > particularly traditional organization that is stuck in its thinking about > change and complexity and strategy. > > Chris > > On Nov 3, 2014, at 7:07 AM, Rosa Zubizarreta via OSList < > oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > > > http://www.mck

[OSList] Fwd: rest of the world catching up with Open Space...

(re-sending as I sent this previously from a different e-mail address, and it didn't go through...) Hi all, the following article has been making quite a stir... I first saw it over on a Linked In discussion group. http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/organization/build_a_change_platform_not_a_chang

Re: [OSList] Empowerment barometer?

Fascinating, Jeff. Would be very interesting to hear other perspectives from people who were there. >From the "outside" and in hindsight, it seems to highlight the difficulty of creating hybrid forms of old and new. I imagine it would have been VERY different if the whole conference had been held

Re: [OSList] Lonely

Peggy, thank you for the beautiful phrase and story... "the radiant network"... :-) and Chris, thank you. That is the first time I have heard of "I belong to everything" as a more accurate version of "all my relations"... it resonates. Annamarie, in Spanish (which is my mother tongue), we say "bi