Costa Rica and something more....

Sat Jun 30 06:30:22 PDT 2001

----- Mensaje reenviado por Laura Gamboa Herrera <lauragh at planetclub.org> -----
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 14:47:18 +0200 (CEST)
From: Laura Gamboa Herrera <lauragh at planetclub.org>
Reply-To: Laura Gamboa Herrera <lauragh at planetclub.org>
Subject: Re: Whoops. cOSTa rica? osonos 2002 australia
To: mherman at globalchicago.net

Hi all,
Its just very funny and amazing. I have been a little bit out of computers, so I

hardly have time to read my e mails, as I am still in Europe, traveling.
But somehow I found that there was a discussion about organizing the OS on OS in

Costa Rica......WONDERFUL.....
You just have to tell me when  (it doesnt matter the year) and I can promise you

that I will do my best to organize it........So may be on 2003???? ;o)
By the way, I would like to share with you that I am starting a new life (this
is may be why I came here to travel for a while). And I would like to have the
opportunity to increase my knowledge in Open Space (which somehow is how I
decided that my life will be.....AND I LOVE IT). What I would like to know is
that if there is anybody that needs an assistant or co partner in organizing
conferences. As I am pretty flexible right now, is not that important for me in
which country is the conference (s), I can stay there for a while, or I can just

go for the conference. Of course, expecting some incomes, in order to cover my
expenses. This will start after the Vouncover conference.
So my freinds, if you have offers for me......the are very welcome.
Peace to everybody and greetings from beautiful Zurich that fortunatly I lost my

connection yesterday, so I had the opportunity to walk today around the city.
:O)
Laura

Mensaje citado por: Michael Herman <mherman at globalchicago.net>:

> hi all,
>
> just want to say that i've been planning on OSONOS in australia in
> 2002,
> per some postings we made earlier in the year, here on the list.  i
> hope
> you'll all join me there.  maybe there are more details available now,
> but perhaps not as i think that brian may be away from his computer for
> a bit.  certainly there will be more details by vancouver.  so i think
> we are now talking about 2003, that gives you an extra year for
> planning
> laura!
>
> m
>
>
>
> --
>
> Michael Herman
> 300 West North Avenue #1105
> Chicago IL 60610
> 312-280-7838 voice
> 312-280-7837 fax
>
> http://www.michaelherman.com
> a personal, professional portal to...
>
> http://consulting.michaelherman.com
> helping people and orgs get moving
>
> http://openspace.michaelherman.com
> an open space tech intro/resources page
>
> http://evolution.michaelherman.com
> the inviting organization emerges (book)
>
> http://invitation.michaelherman.com
> tools for opening space at work (workbook)
>
> http://links.michaelherman.com
> the global chicago network, an expanding web
>
> http://notebook.michaelherman.com
> michael's open notebook, for playing at work
>
> mailto:mherman at globalchicago.net
>
> *
> *
> ==========================================================
> OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> ------------------------------
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
> view the archives of oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu,
> Visit:
>
> http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
>

Laura Gamboa Herrera
Phone:  (506) 226-3184
Fax: 001-603-761-7394
P.O. Box 57-1011
San José, Costa Rica

----- Fin del Mensaje reenviado -----

Laura Gamboa Herrera
Phone:  (506) 226-3184
Fax: 001-603-761-7394
P.O. Box 57-1011
San José, Costa Rica

*
*
==========================================================
OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
------------------------------
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu,
Visit:

http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html

>From  Sun Jul  1 13:49:59 2001
Message-Id: <SUN.1.JUL.2001.134959.0400.>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 13:49:59 +0400
Reply-To: brynza at online.ru
To: OSLIST <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
From: Raffi Aftandelian <brynza at online.ru>
Subject: it works!
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hi folks!
no matter that friday night it took place in a grungy old private school
under repairs, that the chairs were dusty, that one break out room two
hours before curtains smelled like cat pee, that sat. we started an hour
late. The bottom line is that my first OS: Developing a training program
for Moscow Public Schools: issues and opportunities was successful. This
I did as a volunteer for friends and colleagues who have started this
initiative in light of the extreme xenophobia and racism that is rampant
in Russia today-- especially towards Chechens.

17 people participated day one. half of those didn't come the second day
and new people came an hour or so late on the second day (1.5 day
event). But hey, I tried really sitting with the principles.

Participants after initial hesitation jumped with both feet.

Some questions:

1. When preparing for an OS, what expectations do you have/communicate
to the sponsor re: people's participation. Can people come for just a
part? If you leave, can you come back? To a certain degree there was a
fair amount of coming and going?

2. What are people's criteria for "space grabbing"-- the point at which,
as I understand, the facilitator should intervene, albeit in a pretty
inobtusive way (on the surface)? I saw quasi-space grabbing behavior at
the meeting. But my gut told me to hang back and things indeed worked
out. (thank you, Birgitt, for really getting us to think about what the
essence of OS in Novosibirsk, bc i go back to the two words for me--
profound nonintervention)

3. I noticed there was a fair amount of confusion when it came to action
planning. people wondered what to do with all the ideas. I said several
times I will explain, but people were very nervous. I wonder if my
mistake was when it came to asking people to read all the reports if I
should've given an overview of the remainder of the meeting so that
people would know what was happening. the energy for a while went low,
people checked out, flew away (butterflies). I just hung in there.
Finally I was able to explain to most folks (after only less than half
the folks participated in the voting! yep I didn't comment outloud on
this.) the future planning. some people got it.

I felt that it would be best to leave the circle, left, and slowly
convergence energy developed in the group (we ended up with one big
working group)-- and a full-on power struggle to boot which they
resolved. The quasi-space grabber was deposed. I noticed these things
quite by accident. I wasn't watching this the whole time, but rather
picking up bits while doing the picking-up-coffee-cups number.

and by the closing circle, there was indeed a sense of closure,
satisfaction, that the group had gone to some real deep places together,
had a sense of accomplishment, that they from the get go were highly
democratic with each other. in a word what you often hear at this point.

so thanks for your support, prayers, and I'm off to organizing my next
OS!

your comments would much be appreciated!
raffi

*
*
==========================================================
OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
------------------------------
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu,
Visit:

http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html