Request for stories about mentoring, and a reminder about the conference for the International Alliance for Mentoring

[Birgitt Williams]

Dear friends and colleagues,
September 27th is the date for our on-line conference regarding mentoring
using the new software OpenSpace-Online®.* OpenSpace-Online® was developed
by our colleague Gabriela Ender and her team OpenSpace-Online GmBH in
Berlin, Germany and released in May 2002. They have captured the essence and
principles of an Open Space Technology meeting. September 28th and 29th are
the days in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA for the second annual conference
for the International Alliance for Mentoring. The meeting format is Open
Space Technology facilitated by our colleague Judi Richardson from Nova
Scotia Canada. Meals will be done in Open Space, facilitated by colleague
Eiwor Backelund from Sweden. Information about the conference is at
http://www.openspacetechnology.com/iam.html

The International Alliance for Mentoring is an intentional conscious Open
Space Organization in its early stages. If you are interested in our story
as a conscious Open Space Organization  to date please see
http://www.openspacetechnology.com/iam_story.html   This is one of the
current intentional conscious Open Space Organizations. I am learning
through this experience and experiences with other organizations, what is
required in terms of initial structure including "givens" to provide enough
form to enable the organization's development. With IAM, we experimented
with the least possible amount of structure---only one "given"--to see if
this was enough coupled with passion, for the development to progress.

We also ask you to submit to us any stories that you may have regarding
mentoring. We will add these stories to this year's "book of proceedings".
Some may be used in a book, and for these we will seek your permission to do
so. Our vision is the promotion of mentoring (as a verb) to influence the
future of humanity. I am interested in mentoring by an individual to an
individual, by an individual to an organization (for me, a lot of the
consulting work that OST facilitators are doing is "mentoring" rather than
consulting), and I am interested in stories of organizations mentoring other
organizations and/or organizations in a mentoring relationship with each
other.

Blessings to you and to all with whom you make Genuine Contact,
Birgitt

Birgitt  Williams of Dalar International Consultancy
http://www.dalarinternational.com

Mentoring for Organizational Effectiveness

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