Field report from the online open space world

Tue Dec 9 12:04:41 PST 2003

Gabriela -- thank you for sharing your immense success -- what a trailblazer
you are!  Michelle Cooper and I assisted the Registered Nurses Association
of Ontario in using Open Space-Online for a very deep discussion on Post
SARS -- the New Normal.  Participants from around the world were delighted
in the process.  Yesterday I participated with a group using Open
Space-Online once again; and all were delighted to be able to connect in
very authentic and deep ways!

You Go Girl!!! <grin>

Judi

Judith Richardson, M.A.
www.ponoconsultants.com
www.emergentfeminine.com
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
(902) 434-6695
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  From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]On Behalf Of Gabriela
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  Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 6:42 AM
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  Subject: Field report from the online open space world

  Dear colleagues, dear friends of Open Space,

  as many of you know its my mission to enable "Open Space Real-time
Bridges" between the f2f world and the internet world and between different
methods (f2f and online), and to spread the word of Open Space around the
world. A few days ago one of our organizers send me a report regarding his
first OpenSpace-Online® experience. Its one of my dreams and hopes, that our
method will find beside other fields the way more and more into education
systems. The youth is our future, and I find it so important, that young
people have access to new ways of open, interdicsiplinary, intercultural,
team-oriented and solution-oriented communcation. We had already projects,
where partnerschools worked together with our method internationally. This
organizer started with our conference software a global working community in
the field: education / sustainability / participation / communication /
e-learning.

  For those of you, who are interested in the report I have copied below his
story into this eMail.

  Best regards from Berlin!
  Gabriela

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  Field report from an OpenSpace-Online Organizer:

  Conference title:
  International and interdisciplinary OpenSpace-Online® networking
conference "Global Learning & Shaping the Future"

  As project manager of Positive Nett-Works Association Hannover - Berlin, I
am preparing a worldwide network for the cocreation and co-edition of a
multilingual and multidisciplinary Global Learning Online Environment for
the worldwide application in schools. I chose Global Education Week (17-23
Nov 2003), organized by the European Council in 38 countries, as
international opportunity for making our activities known, and inviting
networkers, NGOs, teachers, learners and working in associated fields in the
frame of an online conference. My aim as conference organizer was getting to
know interesting projects , detect content and strategic commons, in order
to initiate international networking activities with our project, but also
between the other participants.

  My invitation to an OpenSpace-Online® Realtime-Conference (18-Nov-2003)
attracted extraordinary attention and broad distribution. The majority of
the participants learned about the event from newsletters and mailing lists,
and did not know each other before the meeting. In the sense of Open Space
philosophy, dedicated individuals with a common interest were meeting with
open minds, but also expectation in some form of concrete effects.

  My conclusion as organizer:
  The event has brought about fantastic conceptual and networking
cooperation progress. Besides the participants, this is truly due to the
OpenSpace-Online® conference format: It provided full freedom to the
participants for bringing in their personal themes, and to express their
personal experiences, interests and focal activities. Even when thoughts
were not followed in the dialogue thread, the extensive documentation
reflects all input, interests, contacts, and ideas for future cooperation. -
a great work resource, reflected in this final comment by a participant,
experienced in UN circles for 20 years, and head of an NGO with consultative
status to the UN: "When are we having the next discussion, and can we
include the UN?"

  Concerning the conference format, participants and myself appreciated
foremost:

    a.. the simple software installation and conference know-how
    b.. the fast technical support all around the clock
    c.. the high dialogue velocity, which produced high information content.
    d.. the surprisingly personal atmosphere; the participants would have
enjoyed to discuss for more than 3 hours.
    e.. The possibility of giving informal commentary, and individual
address of participants, without disturbing the overall dialogue thread.
    f.. The extensive documentation, offering all dialogue threads, short
summaries of sessions, all adresses and email contacts, further, as total
document, a great wealth of information about the thematic fields,
knowledge, worlds, backgrounds and interests of the participants. This is a
potential for post conference cooperation and exchange unparalleled in
Face2Face conferences.
  Eric Schneider, December 2003

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  OpenSpace-Online GmbH - The Power of People!
  Resselsteig 30, 12209 Berlin, Germany
  eMail: contact at OpenSpace-Online.com
  website: http://www.OpenSpace-Online.com
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  International Change Facilitator Conference, 11-14 May 2004, in Germany

http://www.openspace-online.com/oso_en/modul/konferenz/data/offline/anmeldun
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