New member

Christine Whitney Sanchez milagro27 at cox.net
Tue Dec 16 13:50:40 PST 2003


Welcome Genevieve and Dominique!

Dominique, your interest in authentic participative democracy paired with
your extensive background understanding of molecular/cellular biology is
very exciting to me.  Genevieve, I am so happy to be playing in another
enriched field with you!

I appreciate the convergence of cognate understandings among those who value
the sacred space between the apparent objects of our attention.  I am
grateful to each person on this list who contributes when passion is aroused
and who takes responsible action in their sphere of influence to bring
attention to the space that connects us all.

Peace,

Christine

Christine Whitney Sanchez
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Invoking the wisdom and capacity of the human spirit!

  -----Original Message-----
  From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]On Behalf Of Genevieve
Treille
  Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 7:56 AM
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
  Subject: RE : New member


  Hello to all,



  I’m also  :

  a new member here

  French

  In the process of creating an Institute !



  I haven’t read the archives yet and Dominique’s mail was the first one I
received. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I have been looking for French people
aware of Open Space (as well as other organisational change theories and
practices) to see what has been / could be done in France.



  My name is Geneviève Treille, I live near Paris. My life and career are
highly influenced by expatriation, communication and teaching : I started as
an ESL and FSL teacher (English and French as second languages), was a
trainer, a trainer instructor and creator and director of the French
Communication Skills Development Department of an international NGO.   I
spend 15 years in North America, Europe and Middle East at different
periods of my youth and adult life and continue to travel frequently to
various countries for work, research or pleasure.  After a few  years in the
corporate world in the HR field, I co-created Chrysalide International which
is specialised in setting up training  modules, coaching multicultural teams
in periods of transition and  change, coaching expatriates and their
families, linguistic coaching  and life coaching. I speak English and French
and am starting to learn Chinese. I used to have some notions of  Spanish,
German and Arabic but these languages need a serious brushing up. After
using Open Space, Appreciative Inquiry and the Chaordic Process in our work,
my partner and myself want to focus mostly on Change, personal, collective
(organizational) and social.



  I am happy to be here, at the right place at the right moment as it seems.



  Best regards,



  Genevieve Treille

  Chrysalide International,  The human potential development company

  http://www.cvreferral.com/3/101989.html

  France

  Tel / fax #  +33 (0)1 30 60 07 84

  g.treille at wanadoo.fr







  -----Message d'origine-----
  De : OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] De la part de Harrison
Owen
  Envoyé : mardi 16 décembre 2003 14:05
  À : OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
  Objet : Re: New member



  Dominique wrote:



  “. I now would like to share this approach with others in France and
starting a French Open Space Institute (web site in preparation for sometime
next year). Of course, I have plenty of questions around OST, but I’ll wait:
This post is already long enough, you guys are busy, and I need to read more
of the documentation to make sure I am not asking questions that have
already been answered 20 times. “



  Don’t wait too long. Never met a question I didn’t like, even an old one.
Actually, most particularly The Old Ones. They give everybody a chance to
revisit old familiar places – and usually discover that what we took to be
“established wisdom” was actually just the tip of an iceberg. Also good luck
with OSI/France. As you can see already from this LIST, folks will be more
than helpful. And on the journey, you might want to make contact with
Christopher Schoch. Mdlschoch at aol.com Christopher lives in Paris and was
responsible for Executive Development (or something like that) for Accor
Hotels. We did an Open Space together around the time of massive merger for
that corporation. You can read the story, if you want, in Tales from Open
Space. http://openspaceworld.com/tales.htm



  Good Luck!



  Harrison





  -----Original Message-----
  From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
Dominique Proudhon
  Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 2:58 AM
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
  Subject: New member



  Good day all,



  I joined the OSlist a few days ago and have been lurking for a while. I am
very impressed with the quality of the exchanges on this list and find
myself drawn to participate. Several threads called my attention; in
particular the one questioning the list itself (what are we doing? Aren’t we
loosing our spirit, Should we split?) –I find these conversations very
healthy. And also the one about Civil Conversation, which resonates with an
old questioning of mine around ways to implement real participative
democracy – I am dreaming of initiating some real debate around the question
“what world do we chose to build for tomorrow?”. I believe we humans are
caught up in our own contradictions: after centuries of evolving faster and
faster technically, and having more transformative power than ever, we are
now facing the essential question of  Meaning: How do we participate in the
world and to what end? What is our responsibility in regard to what is
happening in our world? Especially all the “not so nice” little things like
irreversible destruction of earth resources, loss of entire species, wars
and weapon builders, starving, and all that noisy ongoing disconnected
stupidity on our tv and radio shows that take people away from being
  I
believe that for the first time, we, at least in “developed” countries, have
won the freedom to look beyond simply working for survival, to ask
ourselves: how do I want to also make this place a little better?



  Anyway. I’ll stop here for today. My goal was actually to introduce
myself:
  I am French and leave in Grenoble. After a PhD in molecular/cellular
biology and 6 years of research. I decided to do something else with my life
and moved to human resources development. I actually did that career move in
the US: I lived 10 years in North Carolina. I wanted to understand why
people so often get into conflicts because of “films” they make in their
heads that have little to do with reality. I wanted to find ways to work on
re-establishing lost connections, especially in the workplace, where they
could serve common projects and goals. I trained with Will Schutz,
originator of the Human Element, became a mediator, trained in various
psychometric tools and got to work with various groups. Two years ago, just
before I came back to France, I bought a book that called my attention: Open
Space Technology, a user’s guide. I read it in the plane. It was one of
those “ha ha”: I found something I was looking for. A piece of extreme
simplicity that called on very ecological principles to set the stage for
real connection between people and for meaning to happen. On top of that,
this approach was shared openly without any bind, just as a gift to
humanity, which seduced me even more...  I decided to try it as soon as I
would get the opportunity, here, in France. Starting a new business as a
group facilitator/team consultant has not been easy thing. Things are slow
going and I often get discouraged. But I finally got the opportunity to run
two different open space events for two different clients in the last year
(30 people and 36 people). Both very energizing experiences and both around
the question “How could we improve the way we function as a team?”: I loved
the first moments of surprise in people’s eyes, and then the sudden rush to
bring up issues as they understood that the event was theirs. Several
persons approached me at the end telling me how much this work had moved
them from a negative reactive position to an engaged position and telling me
about a number of places they would see such work as useful. Thanks to
Harrison, they got a gift they deserved. Felt quite good to serve in such a
meaningful way. I’ll continue. I now would like to share this approach with
others in France and starting a French Open Space Institute (web site in
preparation for sometime next year). Of course, I have plenty of questions
around OST, but I’ll wait: This post is already long enough, you guys are
busy, and I need to read more of the documentation to make sure I am not
asking questions that have already been answered 20 times.



  All the best to each of you,

  Dominique



  Note: I am a guy, for those who would wonder.



  Dominique Proudhon

  Group Facilitation
  Problem solving
  Conflict resolution

  Dampierre
  38470 Notre Dame de l'Osier

  (33) 4 76 36 71 34

  (33) 6 78 91 48 77



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