OSonSO Proceedings - Day 2, Part 1

[Viv McWaters]

Thanks again for the wonderful report on Day 2 - and in return, a few 
reflections.

I'm finding the reports a great way to 'experience' OSonOS from afar 
and am grateful to the wonderful folks who make this possible - I don't 
think it would be quite the same if they arrived after the event. It 
helps, for me, to picture the people I know, and imagine those I don't, 
in a place I've never seen...

I now recognise how important it is to list the names of those present 
in a discussion.

I can clearly see Lisa's session on questioning and space invaders - I 
can see Raffi and Peggy earnestly discussing training in Moscow (with 
Raffi writing everything down!) - I can see Lisa's other session on 
drawing, picturing people on the floor, drawing tentatively at first, 
staring into space (or 'the space') for inspiration, I would have loved 
to hear about the large open space events, and I can 'see' all the 
other conversations. Oh, it helps too to get an email from Brian with 
some of the other 'unofficial' bits that help build a rich picture for 
me.

And a session on improv! Oooohhh!!! Last year I went to an  improv in 
business conference that included a day of open space - that's where I 
realised that OST is improv and I've been playing with using improv 
games to explain the Principles and Law of Two Feet. BTW, this year's 
improv conference in NY will include three days of OS. My favourite 
book at the moment is called 'Improv Wisdom: don't prepare, just show 
up' by Patricia Ryan Madson. The improv maxims are a great guide for OS 
too: say yes, don't prepare, just show up, start anywhere, be average, 
pay attention, wake up to the gifts, act now, take care of each other 
and enjoy the ride

I am enjoying the ride - hope you are too.

Cheers

Viv

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Viv McWaters
Beyond the Edge Pty Ltd
PO Box 665 Torquay 3228
Australia
(03) 5261 9498
0417 135 406

"Thus the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to 
think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees. "
Schopenhauer

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