The Pros and Cons of OST?

Sun Dec 4 11:18:49 PST 2005

Lisa and Allison

I am catching up and found your mails form our homestead OsonOSinOZ. 
Allison, good to hear you on the list, I am printing al your mails now and remeber our discussions. 
Lisa your are always there being at the heartbeat of OS. 
Jeanet, are you out there?

Let us reunion in Russia next year!

love and sunshine
Carla

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Van: OSLIST namens Allison & Jim Baensch
Verzonden: di 22-11-2005 7:19
Aan: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Onderwerp: Re: The Pros and Cons of OST?

Hi Lisa, 
Thank you for your response - your words are music to my eyes.
Yes, I also have many happy memories of our international days together before and during OSonOsinOZ.

The topic for the conference I described in my last email is:
"Practice Change for Sustainable Communities: Exploring Footprints, Pathways and Possibilities".
It takes place in 2006.

To my knowledge, there will be no other OST presentation at this conference, except the rotating 10 minute patch I've been asked to present.
Apart from that, there will be "normal" conference papers, poster presentations plus something originally called "Interactive sessions".
It seems these are now called "Stations of Practice" and may be less interactive than planned.
Conference delegates will circulate past a whole lot of "stations" where people will be describing a practice.
My "station" will be for OST.
Every 10 minutes I will prospectively have a new group passing by.

So that's why I am thinking of presenting a series of micro OST events at my "station".
I'm considering opening the space for a minute or two just with the principles and law...
then inviting 5 minutes of conversation on the topic of OST pros and cons, hoping this gets recorded by the speakers.
(Why devote a whole hour or more to a topic when you can "do" it in 5 or 10 minutes? Just joking.)
Then the next group will wander up and I'll go again, opening the space and collecting people's passionate responses to the topic.
Hopefully only people who want to respond to a practice will go to its particular station.

Since most or at least many of the people attending the conference know what OST is, by the sound of it, I might sit alone at the "station" in a merry reverie.
Or, if, indeed, passions are running hot about OST, I might need protective clothing against eggs and tomatoes.
I imagine not.
Perhaps it's better to have reservations about OST, if people have them, expressed rather than lurking.

I am hoping to be able to incorporate some ideas from the OSLIST into the pre-event paper.
Cutting and pasting sounds like an ideal way to go, thanks Lisa.
Cheers from our new temporary home (near family).
Love,
Allison.

On 22/11/2005, at 1:20 PM, Lisa Heft wrote:

	Dear Allison -

	Hello to my homestay host from OSonOSinOz !  I have fond memories of Carla Vliex arriving Day 1 to stay at your home (and making Dutch apple pie), then me arriving Day 2 (and making California-style salad), then Janet Pinto arriving Day 3 (and making Mumbai curry) and then us all going of to do OSonOSinOz together.  Great housemates, lucky me...

	How lovely to 'hear your voice' on this list, fabulous Allison.

	(Allison wrote about a short OS she will be doing which is also a presentation, and the conference organizer has asked for a paper written in advance on the pros and cons of OS and also recommends she stand and deliver a 10-minute message while participants rotate to her little area of the room, during the OS, I think this means.  That just cracks me up [for you English as a second language speakers, it makes me laugh a lot].)

	So how about this?  For a paper constructed pre-event, why not just post this topic on OSLIST (as you have) and cut-and-paste the answers into a co-created paper?  That would be creating a paper in the OS style, no?  

	And dispense with any 10 minute delivery of information.

	And if this is an issue that is important to the members of the group (not just this one person), rest assured it will arise in their topic posting / agenda co-creation.

	And/or: invite the conference organizer to post his/her topic of interest in the Open Space section of the event, and invite discussion about that in her/his session.  Passion and responsibility and all that. 

	I also think it's not ideal for someone to tell someone else (you) what to do in an Open Space (stand in your section and say a certain 10 minutes over and over again as others rotate). 

	Or am I misinterpreting this information? 

	Folks will get the principles in the short OS itself.  You can provide handouts (including a pro-con one) for those who want to learn more.  

	I wonder if this conference organizer is indeed the person with serious reservations, rather than the others s/he describes, eh? 

	I look forward to hearing others' ideas for Fabulous Allison...

	Cheers from my Berkeley home to yours, dear Allison,

	Lisa

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