Collection of worldwide OS stories

[Chris Corrigan]

Hi Holger:

I'm certainly happy for you to use any stories of mine you come across in 
the archives.

With respect to Schamer's work, my conclusions on that are that his model is 
another great map that helps us see how things like OST really work. I love 
Presence, but find it strange that they haven't stumbled on OST more 
explicitly.

At any rate, I'll be curious to see what your digging around turns up. If 
you use the wiki as Michael suggests, you can invite people to wade around 
in there from time to time and help you out.

Cheers,

Chris

On 5/9/05, Change Management Toolbook <holger at change-management-toolbook.com> 
wrote:
> 
> Harrison,
> 
> thanks for the feedback. I agree and disagree (like in most cases). I
> agree that there was a time when people who worked in OD were control
> freaks, and some of them still might be. However, time has passed since
> and most people I meet or read have a totally different perception of
> Change Management, including myself. Yes, the term "Change Management" is
> somehow awkward, as if change could be managed. But there are some reasons
> to stick to the term, particularly because many people (who are not
> consultants or facilitators, but potential clients) have picked it up just
> recently. Over here in Europe there is no doubt that many consultants and
> facilitators have changed their perception on process work; you might know
> better for the US.
> 
> The principles of self-organizing systems are now background for most
> contemporary thinkers and doers in Change Management. No wonder that
> Appreciate Inquiry and Whole System Change came up at the same time. POP
> (Process Oriented Psychology) of Arnold Mindell shares the principles. And
> if you are still not convinced, you should read the new book of Peter
> Senge and Otto Sharmer: Presencing. I believe the proposed U-Cycle of Otto
> is even more radical than OST (I didn't believe this was possible only
> three months ago!), in the way to put the principle of "letting go -
> letting come" into the centre of Change Management.
> 
> So, Open Space fits very well into the contemporary concepts. What I see
> however, that more and more people - like myself - understand OST as a
> phantastic tool, which has its place in a change process, and sometimes
> the tool is blunt. As Maslov said: if the only tool you have is a hammer,
> you tend to see every problem as a nail.
> 
> Having said that I believe there is much more room for the application of
> OST. But for this it is necessary that more facilitators, consultants and
> potential clients know it and loose their fear to apply it. For people who
> have not heard of it, the threat imposed to them by the idea of OST is
> often unbearable - and many just cannot believe that it would work in
> their organization.
> 
> That is the start of my project. I want to make a mouthwatering document
> in which people can read about what has been achieved by applying OST but
> at the same time see the reality. I want to give them something they
> can "touch", not too far away from their reality. The 10 stories which I
> found so far in the OSList archives are just right. I have contacted 10
> authors (did you get my message? I would like to include the
> Israeli/Palestinian OST that you facilitated in Rome ). Peggy and Raffi
> have already given their agreement.
> 
> Warm regards,
> Holger
> The Change Management Toolbook
> 
> International Open Space Facilitators Training
> Bratislava, Slovakia
> September 4-7, 2005
> http://www.change-management-toolbook.com/about/training_2005_ostf.html
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