FW: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 & Strategy Cafes for thousands more

Christine Whitney Sanchez milagro27 at cox.net
Fri Feb 3 17:31:08 PST 2006


Maria, heavens knows YOU aren't my grandmother's Girl Scout!  Thanks for
your love, support and kind words.
 
Christine
 
Christine Whitney Sanchez
KAIROS Alliance Inc.
2717 E. Mountain Sky Avenue
Phoenix, AZ  85048
480.759.0262
www.kairosalliance.com <http://www.kairosalliance.com/> 
 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of ORT MARIA
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 10:36 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 &
Strategy Cafes for thousands more


Dear Christine and Claudia (and fellow OSLIST members)
Hooray to our Girl Scout National Council for allowing you to share the
report with the OSLIST! It is a terrific model for building capacity in
nonprofit organizations on a national and local scale. Thanks for the nod at
the end of your message. I experienced "triple joy" as a member of the
design team - #1 From my vantage point as a seasoned facilitator, it was a
joy to experience being "facilitated" by you. You created an environment
that allowed our whole selves to show up - our emotional, intellectual and
spiritual intelligence, #2. As a volunteer board member of the Girl Scouts,
the joy of experiencing our design team (girls and national staff members)
releasing traditional approaches, shifting before my eyes, then embracing a
new way of exploring what our "customers" value, and #3, the joy of
experiencing thousands of our girls and volunteers participating in
conversations that have the potential to transform the organization to meet
the needs of today's girls and young women,  "We aren't your grandmother's
Girl Scouts" has been an emerging theme in recent years, but the "Open
Strategic Conversations" at the national convention unleased the potential
to fulfill the promise.  Experiencing OST on this scale reinvigorated my
desire to bring it into my practice and my life. Muchas Gracias mi amigas. 
 Warmest regards, Maria Ort

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Christine Whitney  <mailto:milagro27 at cox.net> Sanchez 
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU 
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:19 PM
Subject: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 & Strategy
Cafes for thousands more

Dear Friends,
 
Claudia Haack and I are excited to share our report to the Girl Scouts of
the USA on the "Open Strategic Conversations" capacity building project
which culminated in large events at the Girl Scout National Convention -
<http://i.b5z.net/i/u/540396/i/GSUSAfinalreport06.ppt>
http://i.b5z.net/i/u/540396/i/GSUSAfinalreport06.ppt.   Naturally, the Girl
Scouts have given us their permission to share this with you.   
 
On October 7, 2005, an Open Space on Governance was held for more than 1600
delegates and over the following 3 days Strategy Cafés attracted over 3000
participants.  These events were eagerly awaited by 100 volunteers - the
core of the capacity building effort who we had trained in Open Space and
World Cafe.  They had self-organized for planning and implementation before,
during and after the convention to become the logistics backbone for these
events.  The "Smooth Operators" as they called themselves, captured the
spirit and imagination of what lies in the future for Girl Scouting and have
gone on to facilitate many Open Space events and World Cafe conversations in
their local Girl Scout councils and their communities at large.  To see the
proceedings, check out www.girlscouts.org/convention/conversationsummary.a
<http://www.girlscouts.org/convention/conversationsummary.asp> sp   
 
Many of you held the space with us for these events - for that we are deeply
grateful.  And a special thanks to Maria Ort (who has recently joined the
OSlist) for bringing your skill and grace to the Design Team.  
 
Namaste, 
 

Christine & Claudia  
 
Christine Whitney Sanchez
480.759.0262

2717 E. Mountain Sky Avenue

Phoenix, AZ  85048-8990

Claudia Haack
608.209.6768

606 Orchard Drive
Madison, WI  53711


KAIROS Alliance Inc.
www.kairosalliance.com <blocked::http://www.kairosalliance.com>  
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