OSONOS Hither and Yon (a little on the long side)

Wed Jan 25 01:55:07 PST 2006

"Gosh, now I hope I'm not the only OSonOS challenged among us... lol"

Glory- i guess we are all challenged in one way or other.

I try to use these new tools such as " affirmation ". I say " yes!!!, 
possible"
believing that life will do whatever it can do.

At the end, "Whatever will happen will be the only thing that can "...i ask 
for 100%
but if life can give me 30%...it's ok as well.

cheers,
funda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glory Ressler" <on.the.edge at sympatico.ca>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: OSONOS Hither and Yon (a little on the long side)

> As someone who's schedule and/or financial situation has variously 
> prevented my attending an OSonOS event in person -
> I LOVE the idea of holding multiple OSonOS's in various global locales and 
> having all linked electronically
> OR  the capacity to hold an OSonOS whenever, wherever - so long as reports 
> are shared, etc...
>
> If possible, please keep the OSonOS space 'open enough' so that there are 
> multiple entry points and plenty of room to manoeuvre once inside - for 
> the challenged members such as myself...
>
> Gosh, now I hope I'm not the only OSonOS challenged among us... lol
>
> Glory :-)
> p.s. at 1st glance, I thought Ho's subject line read OSONOS Hitler 
> Youth... I'm in bi-focal denial and resistance mode currently - 
> lol.Yikes - what a challenge keeping that space open would be! ;-)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net>
> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:29 PM
> Subject: OSONOS Hither and Yon (a little on the long side)
>
>
> Several days ago I sent a short note to some folks everybody will 
> recognize
> as "regulars" on the LIST - all of which means they will need no
> introduction. Since sending that note, an interesting conversation has 
> been
> evolving and it seemed to me that others might wish to join in. And so I
> have engaged in a little cutting and pasting - what follows is the major
> pieces in order of their appearance. Which of course, is the reverse of 
> the
> way things usually show up here. But reverse perversity being my nature -
> what else would you expect. And it is all about OSONOS(s).
> **************************************************************************
>
> Maybe I am getting cabin fever - been raining a lot, but I have been
> thinking that it is about time to do an OSONOS in North America. The over
> the water stuff is great, but I am a little worried that we have neglected
> the homefolks. Or something. Seems like folks were pretty well cued up for
> OSONOS/ International (Moscow, Israel, Istanbul ???) and I certainly don't
> want to compete with all of that. Myself, I won't make Moscow (Maine and
> all), and who knows about the rest - but something closer to home would 
> work
> well, I thought. I even went so far as to check out a conference center
> right near Beautiful Camden, Maine. Nice place for 50-75 people and if we
> were to do this in the middle/end of September (say 2007) we could have 
> the
> whole thing for $500 a day with coffee and lunch for an additional $18 per
> person - or (for 2 days) about $52 total fee. There are plenty of nearby
> motels/B&Bs/hotels in virtually every price range - and at that time of
> year, deals can be made. What do you think?
>
> Harrison
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Count me in.  Anything to help Harrison cure a case of cabin fever - 
> because
> I don't like any of the rest of you at all!
>
> (H- do you need folks to front any cash?  I can help some.)
>
> xxoo
>
> Ralph
>
> -- 
> Ralph Copleman
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> thanks, harrison... and, you know, this is totally in line with what we
> instigated last year in chicago and got repeated in texas this year, under
> the usa banner... because i was thinking that the international, and even
> canadian osi, communities had left the usa crowd a bit behind.  also, of
> course, that was when our elections were coming up and we thought we might
> just do some good in the run-up to that.  and that's just some of why i'd 
> be
> all for this north american thing.
>
> i don't know where i am in sept 2006, much less 2007, but there's just got
> to be less commotion next year than this year, so chances are good i could
> swing it.  are you saying 2007 would be in camden as a NAmer thing or 
> *the*
> international thing coming home to camden?  i still keep wondering about 
> the
> idea i floated in australia, to have a couple of these things 
> simultaneously
> and report all the notes into the same online place.  seems like a great 
> way
> to gather more local friends and pay less airfare expense.  maybe someday.
> and camden in the meantime.
>
> M (herman)
>
> ---------------------------------------
>
> OSONOS in Maine sounds great.  There would be lots of interest from 
> Atlantic
> Canada to Ontario, I'd bet.  What would be the relationship to the OSI USA
> OSONOS events that have been going on?
>
> Larry
>
>
> Larry Peterson
>
> -------------------------------------------
> larry et al...
>
> i'm not sure that the usa osonos events ever really were osi usa events,
> larry.  the first invitation was written by doug germann and i, though i'm
> not sure if doug was yet a board member when that happened.  since then 
> he's
> joined and i've left the board, with a long period of overlap, but i'm not
> sure that board affiliation is enough to make it an osi event.  maybe
> somebody else remembers otherwise, and i could certainly be wrong in my 
> own
> memory.
>
> the events themselves, all two of them, were motivated by the same sense
> harrison mentions, wondering if the homefront here hasn't been neglected.
> at the time, we made it a usa event rather than north american because we
> had elections coming up down here and we thought that osi canada was 
> already
> doing much more up that way.  so we thought we had some unique needs and
> less attention being brought to them.
>
> i don't know if there is yet a third usa event planned for 2006.  no 
> matter,
> i'm sure it can easily slide right into the larger NA frame.
>
> Michael (herman)
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> This sounds fun...but we should think about the question it begs about the
> whole OSonOS franchise.  If we start making this a North American meeting,
> it would seem to me that either OSonOS would simply stay outside North
> America (and be smaller) or that we may end up meeting in NA every year 
> and
> once in a while that meeting also becomes OSonOS.  Not a big discussion or
> anyhting, just imagining what might happen
>
> Anyway, Maine sounds like a wonderful idea, and I'll put it near the top 
> of
> my "what might be possible this year" list.
>
> Cheers all,
>
> Chris (Corrigan)
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> thinking about the 'franchise' as chris puts it, i was thinking back in
> marysville that it would be cool to have osonos happen simultaneously in
> several locations, with all the notes posted to one place online.
>
> now that might or might not ever happen, but certainly it could be that
> 'osonos' is a moveable but not annual feast, happening many places each
> year.  in order to be an 'osonos' gathering it would only have to be
> announced as such and then we'd want to see the proceedings posted 
> somewhere
> online, as well, so we could all peek in on the whole of it.  as long as 
> we
> can link all the invitations and proceedings together, which is easy, it 
> is
> arguably one grand ongoing event.
>
> Michael
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Michael Sounds good to me. OSONOS anywhere, anytime, anybody wants it - 
> just
> raise your hand and share the fun. And for sure online linkage must be 
> part
> of the package. In the past, I have done multi-site, simultaneous OS's and
> it works like gang busters. No reason the whole OS community can't do the
> same thing, and there might be some additional "pluses." For one thing it
> could take away something of the "competitive edge" that occasionally
> appears around THE ANNUAL OSONOS. It would also remove an aspect of the
> Annual "do" which I personally find sometimes difficult and 
> uncomfortable -
> namely the decision as the where next to go. Last year in Halifax we spent
> some time on this one. On balance I would guess that it was time well 
> spent
> in that we learned a lot about the capacity of that particular body of 
> folks
> to make an informed and difficult decision. However, the thought that the
> assembled crew was making a decision for the "community as a whole" was a
> stretch I thought. We were but a tiny part of that community, and I would
> bet that less than 50% of those present in Halifax will show up in 
> Moscow -
> and of course they will be replaced by an equal or larger number of the
> "right" people who care to come. In a way we have inadvertently converted
> the annual OSONOS into a zero sum game with winners and losers dividing up 
> a
> finite pie. But the pie (spaceniks around the world) seems to be pretty 
> much
> infinite.  So why go through the agony (if it was that) if you don't have
> to? Just OSONOS anywhere, anytime you care to - and those who care will
> come. Could take us to a whole new (win/win) level! And I just made OSONOS
> into a verb!
>
> OSONOS declined: --
>
> OSONOS
> OSONUS
> OSONUU
> OSONME
> OSON. . .
>
> And by the way - seems to me this discussion has become pretty juicy. 
> Should
> it be moved over to OSLIST?
>
> Harrison
>
>
> ***************************************************************************
>
> There you have it folks - perhaps a little more than you wanted, but does 
> it
> shake any trees, ring any bells?
>
> ho
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Elena -- The person you need to talk to is Glory Ressler
<on.the.edge at sympatico.ca> 
 She did the work.

Harrison

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-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Elena A.
Marchuk
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:18 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Keepin' Busy

Harrison, I'm also interested in the history of leadership school for 
non-profit sector
can you include me on the list of participants to whom you will tell it, 
please
best wishes
elena marchuk
from the -40C Novosibirsk, Russia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glory Ressler" <on.the.edge at sympatico.ca>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: Keepin' Busy

> Hi Eric:
> Not sure what to say... first ever national school on leadership for 
> non-profit sector.
> Held in BC, Alberta, Northwest Territories. Ontario, Quebec and Nova 
> Scotia
> Arising out of the Voluntary Sector Initiative's National Learning 
> Initiative... addressing identified needs and challenges to leadership in 
> the sector...
>
> I can share more but, perhaps, it's best done by individual requests 
> rather than whole listserv communications?
> For example, I could send some docs with more description and/or an 
> article I wrote which was published in the National Storytelling Network's

> Storytelling in Organizations electronic newsletter...
>
> Let me know what you want / need and I'll do my best to provide it!
>
> Glory :-)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Lilius" <elilius at halhinet.on.ca>
> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Keepin' Busy
>
>
>> Hi Glory,
>> Could you write more about this leadership school for the non profit 
>> sector?
>> Eric
>>
>> Glory Ressler wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Doug!
>>> Your appreciation (keep it comin' bro - lol) stimulated me into 
>>> remembering another meaningful story about OS/OST...
>>>
>>> In my work developing and delivering a pan-Canadian (schools held across

>>> the country) leadership school for the non-profit sector, Open Space 
>>> Technology was extensively used in conjunction with story circles, which

>>> we called 'Great Conversations'.
>>>
>>> One result was that leaders participating from the Canadian far north 
>>> began to see how their personal and organizational visions connected to 
>>> each other and to the larger community. As a result, they are now 
>>> pursuing a territorial coalition/network across non-profit sub-sectors 
>>> with a focus on "building healthy communities." This was determined to 
>>> be the focus that would potentially include the largest group of 
>>> non-profits organizations possible.
>>>
>>> This group also had a breakthrough concerning challenges around 
>>> collaborating with the aboriginal peoples of the area (which has been 
>>> historically unsuccessful - think silos). They came to realize that they

>>> needed to listen more to the aboriginal stories before offering their 
>>> own - and to learn from their experience rather than assume that had 
>>> something to teach.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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