6th Scandinavian Open Space on Open Space
Gerard Muller
gm at openspace.dk
Mon May 15 06:47:43 PDT 2006
Dear friends and collegues,
There is a clear trend here in Svenmark to reduce the number of
government units:
- fewer municipalities;
- merging provinces into regions, and so on.
This means an enormous number of mergers: on the administrative level,
but also all institutions have
to merge: universities, schools, the police force, hospitals,
libraries, and so on and so forth.
In all likelyhood, it also means a very large number of people who will
face a period with much uncertainty,
and quality of public service will probably drop as well, at least for
a period. Or will we help opening space ?
How do we create a new organisation with the advantages of a larger one
...........
and without its disadvantages ?
How do we cooperate to create the best library system (police force,
..... , ......) in the country ?
and so on
Plenty of good questions and opportunities for opening space.
How can we leverage our individual networks to open more space in this
area ?
An interesting topic to discuss during the 6th Scandinavian OSonOS ?
It all depends on you .......
Come and join us, many greetings from Svenmark,
Gerard Muller Thomas Herrmann
OSI Denmark OSI Sweden
On May 11, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Chris Weaver wrote:
> Gerard,
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> Thank you for the list of polarities!
> A delightful reminder that the longer I can stay at the heart of a
> paradox,
> the closer I am to the heart of life.
>
> Enjoying the Scandinavian waves from afar,
> Chris
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> Subject: Re: 6th Scandinavian Open Space on Open Space
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> Dear friends and collegues,
>
> Making the invitation for the 6th Scandinavian OSonOS I had a look at
> the first.
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> Some things we put in there I thought might be interesting to see.
> Here they come, written as polarities for inrpiration:
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> Proper convergence means a two day session .........
> Convergence always happens
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> Open Space is one of our important tools
> Open Space is not a tool !
>
> Most clients are not ready for Open Space
> Are we ready for all clients ?
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> Open Space provides a window of opportunity...........
> which the client can close..
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> Open Space adds enormous value........
> In what currency ?
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> Potential customers are always inspired when they hear about OS
> Most leaders hesitate before using OS
>
> OS always works
> OS works under certain conditions.
>
>
> They still seem relevant, don't they ? So who knows one or more will
> figure on the agenda wall.
> Or anything else of course you might think of.............
>
> Come and join us in Svenmark !
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> Gerard Muller Thomas Herrmann
> OSI Denmark OSI Sweden
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> On Apr 28, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Gerard Muller wrote:
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>> 6th Scandinavian OSonOS coming June !!
>>
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>> Dear friends and collegues,
>>
>> The Open Space Institutes of Denmark and Sweden invite all OS
>> facilitators in the Nordic countries (and all others who would happend
>> to be around and feel like coming) to join us at the 6th Scandinavian
>> Open Space on Open Space taking place on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th
>> of June in Denmark.
>>
>> It will provide a great opportunity for us all to exchange experiences
>> with and explore aspects of Open Space.
>>
>> The event will take place in Tune (20 minutes from Copenhagen) in a
>> wonderful conference centre which we’ve managed to get at a reasonable
>> price, as a result of which the cost per participant for two days
>> including room, stay, all meals and all facilities we need is only
>> Dkr. 1400 inclusive of VAT (1750 inclusive). In euro’s that is 188 and
>> 235 respectively.
>>
>> If you are interested and have not received an E-mail yet directly,
>> please contact Gerard at gm at openspace.dk or Thomas at
>> thomas at openspaceconsulting.com for a more detailed invitation.
>>
>> Greetings from Gerard (OSI Denmark) and Thomas (OSI Sweden)
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>From Mon May 15 09:56:33 2006
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Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 09:56:33 -0400
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From: Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net>
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What we do and what we think about what we do are (or at least should be) in
constant conversation. It is in this dialogue that our capacity for
effective action and our consciousness of the meaning of our actions are
both enhanced. It is all too easy to get hung up on one side of the
conversation or the other - but clearly both are essential, and when theory
and practice are separated, or one takes priority over the other, the loss
on all sides is substantial. To me one of the enduring strengths of this
electronic community is that the dialogue has been maintained, some times in
a most fractious way, but maintained none the less.
Writing a full history of this ongoing dialogue is a subject requiring more
than a brief note - but how about a dissertation?? -- You PhD students out
there??? We began with a funny way of holding meetings which was lots of
fun, very effective, and made no sense at all, at least no sense in terms of
the way such things are normally understood. This lack of sense led, for
example, to an exploration of the primal mechanisms of human community, the
work of the shaman - which doubtless sent some of our more traditional
organizational types around the bend, or at least out of The Open Space
Community. The word was out - something is weird, these folks are strange.
They even talk about Spirit. Voodoo can't be far behind. But the questions
were posed, and I think we have learned a lot about the role that we play in
opening and holding space. Practice improved.
Somewhere along the line we entertained thoughts of creating The Open Space
Organization. I even wrote a book about it with the odd title, "The
Millennium Organization." The thought was a simple one, if Open Space felt
so good, and worked so well, why not do it 365 day a year? Why Not??
But then a funny thought happened on the way to the future. All about
self-organizing systems, which seemed to have lot to say about what
transpired in every Open Space. Seen as a self-organizing system, the Open
Space event (experience) suddenly made a lot more sense, at least to some of
us. But there was an unintended consequence, a spanner in the works so to
speak, at least in terms of our plans for The Open Space Organization,
especially if that was something we were going to create. Should it turn out
that self-organization not only underlies the function of Open Space, but
also the entire cosmos, as some would suggest - then the notion of creating
an Open Space Organization is rather a waste of time. All organizations, by
definition, are already Open Space Organizations (self-organizing), it is
just that some don't do it very well.
Interesting new starting point. Forget about introducing Open Space - it is
already there. The job now becomes helping people to understand more fully
what they already are. A Buddhist thought might be helpful here - something
about finding our Original Face!
And is all of this "right" and "true"? Who knows, but collectively we have
certainly traveled many miles. And I think we are just getting to the good
parts, and not a moment too soon. I don't know how you personally read the
state of the planet, or more especially the state of the planet's
passengers, but it seems to me that we are at a most interesting moment.
Anybody who ever thought they were In Charge, should by now be disabused of
that spurious notion. And all those who were hopeful that at least
"somebody" was in charge (but certainly not me!) may just be getting the
picture that The Big Man will somehow save us with the ultimate design just
won't make it. Doubtless some folks will see the present moment as an
occasion for a monstrous state of depression. I can understand that,
particularly if we are limited to doing what we have always done and
thinking as we have always thought. But there are some wonderful
alternatives, and I think we may be finding a few of them here in our
conversations.
Harrison
Harrison Owen
7808 River Falls Drive
Potomac, Maryland 20854
Phone 301-365-2093
Skype hhowen
Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com/>
Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org
Personal website www.ho-image.com
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>From Mon May 15 11:36:04 2006
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Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 11:36:04 -0700
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From: Lisa Heft <lisaheft at openingspace.net>
Subject: Re: Found Poem -- May 10-14, 2006 -- The Mystery of Open Space
X-To: Raffi Aftandelian <raffi at bk.ru>
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Hi, all -
Raffi wrote:
So, since you are both Access Queen and Poet Laureate, does that make you an
Access Poet?
I like being an Access Poet. Or a Poetess Queeriate... Or a Quotess
Laureen. Or an
Olt Seascape Queen Creature
(an anagram, and for those of you for whom English is not a first language,
no, it does not make complete sense but the words look kind of nice
together, especially if you decide that 'olt' means 'old')
Lisa
___________________________
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O p e n i n g S p a c e
lisaheft at openingspace.net
www.openingspace.net
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.25in'><i><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic'>So, since
you are both Access Queen and Poet Laureate, does that make you an Access Poet?</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I like being an Access Poet. Or a Poetess Queeriate... Or a
Quotess Laureen… Or an </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Olt Seascape Queen Creature</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>(an anagram, and for those of you for whom English is not a first
language, no, it does not make complete sense but the words look kind of nice
together, especially if you decide that ‘olt’ means ‘old’)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Lisa</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>___________________________</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>L i s a H e f t</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Consultant, Facilitator, Educator</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>O p e n i n g S p a c e</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>lisaheft at openingspace.net</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>www.openingspace.net </span></font></p>
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