Immigration OST

[Harrison Owen]

This is part and parcel of an ancient and honorable tradition. Starting with
the first several OT Symposium (20 years ago) I always invited a small
select group to join me as Co-Conspirators. Their responsibilities were
simple, and important. 1) They would come. 2) They would bring friends. 3)
They would add Spirit. Always worked.

 

Harrison

 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris
Corrigan
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:04 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Immigration OST

 

I want to strongly echo Doug and Joelle's comment here.  Whether I am
working in an organizational or community setting, I have wholeheartedly
adopted this practice.  I call it "Inivitation Support" and it makes a huge
difference to ensuring that the invitation is right, that there is
investment in the process and it kick starts the whole "passion and
responsibility" thing. 

In fact, I think I first started thinking really seriously about this when I
was talking to Doug Germann about another OST he did in his community on
giving and making good.  If I'm not mistaken Doug, you took a number of
people out for coffee or lunch and talked about what the event could be, and
whether they would come if they were invited.  Since then I have been a part
of some tremendous examples of invitation support, which I credit with
dynamic and powerful OST events whose legacies have lingered long after the
meeting. 

Doug...thanks for sharing this story.

Chris

On 5/15/06, Joelle Lyons Everett <JLEShelton at aol.com > wrote:


In a message dated 5/15/06 7:46:04 PM, 76066.515 at compuserve.com writes:





C. Another learning is this: It takes I think more than a group of 4 or 5 
inviters to make instant Open Space happen in larger scales. One person was
active, inviting groups, inviting individuals. Another was less active, but
still invited many. A third was in the midst of personal difficulties and
probably invited only a few. And the last, I, invited several people, but
did not have many contacts with people who were really invested in this
issue. It is possible that these conversations produced our inviters for
larger conversations to follow.


Doug--

In my experience, having more inviters is a good thing, and it helps if the
inviters are from different segments of the community (different community
systems such as government, education, business, social services; different
neighborhoods; different socioeconomic levels; different interest groups). 

In planning a community forum in Shelton many years ago, one of the smartest
things we did was to send letters to community organizations, inviting them
to send a representative to a planning meeting.  This gave us an "inviter"
inside a number of different groups--they were very helpful in encouraging
participation, finding volunteers, ensuring a number of different points of
view were represented at the forum.  You will likely find this true when
planning for your next meeting. 

Sounds like a wonderful project--we're hearing a lot about this issue, but
most often polarized, not from people coming together for thoughtful
conversation.

Joelle 
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