Nobel Prize to Turkey

Fri Oct 13 00:53:10 PDT 2006

thank you Agneta, so much things happen here...i am a bit confused these 
days.
but yes, we are proud of Orhan Pamuk, we were proud of him also before.
I think we need to digest this Nobel Prize a little bit to really feel how 
it's important
for the literature of our country.
funda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Agneta Setterwall" <agneta.setterwall at telia.com>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:08 PM
Subject: Nobel Prize to Turkey

> Congratulations Turkey - Orhan Pamuk got the Nobel Prize in litterature 
> just some minutes ago...
> Agneta S
>
> Funda Oral wrote:
>
>> congratulations Esther, such a wonderful and inspiring experience
>> Funda
>>
>> ----->
>>
>>> On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 08:06 -0400, Communications Esther Matte wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Good morning to you all!
>>>>
>>>> Well, I DID IT!!!! My first OST, and with a very small group of 5 
>>>> people.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you so much for sharing your experience with me a couple of weeks
>>>> ago. I went there last night  with confidence in your advice, my heart, 
>>>> the
>>>> group and the process. And it worked wonders!
>>>>
>>>> There were only 5 participants. Three people chose not to come, one of
>>>> which was a surprise for the sponsor. So I started off by saying that 
>>>> the
>>>> people who were there were the ones who were truly passionate about the
>>>> theme, and they were the ones we needed.
>>>>
>>>> I did the usual opening in about 10-12 minutes, skipping most of the
>>>> reassuring parts. They posted 11 subjects, combined three, so there 
>>>> were 8
>>>> discussions in 3 rounds of 45 minutes each.
>>>>
>>>> I followed your suggestions and expressed clearly the two choices they 
>>>> had:
>>>> discuss everything as a group, which was very tempting of course, or 
>>>> follow
>>>> the method. Then I suggested they give it a try at least for the first
>>>> round of discussion, and one participant supported this suggestion. I 
>>>> added
>>>> that they might find that discussing as a group would make it very
>>>> difficult if not impossible to go through the 8 subjects in 2 hours and
>>>> maybe using the Law and playing bumble bees would allow them to discuss
>>>> everything and go deeper. Much like what happened to Diane, they gave 
>>>> it a
>>>> try and never looked back. Of course, it's less natural with a small 
>>>> group,
>>>> but it works really well anyway.
>>>>
>>>> The next step will be action planning. They were all surprised at what 
>>>> they
>>>> had accomplished, felt revigorated and inspired and now have a clearer
>>>> picture of their situation and what they might want to do next.
>>>>
>>>> As for me, it was a thrill. I felt OST was perfectly in sync with my 
>>>> self,
>>>> and was both excited and scared of doing my first event with such a 
>>>> small
>>>> group. I re-read Harrison's book during the weekend, read all of the 
>>>> advice
>>>> received from you yesterday morning, meditated a bit before going 
>>>> there,
>>>> centered my self and stayed focused to be fully present and invisible 
>>>> (this
>>>> week's discussion about presence was inspiring) and let go of any
>>>> expectations and fear to simply go with the flow of the moment.
>>>>
>>>> I still feel the energy from the event this morning, and I know in my 
>>>> heart
>>>> I found a path on which I'll travel for a while and bring people to
>>>> discover. Thank you all for your support!
>>>>
>>>> Esther
>>>>
>>>> At 17:40 2006-09-19, you wrote:
>>>> >Hello Esther,
>>>> >
>>>> >I have had a couple with less than ten people. There's a few
>>>> thoughts I
>>>> >have about OS and a small group:
>>>> >
>>>> >- it seems to be even more important than with a large group to have a
>>>> >central question which is very powerful. After all, if you have 300
>>>> >participants and some really want to do something else,
>>>> >   that's one thing. If you have a few people, it could feel different
>>>> > (meaning I am not sure whether it would really be different,
>>>> because I
>>>> > haven't experienced that yet).
>>>> >
>>>> >- I have also with the smaller groups done a full opening but with 
>>>> >smaller
>>>> >groups sometimes comes a smaller room. If the circle is very small, 
>>>> >space
>>>> >can get cramped. So I suggest to make
>>>> >   sure you have space enough
>>>> >
>>>> >- I have worked with teams in an organisation which had held 10-15
>>>> open
>>>> >space events. Each team member in the leadership team had actually
>>>> been
>>>> >trained in OST.
>>>> >   Several times OST was used in creating the agenda and process for a
>>>> > team meeting, but without the whole opening. Worked well.
>>>> >
>>>> >Greetings from (today) Holland,
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >Gerard Muller
>>>> >Open Space Institute Denmark
>>>> >Phone: (+45) 21269621                   Skype: openspace1
>>>> >Mail: gm at openspace.dk
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >On Sep 19, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Communications Esther Matte wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >>Hello everyone!
>>>> >>
>>>> >>First, let me say thank you for the wonderful learning I found in the
>>>> >>OSList.  I’m new to Open Space, and even though I have yet to make my
>>>> >>“first big circle” as Ted put it recently, I feel more confident
>>>> thanks
>>>> >>to you all.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>I may have two possible projects with very small groups (5-7
>>>> people) 
>>>> >>which is what worries me.  I have participated to one OST in my
>>>> >>experiential training with Diane Gibeault (fantastic!), and
>>>> >>co-facilitated one with 45 people. But I simply cannot visualize
>>>> how it
>>>> >>works with as few as 5 people. How do you do this? Do you have
>>>> several
>>>> >>rounds of discussions? In separate rooms? Do people actually work by
>>>> >>themselves and team up? Can you do it in approximately 3 hours ?
>>>> (Maybe
>>>> >>20-30 minutes opening, 2 X 40-minutes rounds of discussion or 3 X
>>>> >>30-minutes, action planning and closing).
>>>> >>
>>>> >>I'm sure some of you have done this. I'll be meeting with the first
>>>> >>possible group next week, and nothing is set in stone yet for the 
>>>> >>other.
>>>> >>Any comments, suggestions, ideas or warnings will be very much 
>>>> >>appreciated.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>Thank you very much in advance for your time!
>>>> >>
>>>> >>Esther Matte
>>>> >>Communications Esther Matte
>>>> >>1011, Marie-Victorin
>>>> >>Verchères (Québec) J0L 2R0
>>>> >>www.excellence.ca
>>>> >>
>>>> >>"L'art de dire"
>>>> >>
>>>> >>Tél. : (450) 583-5849
>>>> >>Téléc. : (450) 583-3513
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