Harvest OSonOS's?
Gerard Muller
gm at openspace.dk
Thu Feb 8 00:54:40 PST 2007
The best deal is probably to buy an around the world ticket.
And if there's enough of us, we might actually get them at a fair price
Gerard
On Feb 8, 2007, at 12:13 AM, John Engle wrote:
> and don't forget about Haiti. the 6th annual haiti OSONOS will be June
> 28 to July 1.
>
> john engle
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> Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:The Dutch OSONOS is March,
> and I think the Canadian OSI is in April. Then we get to May (Kiev)
> – and September for Camden. As I say we already have about half the
> year covered.
>>
>> ho
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>> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE..EDU] On Behalf Of
>> Michael Herman
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:48 PM
>> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>> Subject: Re: Harvest OSonOS's?
>>
>> i agree, chris. i think a frame that's smaller than the whole year
>> is useful in bounding a global osonos "event" -- among other
>> regional/local osonos events.
>>
>> is the moon/week too short with the holidays mixed in. might we
>> taake the month?
>>
>> will there be proceedings produced at camden, harrison? could they
>> be posted online, even if only a single pdf document, as fodder for
>> other osonos's held that month?
>>
>> is september/harvest a big enough window for something to fit
>> between holidays in israel?
>>
>> when is larry and diane's osonos?
>>
>> is there something planned down under? or when has osonos oz/nz
>> usually happened? brian? brendan?
>>
>> anybody else want to convene something inside of a september/harvest
>> frame?
>>
>> mh
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>> On 2/7/07, Chris Corrigan <chris at chriscorrigan.com> wrote:
>> Hi there:
>>
>> Well, I'm not attached to the Harvest Moon week, and it seems to be
>> an important holiday for other northern hemisphere cultures, being as
>> it is between Yom Kippur and Sukkot. My intention though was to
>> follow up on the ideas that had been posted about convening many
>> OSonOS's around the world during the same week. It seems important
>> to find a frame to hold all of these together, and I thought the
>> Equinox/harvest moon would be a good one, being a time of similar
>> daylight between the north and the south.
>>
>> At any rate, yeah...
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 2/7/07, Harrison Owen < hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:
>>> Somehow I missed this one – or at least I missed Chris's original.
>>> Gremlins? But I think we have a germ (may I say gem) of an idea. But
>>> I must point out, Chris, that what for you is a "Harvest Moon" would
>>> have to be a Spring Moon for all our friends south of the equator.
>>> Or maybe the Moon isn't even out there? Oh well, everybody sees
>>> everything from their own point of view. Or we might say something
>>> like "Hemi-Centric" – right up there with Eurocentric,
>>> Ethnocentric?
>>>
>>> But I really do like the notion of linking OSONOSs even if they
>>> don't all happen at the same time. In fact there would be some nice
>>> poetry if they happened randomly through out the year. To borrow a
>>> phrase from the Brits – "Neither the Sun nor the Season will ever
>>> set on Open Space!" And in fact that seems to be happening already
>>> without a plan or intention. Gerard is inviting people to The
>>> Netherlands, I saw something from Larry Peterson and Diane about an
>>> OSONOS in Canada. Then we come to the wonderful gathering in Kiev,
>>> followed by yet another warm open space by the Sea – And if you
>>> were to create something on Bowen Island in September, we would
>>> already have about half the year covered. I just love it when a plan
>>> comes together!
>>>
>>> Harrison
>>>
>>>
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
>>> Michael Herman
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 6:49 PM
>>> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>>> Subject: Harvest OSonOS's?
>>>
>>> is this going forward then, chris? if you post this up to your
>>> site, i can link to it in the osonos section. did anyone else
>>> decide to convene something in this same timeframe? does it make
>>> sense to make september/harvest an osonos month, and so capture
>>> osonos by the sea in this net, as well as giving avner a bit more
>>> room to work? is the osonos the month and "harvesting the
>>> learnings" the de facto theme? i want to add this to the osonos
>>> page, but need some specific invites to link to. chris? avner?
>>> harrison? anybody else?
>>>
>>> mh
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/22/07, Chris Corrigan < chris at chriscorrigan.com> wrote:
>>> Friends:
>>>
>>> If I have understood Harrison correctly over all the years he has
>>> been talking about Open Space, he has always had an aspiration that
>>> the process become so ubiquitous that it disappear into a fabric of
>>> "business as usual" while at the same time changing business as
>>> usual, much as brainstorming has since its discovery in the 1950s as
>>> a simple but powerful technique for unlocking creativity in groups.
>>>
>>> It has seemed to me that over the past ten years the movement of
>>> Open Space has been dispersing far and wide. It used to be that
>>> there were only a handful of trainings for example and I knew all of
>>> the trainers. Now Open Space training is offered everywhere by
>>> people who none of us in the "core community" of practitioners have
>>> ever heard of. OST is being used in all kinds of settings and what
>>> we are learning about leadership, organization and management is
>>> being deeply internalized into practice and life.
>>>
>>> It seems that the movement of who we are and what we know has been
>>> scattered to the winds and that is a beautiful thing. It is
>>> something that could never have happened if Harrison had retained
>>> control over the process, or if everything was centralized into one
>>> set of licenses for training and use. OST is used every day in
>>> hundreds of different contexts and its spirit permeates many
>>> organizations, communities and personal practices.
>>>
>>> And so. the evolution of this conversation seems timely. As much
>>> as I also have enjoyed the OSonOS events (and I co-hosted one of
>>> them) I can see the wisdom and delight in what Michael Herman has
>>> proposed. A worldwide Open Space week, self-organized, possibly
>>> interconnected or possibly not in which many gatherings on many
>>> scales could take place is a brilliant and accurate reflection of
>>> our community of practice. Better than having 200 people gathering
>>> one place, having 200 gatherings of 50 people in many places would
>>> be a monumental testament to the ubiquitous nature of this
>>> incredibly fluid process. As far as I know, none of the
>>> organizational change practitioner's communities has anything like
>>> this.
>>>
>>> To me it is the difference between watching the moon eclipse the
>>> sun, and watching a full moon rise. Both incredibly beautiful
>>> events, but different. But the solar eclipse is only visible to a
>>> very tiny slice of the world, and when one occurs, those of us who
>>> are outside of that range can only follow along on the web or TV and
>>> envy those who got to be there.
>>>
>>> But sharing the experience of watching a full moon rise is totally
>>> different. Lovers separated by many miles often do this, feeling
>>> connected in the moment with their partner, sharing a common
>>> experience of beauty. We appreciate the event together and we
>>> appreciate the fact that we are doing it together, no matter where
>>> we are.
>>>
>>> And so, what if we chose the week of the harvest moon for our week
>>> of gatherings? In the northern hemisphere, the harvest moon is the
>>> full moon closest to the autumnal equinox, usually occurring in late
>>> September or early October. The harvest moon marks the time of year
>>> when the harvest of the year's bounty begins. The days and night
>>> are roughly equal in length and the tides are reasonably equal as
>>> well. It is a time of equanimity and rededication to the communal
>>> effort of harvesting what we have sown.
>>>
>>> This year the harvest moon is September 26th. What if all over the
>>> world, during the week of September 24, we gathered in large to
>>> small groups for a day or two or more and held open space on open
>>> spaces, to harvest what we have sown, learn from one another and
>>> contribute to a worldwide learning inquiry about the edge of our
>>> practice, and the incredible evolving story of Open Space?
>>>
>>> If others feel like this is a good idea, I will start the ball
>>> rolling by committing to having one here on Bowen Island, near
>>> Vancouver, Canada that week, let us say September 25-26-27. It will
>>> be in a rustic setting, and it will be cheap and accessible. Anyone
>>> who wants to gather with me from near and far is invited. We will
>>> enjoy each other in two days of Open Space and on the evening of
>>> September 26, we will go down to the beach looking east across the
>>> mouth of Howe Sound to the North American mainland and watch the
>>> harvest moon rise, knowing that as we are doing so, many of our
>>> friends and colleagues will have seen that same moon emerge over
>>> their gatherings in Siberia, Zimbabwe, Belgium, the United States,
>>> Colombia and Haiti? And then we will post our proceedings on our
>>> worldwide web site and relish in the conversations shared with
>>> others across our world.
>>>
>>> What say you, friends?
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/21/07, Christine Whitney Sanchez < milagro27 at cox.net > wrote:
>>> As Larry, Doug, Eva and others have said, I like the hugging/dancing
>>> kind of OSonOS. And I am also intrigued with the idea of a whole
>>> bunch of OSonOS's self-organizing at the same time as the
>>> international one, incorporating Gabriella's fabulous
>>> OpenSpace-Online.
>>>
>>> I favor the practice of hosting the international OSonOS on
>>> different continents every year. What I most want is a way to
>>> connect with all of you, face-to-face, heart-to-heart that offers
>>> the greatest possibility for diversity of languages, cultures, world
>>> views and hugging styles.
>>>
>>> Namast�,
>>>
>>> Christine
>>>
>>> CWS - Collaborative Wisdom & Strategy
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>>> Phoenix, AZ 85048
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>>> From: OSLIST [mailto: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
>>> Michael Herman
>>> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 9:18 PM
>>> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>>> Subject: Re: SV: Michael Pannwitz's comment about OSonOS 2008 in
>>> Berlin
>>> what if the decision-making process was simply about picking a
>>> single week of the year in which osonos would be perhaps permanently
>>> fixed?
>>>
>>> then, within that timeframe, anyone could convene an osonos
>>> anywhere in the world. all of the locations would have an opening,
>>> a bulletin board, and a marketplace. all of the issues and notes
>>> would be posted online in the same place. and all of the topics
>>> from everywhere posted on the wall in each place.
>>>
>>> when 100+ people gather for two days, nobody can go to every group
>>> or meet all the people, but it's still informative to read the
>>> whole of the wall. so everybody could meet wherever was best for
>>> them. some would travel far and cross-pollinate. some would travel
>>> near and perhaps get involved in more local actions.
>>>
>>> the whole of it together would be *the* international osonos,
>>> simultanteously global and local. if you want a european hug, go to
>>> a gathering in europe. if you're strapped for cash or time, go
>>> local, host somethign small where you are, or just visit online.
>>> what a great thing that anyone globally could convene an osonos
>>> gathering and be able for just a few days share issues and notes
>>> printed out from all over the world on their own little local wall.
>>> might not get a german or australian or canadian or whatever sort of
>>> hug is exotic to you, but maybe get a good local hug after a good
>>> discussion of an issue raised 1/2 way around the world!
>>>
>>> then, regional and local gatherings would be everything else,
>>> through out the world and throughout the year.
>>>
>>> mh
>>>
>>> On 1/20/07, Eva P Svensson <eva at epshumaninvest.se> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> Even though I haven't been on all OSonOS's I have come to love and
>>> cherish them very much! It is soooo important – at least for me
>>> – to see the people I "talk to" here on the list – the energy in
>>> face to face meeting and talking can never occur in an online
>>> meeting. I know that for myself it was much easier to "speak out" on
>>> this list after have seen some of you in my first OSonOS in Denmark
>>> a few years ago, and after that I was kind of home – wanting to go
>>> to them all – and so I have – except from Moscow. Planning to go
>>> to Kiev though.
>>> And I agree with Larry – hugging my computer is both dull and
>>> uncomfortable J
>>> I really love the initial idea of moving from continent to continent
>>> – in that way there is almost always an OSonOS nearby if not every
>>> year so at least every second or third.
>>> So my two �re's thought is that we keep that rhythm. And that we
>>> have THE OSonOS once a year. There will always be regional, local,
>>> national OSonOS's and that's fine – could be a great compliment or
>>> input to the big one – I know that's how we think about our
>>> Scandinavian OSonOS that will be in Sweden this year.
>>>
>>> All the best from a stormy west coast of Sweden
>>> :o)
>>> Eva
>>>
>>>
>>> B�sta h�lsningar
>>>
>>> Eva P Svensson
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>>>
>>>
>>> Fr�n: OSLIST [mailto: OSLIST@ LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] F�r
>>> Joelle Lyons Everett
>>>
>>> Skickat: den 20 januari 2007 01:59
>>> Till: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>>> �mne: Re: Michael Pannwitz's comment about OSonOS 2008 in Berlin
>>>
>>>
>>> In a message dated 1/19/07 2:21:24 PM, larry at spiritedorg.com writes:
>>>
>>> The face to face connections and support are not things I can get
>>> from a
>>> virtual event. Hugging my computer monitor is just not the same.
>>> So, I
>>> support a focus on a World Wide event where the chance of worldwide
>>> participation is high. So I can connect to both old and new
>>> friends.
>>> Maybe that is no longer possible in our virtual and tension filled
>>> world, but I still want it.
>>>
>>> I'm with Larry on this! I like having a worldwide event, and like
>>> moving it to various parts of the world. My travel budget is
>>> slimmer than it used to be, and overseas travel is more difficult
>>> now that I have some severe diet restrictions. But a worldwide
>>> OSONOS is always going to be a top priority.
>>>
>>> Maybe we need something like what Gabriela suggested, a voting
>>> process that lets those of us who are unable to be physically
>>> present participate in choosing the next location. I'm delighted
>>> that the Ukraine has such a thriving OS community, and that they
>>> enthusiastically invited us there. But for myself, I am
>>> disappointed to have the annual gathering two years in a row in
>>> locations which present some big challenges for me. I'd like to see
>>> us return the the idea we proposed when we first moved OSONOS away
>>> from North America--to move from continent to continent, to include
>>> local participants from many regions and to make the travel easier
>>> for a diffferent group each time.
>>>
>>> Regional OSONOS and internet connections are great, but a face to
>>> face, worldwide OSONOS is something very special. I want to be a
>>> part of that as often as I can.
>>>
>>> Joelle Everett
>>> Shelton, Washington, USA
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