SV: Harvest OSonOS's?
Thomas Herrmann
thomas at openspaceconsulting.com
Fri Feb 9 02:40:51 PST 2007
Hi dear collegues
Just talked to our friend and collegue Eva – who is flying all over this country opening space right now – as we´ve taken on responsibility for the 6th annual Scandinavian OSonOS. We did wait to decide on the dates for this year as we did not know when the “Physical annual International OSonOS” would be, hmm we´d better get going now!
We plan to organize it in a beautiful area at the sea (Gottskär) where at some of you have been while visiting Sweden.
Earlier years we have planned for springtime as the PAIOSonOS was during autumn. So this year we´ll do it the other way around as we would not want to miss coming to Kiev!
We´ll come back as soon as she has landed.
Warmest regards
Thomas Herrmann
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Ämne: Re: Harvest OSonOS's?
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
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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 take 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
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 <mailto: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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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Herman
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 6:49 PM
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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 < <mailto:chris at chriscorrigan.com> 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 <http://www.farmersalmanac.com/astronomy/fullmoons.html> 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 <mailto: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
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Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 9:18 PM
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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 :-)
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
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In a message dated 1/19/07 2:21:24 PM, <mailto:larry at spiritedorg.com> 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 different 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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