The Theme and STAMMTISCHE

[Michael M Pannwitz]

Dear Yana and you other themers,
here a little correction to my post after reading yours:
WOSonOS always has had a theme "Open Space on Open Space".
A very "open", "wide" theme.
In addition, more "focused" or "closed" themes have been used.
My experience has been that regardless of whether the theme was simply 
"Open Space on Open Space" or other additional themes were used, the 
current interests with energy (such as "schools" for open space 
trainings or open space) have come up in all WOSonOS that I have been to.
In fact, different ways ("schools", if you like) have been practiced for 
instance in the introduction part of the os event or in the design or 
around the closing circle... always lead to discussions on "styles", 
"schools", etc of ost.
In fact, the whole field of "schools" or different ways of planning, 
opening, facilitating os events is one of the root causes for this 
listserve and is one of the most passionate issues making this exchange 
so productive.
Regardless of all this, themes in all kinds of situations are important 
to arrive at (I put the emphasis on "arrive at").
An additional aspect to WOSonOS: Yes, I myself try to be at every 
one...and I have never even given one thought to the theme in the 
decision on whether to attend a WOSonOS or not. What attracts me most is 
those crazy colleagues from all over that are passionate about Open 
Space and Open Space Technology...even those weird whale watchers.

And dont forget, STAMMTISCH time is just around the corner and I propose 
that at every one the theme for WOSonOS in San Francisco in 2008 is 
discussed, lets see what will emerge on:
Monday, July 2nd, 7 pm in
Augsburg, Bad Honnef, Berlin, Bielefeld, Bratislava, Budapest, 
Glottertal, Göteborg, Halifax, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Israel, Kharkiv, 
Kyiv, Köln, London, Luxembourg, Madison, Montreal, Moscow, München, New 
York, Paris, Saarbrücken, San Francisco, Singapore, Switzerland, 
Uppsala, Utrecht, Vienna
Have a great day in Kyiv!
See you in San Francisco or even earlier!
hugs
mmp

Yana Demenko wrote:
> Yes, Chris, on the one hand, you are right ... Whatever needs to happen 
> will happen during the OSonOS and sometimes there is no need in posting 
> the theme. But worldwide OS community is transforming all the time. 
> IMHO, today we got a lot of "hot" and hidden issues inside. To hide them 
> for now is not a constructive way. Don't you think so? Why not to put 
> them on the board and start to talk about? I think that OSonOS is a 
> right time for that kind of issues.
> 
> Just for example ... have a look on the table of content of 15th 
> WOSonOS's book of proceedings (there was the theme as you know). And 
> what do you see? Issue #1 - A different way of training for OS 
> facilitators. Go to that particular page and you will see a bit more! 
> People from Eastern Europe, Asia, Canada and Australia are talking about 
> "schools" differences. I think it is a good result of using the theme.
> 
> Has it a chance to appear without a theme? Maybe :) but there were also 
> some "peacemaking goals" of the hosting team ;)
> 
> Best,
> Yana Demenko
> 
> [post] p.o.box 4-?, Kyiv-1, 01001, Ukraine
> [e-mail] yana at demenko.info
> [web] www.demenko.info
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