Sharing with you the joy of a next milestone

Wed Dec 3 13:42:02 PST 2008

Congratulations Gabriela,

A well deserved recognition that will bring even more strength to what you
offer. This may help some of our clients make the leap of faith to try it
out.

The best to you,

Diane 

Diane Gibeault & Associé.es-Associates
Ottawa, Canada Tel. (613) 744-2638
www.dianegibeault.com

Facilitation and training in support of transformation
Animation et formation en appui à la transformation

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Gabriela
Ender
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:49 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: [OSLIST] Sharing with you the joy of a next milestone

Dear Open Space friends and colleagues, (long)

I am thrilled to share with you a next wonderful milestone on my
OpenSpace-Online path. I can't believe it, next summer this adventure will
have it's 10th anniversary. With great pleasure I can report that I have
been accepted into the highly prestigious international Ashoka Fellowship
Support Network as >> Ashoka Fellow 2008 <<.

Ashoka is the global association of the world's leading social
entrepreneurs, men and women with system changing solutions for the world's
most urgent problems. Ashoka was founded in 1980 by the American Bill
Drayton. The Harvard Center for Public Leadership rates Drayton as one of
the "20 Best Leaders" of the USA. The best-known Fellow of the Ashoka
Network is the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus.  In the meantime
since 1980, in almost 70 countries, around 2000 Ashoka Fellows work to
promote social and sustainable change in fields such as health, education &
youth, economic development, environmental protection, regional and urban
development, citizen participation, and human rights.

At the beginning of 2008, I was invited by Ashoka to take part in a
multi-level, national and international selection process.  I have been
through a very intense seven-month process, including a practical
OpenSpace-Online project for Ashoka.  They are very much convinced about my
"do-it-yourself online concept" - the power of virtual facilitated,
solution-oriented self-organization and problem solving via the Internet in
real-time and it's wide spectrum of effects for individuals, organizations
and climate protection around the globe. As I learned from Ashoka recently,
I was able to win against around 300 competitors throughout Germany.
Worldwide, more than 7,000 candidates were evaluated.

On Nov19th, 2008, Ashoka Germany had arranged a Award Ceremony in Munich
with more than 350 guests. From now Ashoka wants to support me and the
further spread of OpenSpace-Online in many wonderful ways. At the German
Ashoka website there is a video portrait about me and OpenSpace-Online -
currently only in German. During the award ceremony, I also saw the video
for the first time. Here the link:
<http://germany.ashoka.org/gabrielaender>. A few more information are also
at our webiste news section:
<http://www.OpenSpace-Online.com/en/news.php>

At this milestone its very important for me to take a deep breath and to
send again a big THANK YOU to you dear Harrison (!) and to all other
wonderful Open Space and Genuine Contact (TM) colleagues and friends far and
near, who supported and trusted me in so many different ways during the
whole years. Thank you so much, dear OS and dear GC community!

Warmly from Berlin,
Gabriela

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OpenSpace-Online GmbH - The Power of People!
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Resselsteig 30, 12209 Berlin, Germany
eMail: contact at OpenSpace-Online.com
website: http://www.OpenSpace-Online.com
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Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 22:13:45 +0100
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To: OSLIST <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
From: Thomas Herrmann <thomas at openspaceconsulting.com>
Organization: Open Space Consulting
Subject: ...follow up: OST for leaders Elderly care in Sweden (X-posted
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Dear friends in Open Space/Genuine Contact=20

Today had quite an experience joining a large conference for about 3-400
persons working within the elderly care in the area I live. This was the
third in a series of four large events where employees are reporting
out/performing and sharing about their accomplishments from a large =
project
about improving the services they are doing to elders in need of =
assistance
+ improving their working conditions as well. The conference was in one =
of
the most prestigous hotels SAS Radisson.

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More or less out of coincidence I had lunch with one of the top managers
within this area, yesterday and she told me that the OST-meeting we had =
4
years ago had been the start of this huge project which has affected, I
would say 10th of thousands receiving services and working within this =
area
in a this region of about half a milllion inhabitants. I think the main
thing being that people who share the same passion meet and get going. =
Then
of course the right conditions have to be in place such as focus, space =
for
action/leadership.

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They have introduced something they call =93Break-through-projects=94 =
which
means that any employee can bring up a problem or improvement that he =
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she would like to test. A short test period is conducted, which is =
evaluated
and then a decision is made if it is a break-through or not. If so, it =
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implemented straight away.

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The performances I saw today were really moving =96 it was such a joy to =
see
the pride that these people showed and the joy that they have created =
for
elders as well as for themselves. Such a power that has been released! =
And
bottom-up.

=20

Another large project they have worked with the last years is
=93talking-circles=94 where they have had different subjects to meet =
around and
share. A success too!

=20

Warm regards

Thomas Herrmann Phone +46 (0)709-98 97 81
Open Space Consulting
Pens=E9v=E4gen 4
434 46 Kungsbacka, Sweden
Email:  <mailto:thomas at openspaceconsulting.com>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

Today had quite an experience joining a large =
conference for
about 3-400 persons working within the elderly care in the area I live. =
This
was the third in a series of four large events where employees are =
reporting
out/performing and sharing about their accomplishments from a large =
project about
improving the services they are doing to elders in need of assistance +
improving their working conditions as well. The conference was in one of =
the
most prestigous hotels SAS Radisson.<o:p></o:p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

More or less out of coincidence I had lunch with one =
of the
top managers within this area, yesterday and she told me that the =
OST-meeting
we had 4 years ago had been the start of this huge project which has =
affected,
I would say 10th of thousands receiving services and working =
within
this area in a this region of about half a milllion inhabitants. I think =
the
main thing being that people who share the same passion meet and get =
going. Then
of course the right conditions have to be in place such as focus, space =
for
action/leadership.<o:p></o:p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

They have introduced something they call
“Break-through-projects” which means that any employee can =
bring up
a problem or improvement that he och she would like to test. A short =
test
period is conducted, which is evaluated and then a decision is made if =
it is a
break-through or not. If so, it is implemented straight =
away.<o:p></o:p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

The performances I saw today were really moving =
– it
was such a joy to see the pride that these people showed and the joy =
that they
have created for elders as well as for themselves. Such a power that has =
been
released! And bottom-up.<o:p></o:p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

Another large project they have worked with the last =
years
is “talking-circles” where they have had different subjects =
to meet
around and share. A success =
too!<o:p></o:p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DSV =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span lang=3DSV =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Warm regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p><font size=3D2 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span lang=3DSV =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>Thomas
Herrmann Phone +46 (0)709-98 97 81<br>
Open Space Consulting<br>
Pens=E9v=E4gen 4<br>
434 46 Kungsbacka, Sweden<br>
Email: </span></font><font size=3D2><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'><a
href=3D"mailto:thomas at openspaceconsulting.com"><span =
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Vill </span></font><font size=3D2><span lang=3DSV =
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en v=E4lm=E5ende och effektiv organisation och ta tillvara hela dess =
potential?</span></font><span
lang=3DSV><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><font size=3D2 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span lang=3DSV =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>Open
Space Consulting erbjuder dig:<br>
* L=E4rtillf=E4llen kring h=E4lsa och balans i organisationer<br>
* Analyser av organisatorisk h=E4lsa och balans<br>
* Handledning av effektiva och kreativa m=F6ten och konferenser<br>
* Utbildning av m=F6tes- och processhandledare<br>
* Coaching f=F6r organisationer i f=F6r=E4ndring<br>
----------------------------------------------------<br>
Ing=E5r i Beyond Performance Group<br>
----------------------------------------------------<br>
V=E5rt antivirusskydd scannar alla utg=E5ende mail. </span></font><font =
size=3D2><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>Infekterade mail stoppas =
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