New Website

Sat Jan 26 08:30:12 PST 2008

I need some help and will greatly appreciate your input and suggestions. A
few moments ago I pushed the "publish" button thereby delivering my revised
website to the InterNet. A very anxious moment for sure, but it all seems to
be there and working. www.openspaceworld.com still contains much of the
previous material on Open Space including books and papers, which are yours
for the downloading. And there is also a new opening page along with new
material describing my soon-to-be published book, "Wave Rider: Leadership
for High Performance in a Self Organizing World" (Berrett-Koehler/fall
2008). You will also find a new program I will be offering with the same
title as the book. So it is a proud/anxious moment for me - and I will
deeply appreciate any thoughts, comments, or suggestions that you may wish
to share (offline if you like to hhowen at verizon.net ).

Many Thanks!

Harrison 

Harrison Owen
7808 River Falls Drive
Potomac, Maryland   20854
Phone 301-365-2093
Skype hhowen
Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com/>

Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org
Personal website www.ho-image.com 
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>From  Sun Jan 27 09:56:30 2008
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Subject: Re: Open Space with Construction Engineers
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Brendan and all--

Is it not really a question of fear? A fear held by one person?

We go off on a tangent if we try to answer the question. Do we not do
better if we stay in the circle? Explore the fear? Ask the person to say
more about what they fear might happen? Get them talking it out? Demons
do not do well exposed to the light, yes? In Harrison's manner, is the
best prescription to open more space around this person's fear?

This is a scary thing to do, to avoid their stated question, and open
space for demons. But is it not the most direct and therefore most
fruitful? Often I have found people "sell themselves."

So, for instance, we could gently ask our client in such a case, after
we have heard them out about their fears, â€œIs it possible you have not
asked your people such a question (as the invitation question) before?â€

Stated otherwise: We cannot respond to our client's unexpressed question
until it is expressed. Our job may be to open space so they can see what
their real question is.

			:- Doug. Germann

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>From  Mon Jan 28 12:21:54 2008
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Subject: Ever heard of a permanent exhibition run in Open Space?
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Dear friends in Open Space

I have recently been opening space for a project/vision of creating an
exhibition that gathers all interestgroups around the sea. The project has
already strong back up from the main interestgroups – municipality as well
as private interests. The initiator is a group of very influential persons
(especially one private investor) that often have great ideas + also get
walk them through. I was quite impressed that they dared to let this baby of
theirs go running into Open Space...which was the idea of the projectmanager
who had experienced an OST-meeting earlier this spring. 

The main goal is to make the different actors “around the sea” visable to
the public especially youth and kids. A house is going to be built where the
exhibition will be.

In an Open Space meeting it became clear that one of the main things is to
create a space for meeting each other. And the projectmanager is so thrilled
by her experience in Open Space – so we are talking about finding ways to
run the whole thing in Open Space. So my questions is if you have heard of
any similar examples and would like to share experiences from that?

Warm regards

Thomas Herrmann Phone +46 (0)709-98 97 81
Open Space Consulting Fax +46 (0)300-713 89
Pensévägen 4
434 46 Kungsbacka, Sweden
Email:  <mailto:thomas at openspaceconsulting.com>
thomas at openspaceconsulting.com

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I have recently been opening space for a project/vision of
creating an exhibition that gathers all interestgroups around the sea. The
project has already strong back up from the main interestgroups –
municipality as well as private interests. The initiator is a group of very
influential persons (especially one private investor) that often have great
ideas + also get walk them through. I was quite impressed that they dared to
let this baby of theirs go running into Open Space...which was the idea of the
projectmanager who had experienced an OST-meeting earlier this spring. <o:p></o:p>

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The main goal is to make the different actors “around
the sea” visable to the public especially youth and kids. A house is
going to be built where the exhibition will be.<o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

In an Open Space meeting it became clear that one of the
main things is to create a space for meeting each other. And the projectmanager
is so thrilled by her experience in Open Space – so we are talking about
finding ways to run the whole thing in Open Space. So my questions is if you
have heard of any similar examples and would like to share experiences from
that?<o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=SV style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thomas
Herrmann Phone +46 (0)709-98 97 81<br>
Open Space Consulting Fax +46 (0)300-713 89<br>
Pensévägen 4<br>
434 46 Kungsbacka, Sweden<br>
Email: </span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a
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Vill </span></font><font size=2><span lang=SV style='font-size:10.0pt'>du skapa
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lang=SV><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=SV style='font-size:10.0pt'>Open
Space Consulting erbjuder dig:<br>
* Lärtillfällen kring hälsa och balans i organisationer<br>
* Analyser av organisatorisk hälsa och balans<br>
* Handledning av effektiva och kreativa möten och konferenser<br>
* Utbildning av mötes- och processhandledare<br>
* Coaching för organisationer i förändring<br>
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