Wave Riders Gather in Western Australia

Gijs gijs at megainternational.com.hk
Thu Apr 2 23:40:22 PDT 2009


Synchronosity:
HOPE as in Harrison Owen Perth Experience
HOPE Hotel Shanghai. Venue for his intended Shanghai stop
Just funny.

Would have been great to have been there.

Gijs

-----Original Message-----
From: "Brendan McKeague" <mckeague at iprimus.com.au>
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Sent: 2/04/09 23:56
Subject: [OSLIST] Wave Riders Gather in Western Australia

Hi folks

We had a great gathering of Wave Riders here in Perth, Western 
Australia, yesterday - about thirty people showed up to continue the 
momentum generated by the anticipation of Harrison's tour down-under 
(Harrison Owen Perth Experience - HOPE09), which as you know, has 
needed to be postponed until the right time.

I'm sorry to report that everyone had a great time - even without the 
man in the hat :-)
Harrison - we did miss you and honoured the presence of your spirit among us!

First up, three people presented their stories around our theme of 
Leadership For High Performance in a Self Organising World - went like this:

1	For the first 90mins, Michael Wood gave his version of how 
organisational/systems thinking has changed over the past couple of 
decades - based on Wave Rider - a presentation with Ppt slides, 
inviting dialogue with the group - and generating a shared language 
around leadership, high performance and self-organisation.

2	After morning tea, we had two presenters, taking about 40 mins 
each: first (Dr) Neil Preston gave us solid, scientific stories about 
measuring the impact of OST meetings in organisations he's been 
working with and ways to help leverage the impact of the energy 
that's generated and captured through the Book of 
Proceedings...planting this deep within the organisational structure. 
Neil is an experienced Organisational Psychologist and has designed 
and recorded some great quantitative and qualitative evidence around 
self-organisation and health/well-being of people at work.

3	Then Kwame Selormey from a local community NGO, told the story: 
 From Tolley Pond to Billabong, about an OST meeting he helped 
sponsor in a town that was seeking to create a climate of inclusivity 
and participation in an area that was diverse and somewhat fractured. 
One indigenous woman who attended the meeting 'championed' an Action 
Plan for cleaning up the local pond that was being used for a dumping 
ground for rubbish and shopping trolleys f

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