[OSLIST] Baby-step into O.S. -- questions

[Diane Gibeault]

Tenneson,

I love the quote from your EX Director host. I find that getting this idea
across to my clients ie ‘’with freedom people go beyond the call of duty
offering their full potential’’, is what brings the most sparks in their
eyes and the urge to try this weird but promising thing, OST. Concrete
examples like the 36 topics is a great one.

 

I agree with Esther that trusting the process will create the safe climate
needed and with Wendy about the added value of bringing the whole system in
the room. 

 

Lisa, you may be in full open space as it is right now. The best to you and
everyone.

 

Diane

 

 

 

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Woolf
Sent: 12 février 2009 11:57
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Subject: Re: [OSLIST] RE : [OSLIST] Baby-step into O.S. -- questions

 

Nice Esther.

 

Here’s a bit that I wrote recently about hosting with two groups that were
crossing thresholds of how they meet. One in health care. The other a faith
community. It relates to the issue you are raising Lisa. Thanks for stirring
my thoughts on it


 

“In both, there was a feeling of launching. Launching a new era, visions of
the future, born from deliberate interaction and conversation with each
other. With both, the involvement of community, the invitation to create
together, signaled or amplified a way of working that was different. With
both, before starting, we could feel some of the concern that we have
learned is rooted in desire to do the best work possible – will this really
work? Will we get done what we need too? Will community work? 

 

With both of these groups, we saw concern and angst shift to conviction and
courage. We saw nervousness that unstructured agenda items would be
neglected shift to surprise at how many agenda items were created and
addressed by participants. IDWM Executive Director Adonna Bowman spoke it
beautifully after the event, when she realized that the agenda we created as
a group included 36 topics. “If the executive committee had imposed those 36
topics, we’d be lucky to have half the people care about even half of the
topics. Yet here, everybody cared about all of them. It was remarkable.” “

 

Tenneson

 

Tenneson Woolf

Lindon, Utah USA

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801 785 2276

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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could
not hear the music.

Nietzsche


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