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

Fri Feb 13 16:34:01 PST 2009

Diane, 

Indeed I am ("in full open space right now"): 

My venue hostess cancelled.

So I post-poned the event rather than search for a new one on short notice....

So, the vacuum/space gave me room to reflect and reconsider my limited party invitation, having a hunch that the little bit of talk about the quasi-O.S. plan was already circulating now or later.

The venue cancellation was giving me the opportunity to open wide the invitation list (to avoid developing an us/them situation) with a new place and time.

Then arrived the emails from Tenneson and Esther and Wendy each giving exactly the right encouragement for the new situation, as the order of things would have it.

Douglas Germann's reply had given me the courage (and space and 'permission' of a sort) to carry on with what I'd begun, in its quasi-fashion, so I was able to hear the other opinions, as well.  (Besides, they were so kindly expressed.) 

It seems now I'll either have to take a larger step into the selfless arena as Wendy describes it and stay faithful to the facilitator role, ...or....the communication may have already begun in the wider fully open space.  

-- The temperature is so nice here in this pool, I'm not sure I'm eager to get out to find out what's going on out there in my community of interest. 

...Except that email responses to the cancellation are coming in, in support of trying again. 

thank you everyone, 
lisafloyd

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:55:43 -0500
From: diane.gibeault at rogers.com
Subject: [OSLIST] RE : [OSLIST] Baby-step into O.S. -- questions
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU

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

From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Tenneson Woolf
Sent: 12 février 2009 11:57
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
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
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801 785 2276
801 376 2213 Cell

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