First Open Space facilitation

Tue Jul 21 06:58:09 PDT 2009

Dear Lesley...Thank you for your heart-felt account of your first OS.  
It reminded me about my first OS about five years ago now ,  
particularly the "scary, frightening, exhilarating and very powerful".  
Your story and Suzanne's before you have drawn me into the circle  
again with renewed conviction. We all need these remembering moments  
and the surge of energy that follows....so thank you for that. We hear  
new voices, tones and cadences all the time in this cyber-gathering  
and I love that too...my thanks to everyone for the harmonies and  
disharmonies...
Warmly to all, Cliodhna
UK

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>From  Wed Jul 22 19:06:04 2009
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Hi Gabriela,

OSO (Open Space Online) signals a friendly message that invites people to
come in Korean, as I said about a year ago...

My Big Big Congratulations to you and everyone on your team who have stood
by you through the dark nights of your soul.

I know that you have been manifesting our Spirit that invites our co-humans
to our challenging, yet exciting journey of self-organization toward our
humanity's open future.

I am so honoured to be part of you and all my OS friends thanks to Harrison.

Best Wishes,

S

Spark (Stanley Park)
Open Space Institute of Korea, 
Open Quest Squad
3rd Fl., Samkyung Bldg., 372-10, Seokyo-dong, 
Mapo-gu, 121-210, Seoul, Korea
spark at openspace.kr
Phone: 82-2-353-6356
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High Play, High Learning, High Performance'

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Ender
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 6:15 AM
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Subject: [OSLIST] The joy of 10 years passion for OpenSpace-Online Real-Time
Collaboration

Dear Harrison and Open Space friends around the globe,

Today I would love to virtually clink glasses and toast with you on my 10th
anniversary of constant pioneer work in enabling a complete Do-it-yourself
Open Space Real-Time Collaboration Internet Technology.
The day of birth of the OpenSpace-OnlineR Concept, my deep flash of
inspiration, was on July-17, 1999.

** Cheers ** Prosit ** Salute ** to all of you, who share this joy with me
:-)

A few years ago I created a little "birthplace memory picture" just for fun,
please see here:
<http://www.OpenSpace-Online.com/vision_1999.jpg>. Last year, when I was
selected as a Ashoka Fellow 2008, the Ashoka team wrote and published the
following text about my work. Maybe some of you are interested to read how
Ashoka described the OpenSpace-Online story last year, here it is:
<http://www.ashoka.org/gender>

I am extremely grateful for those of you who have helped me in so many
wonderful ways to shape my visionary, often financially extreme hard,
sometimes very lonely, but always important and exciting future work.
My vision of a completely new technical dimension of Self-managed Open Space
Real-time Collaboration and Do-it-yourself Change Empowerment for both,
organizers and participants, was huge. In order to realize this dream I had
to step aside from my income as a change consultant and change facilitator,
but frankly even worse was to let go facilitating face-to-face Open Space
conferences and Open Space trainings - stepping aside from seeing all the
shining eyes and hearts of the participants was the biggest "abdication".
But the big momentum of July-17, 1999 was so powerful, that I never had any
doubts to do the right thing.

An extra big Thank You to you, dear Harrison. I will never forget your
encouraging words and supporting energy when we sit together for a long
conversation in spring 2000!  It had filled my "battery" for years :-). And
also a big Thank You to many of you in both wonderful communities, the Open
Space and the Genuine Contact TM community.
Thanks a lot for all your support and recommendations in the past years.

My team and I have several more wonderful reasons to celebrate this summer.
For example the launch of version 3.0 of the OpenSpace-OnlineR Real-Time
Collaboration Technology and the start of our new Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) program for educational institutions and non-profit
organizations for the worldwide support of "positive change".

The delights over all this accomplishments are crowned by two new,
internationally very high-ranking prize nominations: the TECH AWARDS 2009,
awarded by "The Tech Museum of Innovation, USA" and the selection as the
TECHNICAL PIONEER 2010 CANDITATE by the World Economic Forum, Davos. The
nomination alone for these very special prizes represents extraordinary
recognition and confirmation of our 10 years of pioneer work in enabling a
completely new dimension of Global Real-Time Collaboration.

If you are interested in further information and links about all this news,
I warmly invite you to read and spread our "newsletter" of today as a
PDF-file (download:
<www.OpenSpace-Online.com/news_en_07-2009.pdf>) and/or you can also have a
look into the news section at our website:
<www.OpenSpace-Online.com/en/news.php>

Thank you again and cheers ...

Warmly from Berlin,
Gabriela

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>From  Wed Jul 22 19:13:04 2009
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Thanks for your sharing Lesley,

The full account of your OS experience has been taking me to revisit my
practice of Open Space.

Best Wishes for your OS journey, :-)

S

Spark (Stanley Park)
Open Space Institute of Korea, 
Open Quest Squad
3rd Fl., Samkyung Bldg., 372-10, Seokyo-dong, 
Mapo-gu, 121-210, Seoul, Korea
spark at openspace.kr
Phone: 82-2-353-6356
Mobile: 82-10-7247-0636
www.OPENSPACE.kr
LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Harrison- http://www.openspaceworld.com/index.htm
OS World in USA- http://www.openspaceworld.org/
High Play, High Learning, High Performance'

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Symons
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 1:18 PM
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Subject: [OSLIST] First Open Space facilitation

I have sat struggling with why I have been resistant to posting the
experience of my first facilitation of an OS event. Still not sure.... I
worked with a colleague, who's client this is, Anyway....the story I am
based in Sydney Australia and facilitated this workshop in Amsterdam,
Holland. The client was a corporate company with offices in Holland,
Australia, USA and UK. The meeting was a strategic meeting with
representatives from all offices. Approx. 40 people in total.
I suggested to my colleague that an Open Space event would be just right for
the organisation as there were:- top down control management,(based in
Holland),there were talented people throughout the organisation who were not
being heard, there was a powerful question to be resolved, the company could
not keep operating from the current management style and remain successful,
there was growing 'dissent among the ranks'.
The event was extremely successful. Both this organisation and my colleague
were enormously brave to be able to 'let go' and go with this type of event.
It has shifted their style and enabled the company to be much more
'self-organising' and less top down in operation. 

I held the space over two days. I had training just before with Brendan
McKeague here in Australia. He also was of immense help to me.

I found the event Scary, frightening, exhilarating-and very powerful. I was
nervous as I had suggested to do this type of event yet had never done one!!

Also I was a female in a room with 38 corporate males with most wondering
nervously what was going on......... 

So my musings on doing this event are-or rather-Notes to self for next time

wear comfortable, flat shoes for walking the circle(helps with grounding)
Walk very slowly-slower than you think possible Own the space before
entering (practise or walk the circle before) Modulate voice tone if you can
News/Opening/Closing-impress that these are important times to meet Action
Planning: - Be Prepared...and then let go Spend much time before and after
with client-Before- to get the question
right- After- to help assist with the fall-out (grief work) when the system
changes Do not under-estimate who can embrace this Remain true to self and
the PROCESS (this is your rock) When you really feel pulled-in to
engage-DON'T- this is the magic moment A lot happens over night You need two
facilitators-one to hold the space and the other to organise and liaise with
hotel Hotels don't get it- needs to be really briefed well, can be quite
frustrating

Be present............ Keep Meditating and go inward .......... 

So that is all from me...at last. The client has been very happy with the
event. It has changed operating styles of individuals, groups and the
organisation as a whole, it has inspired them to 'slow down' and consider
more.
I have given the CEO Harrisons book on Open Space and handed him the
responsibility going forward for 'keeping the space open'.

I wish to thank my colleague who had the 'faith to trust??and run with this
type of meeting.

Over and out

Lesley Symons

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