Open Space Magic

Sun Jun 14 07:50:44 PDT 2009

Christine, thank you for this message. After I pressed the send button, I worried that I had been too verbose (which I was) but I could not help gushing. Can't wait to meet you in Tucson. Suzanne
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From: Christine Whitney Sanchez <cwhitneysanchez at gmail.com>

Date:         Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:34:36 
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Open Space Magic

Suzanne, your passion and delight jump off the page!  I can imagine  
your budding company in full bloom.

Using Open Space for your Partner Summit touches a practice that is  
close to my heart.  It sounds as though you and your partners  
experienced what happens when we use these powerful tools, such as  
Open Space, World Cafe, Appreciative Inquiry, Digital StoryTelling,  
Future Search, Polarity Mapping..., to do our own work.  When the  
methods themselves stop being the focus and the outcomes capture our  
attention, that is when we find ourselves in gratitude and awe.   
That's when we honor the magic!  We have only begun to use these  
transformational methodologies as everyday collaborative tools.

I love Open Space for many reasons.  Number one on the list is that it  
works.

I will look for you at the IONS conference.  You'll find me close by  
Tenneson, Sharon and my husband, Reuben.

Warm wishes from a cool Phoenix morning,

Christine

Christine Whitney Sanchez
Collaborative Wisdom & Strategy
480.759.0262
www.christinewhitneysanchez.com
Skype: christinewhitneysanchez
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On Jun 14, 2009, at 6:14 AM, Suzanne Daigle wrote:

We lived the Open Space magic!

Exhausted, exhilarated, in awe and filled with gratitude…Wow! Wow!  
Wow!  Our budding company, which is almost two years young, just  
completed its third Partner Summit. As a community of wholistic  
partners joined by our associate marketing company colleagues and a  
handful of close business friends, we decided to give it our all ,  
invest and immerse ourselves in a full-blown Open Space.

It was a time of transformation, of discovery, of intense reflection  
and emotions, of intimate sharing of dreams, fears and hopes all under  
the big tent of Open Space.  Diane Gibeault, who had trained about a  
third of us in Ottawa (English and French sessions), guided us through  
our two and a half days of emergence and convergence which culminated  
in a flurry of action-packed initiatives that we each feel so  
passionate about and so deeply committed to. There are no words to  
describe the magic of what happened there.

There were many funny moments.  Like the night before we started when  
we discovered there was no electricity in our chosen Open Space venue.  
We knew the place was in construction and had seen the cement floors,  
exposed ceilings, bare white walls now adorned with the 4 Principles,  
Law of 2 feet, Market place, etc.  Then there was the weather: dark  
and gloomy every day except for the final morning which meant that the  
natural light we had planned on from all those windows still kept us  
in the dark.   We connected cables from the corridor to manage our  
newsroom equipment. It was all part of the chaos and confusion, of the  
birthing and letting go.

In a frenzy of activity, we helped in the prep creating the posters,  
the forms, designing the invitations, creating a banner with the theme  
of "Inventing our future". We wanted to learn and experience  
EVERYTHING as participants so that one day, we would truly know what  
our clients would live and feel when they tasted their first Open Space.

I got the OS bug at an Art of Hosting event.  Trusted my gut and  
attended the Open Space training in Ottawa. Was then totally hooked  
after helping a friend facilitate her first Open Space.  From there,  
it was Wave Rider at Sleeping Lady. Now next week, I’m taking the big  
leap by hosting my first Open Space at the Ions Noetic Science  
conference in Tucson on Harvest Day. I will be surrounded by many  
friends of Open Space and feel confident (though I will have  
butterflies in my stomach) that self organizing will work there too.

After our own Open Space summit, I now know without a doubt that Open  
Space works.  How could it not?  It’s all about self organizing and  
shared leadership, a living system and the laws of nature. Yes  
Harrison, you have been singing the tune for a long time. I get it!   
We get it! And for us, what we want to do now is be Wave Riders by  
living Open Space from the inside out in our community of practice.

So Diane Gibeault,  Barbara Hebert, Sharon Joy Kleitsch, and my  
Sleeping Lady friends…, Larry, Anne, Roosevelt, Sherry, Anh, Colette,  
Elaine, Dan, Jun, Robert, Dale, Tenneson, Brian, Teresa, Ashely, Joan,  
Elena and so many others, thank you for inspiring me in Leavenworth.  
What a precious gift!

If any of you are in Tucson for the IONS conference next week, come  
join us on Sunday afternoon June 21st . The theme of this Open Space  
Harvest is  Global Shift: Next steps and if you come "Be ready to be  
surprised!"

Suzanne

941-359-8877

203-722-2009 (c)

s.daigle at nufocusgroup.com
www.nufocusgroup.com

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