NYC Stammtisch last night!

[Diane Gibeault]

Esther,
Good job at spreading the word about OS and sharing very concrete examples with us of what is of interest to people.

It's great that you provided a French version too.

Merci encore et à la prochaine à Montréal ou Ottawa,

Diane 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Esther Matte
Sent: 16 septembre 2009 15:37
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Subject: [OSLIST] NYC Stammtisch last night!

FRENCH FOLLOWS ENGLISH

Hi everyone!

That exceptional gathering within an ODNGNY event was different, and gave an opportunity to explain Open Space and how it works to people who had heard about it but not necessarily knew a lot about it. 

One consultant said she uses OS mostly to inspire her work, using the agenda creation part to start their meetings, and looks for opportunities to bring a full blown event to her workplace. Another works with America Speaks and could see the connection between OS and their own specific methodology, which has a certain OS spirit embedded in it. Another hadnt used it yet but had participated to an OS event and saw it as very powerful. Another could see the opportunity to bridge her art background in working with an OS facilitator to record discussions graphically. Others were simply curious and wanted to learn more. 

We answered a lot of questions, talked about heart, passion, engagement, letting go, responsibility and some other essential ingredients of OS such as circle, a will to open space and follow through, giving a full and unedited report to participants at the end of the event.

It was a great night! Thanks to all who showed up, shared their experience or asked questions:-)  

Hope to see you on November 17th! Im looking for another place to gather next time. If anyone knows of a place where we can have food and drinks as well as conversations somewhere between high 40s and high 60s on the East Side in Manhattan, Im all ears! 

Cheers!

FRENCH

Ce cercle exceptionnel dans le cadre d'une activit du rseau de DO du Grand New York tait diffrent, donnant l'occasion d'expliquer le Forum ouvert  des gens qui en avaient entendu parler mais n'taient pas ncessairement familiers avec la mthode. 

Une consultante s'inspire du FO dans son travail, crant l'ordre du jour de ses runions  la faon FO, mais cherchant toujours une occasion d'organiser un vritable FO dans son organisation. Un autre qui travaille avec America Speaks voyait un lien entre le FO et la mthodologie spcifique  l'organisme, qui semble imprgn d'un certain esprit FO. Un autre ne l'avait jamais utilis, mais avait particip  un FO et estimait la mthode trs puissante. Une autre encore pouvait voir merger l'occasion d'tablir une connexion entre ses antcdents en arts et un travail avec un animateur de FO pour crer des rapports visuels. D'autres encore taient tout simplement curieux d'en savoir plus. 

Nous avons rpondu  beaucoup de questions, parl de coeur, de passion, d'engagement, d'abandon, de responsabilit et d'autres ingrdients "essentiels" du FO comme le cercle, la volont d'ouvrir l'espace et de soutenir les rsultats, la remise aux participants d'un rapport complet, sans travail d'dition,  la fin de l'vnement.   
C'tait une belle soire! Merci  tous ceux et celles qui ont particip en communiquant leurs expriences ou en posant des questions :-)

Notre prochain cercle se tiendra le 17 novembre. Je cherche un nouvel endroit pour se runion. Si quelqu'un connat un endroit o nous pourrions prendre un verre, un repas et avoir des conversations quelque part entre les 45e et 68e rue du East Side de de Manhattan, je suis tout ouie! 

 la prochaine!

Esther Matte
Discover - Engage - Accomplish
New York: 212.755.0551
Montreal: 450.583.5849
www.excellence.ca

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