2nd European OS Learning Exchange 2011

[Michael M Pannwitz]

Dear Juan Luis,
I would love to come to Chile!
And thanks for inviting me to the very attractive bet.
Since I no longer am able to handle travelling very well, especially not 
long distances in planes, I have to skip this one!
Dear Juan, I would love to see you in Italy next May...let me know what 
I can do to make it come true.
Greetings from Berlin
mmp



JL Walker schrieb:
> Dear Michael and all:
> 
> Thank you very much for your reminder and promotion.
> 
> As I said to Gerardo de Luzenberger for about a month ago:
> 
> "Yes my dear the IXX WOSonOS will be in Chile in our spring and the fall of
> Europe, in October 2011, and I'm working on it with the same enthusiasm and
> with all the good winds & waves that are emerging here.
> 
> I hope that moving the European Learning Exchange from September to May of
> 2011 it will not cause too much problems to you and your team.
> 
> That I feel it as a big solidarity gesture of your part, who makes me feel a
> debt of gratitude with all of you there.  
> 
> Moreover and beyond, I want to make you my dear fellow countryman a good
> bet.
> 
> If I go to Italy in May, you then my dear friend, you will have to come to
> Chile in October.
> 
> What do you tell me? Do you accept?"
> 
> So now I have the commitment to extend this bet to all who attend to the
> Learning Exchange on the Island of Sardinia in May 2011. ¿Do you all accept?
> 
> Other good news are coming soon, all the best.
> 
> Love & peace,
> 
> Juan Luis Walker
> 
> Personal email: juanluiswalker at gmail.com 
> 
> Phone: 56-2-2691033
> 
> Mobile: 56-9-92220127
> 
> Skype: jlwalker54
> 
> http://www.espacioabierto.net
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] En nombre de Michael M
> Pannwitz
> Enviado el: sábado, 24 de julio de 2010 13:44
> Para: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Asunto: [OSLIST] 2nd European OS Learning Exchange 2011
> 
>  
> 
> Dear Suzanne, Juliane, Luca, Aniko, Edit and you others, the 2nd European
> Open Space Learning Exchange has been moved from September 2011 (it was
> planned some time before the 2011 WOSonOS in Chile appeared, happily!) to
> May 2011.
> 
> This way it is not close to our worldwide gathering in Chile in October of
> 2011.
> 
> There will be a prelude/reception in the Evening of May 17 with the Learning
> Exchange beginning in the morning of May 18 and ending around noon on May
> 20. It will take place on the Island of Sardinia...and, among other things,
> I am sure there will be a breakout session on "Going to Chile in October!".
> 
>  
> 
> Greetings from Berlin
> 
> mmp
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Michael M Pannwitz schrieb:
> 
>> Dear Suzanne,
> 
>> you and your Dad are invited to the Second European Learning Exchange 
> 
>> on Open Space (these events take place in those years when WOSonOS is 
> 
>> not in Europe) which will be in Sardinia in September of 2011. Gerardo 
> 
>> and Jo and Jutta visited Sardinia earlier this year to have a look at 
> 
>> various possible venues...all beautiful.
> 
>> I do hope that Gerardo and his local colleagues will come up with some 
> 
>> more details soon...I did have the postcard of the beach (one of the
> 
>> venues) up at the WOSonOS and several people indicated interest by 
> 
>> signing in (Juliane Ade,Jo Toepfer and me from Berlin, Luca Simeone 
> 
>> from Italy, Aniko Karl and Edit Moldovan from Hungary).
> 
>> Greetings from Berlin
> 
>> mmp
> 
> 
>> Suzanne Daigle schrieb:
> 
>>> Hello to my dear Open Space family,
> 
> 
>>> This is a story about a daughter, a father and Open Space. Something 
> 
>>> happened in Berlin in May, but the story started a long time ago and 
> 
>>> with buckets of gratitude, I want to gift it to all of you, my Open 
> 
>>> Space family, hoping what happened to me also happens to you.
> 
> 
>>> While at the WOSonOS in Berlin, I happily spotted the Open Space 
> 
>>> Technology Guide in Italian on the Access Queen Auction table.  I was 
> 
>>> determined to bid and win this valuable book with the intent of 
> 
>>> giving it to my dad, an Italian aficionado who is now fluent in 
> 
>>> Italian after more than a decade of learning the language, traveling 
> 
>>> to Italy to visit many Etruscan ruins and an avid reader of Italian 
> 
>>> newspapers on the internet. He is 80 years old. I overbid the young 
> 
>>> Michael Pannwitz a few times; he graciously stopped bidding when he 
> 
>>> saw how much I wanted it.  As I was collecting my prize, I had the 
> 
>>> good fortune of running into Gerardo De Luzenberger, who had 
> 
>>> translated this wonderful guide.  I asked him if he  would inscribe 
> 
>>> it for my father which he did, in Italian.  I would have to wait 
> 
>>> until I returned to Florida to know what he wrote. My intention then  
> 
>>> was for dad to read Gerardo’s note and perhaps scan a few pages in 
> 
>>> the book, which hopefully might give him a better understanding of 
> 
>>> Open Space. Lord knows he had heard me talk about it often enough, 
> 
>>> like a smitten teenager with a new boyfriend.
> 
> 
>>> I have struggled to explain OS to dad (and many others) in terms that 
> 
>>> he could relate to.  As a retired radiologist and student of life in 
> 
>>> everything from science, to ancient history, art and music , Dad has 
> 
>>> always been someone more focused on data, facts, and accuracy than on 
> 
>>> the workings of  people dynamics, collaboration, and large system 
> 
>>> transformation which he sometimes described as politics with too many 
> 
>>> controlling leaders – probably lots of truth to his assessments.
> 
>>> Throughout my life, dad and I had had more than our share of talking 
> 
>>> “at” each other rather than “with” each other in the ways of many 
> 
>>> daughters who want to be like their dads yet fail to realize that 
> 
>>> it's more about being yourself and living the best of who YOU are. 
> 
>>> That said, our debates are similar to those everywhere with facts and 
> 
>>> wanting to prove something blocking us from the essence of what's 
> 
>>> important..
> 
> 
>>> Well things are different now between us because of Open Space.  Yes 
> 
>>> we still talk about facts but we also talk about the "other stuff"
> 
>>> too.  We share in ways we have never shared before, with an easiness 
> 
>>> and joy of just being together. He tells me stories of his youth, of 
> 
>>> his life, dozens and dozens of them, some I've heard, many I have 
> 
>>> not.. We laugh and we share with mom listening on quietly as 
> 
>>> entertained by the stories as I am.  What's also really different now 
> 
>>> is how interested he is in the details and essence of the work I am 
> 
>>> doing. Still sometimes hard for me to explain it to him but I'm 
> 
>>> getting better at it.
> 
> 
>>> The ITALIAN Open Space guide was a big breakthrough and I still smile 
> 
>>> at what happened.  Well dad read the ENTIRE book from COVER to COVER.
> 
>>> He was glowing in his assessment of how easy it had been to read, 
> 
>>> describing the excellence of the translation which according to him, 
> 
>>> captured the essence and feel of the English language in which it had 
> 
>>> been conceived now written in the new language that he loves.  Was I 
> 
>>> ever surprised but should I have been?
> 
> 
>>> And then here’s where the fun begins.  Boy did I get grilled!  All of 
> 
>>> a sudden he was interrogating me about the Open Spaces I had been 
> 
>>> involved in this past year, asking if they had fully met the criteria 
> 
>>> outlined by this chap Harrison Owen, a guy he evidently admired as he 
> 
>>> glowingly described his common sense and “tell it like it is” style 
> 
>>> which is also dad's style.  Of course dad was referring to the Open 
> 
>>> Space event that have: a real issue of concern, high levels of 
> 
>>> complexity, diversity, voluntary self-selection and a decision time 
> 
>>> of yesterday.  He asked me about my “topic themes” , the groups and 
> 
>>> who they were, and about the book of proceedings and reports.  
> 
>>> Admittedly, many of my early ventures in Open Space were timid and 
> 
>>> did not fully conform but at least I was plunging in.  My mom, who 
> 
>>> was eavesdropping on our telephone conversation that day, tried to 
> 
>>> mediate what became heated and passionate discussions between us.  In 
> 
>>> the end, probably the best compliment a daughter can get from her dad 
> 
>>> is to hear him
> 
>>> say: Sue you’re going to be really good at this; you’re made to do 
> 
>>> this kind of work.  And then the conversation opened up in a whole 
> 
>>> new direction with us animatedly talking about all the situations and 
> 
>>> possibilities of where Open Space can make a huge difference in the 
> 
>>> world, the stuff he cares about and the stuff I care about. The list 
> 
>>> was endless.
> 
> 
>>> Now as I come out of  our second annual Open Space with my NuFocus 
> 
>>> family having spent 2.5 intense days together looking at our 
> 
>>> international future and possibilities  I see the same powerful 
> 
>>> breakthroughs between  the guys and the girls that make up our 
> 
>>> company. The layers peel off, gently at first when we started a few 
> 
>>> years ago and then so very fast as we revel in being together, 
> 
>>> exploring our future and just being ourselves.  Open Space is a 
> 
>>> precious gift.  I see it as the invitation to take that first big 
> 
>>> bold step of courage as it was for us: to bravely be who we are, to 
> 
>>> notice ourselves and others and then just get on with our beautiful life.
> 
>>> Magic in so many ways!
> 
> 
>>> So Gerardo, thank you translating the OS guide and for your personal 
> 
>>> note to my dad and Harrison well, Happy Father’s Day. Who  knows 
> 
>>> maybe you and dad will one day enjoy a martini together, which is 
> 
>>> something else you have in common besides being “straight talkers”.  
> 
>>> Happy Father's day to all the OS dads out there as I wish you all the 
> 
>>> same beautiful journey of love with your kids as I have with my dad 
> 
>>> (and my
> 
>>> mom) in this last chapter of their lives.
> 
> 
>>> Yes, much has changed in my life since I met Open Space and what I 
> 
>>> realize now, more and more, is that this simple STORY is the STORY of 
> 
>>> many, people in all kinds of situations, people with passion who want 
> 
>>> to make a difference. Simple stories because of the predictable 
> 
>>> patterns that unfold and that allow us to release the unique 
> 
>>> leadership that's inside of each of us. These individual insights of 
> 
>>> us as leaders are the true building blocks of community and a 
> 
>>> collective.  It all starts with the  "simple" stories of who we are.
> 
> 
>>> Much love to all on this Father's Day, Suzanne
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 

-- 
Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg
Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
++49-30-772 8000
mmpanne at boscop.org
www.boscop.org


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