Thinking about hosting a future WOSonOS? New to travel? Lessons learned papers

Sat May 1 09:34:54 PDT 2010

Looking forward to meeting you Lisa!

Jon

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lisa Heft
Sent: 01 May 2010 16:54
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Thinking about hosting a future WOSonOS? New to travel? Lessons
learned papers

Hello, dear colleagues -

I will be seeing some of you wonderful folks at the World Open Space on Open
Space (WOSonOS) in Berlin this month.

During these events we often share thoughts about future locations as we
share the WOSonOS around the world (intentionally crossing oceans back and
forth so that if the WOSonOS is not near you during one year, it may be
geographically closer to your part of the world the next year)

One of the things I do as Access Queen for our community is share
information and collected wisdom about the things that help people access
these annual international gatherings of ours.

So if you are coming to Berlin and have never traveled outside your own
country - if this international travel stuff is very new to you - do send me
an email directly at lisaheft at openingspace.net before May 8 (when I start my
own travels) and I can send you a paper with things to think about for
first-time international travelers.

And if you are thinking of what it takes (preparation, planning, timelines,
traditions, team tasks, resources needed and more) to host a future WOSonOS
in your own country in some future year, contact me directly before May 8 or
after June 8 and I will send you the collected wisdom from past WOSonOS
hosts.  

I have found that the work of a Host Team starts far in advance, is best
supported by a local team (instead of one passionate person on their own)
and hosted where there is an existing community of practice (so that it is
not a one-time OS experience or a first-time-with-OS experience but instead
something that connects to local existing capacity and an existing OS
facilitation community), that it is useful to have experienced at least one
WOSonOS (to see how it differs from other OS events including some of the
traditions shared from year to year), that the majority of participants come
over land and shorter sea or air distances (so that figures into one's
expectations of how many participants may be expected), and more - my
observations and others' (similar to mine and different than mine) are in
this document and I am happy to share it with you. 

Lastly, for those of you coming to the WOSonOS this month - I look forward
to seeing the marvelous items you pack along in your suitcase to share:
beautiful and interesting things from your countries and communities to sell
to each other in the Global Village Marketplace and the Silent Auction to
raise resources for 'Askers' who wish to come to future WOSonOSs, and tasty
delights from your regions to add to the lovely dinner our wonderful Berlin
Host Team is preparing (your 'International Suitcase Cuisine').  And I look
forward to exploring our thoughts,  experiences and ideas in the WOSonOS
sessions.  My deep thanks to the WOSonOS Host Team for all their hard work
preparing for a lovely event (and helping everyone with housing,
registration, and more) - and I shall see some of you in just a few weeks...

Lisa

Lisa Heft

Consultant, Facilitator, Educator

Opening Space

lisaheft at openingspace.net

www.openingspace.net

Ask me about the Open Space Learning Workshops - October 15-18, 2010 -
Medellin, Colombia and December 15-17, 2010 - San Francisco

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