Wosonos 2012 first open space

Tue Nov 23 02:35:43 PST 2010

Dear Phelim,

you say..."It should be: An exciting *party*; Open to all; Have many *
by-products* that are beneficial to the UK open space community & worldwide
communities; Help build and *coalesce *the latent UK community which is "out
there";  Ensure all the people who want to be a part of it are given
the *opportunity
*to do so. Welcoming people from the *wider world* to our Open shores.
*Transparency
*is an essential ingredient for the central host team."

and all of this is so inviting!

Harrison´s and Suzanne´s answers have made very good point on working to
hard (in the hosting or in general) for my own. Really, it´s being in the
same space together that means the most.

Best wishes!

Eleder

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2010/11/21 Phelim <phelim at mac.com>

> Dear OS listers,
>
> As Jon Harvey has already reported on the os list, two weekends ago the
> first open space was held for our Wosonos 2012 event. The Improbable office
> booked the space for us and I opened the space. It was a great turn out
> considering we had limited time to drum up support and interest. Thank you
> for helping make that happen. There was a lot of enthusiasm and lots of
>  sessions called and of course the beginnings of the rumblings from the
> field that come up when one takes the initiative on starting an event like
> this. I got to meet some faces for the first time and also met some people I
> didn't know I knew.
>
>
> So here's my feedback on the whole event. On Sat/Sun we had a day and a
> half in open space.
> After the event there are a number of things that are "up" for me. One is
> Improbable's heart responsibility towards creating an event like this and
> ultimately what the nature of their involvement is. Improbable took the
> initiative on making this invitation happen at the 2010 Wosonos, thanks to
> Matilda with support from Jon and Romy, and it was as such that it was
> accepted in Berlin. With this we have been handed an ineffable something, we
> have been entrusted with it and we have responsibilities towards it. It is
>  like a gentle flame (a metaphor which came up a lot over the weekend) and
> We feel a onus to look after this and make sure it doesn't go out. We must
> honour its journey from Berlin and its previous historic invocations it will
> be coming to us via Chile and end up in the UK. So we are Honouring the past
> whilst looking towards creating a new space for it to burn brightly in the
> future. So at present we are cupping it in our hands trying to shield it
> from our autumn win!
>  ds here.  At the same time we mustn't hold it too tightly so that the
> flame gets smothered and loses it's oxygen and spirit.  So can we balance
> the fact that we made the invitation and are the trustees of this accepted
> invitation without controlling it too much?
>
> All these challenges seem like a perfect opportunity to use what OS is
> designed for. As a company (theatre not business although it of course is
> both) some of the benefits we have are  of being a very small organisation
> who has in the past facilitated some very big events so we have some
> experience here. We also have a pool of people in our own open space
> community (mostly but not wholly from  the artistic world) who have a
> passion for and interest in open space and it's divergent possibilities and
> uses.
>
> My personal interest is in finding out if we can use open space itself to
> unfold an emergent organisation/community/team who will help make all this
> happen. Can we learn how an organisation might create itself out of open
> space principles? At the crux of the process we hope to use this opportunity
> to hold a space where open space practitioners feel welcomed, where we are
> welcoming amongst ourselves and consequently in a good place to turn
> outwards to the world to invite people to the UK. We are creating a
> community that welcomes a wider worldwide community.
>
> In this first OS we did the minimum of  "organisation" hoping that the
> people who turn up will take responsibility for doing/changing things they
> want to make happen.
>
> So the tension we find ourselves holding in is looking after the trust that
> has been placed in us to host this event with the desire to not "control" or
> dictate how it happens. This is also important to us as we genuinely cannot
> do this alone and need the support of others in order to manifest this
> event.
> At the moment we are still negotiating the fact that some people are
> turning up and ask: "How are you going to be doing this?" Well ultimately it
> will of course be how are we going to do this?
>
>
> The idea for what the event should be included some of these criteria:
>
> It should be: An exciting party; Open to all; Have many by-products that
> are beneficial to the UK open space community & worldwide communities; Help
> build and coalesce the latent UK community which is "out there";  Ensure all
> the people who want to be a part of it are given the opportunity to do so.
> Welcoming people from the wider world to our Open shores. Transparency is an
> essential ingredient for the central host team.
>
>
> I also saw lots of the prime ingredients for the fertile compost open Space
> thrives on. This is a list of the criteria for OS to operate at a high
> performance level.
>
>
> #1: A real business issue:
> Yes we have it. A commitment to make this event happen in 2012 in the UK
> for the UK OS community and the world.
> #2: Voluntary self selection: so our invite has gone out and already a
> group of interested people have shown up. There is a commitment to do a
> number of open spaces which invite the UK OS community to take part. This
> has been flagged as hopefully not just being London centric so our reach has
> to go further but I imagine those who can and are interested in working with
> us will come to the next open spaces or stay in touch with us. We are aiming
> to do open spaces outside London to pick up other memebers of the community
> and widen the net. This continued activity of opening space in different
> spaces will unfold its own self selection process. Anyone who is interested
> in other parts of the UK who wants to host an invite in your area of the UK
> please let us know!
>
> #3: High levels of complexity: Already the challenges we face are I feel
> beyond the ability of one single "old style" directive organisation of
> encompassing or holding. The challenges we face in looking after the UK and
> world communities their demands,dreams and hopes for the event are
> incredibly complex.
>
> #4:High levels of diversity:
> This is an interesting one. I actually feel there was a good level of
> practitioner diversity at the event but feel the call to do further events
> really wants to engage with this. Ambassadors will be essential in
> fulfilling this criteria on all the potential colours and possibilities.
>
> #5:Presence of passion and conflict: Yes present and correct I feel: in the
> feedback on how we did the event, gossip and certainly present in some of
> the sessions and interactions I had. Hurrah!
>
> #6:Decision time of yesterday:
> People keep asking us when its going to happen on the OS list and also
> who's doing it so I guess we are already late by some peoples clocks!
>
>
> The reports from the first OS have already gone online as a blog for the
> people who were there to contribute to and comment on.
>
> Overall
> Speaking for Improbable I'd like to say what is important for us is our aim
> to ensure all the people who want to be a part of Wosonos 2012 are given an
> authentic opportunity to do so. At the moment I feel that as a core
> organisation unfolds or emerges we will be part of that or have a strong
> relationship to it. We aim to maintain the links with the world community
> and the world institutes. As this story tells itself Improbable must make a
> decision as to what level of responsibility we take in it. As this happens
> we will make an informed decision as to how central we are to that
> organisation either as a company or as individuals. It is all unfolding.
>
> In terms of actions, what needs to be decided and actioned on is: Where and
> when the next open space to continue creating this team happens? Who hosts
> it? We already have one offer which we need to say yes or no to soon. I'd
> like to know if there are more out there? Either from the people who came to
> the event or others who didn't come. So that would also include all kinds of
> offers from suggesting a good space, a good place in the rest of the country
> to go to or include, offers to host with or without our support etc..
> Etc..All variations considered!  Please put the word out and get in touch
> with us as soon as possible!
>
> Best wishes to you all out there in the world
>
> Phelim x
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
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