OS Sharing of Our Community News))) RE: My Love Affair continues

Sat Oct 30 01:01:47 PDT 2010

A tear-causing genuine sharing of a live OS experience from one of my
beloved OS friend of the World Open Space Community, Suzanne Diagle, who
Opened Space with the Scrum Technology Community Community of software
developers.
(오픈 스페이스 커뮤니티의 사랑하는 제 OS 친구 중의 한 사람인 Suzanne
Diagle이 인터넷 소프트웨어 디벨로퍼들의 커뮤니티인 Scrum Technology
Community와 가졌던 Open Space Event의 생생한 최근 경험담의 눈시울 뜨검게
만든 가슴의 진솔한 공유입니다.)

An sudden enlightenment that my life-what ever it might be- can bring about
beautiful transformation of humanities, a deep move at heart; wouldn't this
be the best a leader could do?
(내가 하는 일이 무엇이든, 자신의 삶이 인류 삶에 아름다운 변화를 가져올 수
있다는 가능성에 대한 자각, 그리고 그 자각으로 부터 각자 내면에서 우러나오는
감동, 리더의 최선의 역할은 이런 것이 아닐까요?)
Would Hope Be It So.
(그렇기를 바랍니다.)

S

Spark
Open Space Institute of Korea,
Open Quest Squad of Open Space
3rd Fl., Samkyung Bldg., 372-10, Seokyo-dong,
Mapo-gu, 121-210, Seoul, Korea
spark at openspace.kr
Phone: 02-353-6356
Mobile: 010-7247-0636
http://www.openspace.kr <http://www.openspace.kr/> 
 <http://www.seri.org/fr/frIntro.html?fno=217692>
http://www.seri.org/fr/frIntro.html?fno=217692
http://www.openspaceworld.org <http://www.openspaceworld.org/> 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology
http://www.artofhosting.org <http://www.artofhosting.org/> 
"Liberate the leader in each of us" 

  _____  

From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Suzanne
Daigle
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 8:08 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: My Love Affair continues

At the very beginning, the recovered “Miss Fix it” that I was with “No
task too big” from the corporate world, becoming an Open Space facilitator
seemed like a climb to Mount Everest. This weekend supported by so many
friends (Christine Whitney Sanchez, Harold Shinsato, Lisa Heft, Larry
Peterson, Diane Gibeault, Harrison of course, Alan Stewart, Juan Luis
Walker and so many others), I felt I peaked at a Base Camp level with an
absolutely wonderful team: members of the Scrum Technology community and
their many allies.  Indeed I have facilitated many Open Space events  but
this one in Phoenix AZ was truly unique and special.
For this two day event, there was community before we even met.  (The true
spirit of pre-work as Ms Heft would call it). Weeks before, topics were
flying on the internet around this theme of “Scrum beyond Software” on
blogs, on twitter, on facebook and everywhere. Dreams were starting to
crystallize, anticipation was building and the spirit of welcome was in the
air. 
I’ll admit that I was somewhat trepidatious in this chaotic, “who’s
doing what” shared leadership, self-organizing world with my new techie
friends. I breathed in and breathed out, knowing that what they have done
to change the world in technology, in community, as free agents and free
spirits to make this global world a smaller place, through technology
change and large system change, well I knew they had something precious to
share with the rest of the world.  And share they did.
>From California to Serbia, Canada to the Eastern US, from the Mid-West to
the Far-West, they came.  The banner and welcome signs became works of art,
the chairs quickly arranged in circle, everything was ready the night
before. Comfortably settled in this incredible place called “Gangplank”,
certainly worth reading about (http://gangplankhq.com/ ) that could not
have been better chosen for all its principles and values which parallel so
much of who we are in Open Space, the conversations began.  Quickly
participants bounded to the center, many still infused with the Orlando
event last March that Harrison hosted.  The topics just kept coming, too
many to really count because it really didn’t matter.  It was the passion
behind the words that mattered most.  
What I realized in that instant is that when there is a spirit of welcome,
a diverse group, people who are there because they want to be there, a
sense of urgency because the world needs this and a complex topic that
sparks and ignites, well indeed magic or real life happens.  People quickly
shed their facades, threw caution to the wind, and they got to work.  In my
opening remarks, I talked about nervous energy (for those who had never sat
in a circle like this in Open Space) and pent-up energy (for those who just
wanted to get on with it so pressing were the topics they wanted to
discuss) suggesting that these were the perfect ingredients for innovation
and creativity.  I invited all to pause, to look around that giant circle
as if seated in the Arizona desert  to see who was there and to leave room
from within for the 4 principles and the Law of 2 feet to do their thing.
Leave some space to be surprised, I said, and let go of pre-determined
expectations.  These principles and this law, would be some of the precious
take-aways to be used in our life beyond this event.  
No sooner were those words spoken than my job was done.  I truly became
invisible (with a slight tad of sadness I’ll admit) knowing that passion
and responsibility had found their place and there was truly nothing left
to do.  Yes in some cases, there were concerns: were people documenting
their reports, were we capturing the names of all the participants…and I
chose to simply smile knowing that I could not interrupt the intense
conversations (butterflies, bumble bees and participants) as it would
perhaps crash the one magical moment where individuals were connecting and
creating something greater than I could imagine.  I had no doubt that
everything would be alright, that responsibility would combine with passion
and that action would naturally emerge which it did and will. 
So I stood back and quietly watched the intense expressions, the energy
bouncing off the walls (exhausting at times), the charged discussions, the
markers flying on the flip chart sheets, the smart phone video cameras
capturing the action in the moment, the live stream twitter comments
enticing folks outside the room to respond. It was exciting; it was
exhilarating!  Anyone interested, have a peak (blogs and live stream)
http://phoenix.scrumgathering.org/
And then at some point, I shed my facilitator role too and had a few
wonderful and life changing conversations with a few butterflies.
As we closed the circle after two days asking people to say not what they
thought but rather to describe how they “felt” about what had happened, I
knew then just as I had experienced it at the Wave Rider event in Toronto
and also at WOSonOS  in Taiwan that these moments would never happen again.
This is it and this is now!   Certainly what happened in those two days
borrowing from the title of one of Harrison’s books is that for those two
days in Phoenix, we were “Expanding our Now” and I, for one, will be
forever grateful to have had a small part in making this happen with
others.   My love affair with Open Space continues.  

Suzanne
-- 
Suzanne Daigle
NuFocus Strategic Group
7159 Victoria Circle
University Park, FL 34201
FL 941-359-8877;  
CT 203-722-2009
www.nufocusgroup.com
s.daigle at nufocusgroup.com

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