My Love Affair continues

Artur Silva arturfsilva at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 7 12:06:58 PDT 2010


Thanks for your marvelous description of a marvelous event, dear Suzanne.

Beijos e abraços

Artur



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From: Claudia Alarcon <claudia.alarcon at gmail.com>
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Sent: Thu, September 30, 2010 3:35:12 PM
Subject: Re: [OSLIST] My Love Affair continues


Dear Suzanne,
 
The event was wonderful and beyond our expectations. I was so blessed to be 
there. You opened and held the space beautifully.
 
Thank you for your inspiration.
 
Claudia Alarcon


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Suzanne Daigle <sdaigle4 at gmail.com> wrote:

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 trepidatiousin 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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