WOSonOS 2012 our next OS gathering

Thu Mar 10 11:31:29 PST 2011

Dear open space friends,

AS Lisa Heft mentions below. "WOSonOS 2012" will be taking place in the UK.  As part of our creation of the core team and connecting to interested spirited parties we are having a series of open space events before we knuckle down to the hardcore planning of our event. These are to harvest ideas, start creating UK "community spirit glue" and to find out who's out there using and interested in open space we don't even know about. So here's another chance to come meet us, support and get involved. At our first OS we put out the call for anyone interested anywhere in the UK to play host to our next gathering.  After that event Liz Martins of "Constellations and Open Space Partnership" has stepped up and offered to co-host our next gathering with us at Improbable. She will be opening the space with her colleague Vivian Broughton on May 7/8th in Bristol. So here is the invitation. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Best wishes

Phelim McDermott

Here's the online link to it with the full details please do pass it on.

http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a5189ca3fc76859d6e74c21e3&id=28fd10d59e&e=68b9dddaac

heres the invite

WOSonOS 2012: Do you want to be part of making it happen?

Saturday 7 May 11am – 6pm & Sunday 8 May 10am – 1pm
Odd Fellows Hall, Bristol (Full details below)

Are you interested in Open Space Technology? Do you want to share and extend your Open Space skills?
Would you like to connect to people in the UK and worldwide who are using Open Space in many different ways?
Do you want to join a community of people who are working towards the World Open Space on Open Space (WOSonOS) in the UK in 2012?

What is WOSonOS?
WOSonOS is an unparalleled international gathering of Open Space practitioners who come together to share their wisdom and experience around group practice and self organisation.
It takes place once a year, each time in a different country in the world. 2012 will be the event’s 20th anniversary and the first time it will ever have taken place in the UK.

What is this event? Over the coming months Improbable, in collaboration with other people and organisations around the UK, will be holding a series of Open Space events to create a vision for WOSonOS 2012 and make decisions about how to implement that vision. We held our first of these last November in London. There was a great turn out and many enthusiastic discussions began.

Whether you attended this and want to come back for more, or whether this will be your first ever experience of Open Space, you are equally welcome to come to Bristol on May 7th and 8th for this next event. 
As well as being the vehicle for planning WOSonOS these events are an opportunity for different people to gather and build a UK OS community of practitioners and participants, interested in forming a generous space in which to share ideas and learn from and support each other.

Many diverse people who work with OS come to WOSonOS with an attitude of generosity – sharing stories, swapping skills and creating new ideas and projects. If you are interested in being part of and contributing to the creation of this event please come to our next Open space in Bristol!

Hope to see you there,

Phelim McDermott of Improbable (@openspacer)
Liz Martins & Vivian Broughton of Constellations Open Space Partnership
Jon Harvey of Jon Harvey Associates (@jonsharvey)

DETAILS

Date: Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th May

Time: 11am - 6pm & 10am – 1pm

Venue: Oddfellows Hall, 20 West Park, Bristol, BS8 2LT.

Directions: Oddfellows Hall is just off Whiteladies Road, a few minutes walk from Clifton Down Railway station.
Parking is unrestricted but sometimes difficult to find. There is a multi-story car park at Clifton Down, off Whiteladies Road, and some parking at the station. There are frequent buses along Whiteladies Road from the centre of Bristol.

Link to Map - http://tinyurl.com/65a47ft

Booking: To cover costs we are asking for £20 per person or for you to pay what you can.

To book your place call Improbable on 0207 240 4556
or email office at improbable.co.uk

For access issues, or any other enquiries please also use the above contacts.

Our next open space event happens on Saturday 7th May 
On 10 Mar 2011, at 03:49, Lisa Heft wrote:

> Hello, dear colleagues -
> 
> Michael brought up a lovely reminder - the World Open Space on Open Space is this October in Chile. 
> The 2012 World Open Space on Open Space is in London.
> 
> It is very helpful to hear of a bit more than a year advance of where a future WOSonOS will be - so we can save our pennies and euros and rands with enough advance notice to do so - and put our dreams in our calendars.
> And for some Host Teams - it can take a year or more to plan, find resources, connect to each other as community, share learning and get ready to host - though some teams need less advance time for their own efforts. 
> 
> Historically, a marvelous way to invite the world to your country for a WOSonOS is to either come yourself to a WOSonOS or send a message through a representative (from any country) who is coming to the WOSonOS - to make your invitation. Past inviters have given us such a lovely flavor of culture and have illustrated how a growing community of Open Space practitioners is waiting and ready to host this international gathering.
> 
> I underline: you do not have to be able to attend the WOSonOS in order to invite - though it may be helpful to try to do so if your resources will allow - to experience some of the traditions of WOSonOSs and see how other Host Teams do it.  However in past, I or Brian or Thomas and Eva have invited on others' behalf, for those future Host Teams who are unable to send a representative.
> It works so well when the inviters can give a flavor for the culture and the capacity of doing Open Space work and being able to host - so you might want to think about that when it is your turn to think about hosting.
> 
> I have a letter I have kept rolling over the years since 2011 - with wisdom from past WOSonOS Host Teams - good ideas to read *before* you think about inviting - as their lessons learned are similar from year to year and their wisdom is very helpful to those of you thinking of inviting for future years.  Please do let me know if you / your country mates are thinking of inviting - contact me directly at lisaheft at openingspace.net and I can send you this letter of wise advice.
> 
> Not that you have to do it in the same way - but that there are some lessons learned you may wish to know about.
> 
> Remember that the most people who can come come over land or short plane trips - because that is what is most affordable. So your largest participant group will come from your own region.
> And instead of this just being a fun international event that we folks-from-outside-your-region get to go to  - a 'one-off' - my recommendation is to think of how the Chile Host Team and the London Host Team are doing it - building capacity of facilitators in their own region through workshops, gathering, local OSonOSs and more - long before the event date - building a community of practice in Open Space. Not just doing a WOSonOS event. So an Open Space community existed before, supports during, and continues after this event.  
> 
> As Michael offered - I, too am happy to help and support you in your invitations.
> 
> Who will invite us for 2013? Do you have a plan for building capacity in your community? Do you have an existing community of Open Space practitioners?   
> I will be in Chile this October so perhaps I will see you there or help you make your invitation....
> 
> Lisa
> 
> 
> Lisa Heft
> Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
> Opening Space
> lisaheft at openingspace.net
>  
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