[OSList] Poke the Open Space Box
doug
os at footprintsinthewind.com
Wed May 18 19:44:44 PDT 2011
Barry--
How do you explain what you do? Focus on deliverables? Describe any
parts of the process (bulletin board, for instance)?
I remember one client who kept saying "That's not what I pictured...."
:- Doug.
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 19:32 -0500, Barry Owen wrote:
> "Living in Open Space" is something I decided to do 20ish years ago.
> It's been working fairly well.
>
> Occasionally, opportunities show up for me to Open Space for groups,
> and I am always honored to have the privilege of holding those spaces.
>
> Interestingly, I have never opened a Space in which the participants
> were concerned about what the process of the event would be. Most
> "attendees" show up because they have an interest (passion) for the
> theme at hand . . . not because of the format.
>
> I'm an avid seth godin Reader - Smart man!
> I'm most aware of the uncanny reality that "innovation" happens most
> often when we allow things to happens as they would anyway if we
> didn;t attempt to organize and control . . . Open Space!
>
> It's ALL very liberating for me.
>
> Now! as to how to make money doing it . . . I haven't figured that
> part out (yet)
>
> That seems to be taking care of itself.
>
> :-) best,
>
> b
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:51 AM, <donna.read at managing4wellness.org>
> wrote:
> Dear All, I just want to take a second to thank everyone who
> has participated in this, to me, extremely important
> conversation. It has been so helpful to me in making myself
> move out, poke the box and hit GO. Looking around, I had to
> admit that anyone who ever accomplished anything had to poke
> and hit the button. I read the whole Poke the Box rant
> yesterday afternoon and wouldn't have without all of you even
> though I've had it on my Kindle since March. So glad I did and
> so grateful for this list. Time to uncoil the Dragon Lizard
> from off my heart and throat. All my potential clients can say
> is "no" and there's a chance they might say "yes." Bright
> blessings, Donna
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [OSList] Poke the Open Space Box
> From: Suzanne Daigle <sdaigle4 at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, May 18, 2011 6:13 am
> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
> <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
>
> Harold,
>
> Your post has been on my mind a lot...Your question:
> "What's the path to abundant full time Open Space
> living?" and then your comment "I've been wishing I
> could do this full time - go out - get clients - and
> facilitate OST conferences full time - but Seth's
> quote kind of threw that back at me".
>
> All I can say Harold is to follow your passion. In
> many ways it is a hero's journey, a journey that does
> not have the security, the predictability, the
> stability and all that a traditional "abundant full
> time job or career might have". For me, Open Space
> is the pathway that opens up space to transform how we
> do work, how we experience life, how we are together,
> together. There is nothing that compares. I know I
> could be accused at times of being a "one trick pony"
> but how can I dismiss the depth, the possibilities,
> the layers, the hope, the transformation, innovation,
> creativity, peace, performance and all that Opening
> Space invites in our lives. It is a way of being much
> more than a process of doing.
>
> As I reflect on my corporate career, I can feel and
> taste the possibilities of what Open Space invites. It
> invites EVERYONE to participate and engage, to
> contribute and make a difference. To be themselves
> without holding back. Wow! And as I think of you
> Harold, your depth, your commitment and contributions
> to this community, I think to myself, lucky client who
> would have you to Open Space. What a gift knowing the
> results and outcomes in productivity, high performance
> and high engagement that could occur.
>
> As a community, I feel us to be on the edge...on the
> edge of so many possibilities. The World today is a
> very different place: in business, in politics, in
> education, in finance, environmentally, etc. Or
> perhaps it's not that different at all, it's just our
> perception that has changed and perception is
> everything. It's a lot.
>
> The opportunities to be opening space abound. Some
> days I feel like a shoe salesman seeing
> so many people around me with no shoes, not even
> knowing what shoes are and I think of the "repetitive
> patterns" of how they work and live that aren't
> working anymore. I then think to myself "if only they
> had shoes aka Open Space" and therein lies the
> entrepreneur magic inside of me. In those times, I
> feel myself to be a business owner, a scientist and an
> inventor -- imagining the path of how I can help
> people discover how life could be better if only we
> could open space and introduce a few principles of
> living.
>
> At this stage, rather than writing a book, I feel
> myself wanting to write a marketing campaign not to
> sell somebody on something but to speak in a language
> where people are, a language of need and possibilities
> that is familiar. A language that invites a
> relationship with clients, a language that does not
> talk about Open Space but that is all about Opening
> Space in different ways so we can get different
> results.
>
> So Harold, I thank you for posting this. It made me
> realize again that time is "awasting" and that I have
> important work to do if I am to go for the whole
> enchilada, as Harrison told me in a recent post. It
> means being smart and strategic, thinking like an
> entrepreneur, knowing what I'm good at and going for
> it.
>
> I'm imagining there are lots of Wave Riders out there
> like you, like me who are not shy about announcing
> that making a sustainable living doing what we love to
> do is indeed a noble and worthy goal. And "abundance"
> seems like a darn good word because it is through
> abundance, sharing, helping each other, contributing
> back to this community that abundance happens and
> multiples.
>
> So Harold, keep simmering your dream and let me know
> if I can help in this trail blazing, wave riding
> adventure that we call Open Space which is really
> nothing more than opening space in our lives so that
> "people can be helping people" in business, community
> and in life.
>
> Suzanne, invigorated and energized about the future
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Harold Shinsato
> <harold at shinsato.com> wrote:
> I just read this in Seth Godin's latest tract
> - "Poke the Box". I've heard occasionally that
> some folks are having trouble making ends meet
> as Open Space Technology facilitators. Yet
> others seem to be doing ok. I've been wishing
> I could do this full time - go out - get
> clients - and facilitatre OST conferences full
> time - but Seth's quote kind of threw that
> back at me.
>
>
> "My friend Jessica wants to be a conference
> organizer. You can hire her and she'll sweat
> every single detail of your event. Give her
> the attendee list, the venue, and the agenda,
> and the conference will go off without a
> hitch.
>
> "The problem with this plan is that it
> involves being picked by the event promoter.
> If she gets picked often, it's a fine living.
> If she can negotiate a fair payday, it's a
> fine living. But Jessica must pitch the
> promoter, hat in hand.
>
> "So... why not be the promoter, the initiator,
> the one in charge and responsible?"
>
> - Seth Godin, Poke the Box, p. 25
>
>
> This sounds a lot more like the spirit of OST
> than going out looking for clients who want to
> do OST events. This is very personal for me as
> Missoula BarCamp's OST event happens on
> Saturday. I went out and just got it started -
> but it's not exactly a money maker at this
> point. But what Seth says, just initiating
> cool OST events, sounds a lot more juicy than
> trying to pitch OST facilitation.
>
> Any enlightenment anyone? What's the path to
> abundant full time Open Space living?
>
> --
> Harold Shinsato
> harold at shinsato.com
> http://shinsato.com
> twitter: @hajush
>
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> Suzanne Daigle
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