[OSList] OST and funding crisis

[Suzanne Daigle]

Awesome post Raffi!
On Nov 26, 2011 10:28 AM, "Raffi Aftandelian" <raffi_1970 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Lori-
> I think Birgitt Williams's (nee Bolton) story of running a large social
> services nonprofit organization in Canada and regularly using Open Space
> Technology and Whole Person Process Facilitation within clear givens might
> be of interest to your client. The organization managed to thrive even in
> the face of budget cut. And the regular use of these approaches led to the
> creation/birth of a Conscious Open Space Organization (now called "the
> Genuine Contact Organization")
>
> I don't have a link for the story. Birgitt, is there somewhere online
> where one can read the story now? I see that part of the story - with great
> context-setting- is available here:
>
>
> http://lists.openspacetech.org/htdig.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org/2001-January/002800.html
>
> Also, I think you might find other examples of interest in the "Open Space
> Examples" document at openspaceworld.org:
>
> http://openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceExamples
>
> Finally, I'll just repeat the off-repeated wisdom of others that you as a
> lurker may  have already heard:
>
> You can cite examples of other OST applications to someone until the cows
> come home, at the end of the day until one has had an experience these
> stories may likely just sound like nice words. Kind of like walking
> endlessly around a swimming pool with someone who has never taken the
> plunge, explaining the benefits of swimming.
>
>
> My two kopecks/rials.
>
> appreciatively,
> Raffi
>
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