[OSList] WOSonOS 2011, WOSonOS 2012

[Lisa Heft]

Hello, all -

My heart was full (in a good way) so I wanted to share...

I am preparing to travel to Chile to attend the WOSonOS 2011 - and it  
will be so lovely to join together with my dear Chilean and Argentine  
and other-country friends to dive into Open Space to learn with and  
from each other. To celebrate culture and community and our  
differences and our interconnection.

There is still room for you, too if you would like to join us.
If you do not speak Spanish, do not worry - we will be there to help  
you.

http://www.wosonoschile.cl

And this plus the recent posts from Nick and Annette makes me think  
also of the lovely invitation to WOSonOS 2012.
I recall that magical moment in Berlin at WOSonOS 2010 when Matilda  
you invited on behalf of the performing arts community who have been  
using Open Space for years now in an ongoing experiment of  
collaboration and co-creation. Matilda engaged us all in a lovely  
improvisational partnering exploration that truly invited us all to  
embody the creative interconnection and culture of the performing arts  
Open Space community.

I am excited...
- to learn from a community that has been exploring -in community-  
these years
- to learn from people who explore in multiple modalities (movement,  
visual arts, spoken word and more)
- to learn more about how you do documentation (because I am all about  
documentation and I've really enjoyed reading documentation from the  
Devoted & Disgruntled gatherings over the years)
- to see some of my dear colleagues from the UK Open Space community  
whom I've enjoyed meeting and learning with over the years
- to meet new colleagues and hear what you have all been doing in  
communities and organizations and workplaces in your region of the world
- to see and learn with some of my wonderful European Open Space  
colleagues because I know you will be able to join us there...

Amazing. And I know from helping each year's Host Teams that it is a  
lot of work. So please know that I support you and believe in you.

Participants in my workshops are so interested in these two events  
hosted by these two wonderful and diverse communities each in their  
own cultural ways.
Whether they can get to the WOSonOSs or not - do know that their  
thoughts are with you and that they are certainly with you in spirt.

For those of you thinking of inviting and hosting for future years - I  
do have a paper that is the collected wisdom of past years of Host  
Teams. Let me know and I shall send that collective wisdom to you.
For anyone who wishes to invite for a future year but cannot make it  
to a WOSonOS - it is one of our traditions to represent you if you  
cannot be there in person to invite for a future year - so do let me  
know if you wish to do some inviting this year and of course the offer  
remains for whenever you feel you are ready to invite. Sometimes it  
takes a while to grow a regional community of practice and then you  
may feel ready to invite.  I am happy to help and have happily  
represented others to invite on their behalf - and have also been  
represented when it was I who could not get to a WOSonOS but wanted to  
invite.

But back to this lovely event that is happening in Chile in just a few  
weeks:
The Chile Host Team is doing such an amazing job - and we are lucky to  
have them as part of our diverse world Open Space community.
It is so exciting that this is the first WOSonOS ever in Latin America  
- and that as part of the plan there has been much learning and  
growing and knowledge-sharing in the months before the WOSonOS - and  
that the learning will continue during the WOSonOS, and also long  
afterwards - so it is not just a single event but an entire arc of  
growing community and capacity for the practice of Open Space in  
Spanish-speaking countries.

I am honored to call this most passionate, vibrant, skilled and  
thoughtful Chile Host Team my colleagues and friends.

Thank you for your reading patience folks - I just had to share my  
delight....

Lisa


 From October 12 through October 27 I will be traveling. During these  
dates I may have less access to email.

Lisa Heft
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
Opening Space
lisaheft at openingspace.net




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