[OSList] four different issues on my personal OS agenda (PR + Fundraising, OS in Business Meetings, Success Stories and OS with Children)

[Birgitt Williams]

Dear Claudia,

I wish to add in answer to question number 4 about children in OST. The
person who has done more work using OST with children than anyone else I
know is Chris Weaver who is currently a teacher in a public school in North
Carolina, USA. Chris has developed some very creative ways of using OST with
children. I cannot remember them, but I do remember that he found a way to
create  an agenda wall with people standing holding the topic, and then
children who wanted to attend the topic used wooden clothes pins with their
name on the pin and clipped the pin onto the topic they wanted to attend.
Chris ran a children's camp using OST in manners like this, for children to
choose the activities that they wanted to attend on a day. In that case, the
children did not generate the topics but they did choose from an interesting
agenda wall and use 'law of two feet'.  His email is
chrisweaver13 at charter.net. At one of our Genuine Contact program
international mentoring circles, Chris and some others discussed the topic
of children and youth, and I believe they created ongoing communications on
the topic amongst a small group, sharing some international perspectives
with Chris as the lead based on his many experiences from which they all
were enriched. I have a report of using OST in an Alternative School with
teenagers. It was a new school and the first three days of the school were
done as an OST meeting of the students, teachers, Board, Director,
Principal, and parents. If you wish this report please write to me off list
at birgitt at dalarinternational.com. I also have an interesting paper written
by my daughter Rachel when she was 21 about her life being raised in Open
Space. She posted that paper onto the OS list some eleven years ago, even
before I saw it she made it public. Whew. I was happy it was positive. If
you cannot find it in the archives, I can send you a copy of this too. She
now is raising her daughter (now almost 4) in Open Space, expanding more on
what I was able to do, to great effect. And this beloved granddaughter has
so far attended our Working with Open Space Technology workshops four times,
once in utero. As far as I am concerned she is a trained OST facilitator. I
wonder what she will do????

 

Blessings to all,

Birgitt

 

From: Harrison Owen [mailto:hhowen at verizon.net] 
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 7:49 AM
To: 'World wide Open Space Technology email list'
Subject: Re: [OSList] four different issues on my personal OS agenda (PR +
Fundraising, OS in Business Meetings, Success Stories and OS with Children)

 

Claudia - In answer to your #3 question, I would guess there is no real
answer such as might be given if we had kept a list of clients and outcomes.
Doubtless we were having so much fun it didn't seem like something worth
doing. The closest I could come would be my (very partial) list of clients
which you will find at the end of my CV (www.ho-image.com) Of course that
doesn't tell you what happened and each one is a different tale. 

 

As for children - I noticed right from the very beginning that children
seemed to especially welcome Open Space. When you think about it, I suppose
that isn't any surprise. You could argue that a child's world is essentially
open space - which unfortunately gets a little cluttered. I have heard of
whole schools doing Open Space as a beginning activity for the school year
and again at the end by way of close. Can anybody help with the details? A
real source for information should be John Engle, who is usually to be found
somewhere on this list. If not http://www.johnengle.net should raise him up.
John has been involved in a multi-year project in Haiti with schools, and
Open Space has played a very prominent part. I've got to believe that
somewhere along the line children were involved.

 

Harrison

 

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Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 9:00 AM
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Subject: [OSList] four different issues on my personal OS agenda (PR +
Fundraising, OS in Business Meetings, Success Stories and OS with Children)

 

Dear All!

 

Thanks a lot for the warm and encouraging resonance on my post about the
development of OS in Egypt. 

We definitely will keep you posted about our endeavors and achievements.

 

Ramadan is over and the Eid holidays too. Tomorrow, we will be back to
normal - whatever this means.

 

Definitely it includes taking care of all those issues that I postponed for
the time "after"  ;-)

So here we go, that's my personal OS agenda:

 

My 1st question is "How can we attract new sponsors to convene OS events?" 
Guess it's called PR and Fundraising and I am very much interested in your
experiences, tips & tricks and material you are willing to share.

 

The 2nd issue I am interested to learn more about is "How does OS work in
business meetings (2-4h)?" 

What's your experiences and recommendations when facilitating such an event?

 

While always hearing about the Boeing, At&T and Honeywell success stories, I
was wondering 
"Which companies and institutions have used OST and what did they reach?"
(3rd)

 

And last but not least "OST with children, starting from which age?" (4th)

 

Wish you a wonder-ful day!

 

Claudia

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