[OSList] Critiquing a WOSonOS - [formerly titled 'Peggy plus OST Linkedin'] -2

[Thomas Herrmann]

THanks Lisa and everyone contributing to the learning, post WOSonOS

I’ve already extended my warm thanks to the organizers – amaaaazing! All my
love to the whole team – you are great!

 

I think a WOSonOS can be as exclusive as the hosts chooses to make it (very
much appreciating the invitations to join for the first evening and the tour
and drink at the Southbank). Seems most of us liked it, since we all joined!
So, if the hosts find one more thing they would love to do, then do it –just
spoil us! But I also appreciate a host who makes it really really simple,
just like Lisa describes her OSonOS. 

 

I like the actual Open Space meeting to be close to “by the book”, to walk
our talk, but still to be grateful and enjoy the differences/spices brought
forth at each WOSonOS, just as each of us using OST do it in our own unique
way. Gives me lots of learning opportunities.

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts

Thomas Herrmann

 

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[mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] För Lisa Heft
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(to continue - part 2 of 2 parts)

 

A WOSonOS as an opportunity for a host team to explore ideas:

 

Why not marvel at a host team for creating a sticky-wall out of office
supplies (clear packing tape) in an historic building where one cannot post
onto the walls? All over that space there were imaginative work-arounds for
the ways we OS folks like to use a room in the round: Tall T-shaped banner
holders made of bamboo leaned against the walls to hold up the principles
and law posters. Beautifully illustrated animals on signs attached to bamboo
poles attached to chairs to form moveable small-group discussion areas - in
a way that helped us easily navigate a large room. A sticky-wall that taught
me quite a bit - and a host team deeply considering the advantages and
disadvantages to having made that super-stickiness and naming its advantages
and limitations out loud and with humor and grace. Why not to marvel in that
and be amazed at how much we learn for our own next 'cannot-post-on-walls'
events?

 

Critiquing a WOSonOS as having evolved into something more than what... than
a host team wishes it to be?

 

There is something really amazing about a WOSonOS - I save my pennies to get
to them whenever possible. Being in a room full of people from other lands,
other cultures, other experiences - it is so nutritious to me. Celebrating
each other through some of the traditions that have arisen from meeting to
meeting - not as a rule, but as having some fun together. Using it - really
using it - as an OS user's conference - where my diversely-experienced
colleagues and I can stretch and explore and ask why and share lessons
learned about this very interesting process. WIth others who know about it -
whether they read about it in the book or have convened meetings using it
for years. I for one do not bring clients to a WOSonOS - though I do invite
them to the OS meeting within my workshop if they like - because this is a
rare opportunity for me to act like myself - my joyful playful self - with
my tribe who mostly welcomes me in my fullest most joyful form - rather than
my practice of respecting a client and a group I work with by being my self
(to be sure) but a more subdued self when I am out there facilitating for
clients. Because my client's meetings are not about me - rather, about them
and their work. This one thing? This coming to a WOSonOS or OSonOS? It is
about my community, but it is also about the pure, undiluted me.  How
relaxing for me!  But nobody is stopping anyone from inviting clients, and
indeed: people at WOSonOS have always invited clients when they wished to.

 

The returning thread about why a WOSonOS at all, or that it is not the way
you would have done it:

 

Why not an OSonOS - whenever you want to, wherever you are, however you
yourself would like to do it? What is stopping you from doing that, if you
feel it should be done in a different way, in a simpler way, in another way?
I host an OSonOS each year - have done for years. Mine is in the San
Francisco USA region, usually each March. And you are all invited to join me
- dates soon to be announced. It is much simpler than a WOSonOS - I rent a
room, you come, we have a pot-luck dinner, we learn from one another. That's
the freedom of it all - whatever you want to invite to happen - do it. We
welcome it. It's wonderful. I highly recommend it...

 

Thank you Phelim and team, and everyone in this conversation (both you
speakers and you witnesses), for all I am learning and reflecting upon,

 

Lisa

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