[OSList] OS hotline reminder - in 40 minutes! + Harvesting

Tue Aug 6 09:43:02 PDT 2013

Hi Tricia

I would love to join, but I am very bad at figuring out time zone.
can you give me the hour and the timezone so I can try to convert it to
GMT+1 ?

thanks
Christine

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Tricia Chirumbole <
tricia at investorswithoutborders.net> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> OS hotline skype is convening in 40 minutes at 12pm EDT - follow link or
> email me to sign up: OS marketplace <http://tinyurl.com/nxbndq8>
>
> Also, following are notes from our previous two hotline skypes - enjoy!
>
> *OS hotline skype – July 23, 2013*
>
> * *
>
> *Website advice request: *Tricia requests advice about including a
> section on her impending OS website about group’s “assessing readiness”
> with a few rhetorical questions.
>
> -          Question is why include? A formal assessment tool is not
> recommended
>
> -          Situational questions are suggested as possibly valuable.
>
> -          Voluntary participation is important
>
>
>
> *Action/product development in open space*: Why don’t we do this more, or
> talk about this more – tons of opportunities.
>
> -          Paul co-authored a book entirely in Open Space (editing done
> outside, but this was due to time constraints)
>
> -          Link from book that Paul co-authored – wrote book in three
> days, each session was a chapter – peak experiences in life producing a
> real artifact in Open space tech:
> http://pure.au.dk/portal/files/292/Thin_book_OT.pdf
>
> -          Interest among group in exploring these possibilities.
>
> -          Reference Leadership article by Bob Marshall that was
> circulated on OS list – People like agile, but is a better product
> delivered because people are enjoying the process of scrum/agile?
>
> -          Conversation with a friend who thinks something like that
> could only work if the whole organization was in the room, stuck in
> hierarchy, can’t do anything without approval.
>
> -          Envision: Open space happening on building site with machines
> and materials – just getting things done – have some items pre-determined,
> so that you don’t need more approvals
>
> -          In the arts in the UK there is a great event happening for
> years, takes place in the ruins of a castle, mainly programed, everyone
> works on renovating this castle – do a 3 or  4 day OS and day 2 is an
> invitation to renovate a garden in venue we are meeting, everyone creates
> something
>
> -          Envision:  to do an OS on urban planning and actually build
> something – you can talk about it, and talk about it, but actually build it
>
>
>
> *Example of action-oriented open-spacey approach in practice: *Young
> people running a web design company somewhere in UK - doing something like
> opening space, but getting things done, not just talking. They would
> convene in a space, talk about goals/plans, identify what various people
> planned to work on in some relative order/timeline – then break off in
> groups depending on what strikes them and reconvene at lunch/later in day.
>
>
>
> *We need Open Space research! *Get $$ for research about developing
> products/doing things in open space – who’s in? Some in group would like to
> move on it.
>
> -          Lack of university-based research on Open space, or collecting
> of data beyond anecdotes.
>
> -          Could be much bigger and much wider use of Open Space if there
> were academic verification – never been able to get more than a few
> thousand pounds in Brighton – if we can prove OS works in practice and not
> just in theory
>
> -          Feeling that Open Space could be the environmental solution
> for the earth. The flow, more efficient than blundering human intervention.
>
> -          Could probably do crowd funding, a lot of sources in the US.
>
> -          Templeton foundation putting out RFPs for research, academics
> without walls, access to a nonprofit institute that we can work from.
>
> -          If a particular field of activity gets the attention of 6
> journal articles, research funding follows
>
> -          You would then have a better chance, for example, to get OS in
> Africa more on the back of aid agencies. They can’t spend their money
> without some verification, such as academic, more just anecdotally based
> research practice.
>
> -          Paul has been collecting pictures of OS circles, OS videos.
> Finds people are using this to bring to their organization to sell OS –
> missed how he figured this out….
>
>
>
> *OS public awareness: *
>
> -          David Bohm, dialogue discussion on the web, etc., but open
> space not mentioned.
>
> -          Omnipresence is like that [suggesting open space is
> omnipresent] – it is always there so you don’t see that, always present. We
> can’t see something that is always with you. Someone points it out and then
> people question why they haven’t seen it. Living processes are always with
> you so you can’t see them.
>
>
>
> *Suggested bedtime reading:*
> http://www.communityresearch.org.nz/research/evaluation-report-open-space-technology-hui/
>
>
>
> http://pure.au.dk/portal/files/292/Thin_book_OT.pdf
>
>
>
>  OS Hotline skype – July 30, 2013
>
> * *
>
> Disclaimer: not complete, not fully accurate, and not in proper order…….
>
>
>
> *Improv discussion:*
>
> * *
>
> Meisner technique – improv – an individual’s contribution needs to use the
> words or phrases from previous statements of another person – can be
> comedic, but turns into rapport among participants and a full play can be
> created without a script
>
>
>
> Check out: Fringereview.com
>
>
>
> *Book recommendation:* Moral imagination – good book…..
>
>
>
> *Listening: *Not sure if following tidbit came from above book: Studies
> (I think studies) have found that when you are truly listening to someone,
> your larynx begins vibrating in unison with theirs. Kind of like when you
> realize you are finishing someone’s sentences. …
>
> ·         Relate to identifying an invitation for Open Space. If you
> truly listen to the people involved, the theme and the words will present
> themselves.
>
>
>
> *Forced crafting of invitations: *We may demonize or idealize a situation
> because we want it to come across as important. We need to use words that
> are there in the community and do it without ego; the words usually come if
> we can remove our ego.
>
>
>
> *Do invitations need to always be stated in the positive? *We may be so
> afraid of the dark that we try to make it all “touchy feely”, but then end
> up not resonating with the real pain people are experiencing.
>
>
>
> Affirmative/appreciative inquiry can be alienating, tell the truth about
> what you see, don’t always need to go the positive route, say what is loud,
> that which we feel most afraid of,
>
>
>
> Is use of affirmative words OS –accepted wisdom? Is it short-sighted?
>
>
>
> *Funny exercise:* Shake your head “yes” and then shake your head, “no” –
> No shouldn’t feel right. Living organisms don’t understand a negative.
> Children don’t understand a no, they respond to….missed it….
>
>
>
> *Energy practice:* Jin Shin Jyutsu- ancient way of healing, fingers like
> jumper cables referenced as early as 712, rediscovered early 1900s. No
> energy in the human body moves horizontally…
>
>
>
> *How do we practice to facilitate OS?*
>
> ·         Join in on OS hotline skypes, the OS list and discussions with
> practitioners
>
> ·         Do it!
>
> ·         Read the OST guide
>
> ·         Shadow/co-facilitate open space events
>
> ·         Personal work: finding space within yourself – whatever ways
> work for you.
>
> ·         Learn to trust yourself and trust the “process” – confidently
> convey that and hold that trust.
>
>
>
> *Controversy: *OS is very appropriate for situations of controversy
>
>
>
> Open space for unlimited potential, people can walk out, but they don’t
> tend to break the process, the circle can hold the anger.
>
>
>
> Somewhere in the demon of the dictator there is the seed of truth – the
> resistors and oppressors have something to teach us
>
> * *
>
> *Book reference: *Bernard Lievegoed, *The Developing Organization*
>
>
>
> *When hosts want structure: *You can play the game of structure, talking
> up superficial elements of OS to make them feel comfortable and allow them
> to build confidence and trust – such as: noting defined times for opening
> circle, lunch breaks, planned reporting deliverable, etc, but still not
> change the essential elements.  *Use their words.*
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Tricia Chirumbole
> US: +1-571-232-0942
> Skype: tricia.chirumbole
>
>
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