[OSList] OS hotline reminder - in 40 minutes! + Harvesting
Tricia Chirumbole
tricia at investorswithoutborders.net
Tue Aug 6 09:45:52 PDT 2013
Sorry about that Christine! We are on now - are you and I connected on
skype? if not, can you send me your skype handle/request connect and I can
add you?
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:43 PM, christine koehler <
chris.alice.koehler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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