[OSList] Open Space in Regional Programs (Retitled)

Tue Mar 26 06:01:26 PDT 2013

Kari -- I think you may have initiated another needed conversation, and if
so -- then my "re-title" makes sense. Open Space in regional programs has in
fact been an ongoing occupation. It may be that there has developed some
common experience that could be usefully shared. I think particularly of
Chuni and her work in New Jersey (USA) about creativity, Phelim and his work
all over the UK about theatre, and also Mrs. Song in China. It may be that
Open Space is just Open Space wherever -- or maybe there is something
special when you are working on a regional basis? I don't know. Both Phelim
and Chuni are on OSLIST, so maybe they could add something. As for Mrs.
Song, English is not her cup of tea, but you could catch up with her in St.
Petersburg for WOSONOS. She is planning on making the trip with some
associates -- If she can make it from China, Iceland can't be that far away
:-)

Harrison 

Harrison Owen
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Potomac, MD 20854
USA

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From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org
[mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Kári Gunnarsson
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:01 AM
To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
Subject: Re: [OSList] Village Care skype III - 1pm EST today!

Dear way explorers on how to scale the Village Care program so it can be
adapted to areas in the “developed” countries

I think it is likely that the Village Care program may have some insight
into regional development that might contribute to some "universal" lessons
learned.

The Icelandic Regional Development Institute is now a user of Open Space for
its programs. On of our local Open Space practitioner has recently
facilitated an open space (26-27 January) as part of an regional development
program in one of the rural small towns that has been shrinking fast in the
past decade.

The situation in the arctic regional development may be partly unique, but
there is one common factor that includes all areas, and it is us, humans
that have varying cultural contexts.

I enjoyed the written memos from the skype conversations from Tricia.
I wonder, is there a recording option for skype calls? I think a recording
may benefit my discovering of lessons learned and the next steps.

With love from snowy Iceland.
Kári

On 25 March 2013 15:38, Tricia Chirumbole
<tricia at investorswithoutborders.net> wrote:
> okey doke, text follows!
>
> I wanted a shared google doc so that we could have a running account 
> that was both editable and accessible by everyone. So I sent an invite 
> that allowed people to request access.
>
> SO, as a compromise, anyone interested in access to the google doc - 
> let me know and I will invite you individually :)
>
> NOTES>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
>
> Village Care skype 1
>
> ·         David shared the history and model for Village Care programs in
> Africa that are built on self-sufficiency and open space-style events. 
> The programs involve gatherings that are usually 3 days with roughly 2 
> days structured facilitation and 1 day Open Space, along with many 
> other elements.
>
> o   There are a few different program types including: Basic home
practices
> and Outcomes for Business.
>
> o   David will share the detailed program description upon request.
>
> ·         Participants shared their interest in and questions about the
> Village Care program – David answered a number of our specific queries.
>
> ·         Participants shared their stories about holding OS events in
> different cultural contexts.
>
> ·         We agreed to continue holding the skype sessions as there was a
> lot to talk about – agreed to one hour duration for each conversation.
>
> ·         This is very rough and incomplete as I did not take notes on
this
> call!! :O
>
>
>
> Village Care skype 2
>
> ·         Participant mentioned his use of “pop-up open space”: When an
> event is getting stale or losing energy, he suggests opening up some 
> space for next part of day/event. ..I think
>
> ·         Participant raised the idea of getting the Peace Corps behind
the
> Village Care program. She is a previous Peace Corps volunteer.
>
> o   David loves the idea and has tried to get the Peace Corps involved,
even
> traveling to DC to promote the idea, but had not made any progress.
>
> o   Open to the idea of pursuing this if anyone has any contacts as he
feels
> the missions of Village Care and Peace Corps are complimentary and 
> that the Village Care model could provide Peace Corps volunteers with 
> an efficacious program in contrast to the many assignments where there 
> is not much to do or a poor structure.
>
> ·         David introduced a book that he wrote called, The Insanity of
> Africa – available to purchase on the Village Care website – proceeds 
> support the programming
>
> ·         Participants shared stories about follow-up to Open Space events
> and successes that were reported ex post facto
>
> o   David was told by a client in Nigeria that, “Even if you never come
> back, we will have been changed forever.”
>
> o   Linda discusses a story from client in Boulder, CO – a young,
> successful, start-up tech company who she worked with early on in 
> their career with traditional Open Space events. The company 
> incorporated the OS process into their regular meetings. Some years 
> later, she was joining them again for an event and was asked if she had
ever heard of Open Space.
>
> o   Linda provides a separate “next steps” form during some OS events.
This
> can be posted to the OS report so that participants can sign up for 
> next steps even if they were not a part of the group that created them.
>
> ·         Question was raised about whether or not anyone was developing
> metrics for what works and what doesn’t/
>
> ·         OS story from Harrison relayed second-hand by participant.
> Harrison was called in to a country to help with the issue they were 
> having with “cab wars” – conflict over cabbies trying to win 
> customers. I think there was an issue around cabbies feeling like 
> customers were being stolen out from under them, maybe fierce price 
> competition, and perhaps even some violence? 
.not sure
What was 
> uncovered was that the whole town was experiencing economic problems, 
> of which the cab wars were one manifestation. The whole town was 
> invited to an open space events and a number of issues were resolved,
including the cab issue
.is this accurate?
>
> ·         Participant, I think Paul Levy, quoted Rudolph Steiner in
> reference to his thoughts about OS and follow-up, “Spiritual time runs 
> backwards” – roughly paraphrased
explained that he feels that the 
> follow up can precede the Open Space and that it is not always about 
> action to be generated, but about traveling back in time to the 
> source, not always forward to action, but back toward remembering what 
> they already know

>
> ·         At the same time, part of a good invitation, is an invitation to
> action – make it clear that you can start a session focused on action 
> planning at 9am the first day, you don’t have to always wait until the 
> end impatiently and wait for formal convergence.
>
> o   Beatrice adds that this all depends on the objective of the client
>
> ·         Skye Hirst and Tricia Chirumbole are both motivated to connect
> with David about potential collaborative opportunities.
>
> o   Tricia is interested in getting her contacts in Ghana involved with
> Village Care.
>
> o   She is also interested in exploring ways to scale Village Care,
> including to “developed” countries.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net>
wrote:
>>
>> Our moderator is a wonderful self-selected volunteer in the best of 
>> OS tradition – one Harold Shinsato. He actually moved us from our old 
>> home at Bose State to our new digs. In an effort to save space and 
>> keep thing simple things like attachments and graphics are generally 
>> avoided. So the easiest, best way to post stuff is not with an 
>> attachment, but just put it out there, loud, clear, bold, and beautiful.
>>
>>
>>
>> Harrison
>>
>>
>>
>> Harrison Owen
>>
>> 7808 River Falls Dr.
>>
>> Potomac, MD 20854
>>
>> USA
>>
>>
>>
>> 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)
>>
>> Camden, Maine 04843
>>
>>
>>
>> Phone 301-365-2093
>>
>> (summer)  207-763-3261
>>
>>
>>
>> www.openspaceworld.com
>>
>> www.ho-image.com (Personal Website)
>>
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>> rg
>>
>>
>>
>> From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org
>> [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Tricia 
>> Chirumbole
>> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 11:09 AM
>>
>>
>> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
>> Subject: Re: [OSList] Village Care skype III - 1pm EST today!
>>
>>
>>
>> Hey Harrison!
>>
>>
>>
>> Attached is a word doc w/ some notes - they are not complete, and 
>> likely not entirely accurate :o
>>
>>
>>
>> I created a google doc and shared it with the list on Friday, BUT, it 
>> is awaiting moderator approval since it came from some google-based 
>> email address, which is not a member of the OS list.
>>
>>
>>
>> Do you know who this shadowy list moderator is???
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tricia! It’s me again. Still wondering what is happening with all 
>> this marvelous Skyping! Just a teaser would surely do.
>>
>>
>>
>> J
>>
>>
>>
>> Harrison Owen
>>
>> 7808 River Falls Dr.
>>
>> Potomac, MD 20854
>>
>> USA
>>
>>
>>
>> 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)
>>
>> Camden, Maine 04843
>>
>>
>>
>> Phone 301-365-2093
>>
>> (summer)  207-763-3261
>>
>>
>>
>> www.openspaceworld.com
>>
>> www.ho-image.com (Personal Website)
>>
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of 
>> OSLIST Go 
>> to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.o
>> rg
>>
>>
>>
>> From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org
>> [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Tricia 
>> Chirumbole
>> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 9:31 AM
>>
>>
>> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
>> Subject: Re: [OSList] Village Care skype III - 1pm EST today!
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry about that Jamie! The time is EDT.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Jamie Colston 
>> <jamiecolston at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tricia
>>
>>
>>
>> Is it est or edt? Just to check as I need to find out what my local 
>> time is? My Skype name is below
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> Jamie
>>
>> Jamie Colston
>>
>>
>>
>> Tel: 07909442006
>>
>> Email: jamiecolston at gmail.com
>>
>> Skype: father_to_zephyr
>>
>> Twitter: spearthwarrior
>>
>>
>>
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>> On 25 Mar 2013, at 12:57, Tricia Chirumbole 
>> <tricia at investorswithoutborders.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all!
>>
>>
>>
>> By popular vote, the Village Care skype with David Glenwinkel will 
>> commence today, Monday March 25th at 1pm EDT - pending David's
confirmation.
>>
>>
>>
>> I will initiate the skype, but I need to be on another call, so I 
>> will only have from 1pm-1:05pm EST to get all interested participants 
>> on the call.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you want to be on and we are not yet connected on skype, please: 
>> 1) send me your skype name, and 2) accept my request for you to share 
>> your contact info via skype.
>>
>>
>>
>> Doodle link to confirm your interest in participating:
>> http://doodle.com/v5hheuq6kdmmsfhk
>>
>>
>>
>> btw, on Friday I typed up notes from previous calls and shared with 
>> the OS list via a google doc - email w/ attachment is pending 
>> approval by the OSlist moderator - whoever that shadowy figure might 
>> be :)
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Tricia Chirumbole
>> US: +1-571-232-0942
>> Skype: tricia.chirumbole
>>
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