[OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations

[Lisa Heft]

Galina - not only that, but one of our Millennials (a person of a  
younger generation) invited for 2060!

These are invitations, not decisions. Serbia in 2014, yes.

In the past, some people have invited for several years in a row  
(being at a WOSonOS themselves, or working with someone who was there  
who could represent them) - until whenever it happens is the right year.

We had a very interesting and not always comfortable time thinking and  
talking in the big circle at the WOSonOS where to go next year. There  
were several invitations - and as you know from your own experience at  
a WOSonOS - if there is one country inviting, they tell us their story  
and we all celebrate. If there are two or more inviters, traditionally  
we sit in the big circle and have a conversation that can shift and  
move and get stuck and flow and become uncomfortable and shift again  
and flow again... until something is sensed and felt, together.

It is how we have done it in the past. However it is not how we have  
to do it in the future.
Our fabulous co-convenor, David O'Neill noted that this - decision,  
deciding, 'vote' - does not reflect Open Space.
So how else could it be done.

I was in a delightful evening butterfly conversation with Peggy  
Holman, Alan Stewart, Chuni Li, Karen Davis, Doug Germann, Jasmina  
Nikolic (our host for next year), Harold Shinsato, Tricia Chirumbole,  
Linda Stevenson, Gail West, and did I forget anyone?

Perhaps you dear colleagues who sat in this particular conversation  
would like to share some of the places we went in the conversation  
about invitation, prepared invitation, emergent invitation, what-if's  
of process for invitation, support for invitation, and more - as we  
experienced at the WOSonOS and then reflected upon that evening...

Traveling homeward after the WOSonOS, and looking forward to the next  
regional OSonOs' and the next WOSonOS,

Lisa

Lisa Heft
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
President Emerita, Open Space Institute US
Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution
Opening Space

On May 20, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Galina Tsarkova wrote:

> Thanks friends,  for such long perspective for WOSONOS!
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> Moscow
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> 2013/5/19 Harold Shinsato <harold at shinsato.com>
> This might be crazy - but I thought I would post the invitations.
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> Serbia - 2014
> Spain - 2014 or 2015
> Mexico - 2015
> China - 2015 or 2016
> Dallas, TX, USA - 2019
> Chicago, IL - 2020
> Virtual WOSonOS - 2025
>
> If you have input on this - you might try to post it to OSList but  
> you might also check into the live streaming as a comment. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wosonos
>
> -- 
> Harold Shinsato
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> twitter: @hajush
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