[OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations

Harrison Owen hhowen at verizon.net
Mon May 20 05:55:32 PDT 2013


Discomfort usually comes (in my experience) when discussion gets stuck at
either/or. Everything resolves as soon as both/and shows up. It is called
the Law of Two Feet! Who says there can only be one WOSONOS? Anywhere it
happens is the right place - and as often as folks care to make it so. I do
find it somewhat amusing that the 75 odd souls who showed up in St.
Petersburg feel called upon to "decide" for the "whole" community. Funny. 

 

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[mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Heft
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 6:40 AM
To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations

 

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!

 

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.

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

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Harold Shinsato
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http://shinsato.com
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