[OSList] Always a Pleasure To Open A Little Space

[Gail West]

Hi Harrison,

After much deliberation, I just made the tough decision to choose 2 OS
events in Taiwan over a trip to Belgrade.  Both have all the elements you
mentioned - but those in Taiwan are within 2 hours high speed rail travel
over against 22 hours in the air and in airports.

So will look forward to where to aim for next year [?]

Gail


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

> Good Show! See you in Belgrade!! Guaranteed to be rich, fun, challenging,
> and as usual, life changing. Can’t wait.
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> *From:* OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] *On Behalf
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> *Sent:* Thursday, July 31, 2014 4:37 AM
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> *Subject:* [OSList] Always a Pleasure To Open A Little Space
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> The time was right for a 3-day open space learning workshop in Shanghai
> with diverse group of corporate, community, NGO, education folks.  This
> included a full day of open space with overnight time.  Implementation
> began on Day 2 including an NGO CEO calling her husband and a staff to come
> to check out the OS room setup so they’re ready to do one in-house!
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> Surprises (especially for participants) included: Competitors in work and
> professional lives fully engaged in deep dialogue together rather than
> holding back and observing; Providing positive feedback to fellow
> participants in the pre-work and practice; Open Space Technology was
> perceived as yet another tool, yet through this OSLW, several of them
> commented this is related to how to live their lives.  What really moved
> people is authentic participation not the facilitation technology.
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> Several participants went out and did Open Space within the first week
> after the program
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> *  Corporate CEO led an OS after a Zen trip with 20+ executives on *Life
> and Wisdom*.  Now looking to do other work for her companies.
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> *  Open Space with a client in a tiny room. The OSLW members were
> consulted (on line) as to how to make the room open spacy for the event.
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> *  Open Space with school children in their summer camp.
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> Self-organized communities of practice started and continued after the
> OSLW:  Action learning; facilitator’s club; volunteering for NGO education;
> Learning/Practice partnership for OST formed; discussions on WeChat (like
> Facebook) were continued and co-facilitation opportunities offered;
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> And 7 volunteered to translate Chris Corrigan’s book “The Tao of Holding
> Space” into simplified Chinese!
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> Partcipant’s comments:
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> -  Open Space is a meeting facilitation tool that evoke passion and
> responsibility - the art of facilitation where you need to be fully present
> and totally invisible
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> -  Be aware of what is opening up and what is closing down in the process
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> - A meeting that breathes is a group with vitality
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> - Trust the inner wisdom of the group and shine because it is open
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> - The real space to open up may not be physical space but inner space.
> Physical space is limited after all. Inner space is not bounded by time or
> space. We own the freedom to open up in this respect.
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> -  A good facilitator for Open Space should be able to do three things:
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> 1. Brain losing a sense of judgement of what is good and what is bad
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> 2. Minimum talking time
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> 3. No intervention out of worry or control
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> -  I experienced “Less is More”. The facilitator can achieve with minimum
> intervention.
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> --
> *Gail West, ICA*
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*Gail West, ICA*


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