[OSList] Always a Pleasure To Open A Little Space

Mon Aug 18 19:16:31 PDT 2014

WOSonOS 2014 tugs at my heart! How I wish I could be there this year!  A
first grandchild on the way trumped any and all travel. So I will content
myself with sending our best wishes, from Florida to Serbia with this photo
album.  Magical moments in Belgrade with Jasmina and many wonderful folks
from Serbia during a 2 week visit in September 2013.

Spoke to Jasmina on Sunday and seems there will be a good crew from the
Baltics and many other countries.  I have no doubt it will be wonderful.
So if you're sitting on the fence and live nearby, perhaps these photos
will entice you.

In a month from now, you will be sitting in a circle opening some very
special space.

Suzanne

Flip snack book; click link and double click book itself to navigaten and
enlarge.
http://www.flipsnack.com/76EE6B7EFB5/wosonos-2014-a-belgrade-serbia-preview-fup07aee.html

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

> Gail... Missing you more and still! And it turns out that Hulu will be
> working in a program that is located about 5 miles from my house!
> Wonderful. And strange small world.
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> *From:* OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Gail West
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 12, 2014 1:10 AM
> *To:* mmpannwitz at gmail.com; World wide Open Space Technology email list
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> *Subject:* Re: [OSList] Always a Pleasure To Open A Little Space
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> Hi Michael,
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> Thanks for the reminder of the Task Cards in Chinese.  I'll send the
> information to folks there.  I did have news from Hulu recently - she is
> currently in the US for an extended time.  I suspect Qinghua and her new
> colleague will be going to Belgrade next month.  Last year in St Petersburg
> she indicated the possibility of inviting the WOSONOS in China next year.
>  Don't know who else might be considering.
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> I just made the decision not to let either the creeks or my creaky bones
> take the lead by choosing to stay in Taiwan where 2 hours on high speed
> rail rather than 22 hours air time gets me there.  I'm now committed to 2
> lovely OS events, one I'm looking forward to especially with university
> students.  Tough choice!  I will miss that very special time with old
> friends and new, and my spirit will be with you all!
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> From a very hot, steamy Taiwan
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> Gail
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> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Dear Gail,
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> your report, including the comments from participants, made my day.
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> There simply is nothing better for spreading open space than having an
> open space event... wish you a bunch more!
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> Wouldn't be surprised to see you in Belgrade!
> If the Creeks dont rise and my creaky bones hold up I will be there!
>
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp
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> PS: Did you ever see the Chinese Version of the Task Cards for Setting up
> an OST event? It was produced by the colleagues in the Shining Stone
> Community Action in Peking... as far as I know they "published" it and it
> can be obtained from them (cc of this note goes to Hulu Chen and Qinghua
> Song) .
> You might also be interested in the Chinese (alongside French, Spanish,
> Polish, English,German) version of "Practicing Open Space - Our First Ten
> years". All 6 languages in one ebook (for some reason the Chinese Version
> needs only two thirds of the space the other languages require).
> It can be had herer:
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> http://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Practicing-Open-Space-Our-First-Ten-Years-E-Book
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> On 31.07.2014 10:37, Gail West wrote:
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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!
>
>
> 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
>
> - Trust the inner wisdom of the group and shine because it is open
>
> - 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.
>
> -  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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