[OSList] When did you first hear about OST?

Wed Dec 17 07:56:26 PST 2014

Thank you so mucho for this thread of thought and questions...

1.-  I heard of it in 2007 in Asheville, North Carolina, when I met Birgitt
and Ward Williams, and they were sitting in the yearly meeting of
contributors of the International Institute for Global Leadership.
2.-  Something clicked inside me, and I asked them to tell me some more
about it.  The next year I travelled to their home in Raleigh, North
Carolina, and received the complete Genuine Contact Program training that
includes OST,  I participated in the first OST meeting.
3.-  For me the 4 Principles, and the Law of Two Feet are so much a part of
what I believe and who I am, it's hard to say what came first.  Maybe,
hearing about it is what resonated with my belief-system.
4.-  At the beginning I thought I needed to offer OST in Venezuela, to
different organizations, public and private, without any success, until in
Jan 2013 I realized I wanted to show what it's all about and offered a few
trainings as of then, with the result that there are now several OST
facilitators in Venezuela who are doing the work with excellent results,
for which I am very very happy.
Thanks again.
Elisabeth
(now in Spain)

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On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Thomas Perret via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
> 1. I had googled "improv" and found this conference called "Applied
> Improvisation Network" coming up in a month in Amsterdam and I signed
> up. It was August 2010. I had had an experience urging me to explore
> improvisation games and that's why I googled. The conference program spun
> from Friday to Sunday and it was packed with tracks and workshops – except
> for Sunday, where it only said "Open Space".
>
> 2. When Sunday morning came I still didn't know what "Open Space" meant.
> We were sitting in a room, about 120w of us, when a lady started to walk
> around centre stage, telling about this American guy who worked on a
> conference for a year in the 80's, and the best thing about it turned out
> to be the coffee breaks. It was the most human story with a breakthrough.
> When people started to post sessions, I had that cramp in my belly telling
> me this is one of those "door moments" where something might be there if I
> stand up. After negotiating myself out of it for a while, I went up and
> announced a session. People came and I was so happy I cried.
>
> 3. The next year when the same conference was held entirely in Open Space.
> I remember thinking "why do it any other way"? Also, I remember looking at
> schools and workplaces in my mind and seeing the OS kind of swarming and
> knowing sooner or later it will be here.
>
> 4. It makes a big difference, I want for everyone to know this kind of
> collaboration is at hand.
>
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
> On Dec 16, 2014, at 8:09 PM, Daniel Mezick via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> *The OST-When Game *
>
> {
>
> Inspired by Michael Herman:
>
> On 12/14/14 11:26 AM, Michael Herman via OSList wrote:
>
> i'm ... interested in questions like:
>
>
>
> 1.
> *when did you first hear about os or ost? *
>
>
> 2. what was the hook?  how did you notice it might have value?
>
> 3. when did you notice that you'd started letting it inform how you live?
>
> 4. what has happened since then?  what difference does it seem to make?
>
>
>  From the thread, " [OSList] Who has facilitated at least 7 OST events?”
>
> }
>
>
>
> You are cordially invited to play:
>
>
>
> *The OST-When Game*
>
>
> *The Goal:*
>
> ·      *To get a collective idea* of when & how members here actually
> became aware of OST, noting any patterns and how these patterns may (or may
> not) be changing over time.
>
> ·      *To know the stories* of others, and (optionally, if you choose to
> play,) to disclose your own story.
>
>
>
> *The Rules:*
>
>
>
> ·      If you know anything at all about OST, as described below, you are
> invited to play.
>
> ·      You play the game by answering in reply to the question:
>
>
>
> *“When did you first hear about OST?*”
>
>
>
> ·      If you opt-in to playing, then: *for purposes of playing this game*,
> you are joining with all the other players, in explicitly authorizing,
> consenting to (and in fact agreeing to) the definition of OST that this
> game uses, listed below in the Notes section.
>
> ·      Beyond this, nothing further is expected of you, and there are
> absolutely no other rules whatsoever.
>
>
> *Tracking Progress:*
> You can track progress by watching the various properties of the thread,
> such as:
>
>
>
> ·      # of stories, the length or brevity of stories,
>
> ·      the tone/tempo/velocity/volume of replies, # of countries heard
> from,
>
> ·      levels of seriousness, or humor or,
>
> ·      absolutely anything else you might be paying attention to as
> people play it.
>
>
>
> *Play*:
>
>
>
> ·      Playing this game is 100% invitational and therefore 100%
> optional…if you know about OST, you are invited to play!
>
>
>
> *Notes*:
>
>    - This is the link to the definition of OST that this game is using:
>    - http://www.openspaceworld.com/users_guide.htm
>    - If you elect to play, please reply by clicking [Reply All] Or [Reply
>    List], so the thread stays together, under the same subject
>
>
> *Steps to Play:*
>
>    - Click [Reply All] Or [Reply List]
>    - Reply with your When-story
>
>
> What happens next is…well… anyone’s guess.
>
>
>
>  --
>
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>
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