[OSList] When did you first hear about OST?

Tue Dec 16 22:47:49 PST 2014

Hi all of you!
I love to facilitate OS - I don't know the number of events - maybe 30-50.
Once in a while I write on the list and I also lurk a lot. I enjoy the 
reflections and the enthusiasm. Thank you for sharing.

When I first heard about OS: In 2000 I was attending a 3 day- 
(traditional)conference about the danish education system with some very 
high status people - I was the new girl in class. I was bored and 
frustrated - I couldn't get the point of it. They used a lot of words, 
but I still didn't get the meaning.
One afternoon there would be an open space - and when Finn Kollerup 
(danish os facilitator) introduced that you could choose your own topic, 
I understood that I had the opportunity to choose a topic and to phrase 
it in "my way". I did so prepared that nobody would show up.
What happened? About 10-12 people showed up and everyone of them had the 
same experience: they felt the conference boring and sort of 
disconnected from our lives - we had a beautiful understanding and 
talked a lot and the rest of the conference we just had to look at each 
other to confirm that we were not the only one don't getting the clue!

After that I simply copied what I had seen the facilitator do and did 
some open spaces on my own - working all right. Later on I met Toke 
Paludan Møller and Monica Nissen (danish os facilitators) and learned 
about the OSlist - and discoverede that I hadn't copied the principles - 
in some way they sneaked out in my first experience - since then I have 
enjoyed to use them - and they are very much a part of my life now. As 
Open space is - but thats too long a story for now...

Lise
Copenhagen

Den 16-12-2014 19:09, Daniel Mezick via OSList skrev:
>
> *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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