[OSList] HA: Open Space in dictatorship

Fri Feb 14 11:16:48 PST 2014

Vow! What a harvest of a 5 day event!!! Agota

*Agota E.Ruzsa,*
Holistic coach, facilitátor and mentor, kiadó
www.dialogos.hu.

2014-02-12 16:01 GMT+01:00 Тясто Марина В. <tyasto at sapa.nsk.su>:

> Dear Peggy,
>
> Of course I remember that workshop or conference in Novosibirsk in 2001in
> the framework of The Connective Leadership Project. In 5 days there were
> many different activities: opening ceremony with bringing waters together
> from different places, training of project development,  team work,
> negotiations and finally Open space. It all went very well. Up to 100 women
> from different regions of Siberia were so enthusiastic about their work
> together and opportunity to learn from American women-leaders. One year
> after we had a one day conference to talk about the results of that
> workshop and plans for the next year. Many women have been reporting about
> realization of their ideas into real projects. Women's business club,
> Association of women-voters, a school for girls, a newspaper for women and
> many other projects were successfully created by women after that 5-days
> Conference and OST event. Then we had another short Open space and women
> could propose new ideas and create new projects. OST always worked
> wonderful!
> Thank you, dear Peggy for good memories!
>
> Love,
>
> Marina
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> peggy at peggyholman.com]
> Отправлено: 12 февраля 2014 г. 6:05
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> Тема: Re: [OSList] Open Space in dictatorship
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> Dear Michael,
>
> Ah, you’ve “outed” me.  It was a 5-day workshop that didn’t actually open
> the space until a few days in.
>
> Peggy
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> On Feb 11, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com
> <mailto:mmpannwitz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Dear Peggy,
> why did you ask the participants to introduce themselves?
>
> Greetings from Berlin
> cheers
> mmp
>
> On 11.02.2014 23:57, Peggy Holman wrote:
> I had the privilege of working with Marina in 2001 with a group of women
> leaders in Siberia.
>
> To this day, I remember the opening circle. We — the team of 4 women
> from the US doing this workshop — had asked the women to introduce
> themselves. One by one, they stood and spoke as if they were making a
> speech to a crowd. In my minds eye, their words were all in capital
> letters with exclamation points (!).  The moment the introductions
> started, the other women started talking to each other rather than
> listening to the person speaking. We stepped in and asked that they
> listen to each other. Such a simple idea that was apparently not a
> cultural norm.
>
> By the end of the next day, as they worked together in small groups, the
> conversations all seemed engaged and authentic, with real listening
> going on.
>
> One thing I learned on that trip was to never assume that I could
> accurately interpret what was going on. So I wonder...Marina — how do
> you remember it?
>
> appreciatively,
> Peggy
>
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> On Feb 11, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Тясто Марина В. <tyasto at sapa.nsk.su<mailto:
> tyasto at sapa.nsk.su>
> <mailto:tyasto at sapa.nsk.su>> wrote:
>
> Dear Ulrika,
>
> I echo Elwin as I also have extensive experience of facilitation OST
> events in Russia as I live here, especially with different groups of
> state and municipal servants in the classroom environment. At the
> beginning most of them looked like having freedom shock being invited
> to post issues they care for. But after starting discussions they
> began to change their way of communication and learning freely and
> fully. Always coming to the room for the reports and closing I've
> observed totally different people - with much more self-confidence,
> positive outlook and friendly feelings to each other. OST actually
> gives people the first experience of free behavior , self-organizing,
> self-learning and real leadership. I hardly could define Russian case
> as a real dictatorship, but I don't know about any bad consequences
> for the OST meeting participants. Even though some of them were saying
> something like: even though I'd be fired after I will organize
> something like this in my office - organization I'll do it and
> finally tell the truth.
> I'm  sure it is important to bring OST to every possible place and
> share it with as many people as possible.
>
> All the best,
>
> Marina
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> Ulrika,
> I have Opened Space countless times in nearly every country of the
> former Soviet Union, from Eastern Europe to Central Asia.
> In most cases I had the opportunity to return for further development
> work. I have never encountered anyone who suffered any retribution as
> a result of Open Space participation. To the contrary, I continue to
> get email thank you notes from many participants of Open Space dating
> back more than a decade.
>
> It always works!
>
> Elwin Guild
> Future Development International
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> On Monday, February 10, 2014 11:34 AM, Ulrika Eklund
> <ulrika.eklund at telia.com<mailto:ulrika.eklund at telia.com> <mailto:
> ulrika.eklund at telia.com>> wrote:
> Dear listmembers and all your experience
>
> I would love to take part of your experience and knowledge about
> working with OS in countries operated by dictatorship. A closed space,
> where you are used/allowed to think as The party. "Its a lovely country
> as long as you follow the rules"
>
> For example I had a training course with a group working in the
> authorities and governmental bodies (national and regional level), and
> they listed some of the problems in one area. After they were
> encouraged to brainstorm ideas and solutions on the problems. After the
> task I asked - what was the new ideas and insight you got? New?! We
> repeated what the party already have decided"... so it was more a
> memory test :) An other exampel: in the university where I met the
> students study a Human rights course sponsered by another country. They
> said: "its a good course. Why I asked and the answer was: we are
> allowed to ask questions when we don't understand, you know sometimes
> you read a text in the book and you don't understand and it doesnot
> help to read it many times, here we can ask, and we are also allowed to
> discuss.
>
> So my question - how is Open Space working in this circumstances? How
> you know people that think freely are not punished after?
>
> WIsh you all a lovley week
> Ulrika
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