[OSList] International House NYC - 1 week ago

Thu Jan 30 01:50:20 PST 2014

Dear Hulu and Ms Song,

What a gift that you were in New York! Happy Chinese Spring to you and
thank you for sharing the vibrant new life of spring with us.

In my lifetime, I will never ever forget these three days and then being
with you and the Li family in New Jersey with Chuni and Chia and other Open
Space friends afterwards.

As is the tradition, it was Martin Luther King weekend and we were at
International House.  Much to be inspired by. They say it takes a village
and a global village was there!

I was ignited. I said it before on this list and many others were ignited
too. A separate email stream between the participants adding their photos
and comments and art to the google
home<https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0hJ8JesQDPAQUd6OFRiOGxfbnM&usp=sharing>attests
to that. Everyone is still so vibrantly inspired from their time
together with Harrison, with Karen and others.

And then this blog... from a participant who created a growing global tribe
called HRockstars<https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/111166240740728636143>.
His name is Johann Gauthier, he is from Quebec Canada and he is taking the
world by storm. He has literally not stopped talking about Open Space on
every form of social media since.  He traveled through the night from
Canada to New York to be with us.  His young son, Thomas age 15 joined us.
He then traveled back again into the wee hours.

Tonight he officially posted this about his first experience in Open Space.

http://www.nothingbutexcellence.net/?p=1107

He sent links of it to many others...I feel it going viral in the twitter
and blog world of leadership and management.

I have copied him on this email urging him to join the OS
list<http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?EmailDiscussionGroups>if
he has not done so already. He is a tribe of tribe connector in the
way
that we are connected to the Agile and Scrum community.

How awesome the first awakening to Open Space technology and to feel it so
vibrantly and creatively described.  Another new post this evening by
Creative New Jersey also describes a first experience of Open Space for
many in Trenton,
NJ<http://blog.grdodge.org/2014/01/29/trenton-connects-collaborates-and-creates/>,
though Open Space is not new to New Jersey as it spreads and spreads.

Thank you all again.
Suzanne, so very appreciative for much (sorry for posting so often these
past few days, can't quite help myself!)

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Hulu Chen <ch.hulu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> It was so nice meeting you all (again) at international house to learn and
> exchange, and the after open space at Chuni's house was great fun. Ms. song
> and I have been back to China now and we look forward to our next
> gathering!
>
> Happy Chinese spring festival! Love you all!
>
> Cheers!
> Hulu
>
> On Jan 27, 2014, at 9:41 PM, agusj <agusjs2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Suzanne! Great conversations! I enjoyed a lot the notes about Love
> and Compassion, very useful as well.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Agustin
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Suzanne Daigle <sdaigle4 at gmail.com>
> *To:* OSLIST <OSList at lists.openspacetech.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, January 27, 2014 8:27 AM
> *Subject:* [OSList] International House NYC - 1 week ago
>
> Dear friends and colleagues,
>
> I am still brimming from last week in New York City attending the annual
> gathering hosted by Karen Davis and Harrison.  I feel we are living the
> exponential growth of Open Space where 6 degrees of separation feels more
> like 3 degrees of separation. Where Global becomes Local and Local becomes
> Global.
>
> Often we are asked what happens after an Open Space. Well in this case I
> can say there is very strong evidence of a lot that has and is happening.
> Coincidentally this past weekend, there was another Creative New Jersey
> Open Space, the 5th or the 6th such event after the first that Chuni Li and
> I worked on together in 2011. Chuni and I met at International House and it
> led us to work together a few months later. That collaboration led to a
> series of events self-directed and self-led in Open Space. Information on
> this here: https://www.facebook.com/CreativeNJ  and at Creative New
> Jersey. <http://www.creativenj.org/>
>
> Thinking about other familiar faces who were in New York at International
> House over the years, whose paths crossed and reflecting on  the areas that
> each represent and how much we have all been helping each other, I am in
> awe:  Technology (Agile/Scrum/Kanban); Science, Education, Social Justice,
> Business, Arts, etc. I was struck about how and when people met, how they
> stayed connected and how they have worked and supported each other on Open
> Space events that have happened over the past few years.
>
> It led me to create a rough mind map<https://drive.google.com/?usp=folder&authuser=0#folders/0B0hJ8JesQDPAOUxpYmNKNGozTFk>with the names of folks who were at International House this year to
> realize that by attending an Open Space event in Orlando Florida in 2010
> that Harrison was facilitating, it led to multiple collaborations, deep
> friendships and many Open Space events not the least of which our World
> Open Space in Florida last year.
>
> What is also amazing are the deep personal friendships that even extend to
> our families. For example, Chuni Li invited Ms. Song, Hulu and a few of us
> for supper at her home on the night after the International House Open
> Space.  We ended up staying overnight and some stayed most of the week due
> to the big winter storm. Impossible to describe the warm hospitality of the
> Li family.
>
> Check this link http://bit.ly/peacenewsroom:  if you want to peak at what
> happened in New York at International House (summary reports, graphics,
> photos, etc), with the before and after photos showing the important
> discussions and how much we have become part of each others' lives from
> clients and facilitators to friends, united by wanting to make a
> difference, all of us so grateful that Open Space came into our lives.  So
> thank you OS list, thank you Harrison, Karen and everyone for enriching my
> life with friends and purpose.
>
> And looking ahead it's pretty darn exciting to see the tribes of tribes
> (other groups like HRockstars) becoming connected with our Open Space
> community and vice versa.
>
> Warm greetings to all on this fine Monday morning, one week after being at
> International House on Martin Luther King day.
>
> Suzanne
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Suzanne Daigle
> Open Space Facilitator
> NuFocus Strategic Group
>
> FL 941-359-8877
> Cell: 203-722-2009
> www.nufocusgroup.com
> s.daigle at nufocusgroup.com
> twitter @suzannedaigle
>
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Suzanne Daigle
Open Space Facilitator
NuFocus Strategic Group

FL 941-359-8877
Cell: 203-722-2009
www.nufocusgroup.com
s.daigle at nufocusgroup.com
twitter @suzannedaigle
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