[OSList] largest ost?

Mon Sep 29 07:36:10 PDT 2014

To add to this wonderful collection of large Open Space gatherings, the one I did was with about 2,100, 1,800 street kids and 300 teachers outside Bogota, Colombia. The kids were 14-22. They had all gone through a drug rehab program and we're now in a jobs program. I worked with Andres Agudelo, who was approached by a Catholic charity that had worked with street kids for 30+ years. 

A story about it and pictures are here:
http://peggyholman.com/papers/articles/good-work-for-2100-colombian-street-kids/ 

Peggy
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> On Sep 26, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear Lisa,
> 
> just to keep the record straight, the 2108 people os was co-facilitated by Harrison Owen and me in Würzburg/Germany in 2003.
> 
> This open space was convened on the last day of a 4 day international conference with a total of 5000 participants on systems constellations.
> 
> The Theme was
> "Passion and Responsibility
> In the Heart of Conflict - Constellations with Families, Organizations, Ethnic Groups, Nations".
> New was at that time the application of constellations for ethnic groups and nations in conflict.
> 
> The Theme for the last day in open space was
> "NOW, my passion, my responsibility - beyond the conference"
> 
> 232 issues were posted and delt with in 80 breakout spaces at three beginning times... to this day we have no clue how people managed to work in the face of 232 issues, it appeared to have been a simple task for them.
> 
> This event, together with 792 other events are listed in
>> http://www.openspaceworldscape.org/
> 
> a data base and a visualisation of locations on a google map and extensive details to each event.
> 
> You and everyone having facilitated events is invited to record those events in this data base... except for the 2108 event mentioned above there is no other of the really big events listed.
> 
> By the way, Erich Kolenaty put together a photoshow, its right here
>> http://www.transformation.at/documents/OS_Wuerzburg_minimized.pdf
> 
> His title is "Welcome to the fotoshow of the world‘s hugest Open Space".
> 
> Of course, we know better, there are a whole bunch of events with 2, 3 and more thousands of participants.
> 
> Not recorded.
> 
> Have a great weekend,
> greetings from Berlin, still feeling the Belgrade WOSonOS in my old bones and looking for the next one in September of 2015 in Poland.
> 
> mmp
> 
>> On 23.09.2014 22:59, Lisa Heft - wrote:
>> Hi, Raffi, hi, friends, and a deep bow to you, Harold for your amazing
>> work behind the scenes to help the mechanics of this list support
>> incredible communication and sharing.
>> 
>> Mark Matlock and I did several face-to-face OS events in Los Angeles,
>> Cincinnati and Atlanta, USA - the largest of which was, if I recall
>> correctly, 3500.
>> I have done quite a number of them at the 2400+ level. Peggy - I forget
>> what your largest may have been? Michael P - was it 2108? Christine
>> Whitney Sanchez - your largest? I name these folks because I am trying
>> to recall who are my OSLIST colleagues who have done this sort of
>> large-group OS…
>> 
>> One thing I learned quite a bit from was the collective work done by
>> Christine Whitney Sanchez, Gabriel Shirley and other amazing folks at
>> the 51st Girl Scout Congress - how to weave dialogue (of various forms -
>> different processes with different groups / amounts of people for
>> different specific reasons) into an 11,000 person event. I was *so*
>> honored to be on that team, doing among other things an Open Space
>> meeting of I think it may have been 780 people. Verbal dialogue,
>> internal dialogue… Open Space, World Cafe, story looms...lovely stuff.
>> Such rich learning, in the pre-work, in the conference, and upon reflection…
>> 
>> I don’t know how many people Kai Degner (then the mayor of Harrisonburg
>> - yes - Harrison…burg... Virginia… ) had participating in his city-wide
>> OS forums…
>> 
>> Lisa
>> 
>> On Sep 23, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Harold Shinsato <harold at SHINSATO.COM
>> <mailto:harold at SHINSATO.COM>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi OSList,
>>> 
>>> Raffi's email below triggered complaints from Google about Raffi's
>>> "Unauthenticated email from yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com>" that
>>> unsubscribed at least 130 gmail and googlemail addresses from the
>>> OSList. I've never seen a problem like this in all the years I've been
>>> managing the OSList. Hopefully it is resolved. I think I've added you
>>> all back. But it seems Raffi's email didn't make it through to the non
>>> google people as well.
>>> 
>>> Raffi asked me to resend it. Hopefully this will go through.
>>> 
>>>   Cheers,
>>>   Harold
>>> 
>>> Subject:
>>> [OSList] largest ost?
>>> From:
>>> Raffi Aftandelian <raffi_1970 at yahoo.com>
>>> Date:
>>> 9/23/14 10:39 AM
>>> To:
>>> OSlist <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
>>> CC:
>>> Michael Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com>, "peggy at opencirclecompany.com"
>>> <peggy at opencirclecompany.com>, "virtus at mail.ru" <virtus at mail.ru>
>>> 
>>> friends,
>>> 
>>> my friend and colleague Misha Pronin in Moscow is wondering what is
>>> the largest ost event ever and where did it take place?
>>> thanks!
>>> 
>>> laramtsa,
>>> 
>>> raffi
>>> 
>>> ******
>>> 
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>>> 
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>>> military
>>> 
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>>> 
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>>> 
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>>> ----- Пересланное сообщение -----
>>> *От:* Михаил Пронин <virtus at mail.ru>
>>> *Кому:* Raffi Aftandelian <raffi_1970 at yahoo.com>
>>> *Отправлено:* воскресенье, 21 сентября 2014 12:24
>>> *Тема:* Самый большой ОП
>>> 
>>> Раффи, подскажи какой самый большой ОП на сегодняшний день и где был?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Михаил Пронин
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