[OSList] Future Search - Open Space - Genuine Contact

Thu Aug 27 10:09:43 PDT 2015

Dear Harold!

Thank you for asking, it went really well!
And it’s always a question of the perspective and theory why it went so well, right?!

One thing is for sure: The people who came are all value-driven and care to make our world a better place.
Sandra Janoff’s new book, Lead More Controll Less , speaks to a commitment we all seem to share among our communities.

So let me make a few assumptions why it worked so well:
1. A dedicated preparation with a group, including sponsors and members of the Future Search Network from Sweden, Ireland, South Africa, Germany
2. Working on the title with that group (it took two Skype meetings to figure it out together.)
3. Use the Transfer In before the OST started
4. Open for reflections (not only logistics) in Morning and Evening Circle 
5. Listening to the needs of the participants - I changed the agenda on day three to their needs: cancelled the Action Planning, continued in small groups
6. Having a three days meeting
7. Clear intention of facilitator and sponsors to serve the participants 

The list can go on and on.

My thoughts about integration: 
Isn’t it is a wondrous thing that I have a community around the world, who over the years become friends, lovers, mentors, colleagues and clients? 
This time the word ‘tribe' was added a grounding feeling. Tribe. Don’t know what that is. But the word came to mind and I feel it in my bones.

It feels as if I was raised in the OST tribe, have several vacations with the Future Search tribe and raise my kids in the Genuine Contact tribe.
These tribes are connected, even though they are not one. But maybe one in spirit and intention. 

What makes me smile: All tribes seem to explore the same questions.
How can we capture and share stories for ourselves and with others?
How can we share this amazing resource of experience, trust and friendship with others?
How can we make a difference on an even larger scale?
How can we invite new people in?
How to welcome the next generation?

So it’s great to connect and learn with each other within the tribes and among other tribes.
To gather with like-minded people to play, sing, sit in silence and have meaningful dialogues - this experience fills my life with a lot of gratitude.

So humbled to be on this journey.

much Love
Anna Caroline

> On 26 Aug 2015, at 11:46, Hege Steinsland <steinslandhege at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes and Amen!
> I share your hopes totally, AC :-)
> 
> Hege
> 26. aug. 2015 kl. 00:24 skrev Harold Shinsato via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>:
> 
>> Hi Anna,
>> 
>> Thanks so much for this posting, and I'm happy to rejoice with you. I hope you can share more of your learning about how it went when you've finished.
>> 
>> I'm especially curious to learn more of your thinking about integration. This seems so very relevant at this time, and I'm eager to hear more of your thoughts - especially around integration with Genuine Contact - as I believe that community has had one of the more robust communities of practice both within and outside of the OSList.
>> 
>> I've read a bit about Future Search, and I would rejoice to hear how well Open Space integrated with it.
>> 
>>     Warm Regards!
>>     Harold
>> 
>> On 8/24/15 9:36 AM, Anna Caroline Türk via OSList wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> today is a day of rejoice for me!
>>> I have the honour to facilitate the Future Search Network Learning Exchange in Berlin. 
>>> The sponsors, Mia and Michael from the Berlin Space Cooperative, choose Open Space as the Meeting Technology for the Learning Exchange. 
>>> I choose to open the Learning Exchange with a Transfer In from the Genuine Contact Program - and my whole way of facilitating OST is informed by Genuine Contact.
>>> 
>>> Why is that a day of rejoice for me?
>>> 
>>> It feels to me as if the time of ‘differentiation’ among our communities and approaches might be coming to an end - well there is never an end, but for now it feels like a moment of ‘integration’.
>>> 
>>> I have been struggling with all the differentiation in the communities and lists - because I always felt so much energy gets put into defining differences. 
>>> I am so much enjoining when we celebrate our common ground and see how much all of the approaches are part of the paradigm shift in leadership.
>>> This is where the true power of co-creating a world of leadership versus a world of control is emerging (for me) !
>>> 
>>> I am cheering to a new cycle of collaboration and co-leadership in our communities and I really hope this is just the beginning.
>>> Right now Frederic Laroux might be more popular than Open Space, Future Search and Genuine Contact, but I am convinced that soon we are all going to meet and support one another more fully. By acknowledging and valuing our differences and experiencing and nurturing our common intentions, visions and leadership principles. 
>>> 
>>> To inspire others!
>>> To take leadership to a truly new level!
>>> Our world needs it, right? 
>>> 
>>> much Love
>>> Anna Caroline
>>> 
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