[OSList] An invitation for future invitations to WOSONOS

Fri Oct 2 07:29:09 PDT 2015

thanks for the clarification about how things happened this year, lisa.
 this morning i'm wondering if/how any expectation or assumption of voting
might play into people's decision to offer an invitation or not.  more, i'm
wondering why we ever started voting at all.  when several conveners offer
similar topics when we're facilitating, we might suggest or they just
naturally do go off and have a chat amongst themselves to decide when the
session will happen and what it might be called.  often they just push the
posted pages together and say "we're going to do these together," but then
what happens in that corner of the room is some mixing of the various
views.  it seems so natural in an OS event and yet it doesn't seem like
we've done this with various would-be conveners of osonos gatherings.  have
we just left it to those willing to take responsiblity for hosting to
figure it out and tell us where the next gathering(s) will be offered?  i'm
thinking this might move in the direction of jan's atlee story.  or maybe
that's the "session" you've been convening year to year, in some way.  if
so, have we had an underlying requirement or assumption that there always
be just one physical location convening at any one time?  and is that still
necessary?

and i completely agree with you, eleder, re: doing online wosonos.  there
isn't any requirement at all to do any parallel convening.  there is some
value and maybe also some responsibility in the way of telling the story,
sharing what's happening.  usually this happens by ppts typing up notes.
 many times (vancouver, melbourne, swenmark and maybe others) we have been
able to share the notes online at the same time as they are posted on the
wall onsite.  always, new conversations have sprung up around those
postings.  this acknowledges and feeds a larger practice circle than can
gather in any one location and makes what happens in that location even
more importance and value, i think.  the simplest way of sharing those
notes would be posting to the oslist.  we've done it in other ways, in
wikis and such.

this year we offered some options at qiqochat, as part of learning our way
into that platform, as a community.  i think of this more like posting a
project/topic at wosonos than being any central part of the hosting team or
task.  i think there is something worth exploring, as a community, in this
realm of distributed collaboration as more and more people in agile and
other businesses are learning to work in this way.  again, this is learning
is something i see can happen in the context of osonos events, for anyone
who wants to join it (from anywhere), rather than a requirement in creating
an osonos event.  osonos is about learning while doing, ya?

thanks, too, eleder, for reminding about basque country and berlin osonos
events.  that must put us up toward 60 gatherings in 20+ years.

--

Michael Herman
Michael Herman Associates
http://MichaelHerman.com
http://OpenSpaceWorld.org

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Daniel Mezick via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> I experience this thread as a fascinating study in authority. I hope you
> do, too.
>
> On 10/2/15 8:55 AM, Jan Höglund via OSList wrote:
>
> Some thoughts ...
>
> Pernilla in Sweden wrote 30 Sep 2015:
>
> > I am personally very uncomfortable to use the words ‘voting’ or to ‘make
> a collective decision’ within an Open Space.
>
> > One of the beauties with Open Space is taking responsibility for your
> own engagement. If we all share the same engagement we will walk in the
> same direction, eventually. But sometimes it takes time for things to
> emerge.
>
> Yes, indeed.
>
> Here's Tom Atlee's beautiful story on How to make a Decision Without
> Making a Decision
>
> http://www.co-intelligence.org/I-decisionmakingwithout.html
>
> Tom writes: As I stepped out into the flooded fields I suddenly realized
> that no decision had been made. No motion was made. No vote was taken. No
> one checked for consensus. Nothing was announced or recorded. The group
> just "knew" how we were going to behave ...
>
> Jan, also in Sweden
>
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