[OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 58, Issue 14

anne stadler via OSList oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
Thu Feb 18 13:21:09 PST 2016


Thomas Hermann's question:

I love what you're doing, Thomas! 
And i encourage you to treat any meeting as a "real open space". By that i mean, open the space within yourself to welcome everyone.  Open up the room so people can easily take responsibility (tools etc easily at hand in same place each time.)   Open up the meeting by coming together in a "circle", then breaking into the chaos of people moving their chairs as they self organize. Open up the agenda by asking each time "what's up? That you want to take responsibility for?" Open up comfort and familiarity by cooking or eating together (people bringing food from home to share??) Do a very few consistent rituals: opening circle, self-organizing, food, closing circle for reflection/announcements, simple patterns, repeated each time. 

My sense is that You're creating a "hearth" for your community. 

Blessings!  Wish I lived near you!!

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>   1. OST meeting 2 hours a week - X-posted OS-list and GC-list
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>   2. How to shift a destructive "information-meeting" to a
>      constructive dialogue meeting? (Thomas Herrmann via OSList)
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:23:46 +0100
> From: Thomas Herrmann via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
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> Dear friends in Open Space /GC-list
> 
> Since a few months I facilitate a meeting every Sunday in my community as
> part of a Tillsammanscaf? (Together caf?) for people living in my community
> who want to contribute to making it a better place for everyone living here.
> It?s a 2-hour meeting where we start with having coffee/tea, then welcoming
> and sharing some news (especially if relevant things have been happening).
> Usually there are 50-100 participants sitting at long tables (due to
> logistics and the short time I have chosen not to use the circle. In ?real?
> meetings I always use the circle). 
> 
> 
> 
> It started as we felt we need to do something to create space for new
> inhabitants to meet those of us living for a long time here, so among the
> participants there are asylum seekers and refugees. When meeting in large
> group we translate everything to English, Arabic and Swedish ? small groups
> have to help each other.
> 
> 
> 
> Next step in the meeting is that I ask who has a topic they want to raise
> for conversation today. Of course it?s more challenging than when we sit in
> a circle so we tried different things such as keeping topics from last
> meetings that anyone can put up again + invite more. We also tried to invite
> people during arrival/having coffee ? to put topics up. Normally we have
> 5-10 topics from playing the guitar, looking for internship and work,
> finding housing, learning language etc etc.
> 
> 
> 
> I create spaces for people to meet in small circles to have their
> conversations (45-60 minutes) then we gather again and I invite each group
> to share a bit about what they did before we close the meeting.
> 
> 
> 
> We are now thinking about alternative ways to develop this and I?d love to
> have more ideas. While writing one idea came to me. As we have been talking
> about having meetings dedicated to a specific theme, or to cook together
> during a meeting (we have access to a space with several cooking places) or
> do something else together. 
> 
> I am thinking about opening space in a real way ? to create an agenda (in a
> real open space way using the circle!) for example for the coming 3 meetings
> which would then be like break our spaces. That way it would not be so
> repetitive and more time would be there for each break out/or it could also
> develop to sometimes having a specific theme for one meeting?
> 
> 
> 
> I would love your input, experiences, questions?.
> 
> 
> 
> Tillsammans ? we can make difference
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas Herrmann
> 
> Open Space Consulting AB
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> Ni n?r oss per telefon: +46 (0)709 98 97 81 eller Epost:
> <mailto:thomas at openspaceconsulting.com> thomas at openspaceconsulting.com 
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> ledare, organisationer men ?ven lokalsamh?llen att n? sin fulla kraft f?r
> att infria sina dr?mmar. Vi bidrar med kunskaper och praktiska verktyg f?r
> att st?dja er att finna er b?sta v?g.  
> 
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> Mer information
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:34:12 +0100
> From: Thomas Herrmann via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
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> Subject: [OSList] How to shift a destructive "information-meeting" to
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> Dear friends in Open Space/GC-list
> 
> I have decided to focus my time and energy, as much as possible, to
> contributing in a critical area here in Sweden. Last year we received 160
> 000 asylum seekers. Of course this means some challenges but also lots of
> fantastic opportunities. Many many people are engaging as volunteers,
> villages who have ?been sleeping? for decades wake up etc etc 
> 
> 
> 
> One of the challenges is that neighbours often become afraid when new asylum
> camps are opened near where they live. Or homes for lonely refugee children
> (35 000 came last year). There are so many rumours going on, and shit is
> spread on social media ? so many ?normal? people are very much afraid from
> stories they heard ? often false ones but also that single events create
> pictures in people?s heads.
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> 
> In my hometown one school which was being rebuilt to house lonely refugee
> children was burnt down :( and we had many fires like that all over the
> country :(
> 
> 
> 
> What the authorities usually do when a new housing is to open is to invite
> the public to a ?information-meeting? where they put some politicians, the
> CEO of the company running the camp, some officials from the municipality in
> front of a crowd of people who are worried and some are even outright
> hostile with racist ideas. You can imagine what usually happens? I was in
> one of those meetings a couple of weeks ago, it was horrible. 
> 
> I think the usual impact is: 
> 
> *       Increased fear and hostility towards people coming to our country
> from war zones. 
> 
> *       Increased mistrust to the politicians and municipality. 
> 
> *       People at the front get more or less badly hurt. 
> 
> 
> 
> Not a very good result. In fact it?s outright dangerous to arrange these
> kind of meetings. But mostly they don?t know better. Which is quite
> surprising to me as there are thousands of trained facilitators in our
> country.
> 
> 
> 
> Since some time I have been working with colleagues in our Open Space and
> Genuine Contact communities to create alternative ways to have such
> meetings. We have some good ideas but would also like to hear what comes up
> for you? Normally these meetings are conducted in the evening, length of 2-3
> hours. Normally they are not well planned and not facilitated other than
> trying to control them. They are called ?information meetings? which says a
> lot.
> 
> 
> 
> So I?d love to hear your experiences, ideas, suggestions?
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas Herrmann
> 
> Open Space Consulting AB
> 
> <http://www.openspaceconsulting.com/> www.openspaceconsulting.com
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> Ni n?r oss per telefon: +46 (0)709 98 97 81 eller Epost:
> <mailto:thomas at openspaceconsulting.com> thomas at openspaceconsulting.com 
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> Open Space Consulting AB ?r ett f?retag med STORA ambitioner att guida
> ledare, organisationer men ?ven lokalsamh?llen att n? sin fulla kraft f?r
> att infria sina dr?mmar. Vi bidrar med kunskaper och praktiska verktyg f?r
> att st?dja er att finna er b?sta v?g.  
> 
> 
> 
> Mer information
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> Facebook F?retagssida: https://www.facebook.com/OpenSpaceConsulting 
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