[OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 58, Issue 14

Thu Feb 18 14:05:07 PST 2016

"what's up? That you want to take responsibility for? "

 That phrase seems to jump off the page to me. Thanks for that.  It says so
much

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Susan Basterfield via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> I love that Anne!
>
> On 19/02/2016, at 10:21 AM, anne stadler via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
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> 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!!
>
> Anne
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>   1. OST meeting 2 hours a week - X-posted OS-list and GC-list
>      (Thomas Herrmann via OSList)
>   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>
> To: "'World wide Open Space Technology email list'"
>    <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>,    "'GC list'"
>    <genuine-contact at googlegroups.com>
> Subject: [OSList] OST meeting 2 hours a week - X-posted OS-list and
>    GC-list
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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
>
> <http://www.openspaceconsulting.com/> www.openspaceconsulting.com
>
> Ni n?r oss per telefon: +46 (0)709 98 97 81 eller Epost:
> <mailto:thomas at openspaceconsulting.com <thomas at openspaceconsulting.com>>
> thomas at openspaceconsulting.com
>
>
>
> 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
>
> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasherrmannopenspaceconsult
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> Facebook F?retagssida: https://www.facebook.com/OpenSpaceConsulting
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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
>    a    constructive dialogue meeting?
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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.
>
>
>
> 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
>
> Ni n?r oss per telefon: +46 (0)709 98 97 81 eller Epost:
> <mailto:thomas at openspaceconsulting.com <thomas at openspaceconsulting.com>>
> thomas at openspaceconsulting.com
>
>
>
> 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
>
> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasherrmannopenspaceconsult
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> Facebook F?retagssida: https://www.facebook.com/OpenSpaceConsulting
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