[OSList] Is Open Space Education Possible?

Mon Jan 18 07:47:48 PST 2016

Hi Suzanne,

Good to see you yesterday.

I realized this morning that Kennen (California) and Jose were not signed
up on the roster of Participants for

Letting Go OPTSD Stories. I wanted to make sure that they were included.

Wishing you a safe flight.

Scott

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Suzanne Daigle via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Wow Chris, I have a story to add to your story. It was closer to midnight
> last Friday, I couldn't sleep and I went to Facebook. Saw on Open Space
> Technology FB that a young woman by the name of Amy Chen had posted
> inquiring where there might be training in Open Space. I immediately
> responded by private message and suggested New York at International House
> in January with Harrison Owen and Karen Davis. She answered me back right
> away saying she was really interested. We texted each other back and forth
> for about 20 minutes. I suggested we Facetime the next morning at 10 am.
> Well we did for an hour and a half. When Amy said she nearly fell off her
> chair when Harrison invited her to Beijing, well I literally got off my
> chair Saturday morning dancing on my kitchen floor after we hung up.
>
> You see we had an ageless conversation, going everywhere and anywhere. Her
> history, my time in China, her huge interest in Open Space. It was an
> incredible conversation. I could hardly contain my enthusiasm imagining all
> the Open Space folks I wanted her to meet, some a little older than her,
> others much older. No matter. I imagined others we could invite to New
> York. I said you must come to Florida and meet the university students who
> co-hosted the World Open Space in 2013. About 30 of them. We talked about
> the future of work. I asked her if she knew Haier in China, a trailblazing
> self managed company. She said yes. They are famous. At the end I was
> exhausted with excitement. She was super energized. I suggested I'd sent
> her information on people I'd love her to meet, virtually or in person, I
> sent her tons of links, articles, etc. Totally fire hosed her.
> We talked about the round the world, round the clock virtual experiment
> celebrating Harrison's birthday.
> It was like the best ping pong match ever. I was totally bowled over by
> Amy too, for education and also for the workplace because Amy and others
> represent what's possible if we leap frog ahead, by opening space to engage
> and work together.
> All I can say Chris is thank you for connecting with her and connecting us
> all here. Fate then led you to introduce her to Harrison. How very cool it
> all is!
> Suzanne
> Is it possible to Open Space Education?
>
> I had almost given up asking this question when I was bowled over by this
> 23 year old chinese lady Amy the week before Independence Day 2015. It was
> her first trip abroad and she was interviewing anyone she could from over
> 50 nations at the 20th year of the creative children festival celebrated on
> the Mall Washngton DC. Her favorite interviewees were the children but
> there were also elders   like Samara Ethiopian-American owner of the 5
> billion person elearning satellite yazmi, or Bangladeshi Naila for 15 years
> muhammad yunus first female director of grameen mobile phone, or William a
> Chinese America retiree who has spent quarter of a century building
> friendships out of Chillicon Valley (Stanford), or Taddy Blecher founder of
> the Mandela extranet and the free university of entrepreneurship for the
> underprivileged. Amy seemed to grow about 10 years in self-confidence by
> the end of her 10 days in DC, but as she flew back to China I never
> really expected to see the likes of her again
>
> 3 months later i got a whats app message, it was Amy:  is there anyone
> more innovative I can interview on my second trip. I said the only person i
> can think of is Harrison Owen in Maryland. She said what? Why didnt I see
> him first time? I said he lives summers on a boat in Maine. She said
> what?
> ...Thankfully they had lunch on her second voyage abroad. And he said to
> her if you are happy to cancel rest of our DC trip, why not come to Beijing
> and observe open space china with me. Amy gulped: am I a right person? of
> course, yes please. At the airport she said to me *I will be back* and
> next I want to interview a leader of a social business college. I said
> what? But while Amy was observing Harrison magic in Beijing, i was being
> debriefed on some research at the Vatican University. Their information
> was that the only college leadership team in USA they had found to be up
> for the pro-youth curriculum transformation of Pope Francis was in
> Brooklyn, thanks to the extraordinary female Dean there.
>
> So here we are last week with : a short video of Amy's first gig in
> Brooklyn and the Dean's review.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztwZi_g2F-8&feature=youtu.be
> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/eel-comes-brooklyn-new-york-joann-d-rolle-ph-d-?trk=mp-author-card
> What will happen next could be fun...
>
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