[OSList] [GC] Re: OST training September 6-8 in Europe (X-posted GC/GCD/OS-lists)

Tue Jul 18 07:16:06 PDT 2017

Dear Birgitt, Michael M, Thomas, Helga, Nancy & all! 

thank you so much for sharing the story of how the workshop came into being here.
It’s gives great context.

Regarding the training I just want to share with all my pride how much I am looking forward giving the training! 

I participated in my first Open Space 17 years ago when I was 18 at my school - Michael M you facilitated it in such a great way! That got me hooked. ;)
After school was over I facilitated my first Open Space - without any formal training - at the age of 21.
In the following years I participated in, hosted and facilitated Open Space meetings and trainings - in the Berlin/boscop style. 
A great school, with great precision and care. 

I also had the privilege to be in Harrison’s team, when you facilitated the Open Space with 100 Imams & 100 rabbis for Peace in Sevilla in 2006. Massive leaning opportunity.

And in the last 7 years I have been extremely involved in the genuine contact way of working which added another layer of awareness and consciousness to my work as a facilitator. As a member of the Leadership Team I have been a sponsor to face-to-face and online Open Space meetings, supporting the organization and community to get stuff done together and also to deal with grief, change and challenges. 

Basically my love for Open Space is huge. 

Each time I have the opportunity to pass that knowledge on I am deeply humbled and excited. 

If you know anybody who should come to the training with us in the Netherlands, please pass on the word! THANK YOU!

much Love
Anna Caroline 

> On Jul 18, 2017, at 4:04 PM, newresolve <newresolve at eastlink.ca> wrote:
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> The never-ending richness of learning 😁🤗
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> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Birgitt Williams <birgitt at dalarinternational.com>
> Date: 2017-07-18 10:46 AM (GMT-04:00)
> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>, GC list <genuine-contact at googlegroups.com>
> Subject: [GC] Re: [OSList] OST training September 6-8 in Europe (X-posted GC/GCD/OS-lists)
> 
> Dear Thomas, Anna Caroline, and Doris,
> People choosing to go to your workshop whether they are new to working with OST or are well seasoned in their own facilitation/experience with OST will experience great learning, and the insights that are important to them at this time. In this module of the Genuine Contact program, the focus is on 'working' with OST within a company, community, team, etc to get the most short and long term benefit from the incredible quality and quantity that always emerges in an OST meeting. The module is not so much about how to facilitate an OST meeting, although that is covered too. It is understood that to facilitate an OST, one can read 'the book' and then get on with it. This is so much more!
> 
> I want to say a little about how this module came into being. I had someone shadow me once in a multi day OST meeting, with the belief she would be helping me. Monika is a very bright woman, an educator and administrator, and filled with lots of questions. As we worked with the OST, she asked so many questions from the beginning that I handed her some pads of post it notes and asked her to write each question down on a separate note and we would get to them when we could. The stack of questions was so big that I was overwhelmed. I nonchalantly assumed the answers would be easy. I discovered, as she probed, that they were not. And for the first time I understood the complexity of what was needed in an organization such as hers in making the most of the OST meeting...she really wanted to. Those questions formed the basis of the workbook we use for Working with OST.
> 
> As early as 1992 I started experimenting with how to transform an organization so that it could have the same benefits that were gleaned in an OST meeting, on a daily basis. At first I called this the Conscious Open Space Organization, and later shifted the name to Genuine Contact Organization because what people experience in the organization on which the many benefits hinge...is genuine contact with each other, with the collective, and most importantly with themselves.
> 
> We do offer 'self management/self organizing' as one of many options of what is going on, yet we do not restrict the options to just this one. My personal favorite of the options, one that goes along with my deeply held belief of 'spirit is all that is' is that OST opens a window so we develop greater awareness of Spirit at work.
> 
> Blessings and hugs,
> Birgitt
> 
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 6:08 AM Thomas Herrmann via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
> Oh myy, sorry for keeping you awake Michael :). Thanks for your reflections. I think we agree on most re OST but for sure there is a lot to talk about. 
> 
> Now I'll go to Pilarne -a great outdoor art excibition. http://pilane.org <http://pilane.org/>/ -some people on this list know the place from the Genuine Contact Summer Academy some years back. That's open space, for sure!
> Hugs
> Thomas
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> Skickat från min iPhone
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> 18 juli 2017 kl. 00:38 skrev Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com <mailto:mmpannwitz at gmail.com>>:
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>> I am not at all sure what "we are".
>> 
>> I wonder whether I can be sure what my focus as facilitator in the OST context is.
>> So far, I felt my focus was to assist the sponsor in finding out whether an OST event is in order for whatever it is that he/she wants to do. The straightforward approach was to take a look with him whether the 5 or so prerequisites for an OST event are in place.
>> When that is the case and the event is decide on, the sponsor opens the space for the event to take place. I have never heard a sponsor talk about "emergence". Sponsors always wanted that some headway is made in a wicked situation for which nobody had a solution so far.
>> Considering that the force of selforganization is always active but sometimes pretty cramped (when various kinds of controls are exerted) it appears to me to be less a question of "setting the stage for selforganization" but being aware that it has its stage, albeit very small at times, and that it can do better by having a bit more time and space to unfold on its stage.
>> Focusing selforganization seems to me more in the direction of controlling selforganization and that is probably impossible. Even less possible seem to me any attempts to have bumblebees feel more empowered to do what I might think they ought to do. Its just as futile as working on empowering other human beings, especially facing the fact what a hard time I have to empower myself.
>> 
>> Yes, I also see/feel/notice/ etc. lots of unexpected and thrilling stuff while meandering through an OST event picking up coffee cups or taking a nap, oblivious to what direction things go and happily appreciating seeing folks follow their passions in structures and processes they themselves create in a fashion that no number of facilitators could.
>> 
>> Sleepless in Berlin and finding it great to be tickled into this dialog.
>> 
>> cheers
>> mmp
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>> Am 17.07.2017 um 23:27 schrieb Thomas Herrmann via OSList:
>>> Exactly!
>>> We are but an instrument assisting the sponsor to open space for emergence.
>>> We set the stage for selforganization to happen with a bit more directed focus and bumblebees feel more empowered to flap their wings, stirring energy, creating disturbances and they also contribute with their wisdom.
>>> Crosspollination happens while I pick coffee cups. And I get paid for it!
>>> Wohooo
>>> Thomas
>>> Skickat från min iPhone
>>>> 17 juli 2017 kl. 22:36 skrev Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com <mailto:mmpannwitz at gmail.com>>:
>>>> 
>>>> Learn to Open Space for Cross Pollination in Groups?
>>>> 
>>>> And here I keep thinking that
>>>> 
>>>> 1) facilitators dont open space, sponsors do
>>>> 2) facilitators introduce OST, humbly
>>>> 3) if things go as they seem to always go, space and time expand a bit for the force of selforganisation to do its stuff.
>>>> 
>>>> And, my experience, bumble bees do their pollination stuff between groups as they flit around from group to group often strategically as is the habit of bumble bees, there is nothing random about them... and thats a predictable side effect of selforganisation.
>>>> 
>>>> Why should a facilitator get involved to bother about cross pollination and how could she be if completely occupied with doing nothing to get out of the way of the good old force, bless her.
>>>> 
>>>> Greetings from Berlin
>>>> mmp
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>>>>> Am 17.07.2017 um 14:47 schrieb Thomas Herrmann via OSList:
>>>>> *Dear friends in Open Space*
>>>>> Doris Gottlieb, Anna Caroline Türk and myself welcome anyone interested to learn about working with Open Space Technology to join us in September 6-8. Easily accessible close to Amsterdam. Join us and please share it on!
>>>>> More info: https://www.dorisgottlieb.com/ost-092017 <https://www.dorisgottlieb.com/ost-092017>
>>>>> Thanks and those of you in Europe – have a nice summer!
>>>>> Let’s go! Thomas Herrmann
>>>>> Thomas Herrmann
>>>>> Open Space Consulting AB
>>>>> Pensévägen 4, 434 46 Kungsbacka, Sweden
>>>>> Telefon: +46 (0)709 98 97 81
>>>>> Email: thomas at openspaceconsulting.com <mailto:thomas at openspaceconsulting.com>
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>>>>> Company page on Facebook: www.facebook.com/OpenSpaceConsulting <http://www.facebook.com/OpenSpaceConsulting> <http://www.facebook.com/OpenSpaceConsulting <http://www.facebook.com/OpenSpaceConsulting>>
>>>>> *Join our upcoming workshops in 2017 & 2018!*
>>>>> /Co-creation is here to stay – time to sharpen your skills?/
>>>>> /Medskapande är hör för att stanna – dags att vässa er förmåga?/
>>>>> *2017*
>>>>> Sept 6-8: Working with Open Space Technology – Netherlands (50 mts from Amsterdam airport)
>>>>> Oct 5-6: Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution – Netherlands (dito)
>>>>> Nov 14-18: Genuine Contact Train the Trainer – Netherlands (dito)
>>>>> *2018*
>>>>> Jan 11-13: Organizational Health and Balance – Netherlands (dito)
>>>>> Apr 16-18: Learning to work with Whole Person Process Facilitation – Netherlands (dito)
>>>>> Apr 19-20: Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution – Netherlands (dito)
>>>>> Aug 14-17: Individual Health and Balance – Sweden (preliminary)
>>>>> Sept 12-14: Working with Open Space Technology – Netherlands (dito)
>>>>> *2019*
>>>>> Febr 12-15: Genuine Contact Organization
>>>>> Apr 2-6: Genuine Contact Train the Trainer
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>> Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 441 resident Open Space Workers in 69 countries working in a total of 144 countries worldwide
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>> Here you find books and task cards on open space, most in German, some in English, some as ebooks, some multilingual
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