[OSList] 30 year celebration!

[Jeff Aitken]

Hi Michael: We enjoyed twice yearly OS retreats in the MA program for 7
years while I worked there, and then I brought it into my small PhD program
in cultural recovery and wrote a dissertation with OS as my research "muse".

Angeles Arrien taught at CIIS, and her wisdom on the OS "four principles of
detachment" (from her book The Four-Fold Way) was a key in my research.
Along with Harrison's palette of Hebrew stories and Kpelle ceremony and
Tibetan bardo teachings in his painting of OS.

But it hasn't been a constant feature in the larger university. In 2010 and
2011 I cohosted the faculty-staff opening retreat in OS with Heidi Nobantu
Saul. This year was the first that we returned to OS for our day of
re-gathering before the school year.

The MA in Leadership has offered OS in several of their one-week
residential student retreats each semester.

Jeff


On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 2:08 AM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Dear Jeff,
>
> congratulations!
> This appears to me to be an example of the sustained impact open space
> can have in groups, organizations and systems.
>
> Of course, I am curious how your life changed back in 1989 and also how
> the perpetual use changed the programme or the institution...
>
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp
>
> Am 23.08.2019 um 09:49 schrieb Jeff Aitken via OSList:
> > Harrison came to my grad school in 1989 to offer two days of open space
> > on 'spirit in organizations'. It helped kick off our new MA in
> > 'organizational development and transformation', co-led by the awesome
> > duo Antonio Nunez and Howard Schechter.
> >
> > Changed my life... That program morphed into an online MA in Leadership
> > btw (shameless plug.)
> >
> > I'm happy to report that the 30th anniversary of Open Space at CIIS in
> > San Francisco was celebrated with a Faculty-Staff gathering using open
> > space to start the new school year. A deep, resonant, and creative time
> > was had, of course!
> >
> > Onward with blessings
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> >
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