[OSList] 30 year celebration!

[Jeff Aitken]

Just to complete that thought, the MA program has a companion online PhD in
Transformative Inquiry (shameless plug again) - and those students also
join the OS during their week long residential retreat.

Jeff

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 7:24 AM Jeff Aitken <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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