[OSList] 30 year celebration!

[Jeff Aitken]

I'll clarify too: Harrison told me that as a storyteller he has filled his
palette with influences from around the world - but OS emerged from the two
martinis of course!

Not until afterward, in trying to understand this wonderous creation OS,
are the influences of some specific stories able to be made more clear.

Jeff

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 7:37 AM Jeff Aitken <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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