[OSList] Test...

Jeff Aitken r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com
Thu Oct 28 06:53:24 PDT 2021


Hi Michael. Care to share a story of one of your neighborhood OS?

Say you have a relative in their 20s who is considering Open Space in a
neighborhood, and asks for a real story to inspire them. What story would
you tell them?

Jeff

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 2:24 AM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

>
> Dear Tonnie,
>
> having firefighters in an open space event spreads like wildfire...
> similar to os events in schools (of course, with parents and
> neighborhood), or in church parishes where you have folks from all walks
> of life, or, of course, in neighborhoods. Its those events that create
> strong ripples across all subsystems... and kept me busy.
>
> Greetings from Berlin where I see complicated excursions with hundreds
> of people over weeks to get a new government... it would surprise me, if
> any of them ever were in an os event. One classical os event, meaning
> the whole enchilada, would get them done in 10 percent of the time...
> now they are planning to get done by Xmas, hmmm!
>
> mmp
> Am 28.10.2021 um 08:57 schrieb info via OSList:
>  > Thanks Chris and others for bringing PNI to this list. It fits perfectly
>  > in two training programs on collaborative action research I am
>  > providing. I have ordered the book by Cynthia. WHat I have read on her
>  > website already gives me more words and pictures to working with stories
>  > such as in Story Bridge. I will start next week with two PNI sessions.
>  >
>  > By the way, two weeks ago I had the honour to facilitate a one-day Open
>  > Space on the tasks and organisation of the Dutch Fire Brigade. A
>  > planning day after a one-day Future Search with about 70 participants,
>  > where we collected trends and image of the future in 2030.
>  >
>  > What surprised me that olmost no one had even heard of Open Space. And
>  > they were surprised how well it worked and how easily new relationships
>  > were built. So, we have more work to do in the Netherlands.
>  >
>  > Warmly,
>  > Tonnie van der Zouwen
>  >
>  >
>  > Verzonden vanaf mijn Galaxy
>  >
>  >
>  > -------- Oorspronkelijk bericht --------
>  > Van: Chris Corrigan via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
>  > Datum: 27-10-2021 22:56 (GMT+00:00)
>  > Aan: World wide Open Space Technology email list
>  > <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
>  > Cc: Chris Corrigan <chris at chriscorrigan.com>
>  > Onderwerp: Re: [OSList] Test...
>  >
>  > More on Participatory Narrative Inquiry here:
>  > https://www.workingwithstories.org/aboutpni.html
>  > <https://www.workingwithstories.org/aboutpni.html>
>  >
>  > On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 2:05 PM john watkins via OSList
>  > <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> >>
>  > wrote:
>  >
>  >     Lovely! I can use this format next week with a group of middle
>  >     school students who are doing a fishbowl (virtually) with our senior
>  >     leadership teams from across North America. They can model it for
>  >     the districts, who can take it back and use if with their
>  >     participatory narrative “street data” processes. Thanks!
>  >
>  >     John Watkins
>  >
>  >>     On Oct 27, 2021, at 1:58 PM, Jeff Aitken via OSList
>  >>     <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
>  >>     <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>     A blog by Chris about PNI is below. In the example, an animating
>  >>     theme is
>  >>     "how to get a bunch of perspectives from throughout a company on a
>  >>     new phase in a company’s evolution."
>  >>
>  >>     And the questions he suggests for participants on a Google form:
>  >>     "share a story of something that happened lately that made you
>  >>     think: ‘we need to address this issue…'” Get everyone in the
>  >>     organization to enter one story, a few sentences. On the form then
>  >>     ask them a) how common do you think this is in our organization
>  >>     and b) what is one thing we could do to address that issue?"
>  >>
>  >>     As you see it's a way to harvest stories than can inform a next
>  >>     conversation about the past-present-future. (In open space?)
>  >>
>  >>     Something like this could be adapted for a basic inquiry of our OS
>  >>     community of practice. If there is a lively theme to propose!
>  >>
>  >>
> https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/very-basic-story-gathering/
>  >>
> <https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/very-basic-story-gathering/>
>  >>
>  >>     - Jeff
>  >>
>  >>     On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 12:58 PM Harrison Owen SR via OSList
>  >>     <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
>  >>     <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>         OS in Schools is wonderful. Even a long time ago (25 YEARS?) A
>  >>         school up in Seattle basically bookended its year. Opened with
>  >>         2 days on the question "what are we going to do?" and closed
>  >>         with 2 days - "what have we done?" Everybody came -- students,
>  >>         teachers, parents, cooks, janitors -- everybody.
>  >>
>  >>         Harrison
>  >>
>  >>         On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 2:54 PM john watkins via OSList
>  >>         <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
>  >>         <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>             Jeff (and Chris),
>  >>
>  >>             I love this work! We (the Deeper Learning Dozen
>  >>             <https://deeperlearningdozen.org/>,  working with senior
>  >>             leaders in school districts across North America) see this
>  >>             process as deeply connected to our efforts to get school
>  >>             districts to engage meaningfully with their most
>  >>             marginalized students and families, and PNI is a really
>  >>             great process for that, especially in valuing stories as
>  >>             evidence of learning, what works and doesn’t work for kids
>  >>             and families, and what they see as needed changes. We see
>  >>             it as really well aligned with our colleagues, Shane Safir
>  >>             and Jamila Dugan, in their new book, Street Data: A next
>  >>             generation model for equity, pedagogy, and school
>  >>             transformation. Thanks for posting!
>  >>
>  >>             John Watkins
>  >>             Oakland, CA
>  >>
>  >>>             On Oct 26, 2021, at 6:37 PM, Jeff Aitken via OSList
>  >>>             <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
>  >>>             <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>>             I looked into "the method" with Chris not so long ago. It
>  >>>             can be relatively simple actually.
>  >>>
>  >>>             A few good questions are agreed upon: Questions that
>  >>>             invite stories of experiences from members of the
>  >>>             community (like our OS community of practice.)
>  >>>
>  >>>             There is attention to crafting a short menu of questions
>  >>>             that can bring out a story. Each person can then choose
>  >>>             which question to answer.
>  >>>
>  >>>             There is software that will collect the responses, and
>  >>>             then it can help to arrange a round of "making sense" of
>  >>>             the stories that are gathered.
>  >>>
>  >>>             As an American I have interest in stories of Open Space
>  >>>             helping people in a town or city toward (or return to) a
>  >>>             sense of mutual love for the place, and mutual aid for
>  >>>             one another. As just one timely example.
>  >>>
>  >>>             There was interest in stories of OS as a practice of
>  >>>             peace, also timely.
>  >>>
>  >>>             Cynthia Kurtz write the book Participatory Narrative
>  >>>             Inquiry and the software Narrafirma with colleagues.
>  >>>
>  >>>             Jeff
>  >>>             Telegraph Hill
>  >>>             Yelamu / San Francisco California
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>             On Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 8:38 AM Harold Shinsato via OSList
>  >>>             <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
>  >>>             <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>>                 If you pray to the list serve Gods, don't expect
>  >>>                 much. There aren't any.
>  >>>
>  >>>                 This list is self-organized and self-moderated. If
>  >>>                 things go well, I am hoping to get the OSList
>  >>>                 migrated to Mailman 3.0 soon. It will help with some
>  >>>                 of the bounce problems, but it won't make any
>  >>>                 difference to the self-organization of this
> conversation.
>  >>>
>  >>>                 You might make a difference though. I believe you
>  >>>                 already have. Thank you for that, Mark!
>  >>>
>  >>>                 On 10/24/21 11:50 AM, Mark Carmel via OSList wrote:
>  >>>>                 To the list serve Gods: Maybe it's time for a list
>  >>>>                 serve tune up.... how about adding Chris Corrigan's
>  >>>>                 method of story sharing so we can collect everyone's
>  >>>>                 success stories in one place? Thanks for your
>  >>>>                 consideration and service,
>  >>>>                 MC
>  >>>>
>  >>>
>  >>>                 --
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