[OSList] Evolve conference Oct 20-22 enhancing the knowledge of the field of collaborative change

[Birgitt Williams]

Dear friends and colleagues,
The Evolve conference has a great line up of speakers and conveners, all
committed to facilitating change in the world. The list of
speakers/conveners includes a few people on our OS community, including
Harrison Owen, Tova Averbuch, Peggy Holman. As well, four of us (Suzanne
Daigle, Jake Yeager, Rachel Bolton and I) are facilitating a meeting within
the conference using Open Space Technology. When we were asked to each take
a one hour session time to have an Open Space during that session, with
topics posted in the chat window, it felt to me like a speed dating version
of Open Space. The four of us conferred and the result was to have one
congruent OST meeting that had five session times, using those sessions as
topic conversation round times. We wanted to offer as much time for the
discussions as possible within the structure of the conference, and we
wanted to provide people who attended any of the sessions to have the
experience of being within something greater, something that could make a
bigger difference.

Having come up with that as our offer, and having the conference organizers
agree to one comprehensive OST meeting taking place in five one hour
sessions over the three days, we solved some of what felt limiting to us.
Suzanne wondered if we could use the last session to have a closing circle
of the OST and we all were very much in favor of her wish and she is
facilitating that session. We wanted to use some of the first session to
open the space and invite for the co-creation of the agenda wall, likely
using Miro. The agenda wall would be open for more topics to be added.

There are still some challenges to be worked out and with the help of the
conference organizers, we intend finding viable solutions. Right now, the
schedule on the website is offered as a list, so it appears that there are
five different Open Space sessions. We will find a way to communicate that
what is offered is an Open Space Technology meeting over the five sessions.
Haven't quite figured out how to convey that this isn't limited to five
times in which there is open space in the conference, but rather that there
is a meeting method that has great value for collaborative change: Open
Space Technology.

I like that the one method that is going to be included in the conference
itself as a method is Open Space Technology. I like that Harrison is one of
the speakers for this first time gathering of people from many communities
of practice, scholars, artists, and more. Open Space Technology remains (30
years) my favorite of the large group interventions.

Now, back to the conference. It might be the right time, in the absence of
a WOSONOS conference, to enter into a collaborative playground that is
designed to enrich with learning of more that  is happening in the growing
field of collaborative change.

with appreciation to all that you are and all that you do towards a more
life nourishing world,
Birgitt
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*Birgitt Williams*
*Senior consultant-author-mentor to leaders and consultants  *
*Specialist in organizational and systemic transformation, leadership
development, and the power of nourishing  a culture of leadership.*
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