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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Thank you, Juliane,
Sebastian, and Zelle, for adding to this great list of stories of using OS in
University settings.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Zelle, you
asked me to post back to the list all the responses I have gotten. I am
happy to do so. Sorry – I can usually put these things on my
website for you to go to but I can’t post something on there right now, soooooooooooo:
It’s l-o-n-g, and I do not want to make those of you who have trouble and
expense downloading and reading long messages – so I will put it into
three parts and hope that helps you. Get a really big cup of tea…</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>________________</span></font><b><font
size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black;font-weight:bold'>OS in University Settings</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>_______part 1 of 3________________ </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-16.8pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
lang=ES-MX style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Lisa Heft (<a
href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net">lisaheft@openingspace.net</a>)</span></font></p>
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lang=ES-MX style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Columbia University School of International
Relations and Center for Conflict Resolution </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:19.25pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Graduate and undergraduate students
who train for and offer services in international conflict resolution explored
what their cultural impact is on the international communities they
serve. A number of students coming through that program have taken my
Open Space workshops to learn more about and use the method in their work, and
I have consulted with their conflict resolution program on Open Space events in
Northern Iraq and East Timor.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:-1.5pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>San Francisco State
University’s Institute for Holistic Healing Studies</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:19.25pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Students and faculty explored
opportunities and issues and areas of learning they wish to include in their
programs.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:-1.5pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>The 21<sup>st</sup> Century
Leadership Center at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:19.25pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Students, faculty and
sponsors of this learning and community leadership capacity-building program
networked to share their experiences of working in the community and also
explored how to improve their organizations, communities and individual
practices with a focus on work-life balance.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>San Francisco State University’s
Institute for Holistic Healing Studies</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>This was for a meeting to
help them explore opportunities and issues and areas of learning they wish to
include in their programs.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:-1.5pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>I have also facilitated
different Open Space events for university and university-aged people meeting
off-campus for such things as a leadership series on healing from and dealing
with racism and a conference on issues and opportunities for young lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender leaders. And I facilitated Open Space
plenary sessions for the National Coalition on Dialogue and Deliberation
Conference - NCDD is a movement that originated from college campus programs
formed to invite citizen engagement and participatory decision-making.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:-1.5pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>This autumn I will be
facilitating an Open Space for Sonoma State University’s Organization
Development program, where current and past students and faculty will join to
network and share issues and opportunities in their field and their learning.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:-1.5pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>I also teach and mentor
facilitators in learning and using the method of Open Space - facilitators who
have been trained through my Open Space Learning Workshops have come from and
serve such institutions as the University of Michigan, San Francisco State
University, Portland State University, University of Florida, Naropa
University, Saybrook Institute, John F. Kennedy University, Sonoma State
University and as mentioned above, Columbia University.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-16.8pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Harrison Owen
[hhowen@adelphia.net]</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> <font color=black><span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-16.8pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Columbia Business School</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>My favorite story from this
sort of venue comes from Columbia Business School and is the brainchild of
Shrikuma Rao. Shrikuma put together a program which could have the title (mine
not his) "So you have now done Business School -- now what about the
Business of your life?" It is a regular course with lots of challenging
reading and discussion and a feature is a weekend Open Space. When I did it,
the theme was, "What are you going to do for the rest of your life?"
The Os has now become a regular part and they do it themselves (one more thing
not to do). Over the years (I think the program is about 5 years old) it has
filled out every time it is offered. As a matter of fact the last time I talked
to Shrikumar he said they receive 4 applications for every one they accepted.
In addition people from the Law School, and the School of International
Relations have come in. The Dean apparently doesn't like it, and has tried
repeatedly to shut it down. Every time he tries a large delegation of graduates
descend on his office. So far it continues -- to the best of my knowledge.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>INSEAD </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Another vignette -- A group
of Business School Deans and CEOs has been working for the past several years
on "Preparing Globally Responsible Leadership" under a grant from the
EU. Their last meeting where they were attempting to pull everything together
and figure out where to go next was in Open Space -- when they told me was
the only way they could deal with the diversity of opinion/egos/agendas and get
anything done. Seemed to work. Took place this April at INSEAD --
French Business School. Fun.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Michael M Pannwitz (<a
href="mailto:mmpanne@boscop.de">mmpanne@boscop.de</a> )</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>This
was for a crowd of 100 Personnel Development people from Universities
from all over Germany. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-16.8pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:
.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><a
href="http://www.michaelmpannwitz.de/extras/openspace/list/pictures/?event_id=108&event_table=os_list_veranstaltungen&event_type=2">http://www.michaelmpannwitz.de/extras/openspace/list/pictures/?event_id=108&event_table=os_list_veranstaltungen&event_type=2</a>
</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>There
is also stuff on the University Website see</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><a
href="http://www.uv.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/propersonal/openspace2003.htm">http://www.uv.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/propersonal/openspace2003.htm</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Its
all in German but the pictures are neat; you may also discover some colleagues
in the team (Michael jr. and Marei Kiele).</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>The
University site also features a scientific publication (as these kinds of
events tend to do)on the conference with a very good article on open space
(again, in German).</span></font></p>
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-18.7pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Agneta
Setterwall (<a href="mailto:agneta.setterwall@telia.com">agneta.setterwall@telia.com</a>
)</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences</span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'>I work a lot as a consultant at one of our Uppsala universities,
the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, mostly at the Department for
Urban and Rural development, primarily at the Unit for Environmental
Communication and the Unit for Rural Development. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'>. . I am not (yet?) a researcher, but I really like (most of) the
academic environment – the effort to think and talk clear and lucid, the
(often) open atmosphere. I have now for the second year had responsibility for
some twenty students and their five points (that is equivalent to five weeks
fulltime) course in “process- and project management”. Most of the
students are natural-science oriented, so I have the great pleasure to
introduce them in group-process thinking... Many of them will hopefully (if
they get a job) work with planning processes, natural resource management,
rural development and similar. Of course I told them about Open Space, and of
course we did one too – a mini three hour one, this year with the theme
“How do we get a job?”</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'>I have also some years ago facilitated four (if I remember it
right) OS for researchers seeking cross-relations and common grounds – it
was all about rural development in a global context, with a mostly social
science but also natural science agenda. Earlier this year I co-facilitated a
similar OS about finding the “right” agendas for future rural
development research programs. Participants were researchers from different
backgrounds, persons from local and governmental authorities and persons with
the task to write the research program.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:black'>And, this autumn I will facilitate two different two day long OS
at the same department, both of them with a networking aim. One is the first national
conference about environmental communication, and it is also open for English
speaking not-national persons – so I will do it in English. It is open
for researchers and practitioners. The other is a cross-scientific networking
scientific one about water, and also in English: “Integrated & Transboundary
Water Resource Research - A network creating conference”.</span></font><font
size=2 color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'> </span></font><font size=2
color=black face="Trebuchet MS"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'>Some info can be found at <a
href="http://www.sol.slu.se/">www.sol.slu.se</a>, in English – and
Swedish.</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'> </span></font></p>
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-18.7pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Thank you all,</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><br>
Lisa</span></font></p>
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i s a H e f t</span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'>Consultant,
Facilitator, Educator</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'>O p e n i n g
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black'><a
href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net"><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>lisaheft@openingspace.net</span></font></a></span></font></p>
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