Kaliya....<br><br>This is a really interesting thing to notice. There is not a lot of experience among OST facilitators with communities that develop the capacity over time to really be in Open Space, especially communities that are as big and networked as the social media sector. Some of us have been lucky enough to run these experiments Your learning here is contributing much to my own reflections on how groups get comfortable and then skilful with the technologies that can take them to deeper and deeper places of engagement. Unconferencing is really the mainstream tipping point that many of us have been imagining would happen in the tech world for probably 15 years. It's great to see the way it is unfolding, and to see that the process is being stewarded and cared for by you and others like Deborah, Michael and Ted (and probably others too) as the social networking world discovers the creative potential of itself in meatspace.
<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kaliya Hamlin</b> <<a href="mailto:kaliya@mac.com">kaliya@mac.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><br><div><span class="q"><div>On Aug 21, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Raffi Aftandelian wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px;">What personal growing edges, if any, - read: blindspots- are contributing to
</div><div style="margin: 0px;">making the choices and experiencing the difficulties you have mentioned in</div><div style="margin: 0px;">the recent threads in working with OST?</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">
<br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Might deciding not to work in a circle because it is felt that IT people are</div><div style="margin: 0px;">not ready for it be robbing them of the opportunity to experience something</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">that might help them be much more productive?</div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>What I put forward to you has worked really well for me in the Tech communities I have grown and cultivated.
</div><div><br></div><div> I have an very high level of credibility and trust among very very senior people in the industry (to people in BIG corporations) in part because I built trust with them and the community I helped to build "OVER TIME" (we are having our 5th event in the fall (we do them every 6 months). This last OST we closed with a group poem. My goal with each event is to expand their process horizons every time.
</div><div><br></div><div> These people now tell me they have a much lower tolerance for 'talking heads' conferences and events with 5 papers....they are in love with open space.</div><div><br></div><div> Part of the reason for this I believe was my choice - my perception of where they were at culturally as a group and what i could do - interms of pushing their boundaries - (having NO agenda was already pushing it at the beginning) an not going 'over board' in the pushing. It is not like I had a client or committee I was pleasing by not doing a circle- I was it - the designer/facilitator (I always run my event designs by my co-producer and a process ally in my tech community)..
</div><span class="q"><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px;">I have participated in OST meetings which did not begin or end in a circle.</div><div style="margin: 0px;">And, I am not sure they invite the whole person. What, in that case, are we
</div><div style="margin: 0px;">inviting?</div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Fine. The point is they start to show up - the whole person can emerge in time in a community. Me alienating them at the beginning culturally.
</div><span class="q"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px;">"Luminaries" is a curious word. What might we call the rest of the people at</div><div style="margin: 0px;">a gathering with this social group present?
<span> </span></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>They are just more 'famous' then the other people there - they are normally keynoters, or at the very panalists regularly at a certain circuit of events. They can also be 'internet famous' or just someone respected in their field.
</div></div><div><br></div>Regards, <div>=Kaliya<br><div><span style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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