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these words from Michael H. For the first several OSONOS’s, which I
hosted, total planning time for the gathering itself was essentially zero,
being limited to finding a date. We usually ran over a weekend, so we would
gather on Friday night for some beer, wine, and smoozing. Come Saturday morning
it was (you guessed it) sit in a circle, create a bulletin board, open a market
place and Go for it! Sunday afternoon brought the usual hugs, and that was it.
Logistically I spent perhaps an hour with the hotel folks securing the space
(block of rooms and the meeting area). Then there was OSONOS-by-the-Sea which
was pretty much the same thing, perhaps less in terms of hard work on my part.
The only real difference was the exorbitant conference fee of $25 –
most of which we didn’t need and donated to the Access Queen fund. So
there is a way to do a lot with a little.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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have changed. We are now very much of a global community and that is just
wonderful. And the time and effort offered by our host teams is fantastic –
Lisa and Co. being the latest iteration of a fine tradition. God love them
all!! But for myself, the thought of working on something like OSONOS for two
years is exhausting. Just the thought. . . Wheew. . .<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>thanks for opening this
conversation, lisa. <br>
<br>
to me, the most important thing about osonos is that it is our chance to
practice what we preach, open to and in the world. in recent years, it seems
to me that we have strayed from our core practice in two important ways:
scarcity and design. perhaps these are two sides of the same coin.<br>
<br>
over the last some years, we've come to take a year to plan something that is
supposed to be about not planning and designing in advance. we've
convinced ourselves that we must have only one "world" osonos.
we make a big deal out of that *one* but tend, at the same time, to ignore the
7 or 8 years running that haiti has hosted an osonos and a raft of stammiches,
for instance. <br>
<br>
i do not understand how the os community imposing the structure of a single
'world' osonos per year, with all the queueing and jockeying that goes on
around the eye of that needle, is any different from leaders we work with (or
don't get to work with) holding tight to the notion that there can be only one
speaker at a time, one powerpoint presenter per hour of annual meeting, one
round after another in a big group, with regular breaks to recover and adjust
the setup for the next speaker.<br>
<br>
what would a truly open space approach to osonos look like? <br>
<br>
i think it would be a bulletin board, where anyone could announce a gathering,
an osonos, where the theme would be "open space". i'll refrain
from making the plan and theme even as complicated as "the practice of
open space". like any breakout session, the host would choose a time
and a place. when folks arrived in their corner of the world, they would
step into the circle of few or many friends and colleagues. they would
tell something of their story, how they came to post this invitation. and
they would invite everyone present to say something of why they'd come.
these everyone sayings would, of course, begin as topics announced and
posted. in some years we might have many osonos events, some years few,
but in no years would we have a single, most important, "world"
osonos. they would all be important. encouraged.
announced. documented. photographed. access queened.
connected. simultaneous. messy. local. global.
open. spaces.<br>
<br>
there would be no concern for who would go to <st1:country-region w:st="on">india</st1:country-region>
or <st1:country-region w:st="on">australia</st1:country-region> or <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">camden</st1:place></st1:City> or whatever.
the right people would find their way. and when people needed help
getting to some osonos far away, they could ask for it. you and anyone
else could help run the side bulletin board that was its own little open space
on getting to an open space on open space. how does a two-year lead time
fit with whenever it starts and whoever comes is right?<br>
<br>
yes, i might not see you and peggy and brian and michael and larry and chris at
*the* world open space. the usual suspects would not be able to support,
encourage, or whatever the "growth of open space" in one particular
region. we couldn't talk about "bringing open space" to
this "underserved" place or another, as we sometime have in the
past. but as far as i can tell, just about the whole world is
underserved. we could all be going to many places, trusting that we are
all in the same place, with many breakouts scattered world around. and
all the side conversations could be about "which one are you going
to?" instead of "which one is ready or right or will be supported and
held up as *the one* that everyone should go to this year, the only one that
will be called 'world'.<br>
<br>
and then maybe the world os conference call would be opened to anyone who was
in the moment of making a whole world invitation to gather in their corner of
earth, to talk about open space. why should there be only two people
allowed from each country or each "institute" on such calls.
would we ever suggest such a system in one of the events we facilitate? <br>
<br>
i'll be very interested to hear what others are thinking on this. perhaps
i'm too much the purist, or not much of a planner, but my favorite osonos
gatherings have been the really really simple ones, mostly before we started
lining up and and taking turns. what we be lost if we made more space for
more open spaces on open space each year? what would an open space on
osonos look like? how would it function on an ongoing, worldwide, anyone
can come, anyone can host, no planning required basis? that's what i'm
really wondering now.<br>
<br>
i'll go back to my painting and carpentry now, but will be listening in
between, looking forward to what the rest of everybody else might have to say.<br>
<br>
thanks, again, lisa. <br>
<br>
michael<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Lisa Heft <<a
href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net">lisaheft@openingspace.net</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>Hello, dear colleagues –</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>Get yourself a cup of tea (or other beverage of your choice) as
this is a long message...</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>First, thank you for your patience as we work to complete the
WOSonOS 2008 Book of Proceedings for distribution.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>We are just waiting for a few more individuals who had wanted
to send in their completed session notes in post-event for inclusion in the
Book.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>So: as soon as those come in (very soon I promise) we will
first send the Book to all the WOSonOS 2008 participants, and then let you know
here on the <st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName> where it will be
posted for your own reading enjoyment.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>And next, a little thing I have been thinking about. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>I am interested in hearing your thoughts.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>And here is a bit of background.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>At the WOSonOS last month, there were two </span></font><b><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold'>invitations</span></font></b><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> made for the WOSonOS to
come to someplace welcoming in the world, for 2009 and for 2010. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>You may remember that June 18<sup>th</sup> message from the
June 'OS Groups or Institutes Call' that was ** posted on <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>. This call is an every-few-months
gathering of one or two representatives from each Open Space Institute or Group
– about 15 countries are represented. I also attend those calls as
Access Queen, because I communicate with and support each year's Host Team and
Askers as needed, no matter where in the world the WOSonOS may be. In the
notes from that meeting, you probably read that Taiwan was interested in
inviting for 2009 and bringing a nice contingent to the WOSonOS, Berlin was
interested in 2010, and also if you look in earlier calls notes, Hungary,
France and Estonia were also thinking of inviting for a future year – perhaps
2010 or another year they felt ready to do so. You may also have read in
those notes that at the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kiev</st1:place></st1:City>
conference (2007) there was a discussion about having these conferences'
locations and dates announced </span></font><b><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold'>two years
ahead</span></font></b><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> – as it is very hard for both the Host
Teams and some of the travelers to plan for these things with less than one
years' advance notice. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>(Our Host Team worked for over one year on this WOSonOS, for
example. Other Host Teams may need even more time because there is not a
large OS community yet locally and the majority of people who come to these
WOSonOSs seem to come over land – so this is just my observation but a
strong local OS community seems so essential for supporting an event like
this. Plus I think it is incredibly useful for prospective hosts to
attend a few WOSonOSs if possible to see how it is the same and yet different
from a client OS, to experience some of the traditions, and make their own
design and decisions based on some of that observation and experience. Again –
just my opinion, but to me, this seems incredibly useful.)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>And there was also conversation and support for moving the
conference </span></font><b><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold'>back and
forth across the world</span></font></b><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> – over this land,
over that ocean, over someplace else next – so that some people would
miss coming for some years but others would be able to come – because of
the sharing and moving across the world of this lovely event.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>My Host Team was interested in designing something thoughtful,
supportive and useful for both the invitation process and – as appropriate
– any deliberation process, should there have been more than one inviting
team for 2009 and 2010. Typically, these invitations get made live at the
WOSonOS – by the inviting Host Team or a representative (Brian B of
Australia and I once invited the world to India for the 2004 WOSonOS to
represent that year's host, Janet Pinto; Thomas Herrmann and Eva P Svensson of
Sweden offered my third year's invitation at Kiev last year to represent me -
and you can see what happened!). Some of us on the Host Team had ideas
for designing a discussion / consensus / decision process and we wanted to know
who was offering an invitation so we could welcome them, create time in our
event schedule for them, and support all inviters through this invitation and
decision process with thoughtful process design. I asked all the
conference registrants, too, if anyone was thinking of inviting, just so we
would know and design the time and approach to support each potential hosting
group or individual.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>(I had also talked to a few folks who had expressed an earlier
interest – and so had some of my colleagues such as Gerard, Karen Davis
and others– and it seemed as if those others who had been interested felt
it would be better to make their own invitation in another year – though
the Hungary inviters asked that the Berlin event be held close to the 2010 OD
Summit if possible, for potential attendance at both events).</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>As it turns out, at this invitation portion of the WOSonOS
there was </span></font><b><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold'>only one
inviting team for 2009</span></font></b><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'> (</span></font><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><b><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold'>Taiwan</span></font></b></st1:country-region><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>,
their second year of invitation) </span></font><b><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold'>and one team for 2010</span></font></b><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>
(</span></font><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
font-weight:bold'>Berlin</span></font></b></st1:place></st1:State><font
size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>).
So there was no need for any decision-making. Although fabulous Gerard
Muller stood up and reminded me to stop....and breathe....and ask one more time
if there was anyone else thinking of inviting the WOSonOS to their
country. I bow to you, Gerard. The silence was nutritious.
</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>As it turns out, nobody else came forward. So we celebrated our
next 2 years of hosts (!!! 2009 <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
!!! !!! 2010 <st1:State w:st="on">Berlin</st1:State> !!!), and at the end
of the conference – as is our tradition – the 2008 (<st1:City
w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:City>) Host Team passed the lovely WOSonOS talking
stick to the 2009 (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:place></st1:country-region>)
team.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>So. </span></font><b><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold'>My
thoughts for your discussion are...</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>As Access Queen, I often think of 'what will help different
kinds of people participate if they have a passion to do so'. I do not
get to all the WOSonOSs in person, but I know it is very very powerful to
receive an invitation from a potential Host Team – in person – to
get a sense for their country, their culture, their personality. And
powerful to make decisions in person – with whoever comes - with
conversation, and listening, in-person. I am not sure how one would get
such an amazing, experiential sense of someone inviting – especially
someone from another culture and country – in written form only.
Especially if their home language is not in English, as this list conversation
usually is.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>However sometimes I wonder if there would be a way to bring the
invitations to the larger OS community – including those of you who
cannot come live to the WOSonOS.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>I am guessing there are some of you who feel 'it is just fine
that whoever comes to any given year's event in person collectively hears these
invitations and decides / agrees on the future year(s) locations.' You
are fine with a diverse group of colleagues being there to hear and feel and
taste and sense what future potential hosts are offering. You are like
the butterflies in the room.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>I am guessing there are some of you who feel 'I would like to
be included too and I do not get to go to these live events. I wish there
was a way I can be included'. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>Maybe some of you feel both of these things at once.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>I do not have an answer – and I for one am one of those
people who is fine with whoever being there getting to make a decision.
That is how I have experienced and enjoyed many Open Space-like organizations'
or communities' decision-making processes. They use each others'
energies and participation in that fluid and trusting manner, and whoever is at
a given meeting gets to make the decisions, whether all are present at that
meeting or not.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>However: I want to invite you to share your thoughts, dear
colleagues. As I am just one person. And I feel like there is a
conversation here that is waiting to happen.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>I look forward to hearing the conversation,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>Lisa</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<pre><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS"'>** You can find the brief notes from that recent international call in our own June archives (see below my signature for the web address for the <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName> archives), or take a look at the complete notes for each of those phone meetings at <a
href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/netwiki.cgi?WorldOSonOS" target="_blank">http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/netwiki.cgi?WorldOSonOS</a> </span></font><o:p></o:p></pre>
<p><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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