<html><head><meta charset="utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Friends,<div><br></div><div>I wanted to share something from the OD World Summit that took place in Budapest last week - <a href="http://www.odworldsummit.org">http://www.odworldsummit.org</a>. I was honored to be asked to do a "master class" on OST and to be part of an opening plenary to bring an OST perspective.</div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br>The others speaking were:<br>* Sandra Janoff on Future Search<br>* Diana Whitney on Appreciative Inquiry<br>* Janet Fiero on America Speaks/Twentieth Century Town Hall<br>* John Nkum on the Gestalt approach to Organization Development<br>* Joseph Melnick on Gestalt, the Cape Code model<br>* Sari van Poelje on Transactional Analysis</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">* Bo Gyllenpalm<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666" face="'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b> </b></span></font>on the World Cafe</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br>We were each asked to speak to the question:<br>What are the three most important ways that our practice (e.g., OST/self-organizing) has influenced the field?<br><br>I tried to send my thoughts to the OS list for comment before the event. For some reason, the message wouldn't go through. So instead, I'll tell you what I chose to say about OST:<br><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Open Space Technology made explicit the notion that everything is self-organizing. </b>OST offers a pathway for productively working with the dynamics of self-organization.<br><br><b>OST re-defines the role of the facilitator</b>. No longer the expert in the front of the room, but “totally present and completely invisible”. Rather than a facilitator who intervenes, the OST practitioner opens a welcoming space for self-organization to emerge.<br><br><b>OST provides a profound invitation to people to work from passion and responsibility. Or, as I usually say it, to take responsibility for what they love</b>. Not just during an OS event, but as a life practice, when we pay attention to passion and responsibility, the good of the individual and the good of the collective are both served. This seems a contradiction. Some have told me that they thought this behavior was selfish. Just the opposite is true. It takes people to a deeper place. When we operate by taking responsibility for what we love, we touch the part of us that connects to a deeper stream from which we all draw. In practice, when we each bring our full-voiced selves, a differentiation occurs from which novel patterns that draw from all facets of a system emerge. In the process, individual passion helps us discover our fit as a greater whole.</div><div><br></div><div>All in all, ODWS was great fun - about 350 people from 30 countries.</div><div><br></div><div>back in Seattle,</div><div>Peggy</div><div><br></div></div></div><br><br><div>
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text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>_________________________________</div><div>Peggy Holman</div><div><a href="mailto:peggy@peggyholman.com">peggy@peggyholman.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; 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