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Febr. - coming soon!....<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear friends and colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>After two exciting Open Space days here in Lisbon we are now sitting in the living-room near the fire (central Europe is in a real cold wave) and rethinking our experience, drinking tea and red-wine and enjoying.....<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks a lot for your stories and support, we appreciated it a lot and it helped to calm down....<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>And here is our little report:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Finally 16 people showed up, they formulated 19 issues and worked in 3 breakout-sessions. 12 Reports were produced. Today 14 people came and they filled-in with 16 augmentation-forms giving commends and fresh ideas to the reports from yesterday.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In action planning, 22 actions were proposed and 18 were retained and planned further. There will be a follow-up meeting on April 13 th.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>So the group did, what people are doing when they work and meet in Open Space. For all but two people this was their first experience in Open Space. During the closing. for me a as a facilitator not speaking Portuguese it was a wonderful experience in letting go, as I was not at all concerned about what people said (and I discovered how much I am into the subject when facilitating in a language I understand).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In the closing circle I could feel a lot of appreciation among the group and there was laughter and tears..... Very touching......<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am happy to have been here<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings to all!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Junta Weimar, Berlin<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Am 31.01.2012 um 17:43 schrieb Eva P Svensson <<a href="mailto:eva@epshumaninvest.se">eva@epshumaninvest.se</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Yesterday I had a bigger group - around 170 people for a short OS, there where several topics that where similar -and of course the question came up - "shall we not combine those"... I said what I use to say - more or less exactly what you says below Diane about my recomendation to keep them apart, to big groups, different people have different ideas about the same word etc - but you decide what to do. And i guess that they decided to combine some because after a while a man came up and said " that was not a good idea to combine those issues..."<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>well well :-)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>:o)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Eva<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>Bästa hälsningar</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=ecxmsonormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:#1F497D'>Eva P Svensson</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=ecxmsonormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:olive'>EPS Human Invest AB</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:olive'>Member of Beyond Performance Group</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=ecxmsonormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:olive'>"Verksamhetsutveckling genom människor skapar långsiktigt välmående företag och organisationer"</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=ecxmsonormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Anåsbergsvägen 22, 439 34 ONSALA</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Besöksadress; Norra Allégatan 8, Göteborg</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tfn: 0300-615 05, Mobil; 0706- 89 85 50</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.epshumaninvest.se/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>www.epshumaninvest.se</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Skype: eva.p.svensson</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:olive'>Besök gärna min blogg; <a href="http://www.epshumaninvest.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">www.epshumaninvest.blogspot.com/</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#93AE05'>"Jag kan inte lära dig något. Allt jag kan göra är att ställa frågor till dig, och låta dig själv finna svaren." Sokrates</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>31 jan 2012 kl. 18.23 skrev Diane Gibeault:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>One of the points of discussion I want to address is: very small groups, people may want to combine everything that is similar and also address all topics with everyone there in a sequential fashion. To help the group come out of the linear paradigm and experience the benefits of OS at least once, before they got up to go to the market place, I make one comment that is a variation of what I generally say. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Usually I say: yes you can combine topics and yes initiators can decide not to combine, advantages being : more air time in a smaller group, more choice by offering same topic at a different time,...). Then people do what they choose to do. No intervention from me as a facilitator.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>With very small groups (eg. 5 people) I add : some may be tempted to combine everything similar and do one topic after the other. I encourage you to first try the OS way, at least for the first round and then each one of you can see what feels better.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>It does make a difference. If they ignore that suggestion, I let go and do nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Diane<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Michael M Pannwitz <<a href="mailto:mmpanne@boscop.org">mmpanne@boscop.org</a>><br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 31, 2012 5:44:34 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] Open Space on private Mediation in Portugal on 3. /4. Febr. - coming soon!....</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'><br>Not doing anything is mostly the most effective way to expand time and <br>space for selforganisation to do its thing.<br>Marv and Sandra give lots of room to this stance of facilitation in <br>their "Don' Just Do Something, Stand There!" which has also made its way <br>into German as "Einfach mal Nichts tun!"... it turns a lot of the stuff <br>I used to do in my former life as an "OD consultant" upside down.<br>If German is your thing, grab a copy, you will find a list of names that <br>gave a hand in the birthing process, among them Jutta...<br>Here the link to the online store of the publisher (Westkreuz)<br>> <a href="http://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Kommunikation?xb9b67=b577c6d0ae9df9e49359be77c624ad89" target="_blank">http://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Kommunikation?xb9b67=b577c6d0ae9df9e49359be77c624ad89</a><br><br><br>cheers<br><br>mmp<br><br>On 30.01.2012 22:35, Birgitt Williams wrote:<br>> Dear Jutta,<br>> I will add two things to Michael's conclusions below.<br>> 1. when facilitating an OST meeting for a small group, be prepared that they<br>> might choose to look at all the topic titles in session one, find a creative<br>> way to merge them into one topic at the agenda wall, and then stay together.<br>> Should this happen, don't do anything. Just stay out of the way.<br>> 2. they might do the same thing for the second session of the day. What<br>> should you do about this? Again, nothing at all. Usually by the third<br>> session, this tendency of small groups straightens itself out if you do<br>> nothing.<br>> 3. when facilitating small groups, because it is more challenging to be<br>> invisible, create the conditions for yourself as the facilitator where you<br>> are not in the same room as them ie: go off to a different room and do<br>> whatever you need to do to be a 'resonant energy field generator' for their<br>> joyful and successful process.<br>><br>> Birgitt Williams<br>> <a href="http://www.dalarinternational.com">www.dalarinternational.com</a><br>><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: <a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] On Behalf Of Michael M<br>> Pannwitz<br>> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 3:48 PM<br>> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list<br>> Subject: Re: [OSList] Open Space on private Mediation in Portugal on 3. /4.<br>> Febr. - coming soon!....<br>><br>> Dear Jutta,<br>> on April 22, 1999 ten ladies aged 57 to 82 engaged as volunteers in the<br>> work with groups of old people in protestant parishes in a district of<br>> Berlin met in open space for a full day to reflect on "Issues in my work<br>> with old people".<br>> They had never heard of open space before.<br>> Meeting in a venue that would have held an os for 60 people, this event<br>> was facilitated and ran itself as any other event I ever was part of.<br>> Participants managed their day, met in break out sessions (it was neat<br>> to have a large space with all breakout sessions possible in the corners<br>> of the large room) ... continuous buffet and news wall taking place in<br>> the adjoining hall way...and there was action planning...<br>><br>> on March 28, 2001 the eleven-member team for strategic planning of the<br>> German Railroad Corporation met for a day to improve their ability to<br>> find solutions to some pressing issues. They had never heard of open<br>> space before but were desperate since other stuff they had tried didn't<br>> work for them. They had a large number of issues and wanted to deal with<br>> all of them as a committee of the whole. After lunch, they restarted and<br>> decided to work in differently sized breakout groups, a big step for<br>> them in the direction of letting go of control and trusting each other more.<br>> A month later they met again to reflect on their progress and further<br>> plans, all in os.<br>><br>> On July 17 and 18, 2007 nine staff members of a small NGO with a focus<br>> on adult education in Magdeburg met for 2 days in os to think through<br>> their program and activities. Some of them had miserable memories of an<br>> os event they were part of but most of them had never experienced os.<br>> Again, it worked similarly as in the os with the ten ladies eight years<br>> earlier.<br>><br>> Looking back at these 3 events and others of similar sizue, I find it<br>> worked well not to make any adjustments to the procedure.<br>> At the same time, your "presence" in a group of around ten people is<br>> considerably larger than with 100 or even a couple of thousand folks.<br>> In other words, staying "invisible" is more work and not interfering<br>> with the forces of selforganisation is tougher to handle...and the<br>> tendency for the individuals in the group to reflect on the group<br>> process is larger (when a group becomes "large", which I think starts<br>> with 34, it is very complex and unpredictable so that the tendency to<br>> work at the level of trying to figure out the dynamics of the group<br>> diminishes and the focus on the issues increases).<br>><br>> Have a great time and lets hear how it went!<br>><br>> Cheers<br>> mmp<br>><br>> On 30.01.2012 20:47, Jutta Weimar wrote:<br>>> Dear Open Space friends,<br>>><br>>> Sitting at the kitchen table in our partners house in Estoril, near<br>>> Lisbon / Portugal we just talked about the Open Space event that will<br>>> happen here on friday and Saturday this week.<br>>> We met in Berlin last October, when Katian and Jose (<a href="http://www.mediarcom.com">www.mediarcom.com</a><br>>> <<a href="http://www.mediarcom.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mediarcom.com</a>>) came to be part of a boscop team and<br>>> experienced Open Space. And here is our concern:<br>>> Sofar about 12 people have registered for the event and in a way it<br>>> feels as this will be little. And to make a long story short: It will be<br>>> very helpful, if you share stories of small-scale Open Space events with<br>>> us (especially with groups unfamiliar with Open Space).<br>>><br>>> Love to hear from you<br>>> thanx in advance<br>>><br>>> Junta Weimar<br>>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> OSList mailing list<br>> To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>> To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br>> <a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> OSList mailing list<br>> To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>> To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br>> <a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br>><br><br>-- <br>Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg<br>Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany<br>++49-30-772 8000<br><a href="mailto:mmpanne@boscop.org">mmpanne@boscop.org</a> <a href="http://www.boscop.org">www.boscop.org</a><br><br><br>Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 417 resident Open <br>Space Workers in 67 countries working in a total of 142 countries <br>worldwide: <a href="http://www.openspaceworldmap.org">www.openspaceworldmap.org</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>