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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kas – Great story! And isn’t it funny that some folks who profess liberation then effectively imprison others in order to liberate them? Or something. But keeping the space open is about the only way, and you surely did that. Congratulations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Dr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Camden, Maine 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone 301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(summer) 207-763-3261<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.openspaceworld.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.ho-image.com (Personal Website)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org"><span style='color:blue'>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kas Neteler<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 27, 2012 11:20 AM<br><b>To:</b> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] Whistleblower and Transparency Conference… How Open Space could not be broken.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi OS Listers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Recently I had the opportunity to facilitate an Open Space on whistleblowers and government transparency – a benefit for Bradley Manning – at University of California at Berkeley. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The event began with a Friday night panel discussion followed by a sermon by Rev. Billy Talen (performance artist Rev./Church of Stop Shopping). The Open Space took place all day Saturday and Sunday. It was a mixed crowd of about 200 participants including many long-time activists & prominent whistleblowers like Daniel Elsberg (1971 Pentagon Papers), Ray McGovern (ex-CIA), Ann Wright (retired Army Colonel) ...and a whole bunch of young Occupy folks from the university. My favorite was a young man with a gas mask attached to his belt who wore an Anonymous mask throughout the day. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>At one point on Saturday the conference was threatened to be shut-down by the police. Apparently the Occupy Cal folks wanted to set up their tents on the front steps of the building in support of the conference -- not realizing this would impact and possibly shut down the conference. Long story short, the Open Space was "occupied" and a (Occupy-style) General Assembly broke out to discuss and find consensus. Yes as the facilitator I was breathing and holding space (without a paper bag -- thank you :-)... eventually everyone came to a consensus that the tents would be set up on the building's front lawn and not in front of the doors. We missed Session 3 of the day... but we were able to reconfigure the final time slots to accommodate all the topics. <br><br>In addition to being "Occupied" there were O.S. Space Invaders -- luckily they invaded the session right before lunch, so I did nothing and let them go all the way through the lunch break. Half of the conference was meeting in this circle and from my perspective they just needed to keep going. They came to a natural conclusion and went onto the next sessions. <br><br>For me it was an exhausting Day 1 and I went to bed that night at 8pm. I needed to rest, dream and reflect on facilitating Day 2. Sunday I woke up to my radio alarm clock (tuned to my local public radio station) announcing that "Last night Occupy Oakland marched to UC Berkeley to join Occupy Cal in support of a conference happening on the campus." ...yep, that would be "my" conference. I thought to myself (in the words of Harrison): What is one less thing I can do today to make this better?<br>And that is what I practiced throughout the day -- in my humble opinion Sunday was one of the best OS days I have experienced. <br><br>Here's the thing, no matter how whacky things got, I kept seeing Open Space working... participants were connecting, telling their stories, supporting each other and so on and so forth. Individuals were constantly coming up to me and confiding that they were getting a lot out of the conference. In the opening circle we share the principle of "Whatever happens is the only thing that could" -- on this occasion I would amend it to "Whatever happens needs to happen." <br><br>If you would like to hear more about the conference, my client included me on a group interview about the event. You can listen to the podcast here: <a href="http://occupodcast.squarespace.com/episodes/2012/2/22/a-conversation-with-occupy-the-truth-un-conference-hosts-fro.html" target="_blank">http://occupodcast.squarespace.com/episodes/2012/2/22/a-conversation-with-occupy-the-truth-un-conference-hosts-fro.html</a> At some point in this podcast I go into Open Space and try to do it justice :-)<br><br>Well, that is the story for now. I look forward to what continues to come my way via OS. Next stop facilitating the OS on OS (San Fransisco) in March -- join us if you can. <br><br>--> Kas<br clear=all><br clear=all><br>-- <br>Kas Neteler<br>MBA, Sustainable Enterprise<br><a href="mailto:kasneteler@gmail.com" target="_blank">kasneteler@gmail.com</a><br><br><a href="http://www.tofighthiv.org/site/TR/AIDSLIFECYCLE11/AIDSLifeCycleCenter?px=1168447&pg=personal&fr_id=1440" target="_blank"><span style='color:#FF6600'>I'm cycling from SF to LA June 3 - 9, 2012 to help end AIDS. Click to donate and learn more about my journey. </span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>