<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>Hi Harrison:</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>In a previous mail you said:</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I do find it somewhat amusing that the 75 odd souls who showed up in
St. Petersburg feel called upon to “decide” for the “whole” community.</span><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">This suggestes me two questions:</span><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,
helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span>First: is not that what is always done in the end of a WOSonOS? Why puting the question this time?</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span>Second: Is not there a contradition between your quote above and the detailed descrition of "how to do" that you provided in this post (below)?</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span
style="background-color: transparent;">Warm regards</span><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Artur</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;">PS: I suspect that you missed my heteredox contributions, so here it is a new one ;-)</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span> </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Harrison Owen <hhowen@verizon.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'World wide Open Space Technology email list'
<oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, May 20, 2013 3:43 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv5117014206"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv5117014206WordSection1"><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Lisa – Hate to say it, but you know I will. I think you are working much too hard! And I’m not really sure it is a question of “design” (“So I love thinking of the 'devil’s advocate' questions when thinking of design.”)—Just do it, just like we always do. For example, when it comes to invitation time just open the space for Invitations. Kind of an offshoot of “action planning.” Whoever cares stands up with a sign (Spain, Serbia, wherever), Goes to a corner of the room, and waits until all other invitations have been made. When all the invitations are “posted” everybody else is invited to journey to that part of the world they feel drawn to. Time to discuss practicalities of location and date – and not incidentally put together an initial Host Team.
People can wander from place to place, and after a short time (45min?) somebody with a mike passes from group to group for a “report.” Report could be: Your invited to Serbia, Spring of 2014. Or maybe there are several. Wonderful! Or maybe a group concluded it is a wonderful idea, but not now. Done. No Sweat, no Strain. Alternative: Place a hat in the middle of the floor (my hat would do) – Anybody who cares deposits a folded piece of paper with the place specified and their name. Just before the Closing Circle, the names are drawn – We have the winners: EVERYBODY!</span></div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Harrison</span></div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
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style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lisa Heft<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 20, 2013 9:05 AM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] WOSonOS 2014/2015/2016 invitations</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">Well that is an interesting thing to think about, and something we brought up in our own conversation last evening. </div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">(By the way the fabulous Suzanne Daigle was part of our conversation last night and you see my brain is fried by so much juicy interaction I
forgot one of the most important people of all, our gracious WOSonOS host!)</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">So I love thinking of the 'devils advocate' questions when thinking of design.</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">So there are some people who cannot make it physically to a WOSonOS, but they can ask someone attending to represent them - as Arturo and I did for the London Team when we were at the Chile conference.</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">If technology was available, and if it worked, and if those not-physically-with-us colleagues had their own access to technology, and and.... </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">... then perhaps yes someone who felt so inspired (like who knows - Access
Queen gets inspired all the time to hold space for inviting) could post that session some time in the conference.</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">And then there is the emergent inviter. The one such as Jasmina who felt called and perhaps surprised that she sprang to her feet and walked into the middle of the circle to invite.</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">(Jasmina of course you can describe your own thoughts and feelings - I am describing a little of what I saw).</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">It is oh-so-easy when there is only one inviter. It becomes more complex when there is more than one (country) inviter.</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">So my thoughts turn to many
things. </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">- in our other work, what are other processes for feeling - sensing - sharing what is invited, and exploring it to see what calls?</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">- is there a New Games / creative process that can offer this? An Agile / Scrum process?</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">How to hold and welcome invitation and sit with it?</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">How to center the conversation on the inviters, and not our thoughts about what should or could happen? (after all, it is the passion and responsibility of the inviting country persons that is stepping into the circle, and then we get all in our heads about it, and still... the ones who stood up and invited are the ones who had the passion and responsibility. How to hold that and not get all 'discuss-y'?</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">
</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">I was asked to host the process for invitation / imagining and then sensing as a face-to-face group (and we had some of you watching and commenting virtually) - so I used the process I have experienced in the past 11 or 12 WOSonOSs I have been to. But I was not thinking. I did not think of how it had felt to me in all those past years. It felt not full of life. Not as vibrant as the discussion sessions. </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">On the other hand, people have written or mentioned that that sitting-in-the-fire-see-what-shifts process was a really interesting experience. Not so much 'and now we are going to do this.' 'and now we are going to do this.' But truly - my body goes crazy, it can go on for hours, and yesterday I realized while doing it it was just like those 'consensus' processes which feel to me like ' the last person standing / with the stamina to stay
in this conversation remains / gets to make the decision'. Because it is as nutritious as it is exhausting.</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">So my thought is - and I had said this in Closing Circle - there are some WOSonOS traditions I really love over the years. You can guess that one of my favorite traditions is Global VIllage and Silent Auction and all the Access Queen seen and unseen actions and relationships. But other traditions may be meant to be released, eh? </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">Such as this way of invitation and decision.</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">Call it what you will, decision or otherwise - it helps us travelers and those with less financial abilities to know in advance where the next one will be, because for many people it takes quite a long
time to generate the relationships and resources that will help us get there - whether 'it' is in our own country or across the world.</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">And of course there are and can be OSonOSs all over the place, whenever they want to happen. But there is something special about this particular coming together, shared back and forth and across the world.</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">It is morning as I leave Florida for home. </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">Just wanted to share some of the thoughts playing in my head this morning.</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">What do others think?</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">Lisa</div></div><div><div
class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">(see you in Serbia! - if I say it, I know it will happen...) </div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: black;">
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</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">Sounds like WOSonos was fun! Maybe those who are interested in inviting can call a session about it DURING the open space and those who have an interest can go to that session. Even if the decision doesn't get made there a lot of the issues and questions will already have been processed in some way. </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;">I have to say this part of WOSonOS is the most difficult bit as a host and it does currently feel very UN open spacey</div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">Best regards,</div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">Phelim McDermott</div></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv5117014206MsoNormal">
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