Hi all!<br><br>OS hotline skype is convening in 40 minutes at 12pm EDT - follow link or email me to sign up: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/nxbndq8">OS marketplace</a><div><br></div><div>Also, following are notes from our previous two hotline skypes - enjoy!</div>
<div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>OS hotline skype –
July 23, 2013</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Website advice
request: </b>Tricia requests advice about including a section on her impending
OS website about group’s “assessing readiness” with a few rhetorical questions.
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</span>Question is why include? A formal assessment
tool is not recommended</p>
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</span>Situational questions are suggested as possibly
valuable. </p>
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</span>Voluntary participation is important</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Action/product development
in open space</b>: Why don’t we do this more, or talk about this more – tons of
opportunities. </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style>-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>Paul co-authored a book entirely in Open Space
(editing done outside, but this was due to time constraints)</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style>-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>Link from book that Paul co-authored – wrote
book in three days, each session was a chapter – peak experiences in life
producing a real artifact in Open space tech: <a href="http://pure.au.dk/portal/files/292/Thin_book_OT.pdf">http://pure.au.dk/portal/files/292/Thin_book_OT.pdf</a>
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</span>Interest among group in exploring these
possibilities. </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style>-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>Reference Leadership article by Bob Marshall that
was circulated on OS list – People like agile, but is a better product delivered
because people are enjoying the process of scrum/agile? </p>
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</span>Conversation with a friend who thinks something
like that could only work if the whole organization was in the room, stuck in hierarchy,
can’t do anything without approval.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style>-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>Envision: Open space happening on building site
with machines and materials – just getting things done – have some items
pre-determined, so that you don’t need more approvals</p>
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</span>In the arts in the UK there is a great event
happening for years, takes place in the ruins of a castle, mainly programed,
everyone works on renovating this castle – do a 3 or 4 day OS and day 2 is an invitation to
renovate a garden in venue we are meeting, everyone creates something</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style>-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>Envision: to do an OS on urban planning and actually
build something – you can talk about it, and talk about it, but actually build
it</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Example of
action-oriented open-spacey approach in practice: </b>Young people running a web
design company somewhere in UK - doing something like opening space, but
getting things done, not just talking. They would convene in a space, talk
about goals/plans, identify what various people planned to work on in some
relative order/timeline – then break off in groups depending on what strikes
them and reconvene at lunch/later in day. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>We need Open Space
research! </b>Get $$ for research about developing products/doing things in
open space – who’s in? Some in group would like to move on it. </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style>-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>Lack of university-based research on Open space,
or collecting of data beyond anecdotes.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style>-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>Could be much bigger and much wider use of Open
Space if there were academic verification – never been able to get more than a
few thousand pounds in Brighton – if we can prove OS works in practice and not
just in theory</p>
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</span>Feeling that Open Space could be the environmental
solution for the earth. The flow, more efficient than blundering human
intervention. </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style>-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>Could probably do crowd funding, a lot of
sources in the US. </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style>-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>Templeton foundation putting out RFPs for research,
academics without walls, access to a nonprofit institute that we can work from.
</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style>-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>If a particular field of activity gets the
attention of 6 journal articles, research funding follows</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style>-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>You would then have a better chance, for
example, to get OS in Africa more on the back of aid agencies. They can’t spend
their money without some verification, such as academic, more just anecdotally
based research practice. </p>
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</span>Paul has been collecting pictures of OS circles,
OS videos. Finds people are using this to bring to their organization to sell
OS – missed how he figured this out…. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>OS public awareness: </b></p>
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</span>David Bohm, dialogue discussion on the web, etc.,
but open space not mentioned. </p>
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</span>Omnipresence is like that [suggesting open space
is omnipresent] – it is always there so you don’t see that, always present. We can’t
see something that is always with you. Someone points it out and then people question
why they haven’t seen it. Living processes are always with you so you can’t see
them. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Suggested bedtime
reading:</b> <a href="http://www.communityresearch.org.nz/research/evaluation-report-open-space-technology-hui/">http://www.communityresearch.org.nz/research/evaluation-report-open-space-technology-hui/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://pure.au.dk/portal/files/292/Thin_book_OT.pdf">http://pure.au.dk/portal/files/292/Thin_book_OT.pdf</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> OS Hotline skype – July 30, 2013</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Disclaimer: not complete, not fully accurate, and not in proper
order…….</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Improv discussion:</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Meisner technique – improv – an individual’s contribution
needs to use the words or phrases from previous statements of another person – can
be comedic, but turns into rapport among participants and a full play can be
created without a script</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Check out: Fringereview.com</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Book recommendation:</b>
Moral imagination – good book….. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Listening: </b>Not
sure if following tidbit came from above book: Studies (I think studies) have
found that when you are truly listening to someone, your larynx begins vibrating
in unison with theirs. Kind of like when you realize you are finishing someone’s
sentences. …</p>
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</span></span>Relate to identifying an invitation for Open Space.
If you truly listen to the people involved, the theme and the words will
present themselves. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Forced crafting of
invitations: </b>We may demonize or idealize a situation because we want it to
come across as important. We need to use words that are there in the community
and do it without ego; the words usually come if we can remove our ego. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Do invitations need
to always be stated in the positive? </b>We may be so afraid of the dark that
we try to make it all “touchy feely”, but then end up not resonating with the
real pain people are experiencing. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Affirmative/appreciative inquiry can be alienating, tell the
truth about what you see, don’t always need to go the positive route, say what is
loud, that which we feel most afraid of, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is use of affirmative words OS –accepted wisdom? Is it
short-sighted? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Funny exercise:</b> Shake
your head “yes” and then shake your head, “no” – No shouldn’t feel right. Living
organisms don’t understand a negative. Children don’t understand a no, they
respond to….missed it….</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Energy practice:</b>
Jin Shin Jyutsu- ancient way of healing, fingers like jumper cables referenced
as early as 712, rediscovered early 1900s. No energy in the human body moves
horizontally…</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>How do we practice to
facilitate OS?</b> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span>Join in on OS hotline skypes, the OS list and
discussions with practitioners</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span>Do it!</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span>Read the OST guide</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span>Shadow/co-facilitate open space events</p>
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</span></span>Personal work: finding space within yourself –
whatever ways work for you. </p>
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</span></span>Learn to trust yourself and trust the “process” –
confidently convey that and hold that trust. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Controversy: </b>OS
is very appropriate for situations of controversy</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Open space for unlimited potential, people can walk out, but
they don’t tend to break the process, the circle can hold the anger.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Somewhere in the demon of the dictator there is the seed of
truth – the resistors and oppressors have something to teach us</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Book reference: </b>Bernard
Lievegoed, <u>The Developing Organization</u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>When hosts want
structure: </b>You can play the game of structure, talking up superficial
elements of OS to make them feel comfortable and allow them to build confidence
and trust – such as: noting defined times for opening circle, lunch breaks,
planned reporting deliverable, etc, but still not change the essential
elements. <b>Use their words.</b> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><div><br></div>-- <br>Tricia Chirumbole<br>US: +1-571-232-0942<br>Skype: tricia.chirumbole<br><br><div style="padding:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;color:black;font-size:10px;text-align:left;line-height:130%">
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