<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Dear Michael,<div><br></div><div>Ah, you’ve “outed” me. It was a 5-day workshop that didn’t actually open the space until a few days in.</div><div><br></div><div>Peggy</div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Feb 11, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Michael M Pannwitz <<a href="mailto:mmpannwitz@gmail.com">mmpannwitz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear Peggy,<br>why did you ask the participants to introduce themselves?<br><br>Greetings from Berlin<br>cheers<br>mmp<br><br>On 11.02.2014 23:57, Peggy Holman wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I had the privilege of working with Marina in 2001 with a group of women<br>leaders in Siberia.<br><br>To this day, I remember the opening circle. We — the team of 4 women<br>from the US doing this workshop — had asked the women to introduce<br>themselves. One by one, they stood and spoke as if they were making a<br>speech to a crowd. In my minds eye, their words were all in capital<br>letters with exclamation points (!). The moment the introductions<br>started, the other women started talking to each other rather than<br>listening to the person speaking. We stepped in and asked that they<br>listen to each other. Such a simple idea that was apparently not a<br>cultural norm.<br><br>By the end of the next day, as they worked together in small groups, the<br>conversations all seemed engaged and authentic, with real listening<br>going on.<br><br>One thing I learned on that trip was to never assume that I could<br>accurately interpret what was going on. So I wonder...Marina — how do<br>you remember it?<br><br>appreciatively,<br>Peggy<br><br><br><br><br>_________________________________<br>Peggy Holman<br><a href="mailto:peggy@peggyholman.com">peggy@peggyholman.com</a> <<a href="mailto:peggy@peggyholman.com">mailto:peggy@peggyholman.com</a>><br>Twitter: @peggyholman<br><br>15347 SE 49th Place<br>Bellevue, WA 98006<br>425-746-6274<br><a href="http://www.peggyholman.com">www.peggyholman.com</a> <<a href="http://www.peggyholman.com">http://www.peggyholman.com</a>><br><a href="http://www.journalismthatmatters.org">www.journalismthatmatters.org</a> <<a href="http://www.journalismthatmatters.org">http://www.journalismthatmatters.org</a>><br><br>*Enjoy the award winning *Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into<br>Opportunity <<a href="http://peggyholman.com/papers/engaging-emergence/">http://peggyholman.com/papers/engaging-emergence/</a>><br>Check out my series on what's emerging in the news & information<br>ecosystem<br><<a href="http://www.journalismthatmatters.net/the_emerging_news_and_information_eco_system">http://www.journalismthatmatters.net/the_emerging_news_and_information_eco_system</a>><br><br>"An angel told me that the only way to step into the fire and not get<br>burnt, is to become<br>the fire".<br> -- Drew Dellinger<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>On Feb 11, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Тясто Марина В. <<a href="mailto:tyasto@sapa.nsk.su">tyasto@sapa.nsk.su</a><br><<a href="mailto:tyasto@sapa.nsk.su">mailto:tyasto@sapa.nsk.su</a>>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Dear Ulrika,<br><br>I echo Elwin as I also have extensive experience of facilitation OST<br>events in Russia as I live here, especially with different groups of<br>state and municipal servants in the classroom environment. At the<br>beginning most of them looked like having freedom shock being invited<br>to post issues they care for. But after starting discussions they<br>began to change their way of communication and learning freely and<br>fully. Always coming to the room for the reports and closing I've<br>observed totally different people - with much more self-confidence,<br>positive outlook and friendly feelings to each other. OST actually<br>gives people the first experience of free behavior , self-organizing,<br>self-learning and real leadership. I hardly could define Russian case<br>as a real dictatorship, but I don't know about any bad consequences<br>for the OST meeting participants. Even though some of them were saying<br>something like: even though I'd be fired after I will organize<br>something like this in my office - organization I'll do it and<br> finally tell the truth.<br>I'm sure it is important to bring OST to every possible place and<br>share it with as many people as possible.<br><br>All the best,<br><br>Marina<br><br>________________________________________<br>От: <a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br><<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>><br>[<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br><<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>] от имени Elwin and<br>Joan [<a href="mailto:elwinandjoan@yahoo.com">elwinandjoan@yahoo.com</a> <<a href="mailto:elwinandjoan@yahoo.com">mailto:elwinandjoan@yahoo.com</a>>]<br>Отправлено: 10 февраля 2014 г. 18:09<br>Кому: World wide Open Space Technology email list<br>Тема: Re: [OSList] Open Space in dictatorship<br><br>Ulrika,<br>I have Opened Space countless times in nearly every country of the<br>former Soviet Union, from Eastern Europe to Central Asia.<br>In most cases I had the opportunity to return for further development<br>work. I have never encountered anyone who suffered any retribution as<br>a result of Open Space participation. To the contrary, I continue to<br>get email thank you notes from many participants of Open Space dating<br>back more than a decade.<br><br>It always works!<br><br>Elwin Guild<br>Future Development International<br><br><br><br>On Monday, February 10, 2014 11:34 AM, Ulrika Eklund<br><<a href="mailto:ulrika.eklund@telia.com">ulrika.eklund@telia.com</a> <<a href="mailto:ulrika.eklund@telia.com">mailto:ulrika.eklund@telia.com</a>>> wrote:<br>Dear listmembers and all your experience<br><br>I would love to take part of your experience and knowledge about<br>working with OS in countries operated by dictatorship. A closed space,<br>where you are used/allowed to think as The party. "Its a lovely country<br>as long as you follow the rules"<br><br>For example I had a training course with a group working in the<br>authorities and governmental bodies (national and regional level), and<br>they listed some of the problems in one area. After they were<br>encouraged to brainstorm ideas and solutions on the problems. After the<br>task I asked - what was the new ideas and insight you got? New?! We<br>repeated what the party already have decided"... so it was more a<br>memory test :) An other exampel: in the university where I met the<br>students study a Human rights course sponsered by another country. They<br>said: "its a good course. Why I asked and the answer was: we are<br>allowed to ask questions when we don't understand, you know sometimes<br>you read a text in the book and you don't understand and it doesnot<br>help to read it many times, here we can ask, and we are also allowed to<br>discuss.<br><br>So my question - how is Open Space working in this circumstances? How<br>you know people that think freely are not punished after?<br><br>WIsh you all a lovley week<br>Ulrika<br><br><br>--<br>Ulrika Eklund<br>Bergsgatan 7A<br>SE-112 23 Stockholm<br>Sweden<br>mobile +46-(0)70-699 86 12<br><br>--<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><<a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a>><<a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto: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><<a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a>><<a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto: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><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To unsubscribe send an email to OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org<br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org<br></blockquote><br><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">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br><br></blockquote><br>-- <br>Michael M Pannwitz<br>Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany<br>++49 - 30-772 8000<br><br><br><br>Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 424 resident Open Space Workers in 71 countries working in a total of 143 countries 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">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>