<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Virtual OS!<br>Thanks Ben for your perseverance in keeping on with this experimenting. Such a virtual OS environment is truly important for an international</div><div>movement such as <a href="http://CharterforCompassion.org">CharterforCompassion.org</a>. I feel the consistent use of OS will dramatically encourage lateral cross pollination and (i hope) self organizing to learn from each other and develop projects. </div><div>You've become really superb at both the technical and human/spiritual sides of hosting and opening space. </div><div>Thanks again!!</div><div>Love Anne<br><div><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Your Self</span></div><div>Occupy</div><div>100%</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>A world that works for ALL is a world of love made visible</div><div><br></div><div>Phone: 206-459-0227</div><div>Skype: anne.m.stadler</div><div> <span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><a href="http://Www.CompassionateSeattle.org">Www.CompassionateSeattle.org</a> </span></div><div><a href="http://www.CharterforCompassion.org">www.CharterforCompassion.org</a></div><div><a href="http://www.ProtecttheSacred.org">www.ProtecttheSacred.org</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Sep 30, 2014, at 3:57 PM, via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Send OSList mailing list submissions to</span><br><span> <a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit</span><br><span> <a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to</span><br><span> <a href="mailto:oslist-request@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-request@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>You can reach the person managing the list at</span><br><span> <a href="mailto:oslist-owner@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-owner@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific</span><br><span>than "Re: Contents of OSList digest..."</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Today's Topics:</span><br><span></span><br><span> 1. Re: WOSonOS15 (Gail West via OSList)</span><br><span> 2. Off topic - a bit (Annamarie Pluhar via OSList)</span><br><span> 3. Re: OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 (Jeff Aitken via OSList)</span><br><span> 4. Re: Off topic - a bit (K?ri Gunnarsson via OSList)</span><br><span> 5. Lonely (Harold Shinsato via OSList)</span><br><span> 6. Re: Lonely (John Watkins via OSList)</span><br><span> 7. A Virtual OST Success Story (Ben Roberts via OSList)</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Message: 1</span><br><span>Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 10:57:09 +0800</span><br><span>From: Gail West via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>To: Chris Corrigan <<a href="mailto:chris.corrigan@gmail.com">chris.corrigan@gmail.com</a>>, World wide Open Space</span><br><span> Technology email list <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>Subject: Re: [OSList] WOSonOS15</span><br><span>Message-ID:</span><br><span> <<a href="mailto:CAP4=m4T--0jHvwUYFQoe5HYCJgHFpfz7UhxmKyjnb+ZofSfGWQ@mail.gmail.com">CAP4=m4T--0jHvwUYFQoe5HYCJgHFpfz7UhxmKyjnb+ZofSfGWQ@mail.gmail.com</a>></span><br><span>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"</span><br><span></span><br><span>Karolina and team, Here's to a grand year of invitation and anticipation</span><br><span>for WOSONOS 2015 in Poland! It's on the calendar. I remember</span><br><span>conversations at Berlin WOSONOS that hinted of this in the near future.</span><br><span>Along with others, I offer any support we can provide from Taiwan and Asia.</span><br><span> Gail</span><br><span></span><br><span>On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Chris Corrigan via OSList <</span><br><span><a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Well done Poland. I will be in Europe next summer and perhaps it will</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>coincide with the event. At any rate, you have my support and I?m happy to</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>speak with you in person if the experience of a former OSonOS host can help.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Chris</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Sep 24, 2014, at 7:29 AM, Lisa Heft - <<a href="mailto:lisaheft@openingspace.net">lisaheft@openingspace.net</a>></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>So beautifully said, dear Gerard.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Since we can communicate with each other to have someone else embody our</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>invitation even if we cannot attend a WOSonOS, to me that is both inclusion</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>and opportunity.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>There is much outreach and support for this both that you can see dear</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>OSLIST and that you cannot see - person to person individually, both via</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>email and before-at-around-in the event.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Since a potential host team has to feel ready, with support and a</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>community of Open Space practice in their region, the time makes itself</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>known as capacities and energies emerge, and as those things shift, as well.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Since a ?home team' can represent / be represented to invite several</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>years in a row if there are more than one offers at a certain WOSonOS / if</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>another country team is chosen - can offer each year / any year / when</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>feeling ready - to the in-person group sitting together at a WOSonOS -</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>there is always support of the realities of shifting energies, capacities</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>and resources.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Since the group?s decision is based on feeling, seeing, asking about and</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>sensing invitation, offerings, energy, capacity and community, to me it is</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>not useful to say what someone said another year if they did not bring</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>another request to the WOSonOS to keep that energy and invitation alive -</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>something we do without too much difficulty as in those years when someone</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>invites again. I have done so several times in a row before my own country</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>was selected - and I trusted the group?s insight on when it became the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>right time for my turn. It?s about sharing, after all.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>So the passion and energy of what was born and grew and blossomed - the</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>team, the invitation, the sensing and listening into the answer - was</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>evident at the event. The passion and responsibility, as you say, Gerard.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>To me, our job is to welcome, to support, to believe in what our</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>colleagues there felt and knew, and to ask how we may help in any way, as</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>we share this gathering back and forth and around the world.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>There are always Learning Exchanges and Fabulous Facilitation</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Conferences and anything you want to call an OSonOS - I have named just</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>two. Ways any of us can host a wonderful learning and community gathering</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>such as this.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>There are always ways to decide to want to host this particular thing</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>called WOSonOS in future years. There are always ways for any of us to</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>support these actions, these invitations, these teams.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>So nothing is limiting, everything is possible, and I offer my energies</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>and enthusiasm in support to say CONGRATULATIONS POLISH TEAM !!!</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Lisa also known as Access Queen</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Sep 24, 2014, at 7:04 AM, openspacedk1 <</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:openspacedk1@webhotel18.webhosting.dk">openspacedk1@webhotel18.webhosting.dk</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Dear Thomas,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Could not agree more.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I believe our tradition to trust the community present by the end of</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>any WOSONOS to decide, is a good and prescious one. And in line with the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>notion passion and responsability</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I thank our Polish collegues for their invitation, and look forward to</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>a great WOSONOS 2015 in the beautiful city of Krakow.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Gerard</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Open Space Institute Denmark</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>OSList mailing list</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>OSList mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>*Gail West, ICA*</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>*3F, No. 12, Lane 5, Tien Mou W RdTaipei, Taiwan 111Ph) 8862) 2871-3150*</span><br><span>email) <a href="mailto:icataiw@gmail.com">icataiw@gmail.com</a></span><br><span>Skype) gwestica</span><br><span><a href="http://www.icatw.com">www.icatw.com</a></span><br><span>-------------- next part --------------</span><br><span>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...</span><br><span>URL: <<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/1b42faf0/attachment.html">http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/1b42faf0/attachment.html</a>></span><br><span></span><br><span>------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Message: 2</span><br><span>Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 06:54:03 -0400</span><br><span>From: Annamarie Pluhar via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>To: <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>Subject: [OSList] Off topic - a bit</span><br><span>Message-ID:</span><br><span> <<a href="mailto:7E48F808-78E0-4A23-B990-06623BCFE6C4@pluharconsulting.com">7E48F808-78E0-4A23-B990-06623BCFE6C4@pluharconsulting.com</a>></span><br><span>Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed</span><br><span></span><br><span>Hi all,</span><br><span></span><br><span>For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there </span><br><span>are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you </span><br><span>will forgive me for asking an off topic question.</span><br><span></span><br><span>For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not </span><br><span>English.... Does your language have a word that is the opposite of </span><br><span>"lonely"?</span><br><span></span><br><span>Feel free to respond to me off list..</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="mailto:annamarie@pluharconsulting.com">annamarie@pluharconsulting.com</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Thanks!</span><br><span></span><br><span>Annamarie Pluhar</span><br><span></span><br><span>Pluhar Consulting</span><br><span><a href="http://www.pluharconsulting.com">http://www.pluharconsulting.com</a></span><br><span>802.451.1941</span><br><span>802.579.5975 (cell)</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Message: 3</span><br><span>Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:36:05 -0700</span><br><span>From: Jeff Aitken via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>To: World wide Open Space Technology email list</span><br><span> <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22</span><br><span>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:b1hjxic908ilm7pw6a0mc8s0.1412087765480@email.android.com">b1hjxic908ilm7pw6a0mc8s0.1412087765480@email.android.com</a>></span><br><span>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"</span><br><span></span><br><span>Heres the direct link to Anne's paper about Spirited Work the open space learning community. Thanks Anne!</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/stadler_reflections.htm">http://collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/stadler_reflections.htm</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Jeff</span><br><span></span><br><span>-------- Original message --------</span><br><span>From: Harrison Owen via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> </span><br><span>Date:09/29/2014 2:10 PM (GMT-08:00) </span><br><span>To: 'Anne Stadler' <<a href="mailto:anne.m.stad@gmail.com">anne.m.stad@gmail.com</a>>,'World wide Open Space Technology email list' <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> </span><br><span>Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22 </span><br><span></span><br><span>Anne ? How wonderful to ?see? you here. Spirited Work was a great experience and experiment. We all learned, with many thanks to yourself!</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Harrison</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Winter Address</span><br><span>7808 River Falls Drive</span><br><span>Potomac, MD 20854</span><br><span>301-365-2093</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Summer Address</span><br><span>189 Beaucaire Ave.</span><br><span>Camden, ME 04843</span><br><span>207-763-3261</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Websites</span><br><span><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com">www.openspaceworld.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://www.ho-image.com">www.ho-image.com</a></span><br><span>OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>?</span><br><span>From: OSList [<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] On Behalf Of Anne Stadler via OSList</span><br><span>Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2014 10:37 PM</span><br><span>To: <a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>; <a href="mailto:oslist-request@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-request@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>Subject: Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 22</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>My observation: "authority in OS" soon rests with those who show "presence" as defined by Otto Scharmer et al. You can see this appear particularly in multi day OS sessions or when you use OS as a means of organizational governance as we did in Spirited Work (see my writeup in <a href="http://CollectiveWisdomInitiative.org">CollectiveWisdomInitiative.org</a> about Spirited Work, an experimental OS learning community of practice.)?</span><br><span>When people show up, listen deeply and take responsibility for selves and the whole, authority emerges.?</span><br><span>(My version of Law of Two Feet supports that: ?take responsibility for what you care about, & use your two feet to move in and out of situations accordingly.) ?</span><br><span>Thanks Daniel for the interesting question. ?Kind regards! Anne stadler</span><br><span></span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Your Self</span><br><span>Occupy</span><br><span>100%</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>A world that works for ALL is a world of love made visible</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Phone: 206-459-0227</span><br><span>Skype: anne.m.stadler</span><br><span>??</span><br><span><a href="http://Www.CompassionateSeattle.org">Www.CompassionateSeattle.org</a> ?</span><br><span><a href="http://www.CharterforCompassion.org">www.CharterforCompassion.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://www.ProtecttheSacred.org">www.ProtecttheSacred.org</a></span><br><span>?</span><br><span></span><br><span>On Sep 28, 2014, at 4:57 PM, via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Send OSList mailing list submissions to</span><br><span>? <a href="mailto:?oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">?oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit</span><br><span>? ?<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to</span><br><span>? <a href="mailto:?oslist-request@lists.openspacetech.org">?oslist-request@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>You can reach the person managing the list at</span><br><span>? <a href="mailto:?oslist-owner@lists.openspacetech.org">?oslist-owner@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific</span><br><span>than "Re: Contents of OSList digest..."</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Today's Topics:</span><br><span></span><br><span>??1. wosonos2015 (Raffi Aftandelian via OSList)</span><br><span>??2. Re: Authority Distribution in Open Space</span><br><span>?????(Daniel Mezick via OSList)</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Message: 1</span><br><span>Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 19:14:19 -0700</span><br><span>From: Raffi Aftandelian via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>To: OSlist <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>Subject: [OSList] wosonos2015</span><br><span>Message-ID:</span><br><span>? ?<<a href="mailto:1411870459.93148.YahooMailNeo@web140803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com">1411870459.93148.YahooMailNeo@web140803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com</a>></span><br><span>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"</span><br><span></span><br><span>ditto what chris said. as a co-org'r of a previous wosonos (in another slavic country) happy to share my experience- the good, the differently good, and the quite differently good- aspects of organizing such an event.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>laramtsa,</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>raffi</span><br><span></span><br><span>******</span><br><span></span><br><span>I am the culturally White middle class American taxpayer,</span><br><span>up to my chin in hypocrisy, double standards, a sense of entitlement, and choking on overconsumption,</span><br><span></span><br><span>blissfully in denial about how 60% of my federal income taxes go to a military</span><br><span></span><br><span>that sustains genocide and ecocide the world over</span><br><span></span><br><span>...all in the name of democracy, freedom, and happiness for all</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-- a riff off of Thic Nhat Hanh's Please Call Me By My True Names</span><br><span>-------------- next part --------------</span><br><span>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...</span><br><span>URL: <<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140927/66f1e2f4/attachment.html">http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140927/66f1e2f4/attachment.html</a>></span><br><span></span><br><span>------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Message: 2</span><br><span>Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 08:37:12 -0400</span><br><span>From: Daniel Mezick via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>To: <a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>Subject: Re: [OSList] Authority Distribution in Open Space</span><br><span>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:542800F8.9070803@newtechusa.net">542800F8.9070803@newtechusa.net</a>></span><br><span>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed"</span><br><span></span><br><span>Hi Harold,</span><br><span></span><br><span>You say:</span><br><span></span><br><span>/"..I struggle to translate is the concept of coercion and authority </span><br><span>from the vantage of "it's all open space". Can we really be coerced? How </span><br><span>are we all already "opting in" to empower the "authorities"?/</span><br><span></span><br><span>//</span><br><span></span><br><span>/"...Could we just be volunteering for the victim part of our stories?/</span><br><span></span><br><span>//</span><br><span></span><br><span>/"...I have some thoughts about this, but I wonder what you would say to </span><br><span>such a challenge to the relevance of "authority" in OST?/</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Hmmm...interesting questions for sure.</span><br><span></span><br><span>My current belief is that authorization dynamics are central to the </span><br><span>general dynamics of Open Space. And if it is "Open Space all the time" </span><br><span>then authorization dynamics as desribed in my essay are also there... </span><br><span>all the time.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Regarding the Open Space meeting format: If we begin at the beginning; </span><br><span>that is, at the start of arranging an actual Open Space event in an </span><br><span>organization, we immediately work to identify and locate someone "duly </span><br><span>authorized" by the organization, to do the things the Sponsor does, and </span><br><span>say the things the Sponsor says. Someone to occupy the Sponsor role. To </span><br><span>do that, the person occupying the role must have substantial authority </span><br><span>in the organization, usually of the formal variety.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Right? Put another way: if the Sponsor is lacking in authorization, can </span><br><span>they actually be effective? Larger question: Can the meeting still </span><br><span>actually work? What about the post-meeting follow-through?</span><br><span></span><br><span>So here we see how /authorization shows up a the very start of any </span><br><span>contemplated Open Space event inside an organization/.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>One last thing: last time I checked, "victims" are kind of rare in Open </span><br><span>Space. Something about the subtext of "the Law of 2 Feet...."</span><br><span></span><br><span>"...The Law of Two Feet concept was published in an article by Harrison </span><br><span>Owen <<a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com/brief_history.htm">http://www.openspaceworld.com/brief_history.htm</a>>, a member of an </span><br><span>organization advocating Open Spaces Technology, a model for organizing </span><br><span>meetings that's based around open participation. Here's how Owen </span><br><span>describes the rule:</span><br><span></span><br><span>"...Briefly stated, this law says that every individual has two feet, </span><br><span>and must be prepared to use them. Responsibility for a successful </span><br><span>outcome in any Open Space Event resides with exactly one person---each </span><br><span>participant. Individuals can make a difference and must make a </span><br><span>difference. If that is not true in a given situation, they, and they </span><br><span>alone, must take responsibility to use their two feet, and move to a new </span><br><span>place where they can make a difference."</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://opensource.com/business/10/8/darwin-meets-dilbert-applying-law-two-feet-your-next-meeting">http://opensource.com/business/10/8/darwin-meets-dilbert-applying-law-two-feet-your-next-meeting</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Daniel</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>On 9/26/14 6:49 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Fantastic essay, Daniel. I'm a bit freaked out by Harrison talking</span><br><span>about his "translator" after diving into T.S.Kuhn's book where he says</span><br><span>paradigm shifts require "translators" because new and old paradigm</span><br><span>holders live in different worlds, where even common terms may be</span><br><span>fundamentally different.</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>What I struggle to translate is the concept of coercion and authority</span><br><span>from the vantage of "it's all open space". Can we really be coerced?</span><br><span>How are we all already "opting in" to empower the "authorities"?</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Could we just be volunteering for the victim part of our stories?</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>I have some thoughts about this, but I wonder what you would say to</span><br><span>such a challenge to the relevance of "authority" in OST?</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Thanks,</span><br><span>Harold</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Daniel... You really did it! I think. Your language comes from a place</span><br><span>I don't know... which is to say that I probably wouldn't say what you</span><br><span>say in the way that you do (duh). BUT when I run my "translator" it</span><br><span>comes out sounding pretty good! So... I can't help with the questions</span><br><span>you have raised. Actually I think you are doing pretty well on your</span><br><span>own, and (hopefully) will incite others to a similarly riotous</span><br><span>performance. Thanks!</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Harrison</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Winter Address</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>7808 River Falls Drive</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Potomac, MD 20854</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>301-365-2093 <tel:301-365-2093></span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Summer Address</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>189 Beaucaire Ave.</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Camden, ME 04843</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>207-763-3261 <tel:207-763-3261></span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Websites</span><br><span>?</span><br><span><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com">www.openspaceworld.com</a> <<a href="http://%20www.openspaceworld.com">http://%20www.openspaceworld.com</a>></span><br><span>?</span><br><span><a href="http://www.ho-image.com">www.ho-image.com</a> <<a href="http://www.ho-image.com">http://www.ho-image.com</a>></span><br><span>?</span><br><span>OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the</span><br><span>archives of OSLIST Go</span><br><span>to:http://<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>?</span><br><span>*From:*OSList [<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span><<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>] *On Behalf Of *Daniel</span><br><span>Mezick via OSList</span><br><span>*Sent:* Thursday, September 25, 2014 9:39 AM</span><br><span>*To:* <a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>*Subject:* [OSList] Authority Distribution in Open Space</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Greetings to All,</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>For the past several years I have attended conferences of the Group</span><br><span>Relations community, and encouraged others to do the same. I've</span><br><span>studied their literature, and harvested some important learning as a</span><br><span>result. One of the things I have come to understand a little bit</span><br><span>better is the role of "authority dynamics" in self-organizing social</span><br><span>systems.</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Link:</span><br><span><a href="http://www.akriceinstitute.org">www.akriceinstitute.org</a> <<a href="http://www.akriceinstitute.org">http://www.akriceinstitute.org</a>></span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Over the past several years I've been using Open Space with intent to </span><br><span>improve the results of my work in helping companies implement Agile</span><br><span>ideas in their organizations. We do an initial Open Space, then the</span><br><span>folks get about 3 months to play with Agile (we carefully use the word</span><br><span>"experimentation" with management,) then we do another Open Space</span><br><span>after that, to inspect what just happened across the enterprise. The</span><br><span>initial and subsequent Open Space events form a "safe" container or</span><br><span>field in which the members can /learn/... as they explore how to</span><br><span>/improve/ together by /experimenting/ with new practices, and see if</span><br><span>they actually work. I call the process Open Agile Adoption.</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Link:</span><br><span><a href="http://OpenAgileAdoption.com">OpenAgileAdoption.com</a></span><br><span>?</span><br><span>This seems to work pretty good. It seems to "take the air out of" most</span><br><span>of the fear, most of the anxiety and most of the worry that is</span><br><span>created. The key aspect is /consent/: absolutely no one is forced to</span><br><span>do anything they are unwilling to do. No one is /coerced/ to /comply/. </span><br><span>Everyone is instead respectfully /invited/ to help /write/ the story,</span><br><span>and be a /character/ in the story...of the contemplated process</span><br><span>change. Open Agile Adoption encourages a spirit of experimentation and</span><br><span>play.</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>The spirit of Open Space is the spirit of freedom. Isn't it? In the</span><br><span>OST community, we discuss and talk a lot about self-organization,</span><br><span>self-management and self-governance. The Agile community also talks</span><br><span>about these ideas a lot.</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>So I have some questions. What is really going on during</span><br><span>self-organization in a social system? What are the steps? What</span><br><span>information is being sent and received? From whom, and by whom? Is the</span><br><span>information about /authority/ important? How important? Can a social</span><br><span>system self organize without regard to who has the right to do what</span><br><span>work? /How do decisions that affect others get made in a</span><br><span>self-organizing system?/</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>Who decides about /who decides/? How important is the process of</span><br><span>/authorization/ in a self-organizing system? Is self-organization in</span><br><span>large part the process of dynamic authorization (and</span><br><span>/de-authorization/) in real time?</span><br><span>?</span><br><span>-------------- next part --------------</span><br><span>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...</span><br><span>URL: <<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/763f3d96/attachment-0001.htm">http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/763f3d96/attachment-0001.htm</a>></span><br><span></span><br><span>------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Message: 4</span><br><span>Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:09:06 +0000</span><br><span>From: K?ri Gunnarsson via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>To: Annamarie Pluhar <<a href="mailto:annamarie@pluharconsulting.com">annamarie@pluharconsulting.com</a>>, World wide</span><br><span> Open Space Technology email list <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>Subject: Re: [OSList] Off topic - a bit</span><br><span>Message-ID:</span><br><span> <<a href="mailto:CAEjHsLknUm5uBQ_LDR7AR4OSBd1X-spM3KABAZhUrH__govjXg@mail.gmail.com">CAEjHsLknUm5uBQ_LDR7AR4OSBd1X-spM3KABAZhUrH__govjXg@mail.gmail.com</a>></span><br><span>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"</span><br><span></span><br><span>I say, this is open space, and here we have a topic on the wall. I bring my</span><br><span>passion to the wall and take responsibility of my own experience and</span><br><span>participation in the topics.</span><br><span></span><br><span>So I share what I found in my internal dialogue while English is only my</span><br><span>3rd language.</span><br><span></span><br><span>1.</span><br><span> I ask google:</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="https://www.google.is/search?q=define+lonely">https://www.google.is/search?q=define+lonely</a></span><br><span>* sad because one has no friends or company. -> antonyms: popular</span><br><span>* without companions; solitary. -> antonyms: sociable</span><br><span>* (of a place) unfrequented and remote. -> antonyms: populous, crowded</span><br><span></span><br><span>2.</span><br><span> I ask opposite-dictionary</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://www.opposite-dictionary.com/">http://www.opposite-dictionary.com/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>* antonyms: Accompanied</span><br><span></span><br><span>3.</span><br><span>And I ask my gut</span><br><span></span><br><span>* antonyms: happy, content, frolicsome, patience, playful, gay,</span><br><span>light-hearted, high-spirited...</span><br><span></span><br><span>*-*</span><br><span></span><br><span>and now I find the connection to open space as the keyword "high-spirited"</span><br><span>connects to writings abut open space.</span><br><span></span><br><span>For opening the space with a proper topic will open up space for people to</span><br><span>feel "high-spirited" and energized instead of lonely.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>*I like to propose a new topic, "is it always possible to open up space for</span><br><span>the lonely to find their passion? "*</span><br><span>This topic touches upon me now for the news article I was just reading</span><br><span>before opening my mail was about how hate-groups hiding behind religion use</span><br><span>the lure of purpose to recruit the lonely and afraid people. (the example</span><br><span>in the local article used heathendom and white-supremacy hate-groups).</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>On 30 September 2014 10:54, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList <</span><br><span><a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi all,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>forgive me for asking an off topic question.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>English.... Does your language have a word that is the opposite of</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>"lonely"?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Feel free to respond to me off list..</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:annamarie@pluharconsulting.com">annamarie@pluharconsulting.com</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks!</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Annamarie Pluhar</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Pluhar Consulting</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.pluharconsulting.com">http://www.pluharconsulting.com</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>802.451.1941</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>802.579.5975 (cell)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>OSList mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>K?ri Gunnarsson</span><br><span><a href="mailto:kari.gunnarsson@simnet.is">kari.gunnarsson@simnet.is</a></span><br><span>(+354) 864 5189</span><br><span>-------------- next part --------------</span><br><span>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...</span><br><span>URL: <<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/758f96d1/attachment-0001.htm">http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/758f96d1/attachment-0001.htm</a>></span><br><span></span><br><span>------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Message: 5</span><br><span>Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:15:54 -0600</span><br><span>From: Harold Shinsato via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>To: World wide Open Space Technology email list</span><br><span> <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>Subject: [OSList] Lonely</span><br><span>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:542B1D8A.1070801@shinsato.com">542B1D8A.1070801@shinsato.com</a>></span><br><span>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed"</span><br><span></span><br><span>Annamarie,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very </span><br><span>often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of </span><br><span>what we talked about on the OS Hotline today.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your </span><br><span>question. <a href="http://www.thesaurus.com">http://www.thesaurus.com</a>. In English at least, some opposites </span><br><span>of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own):</span><br><span></span><br><span>* populated</span><br><span>* *sociable*</span><br><span>* befriended</span><br><span>* *close*</span><br><span>* frequented</span><br><span>* inhabited</span><br><span>* *loved*</span><br><span>* unlonely</span><br><span></span><br><span> Warm Regards,</span><br><span> Harold</span><br><span></span><br><span>On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi all,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>English.... Does your language have a word that is the opposite of </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>"lonely"?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Feel free to respond to me off list..</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:annamarie@pluharconsulting.com">annamarie@pluharconsulting.com</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks!</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Annamarie Pluhar</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Pluhar Consulting</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.pluharconsulting.com">http://www.pluharconsulting.com</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>802.451.1941</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>802.579.5975 (cell)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>OSList mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Harold Shinsato</span><br><span><a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com">harold@shinsato.com</a> <<a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com">mailto:harold@shinsato.com</a>></span><br><span><a href="http://shinsato.com">http://shinsato.com</a></span><br><span>twitter: @hajush <<a href="http://twitter.com/hajush">http://twitter.com/hajush</a>></span><br><span>-------------- next part --------------</span><br><span>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...</span><br><span>URL: <<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/67d345c3/attachment-0001.htm">http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/67d345c3/attachment-0001.htm</a>></span><br><span></span><br><span>------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Message: 6</span><br><span>Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:19:24 -0700</span><br><span>From: John Watkins via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>To: Harold Shinsato <<a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com">harold@shinsato.com</a>>, World wide Open Space</span><br><span> Technology email list <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>Subject: Re: [OSList] Lonely</span><br><span>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:1ABFD7A6-D67B-4D6D-925A-C555E22E735F@mac.com">1ABFD7A6-D67B-4D6D-925A-C555E22E735F@mac.com</a>></span><br><span>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"</span><br><span></span><br><span>And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver</span><br><span>And did you get what</span><br><span>you wanted from this life, even so?</span><br><span>I did.</span><br><span>And what did you want?</span><br><span>To call myself beloved, to feel myself</span><br><span>beloved on the earth.</span><br><span></span><br><span>John</span><br><span></span><br><span>On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Annamarie,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your question. <a href="http://www.thesaurus.com">http://www.thesaurus.com</a>. In English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold is my own):</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>* populated</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>* sociable</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>* befriended </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>* close</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>* frequented</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>* inhabited </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>* loved</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>* unlonely </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> Warm Regards,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> Harold</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi all, </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not English.... Does your language have a word that is the opposite of "lonely"? </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Feel free to respond to me off list.. </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:annamarie@pluharconsulting.com">annamarie@pluharconsulting.com</a> </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks! </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Annamarie Pluhar </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Pluhar Consulting </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.pluharconsulting.com">http://www.pluharconsulting.com</a> </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>802.451.1941 </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>802.579.5975 (cell) </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________ </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>OSList mailing list </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a> 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href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com">harold@shinsato.com</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://shinsato.com">http://shinsato.com</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>twitter: @hajush</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>OSList mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>-------------- next part --------------</span><br><span>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...</span><br><span>URL: <<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/1edb48df/attachment.htm">http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/1edb48df/attachment.htm</a>></span><br><span></span><br><span>------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Message: 7</span><br><span>Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:59:56 -0400</span><br><span>From: Ben Roberts via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>To: <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br><span>Cc: Brian Burt <<a href="mailto:brian@maestroconference.com">brian@maestroconference.com</a>></span><br><span>Subject: [OSList] A Virtual OST Success Story</span><br><span>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:032a01cfdcf9$df4e1ec0$9dea5c40$@charter.net">032a01cfdcf9$df4e1ec0$9dea5c40$@charter.net</a>></span><br><span>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"</span><br><span></span><br><span>As some of you know, I've been at this for a couple of years now. Today,</span><br><span>working on behalf of the Charter for Compassion International</span><br><span><<a href="http://charterforcompassion.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=">http://charterforcompassion.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=</a></span><br><span>110391&qid=5124428> , I was finally able to host a MaestroConference-based</span><br><span>call that I felt truly lived up to the potential for "Open Space" in virtual</span><br><span>form (in quotes since I know some of you purists might dispute that this</span><br><span>really was OST!). </span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Of course, it wasn't like being together in person for a day or two. Indeed,</span><br><span>there was only one round of live small group conversation. But the</span><br><span>combination of an online space that was opened on 9/22 using the "hackpad"</span><br><span>platform and a 90 minute call eight days later using MaestroConference's</span><br><span>newest "social webinar" beta really worked. Here are some highlights of the</span><br><span>process (you can also view notes and more here on hackpad</span><br><span><<a href="http://www.bit.ly/cfc093014">http://www.bit.ly/cfc093014</a>> ): </span><br><span></span><br><span>. We had 43 participants on the call for at least some of the 90</span><br><span>minutes, mostly from the US, but also including several from overseas.</span><br><span></span><br><span>. Six topics were initiated by participants</span><br><span></span><br><span>. In addition to the topic breakouts, there was a "meet and greet"</span><br><span>session for just hanging out and connecting. This also served as a place to</span><br><span>welcome late-comers to the call. As a result, the latter were easily</span><br><span>integrated and able to join the conversations of their choosing</span><br><span></span><br><span>. The topic conversations lasted a little more than 40 minutes</span><br><span></span><br><span>. We ended with a full group "popcorn-style" harvest and some</span><br><span>announcements</span><br><span></span><br><span>. A number of participants attended a debrief after the official end</span><br><span>of the call</span><br><span></span><br><span>. A few participants also stayed on the line "overtime" to continue</span><br><span>their topic conversations</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>MC's new "social webinar" worked beautifully, allowing participants to do</span><br><span>the following:</span><br><span></span><br><span>. Exercise the law of two feet (really!)</span><br><span></span><br><span>. See who was in their breakouts (including a thumbnail and contact</span><br><span>info, if provided)</span><br><span></span><br><span>. See who was talking or had their "hands" up</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Using "hackpad," we were able to do the following:</span><br><span></span><br><span>. Open the marketplace in advance, in order to both save time on the</span><br><span>call and allow for some online discussion to get going. Five out of the six</span><br><span>topics were initiated in advance.</span><br><span></span><br><span>. Provide an index of topics and the "room numbers" for each (so</span><br><span>that participants could move themselves to the right room)</span><br><span></span><br><span>. Take collaborative notes during breakouts, with a separate pad for</span><br><span>each one (note that "social webinar" now also provides shared document</span><br><span>functionality for each breakout room, if desired)</span><br><span></span><br><span>. Continue sharing notes and reflections once the call had ended</span><br><span>(this is still ongoing)</span><br><span></span><br><span>. Make detailed introductions before, during and after the call</span><br><span></span><br><span>. Compile a shared listing of resources</span><br><span></span><br><span>. Make announcements and requests</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>It was also possible for participants to engage fully via their phones only</span><br><span>(including moving between sessions) without using either hackpad or "social</span><br><span>webinar." This was important, as not everyone was able to be at a computer,</span><br><span>and some who were at one had trouble using the online tools.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Not everything was perfect, of course, and there were some lessons learned.</span><br><span>The biggest challenge was that, despite many emails and online explanations</span><br><span>in advance, some people were confused by the three ways to engage (phone,</span><br><span>hackpad and social webinar) or had trouble accessing one or more of these</span><br><span>elements. The vast majority, however, were either able to use these tools or</span><br><span>to have a valuable and satisfying conversation without them. </span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>I expect that there will be future iterations planned on behalf of the</span><br><span>Charter for Compassion, and I will promote them to this listserv now that I</span><br><span>feel comfortable handling larger groups! MaestroConference is also very</span><br><span>interested in promoting a series of large group "conversations that could</span><br><span>change the world." Perhaps there are some folks here who might want to</span><br><span>collaborate with me in convening one? They plan for their platform to be</span><br><span>able to manage calls in this way with over a thousand people in the near</span><br><span>future. The thought of being able to regularly engage people at that scale</span><br><span>in this way is pretty exciting!</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Peace,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Ben</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Ben Roberts</span><br><span></span><br><span>The Conversation Collaborative</span><br><span></span><br><span> <<a href="http://www.conversationcollaborative.com/">http://www.conversationcollaborative.com/</a>> www.</span><br><span><a href="http://ConversationCollaborative.com">ConversationCollaborative.com</a> </span><br><span></span><br><span>(203) 426-1039</span><br><span></span><br><span>Skype: benjamin_j_roberts</span><br><span></span><br><span>G+: <a href="mailto:benroberts.ipn@gmail.com">benroberts.ipn@gmail.com</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>tagxedo 1</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-------------- next part --------------</span><br><span>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...</span><br><span>URL: <<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/fc8376d4/attachment.htm">http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/fc8376d4/attachment.htm</a>></span><br><span>-------------- next part --------------</span><br><span>A non-text attachment was scrubbed...</span><br><span>Name: not available</span><br><span>Type: image/jpeg</span><br><span>Size: 25314 bytes</span><br><span>Desc: not available</span><br><span>URL: <<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/fc8376d4/attachment.jpeg">http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20140930/fc8376d4/attachment.jpeg</a>></span><br><span></span><br><span>------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Subject: Digest Footer</span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>OSList mailing list</span><br><span>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:</span><br><span><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>End of OSList Digest, Vol 43, Issue 25</span><br><span>**************************************</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>