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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Brilliant! But I won’t take back what I said about Twitter... This really should be fun and congratulations to all for a marvelous effort – no matter what happens. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> I signed in, paid my fee (I think) – but when I pushed “enter” a little red sign came up and told me that an error had occurred. Doubtless I did something wrong – but I’m trying! I took heart from the next note which said that, “they will fix it”...whoever “they” is, and “it” is as yet unidentified. Stay tuned and Do Join in!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Winter Address<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Drive<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Summer Address<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>189 Beaucaire Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Camden, ME 04843<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>207-763-3261<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Websites<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="%20www.openspaceworld.com"> www.openspaceworld.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="www.ho-image.com">www.ho-image.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>OSLIST </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Herman via OSList<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 05, 2015 1:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> OSLIST<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] Four-Day Virtual OSonOS in July<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline'><em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Join us for Virtual OSonOS: A Worldwide Open Learning Event...</span></em><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><div><h1 style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem 0px;font-size:1.5rem'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'>Inviting Community, Sharing Learnings, Evolving Practice<br>Everywhere, July 8-11th or 9-12th (depending on where you are)<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iJvT9PY5kCAmnCWZ92jVdrWs8G6ugHlZN_vwg4FaNq8/edit#gid=0" target="_blank"><span style='color:#990000;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Conference Schedule</span></a> | <a href="http://vosonos.qiqochat.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#990000;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>QiqoChat Platform and Registration</span></a> | <a href="mailto:vosonos@openspaceworld.org" target="_blank"><span style='color:#990000;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Questions</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>We have learned so much about bringing people together. We have imagined, invited, and unleashed. We are agile and appreciative, artful and improvisational. Our media is social, our networks are linked, and upstart movements can have national and international effects. We mix the newest technologies and the oldest human patterns. We work on peace AND high performance, passion and purpose, sharing and storytelling. We focus on what’s working, why it works, and how we can make more of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>So what? And now what? The world is under pressure, in every time zone, maybe like never before – socially, politically, economically, environmentally, spiritually. Everywhere, complexity, diversity, real and potential conflict, and urgent needs are more obvious than ever. What is the opportunity here? What is our responsibility? What are the possibilities – and the practices that are working now – <em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>where you are?</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem 0px;font-size:1.142857143rem'><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;font-weight:normal'>A Virtual Open Space on (All Kinds of) Open Space </span></em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>What are you learning about creating what you want in the world – in organizations and markets, communities and families, body and mind? What is your practice and what is it becoming? What can we learn and do now together to make a difference in your work? And what could happen if we work and learn together, all around the world, all at once, even for just a few days? This is what we want to find out, in a four-day virtual conference experiment in world-around self-organization.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Anyone with a good head and a good heart, actively engaged in bringing people together to meet the large and small challenges of our time, is invited to join in. We want to extend and expand the decades-old tradition of the <em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="http://openspaceworld.org/wp2/osonos" target="_blank"><span style='color:#990000'>Open Space on Open Space</span></a> (OSonOS)</span></em> conferences, in this<em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>World-Around, Virtual, Video Open Space on</span></em> <em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>All Kinds of Practices that Open Space – VOSonOS for short. </span></em>It’s about inviting and renewing connections, sharing learnings and insights, and evolving practice(s), everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem 0px;font-size:1.142857143rem'><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;font-weight:normal'>How Will It Work?</span></em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>We will use QiqoChat.com to create our agenda, host (most of) our breakout conversations in live video galleries, and capture our notes on Qiqo’s virtual flip charts. During waking hours in your timezone, you can join any of two opening plenaries, many different breakout sessions and two closing plenary sessions. Stay up late or get up early for more, if you like!<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;margin:2.571428571rem'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Day 1:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> Three opening sessions, 8 hours apart, each one followed immediately by a 2-hour round of breakout conversations<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;margin:2.571428571rem'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Day 2:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> Six 2-hour rounds of breakout sessions, starting every 4 hours (2 hrs on/2 hrs off)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;margin:2.571428571rem'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Day 3:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> Six more 2-hour rounds of breakout sessions, starting every 4 hours<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;margin:2.571428571rem'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Day 4:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> Three closing circles, starting 8 hours apart.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Our <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iJvT9PY5kCAmnCWZ92jVdrWs8G6ugHlZN_vwg4FaNq8/edit#gid=0" target="_blank"><span style='color:#990000;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>full conference schedule</span></a> will be created, and stay available for editing in a global community bulletin board, also viewable at <a href="http://vosonos.qiqochat.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#990000;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>QiqoChat</span></a>. The QiqoChat platform will let us move ourselves between breakout circles and other meeting places. We will be able to convene breakouts via Skype, Zoom and other platforms, or even in-person gatherings in coffee shops, if you like. And of course, you’ll focus on the issues and areas of practice that are most important to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem 0px;font-size:1.142857143rem'><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;font-weight:normal'>How to Register?</span></em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Please <a href="http://vosonos.qiqochat.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#990000;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>register in advance at QiqoChat</span></a> for this grand experiment, including a $20 contribution toward direct conference hosting costs. One week before the event, we’ll open our virtual meeting space for testing and exploration. In the meantime, please share this invitation with friends and colleagues you would like to have join us!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Tech Notes: All participants will be able to participate by listening and/or viewing live sessions at <a href="http://vosonos.qiqochat.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#990000;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>QiqoChat</span></a>. You can use your phone or computer microphone for audio connection (to speak). To share your video (be seen), please use Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or Internet Explorer 10+. Safari is not yet compatible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem 0px;font-size:1.142857143rem'><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;font-weight:normal'>Co-conveners (join us!)</span></em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Lucas Cioffi, Tricia Chirumbole, Suzanne Daigle, Karen Davis, Christy Lee-Engel, Joelle Everett, Michael Herman, Skye Hirst, Thomas Herrmann, Peggy Holman, Karolina Iwa, Lisa Kimball, Paul Levy, Jane Lewis, Daniel Mezick, Anne Stadler, Alan Stewart, Linda Stevenson, Christine Whitney Sanchez, and… <em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>you?</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.714285714rem'><em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Add a brief comment to add your own voice to this invitation, share something about what you want this to be, why you think this matters, or anything else you’d like to say to anyone joining or thinking about joining this experiment. AND THEN… <a href="http://vosonos.qiqochat.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#990000'>Register at QiqoChat</span></a>, spread the word, bring friends, and add spirit!</span></em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>