<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I love that Anne!<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19/02/2016, at 10:21 AM, anne stadler via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Thomas Hermann's question:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I love what you're doing, Thomas! </div><div class="">And i encourage you to treat any meeting as a "real open space". By that i mean, open the space within yourself to welcome everyone. Open up the room so people can easily take responsibility (tools etc easily at hand in same place each time.) Open up the meeting by coming together in a "circle", then breaking into the chaos of people moving their chairs as they self organize. Open up the agenda by asking each time "what's up? That you want to take responsibility for?" Open up comfort and familiarity by cooking or eating together (people bringing food from home to share??) Do a very few consistent rituals: opening circle, self-organizing, food, closing circle for reflection/announcements, simple patterns, repeated each time. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My sense is that You're creating a "hearth" for your community. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Blessings! 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OST meeting 2 hours a week - X-posted OS-list and GC-list</span><br class=""><span class=""> (Thomas Herrmann via OSList)</span><br class=""><span class=""> 2. How to shift a destructive "information-meeting" to a</span><br class=""><span class=""> constructive dialogue meeting? (Thomas Herrmann via OSList)</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Message: 1</span><br class=""><span class="">Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:23:46 +0100</span><br class=""><span class="">From: Thomas Herrmann via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br class=""><span class="">To: "'World wide Open Space Technology email list'"</span><br class=""><span class=""> <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>, "'GC list'"</span><br class=""><span class=""> <<a href="mailto:genuine-contact@googlegroups.com" class="">genuine-contact@googlegroups.com</a>></span><br class=""><span class="">Subject: [OSList] OST meeting 2 hours a week - X-posted OS-list and</span><br class=""><span class=""> GC-list</span><br class=""><span class="">Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:00bd01d16a36$74035a10$5c0a0e30$@openspaceconsulting.com" class="">00bd01d16a36$74035a10$5c0a0e30$@openspaceconsulting.com</a>></span><br class=""><span class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Dear friends in Open Space /GC-list</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Since a few months I facilitate a meeting every Sunday in my community as</span><br class=""><span class="">part of a Tillsammanscaf? (Together caf?) for people living in my community</span><br class=""><span class="">who want to contribute to making it a better place for everyone living here.</span><br class=""><span class="">It?s a 2-hour meeting where we start with having coffee/tea, then welcoming</span><br class=""><span class="">and sharing some news (especially if relevant things have been happening).</span><br class=""><span class="">Usually there are 50-100 participants sitting at long tables (due to</span><br class=""><span class="">logistics and the short time I have chosen not to use the circle. In ?real?</span><br class=""><span class="">meetings I always use the circle). </span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">It started as we felt we need to do something to create space for new</span><br class=""><span class="">inhabitants to meet those of us living for a long time here, so among the</span><br class=""><span class="">participants there are asylum seekers and refugees. When meeting in large</span><br class=""><span class="">group we translate everything to English, Arabic and Swedish ? small groups</span><br class=""><span class="">have to help each other.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Next step in the meeting is that I ask who has a topic they want to raise</span><br class=""><span class="">for conversation today. Of course it?s more challenging than when we sit in</span><br class=""><span class="">a circle so we tried different things such as keeping topics from last</span><br class=""><span class="">meetings that anyone can put up again + invite more. We also tried to invite</span><br class=""><span class="">people during arrival/having coffee ? to put topics up. Normally we have</span><br class=""><span class="">5-10 topics from playing the guitar, looking for internship and work,</span><br class=""><span class="">finding housing, learning language etc etc.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">I create spaces for people to meet in small circles to have their</span><br class=""><span class="">conversations (45-60 minutes) then we gather again and I invite each group</span><br class=""><span class="">to share a bit about what they did before we close the meeting.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">We are now thinking about alternative ways to develop this and I?d love to</span><br class=""><span class="">have more ideas. While writing one idea came to me. As we have been talking</span><br class=""><span class="">about having meetings dedicated to a specific theme, or to cook together</span><br class=""><span class="">during a meeting (we have access to a space with several cooking places) or</span><br class=""><span class="">do something else together. </span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">I am thinking about opening space in a real way ? to create an agenda (in a</span><br class=""><span class="">real open space way using the circle!) for example for the coming 3 meetings</span><br class=""><span class="">which would then be like break our spaces. That way it would not be so</span><br class=""><span class="">repetitive and more time would be there for each break out/or it could also</span><br class=""><span class="">develop to sometimes having a specific theme for one meeting?</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">I would love your input, experiences, questions?.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Tillsammans ? we can make difference</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Thomas Herrmann</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Open Space Consulting AB</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""> <<a href="http://www.openspaceconsulting.com/" class="">http://www.openspaceconsulting.com/</a>> <a href="http://www.openspaceconsulting.com/" class="">www.openspaceconsulting.com</a></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Ni n?r oss per telefon: +46 (0)709 98 97 81 eller Epost:</span><br class=""><span class=""><<a href="mailto:thomas@openspaceconsulting.com" class="">mailto:thomas@openspaceconsulting.com</a>> <a href="mailto:thomas@openspaceconsulting.com" class="">thomas@openspaceconsulting.com</a> </span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Open Space Consulting AB ?r ett f?retag med STORA ambitioner att guida</span><br class=""><span class="">ledare, organisationer men ?ven lokalsamh?llen att n? sin fulla kraft f?r</span><br class=""><span class="">att infria sina dr?mmar. Vi bidrar med kunskaper och praktiska verktyg f?r</span><br class=""><span class="">att st?dja er att finna er b?sta v?g. </span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Mer information</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasherrmannopenspaceconsult" class="">https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasherrmannopenspaceconsult</a></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Facebook F?retagssida: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OpenSpaceConsulting" class="">https://www.facebook.com/OpenSpaceConsulting</a> </span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">-------------- next part --------------</span><br class=""><span class="">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...</span><br class=""><span class="">URL: <<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20160218/f16d168f/attachment.html" class="">http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20160218/f16d168f/attachment.html</a>></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">------------------------------</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Message: 2</span><br class=""><span class="">Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:34:12 +0100</span><br class=""><span class="">From: Thomas Herrmann via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br class=""><span class="">To: "'World wide Open Space Technology email list'"</span><br class=""><span class=""> <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>, "'GC list'"</span><br class=""><span class=""> <<a href="mailto:genuine-contact@googlegroups.com" class="">genuine-contact@googlegroups.com</a>></span><br class=""><span class="">Subject: [OSList] How to shift a destructive "information-meeting" to</span><br class=""><span class=""> a constructive dialogue meeting?</span><br class=""><span class="">Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:00c901d16a37$e8e4a860$baadf920$@openspaceconsulting.com" class="">00c901d16a37$e8e4a860$baadf920$@openspaceconsulting.com</a>></span><br class=""><span class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Dear friends in Open Space/GC-list</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">I have decided to focus my time and energy, as much as possible, to</span><br class=""><span class="">contributing in a critical area here in Sweden. Last year we received 160</span><br class=""><span class="">000 asylum seekers. Of course this means some challenges but also lots of</span><br class=""><span class="">fantastic opportunities. Many many people are engaging as volunteers,</span><br class=""><span class="">villages who have ?been sleeping? for decades wake up etc etc </span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">One of the challenges is that neighbours often become afraid when new asylum</span><br class=""><span class="">camps are opened near where they live. Or homes for lonely refugee children</span><br class=""><span class="">(35 000 came last year). There are so many rumours going on, and shit is</span><br class=""><span class="">spread on social media ? so many ?normal? people are very much afraid from</span><br class=""><span class="">stories they heard ? often false ones but also that single events create</span><br class=""><span class="">pictures in people?s heads.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">In my hometown one school which was being rebuilt to house lonely refugee</span><br class=""><span class="">children was burnt down :( and we had many fires like that all over the</span><br class=""><span class="">country :(</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">What the authorities usually do when a new housing is to open is to invite</span><br class=""><span class="">the public to a ?information-meeting? where they put some politicians, the</span><br class=""><span class="">CEO of the company running the camp, some officials from the municipality in</span><br class=""><span class="">front of a crowd of people who are worried and some are even outright</span><br class=""><span class="">hostile with racist ideas. You can imagine what usually happens? I was in</span><br class=""><span class="">one of those meetings a couple of weeks ago, it was horrible. </span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">I think the usual impact is: </span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">* Increased fear and hostility towards people coming to our country</span><br class=""><span class="">from war zones. </span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">* Increased mistrust to the politicians and municipality. </span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">* People at the front get more or less badly hurt. </span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Not a very good result. In fact it?s outright dangerous to arrange these</span><br class=""><span class="">kind of meetings. But mostly they don?t know better. Which is quite</span><br class=""><span class="">surprising to me as there are thousands of trained facilitators in our</span><br class=""><span class="">country.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Since some time I have been working with colleagues in our Open Space and</span><br class=""><span class="">Genuine Contact communities to create alternative ways to have such</span><br class=""><span class="">meetings. We have some good ideas but would also like to hear what comes up</span><br class=""><span class="">for you? Normally these meetings are conducted in the evening, length of 2-3</span><br class=""><span class="">hours. Normally they are not well planned and not facilitated other than</span><br class=""><span class="">trying to control them. They are called ?information meetings? which says a</span><br class=""><span class="">lot.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">So I?d love to hear your experiences, ideas, suggestions?</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Thomas Herrmann</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Open Space Consulting AB</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""> <<a href="http://www.openspaceconsulting.com/" class="">http://www.openspaceconsulting.com/</a>> <a href="http://www.openspaceconsulting.com/" class="">www.openspaceconsulting.com</a></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Ni n?r oss per telefon: +46 (0)709 98 97 81 eller Epost:</span><br class=""><span class=""><<a href="mailto:thomas@openspaceconsulting.com" class="">mailto:thomas@openspaceconsulting.com</a>> <a href="mailto:thomas@openspaceconsulting.com" class="">thomas@openspaceconsulting.com</a> </span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Open Space Consulting AB ?r ett f?retag med STORA ambitioner att guida</span><br class=""><span class="">ledare, organisationer men ?ven lokalsamh?llen att n? sin fulla kraft f?r</span><br class=""><span class="">att infria sina dr?mmar. 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