<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Sue,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One great way I learned about OST was finding someone more experienced and being an assistant for some times.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Years back, when I followed Michael M Pannwitz around for three months, I learned a lot.</div><div class="">So additional to any course you could take, you could offer another experienced facilitator to help them?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thinking back, I chose Michael M (cudos to you) very consciously, as he didn’t do shortcuts I saw some other facilitators make.</div><div class="">(some did Future Search, World Café, AI, OST etc, and sometimes mixed them up, which I didn’t appreciate).</div><div class="">He was very clear about the impact each aspect of OST had, and what would be lost by changing it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What a great opportunity to openly say:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Thank you, Michael M Pannwitz, for that opportunity to be an OST apprentice !</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>( And I still have your OST material box :-) )</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With Love, Marai</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 27.08.2019 um 09:12 schrieb Sue Lawson via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Hi everyone,<div dir="auto" class="">I've been following the list for a while but this is my first post...</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">I'm trying to find out if the are OST learning opportunities running in the UK.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br style="font-family:sans-serif" class=""></div></div><div dir="auto" class="">For the past few years a friend and I have been running annual librarycamp unconferences using bits of OST - session proposals, marketplace, the four rules - although we're not so good at the reporting, relying on volunteer notetakers and it's not always successful. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I'm naturally shy and not a confident facilitator. I'm not afraid to try but I'd love to become better. My co-camper is more at ease but I want us both to develop as facilitators.</div><div dir="auto" class="">Our camps are free and we do it as a hobby. We're librarians by day and our themes are around improving libraries or working through challenges public libraries face nowadays. It's not a business, more a passion.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Thanks everyone.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Sue Lawson on behalf of Librarycamp.</div><div dir="auto" class="">@shedsue </div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, 19:03 Michael M Pannwitz via OSList, <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Michael,<br class="">
<br class="">
"‘felt’ more calm and respectful than in previous years"<br class="">
I wonder why that was no surprise to you.<br class="">
Could it be part of the cultural shifting that you hope for?<br class="">
<br class="">
Is there a "Next Meeting" for all of those that got into the 14 Action <br class="">
Plans?<br class="">
<br class="">
Greetings from Berlin<br class="">
mmp<br class="">
Am 26.08.2019 um 09:14 schrieb Michael Wood via OSList:<br class="">
> A few weeks ago Brendan McKeague and Michael Wood co-facilitated what <br class="">
> might be the largest ever Open Space in Australia (certainly with a <br class="">
> church group) when the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane took the step of <br class="">
> hosting most of the first day of Synod (the annual large gathering of <br class="">
> representatives of Anglican parishes, schools and other organisations) <br class="">
> for 6 hours in Open Space. 450 people attended around a very spacious <br class="">
> question, ‘what is God calling us to be and do at this time’. Three <br class="">
> sessions of 1.5 hours each led to the posting of 56 conversation topics <br class="">
> and 14 action plans. One of the interesting pieces of feedback at the <br class="">
> end of Synod is that the remainder of Synod (which is conducted in a <br class="">
> traditional Westminster Parliament format) ‘felt’ more calm and <br class="">
> respectful that in previous years – no surprises there. Although it’s <br class="">
> early days the whole thing felt to me like an opening up of new <br class="">
> possibility about the way we meet in the church and I personally hope it <br class="">
> might be part of a cultural shift starting to happen. Time will tell.<br class="">
> <br class="">
> Michael Wood. Perth, Western Australia.<br class="">
> <br class="">
> <br class="">
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Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany<br class="">
++49 - 30-772 8000<br class="">
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Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 487 resident Open <br class="">
Space Workers in 76 countries working in a total of 142 countries worldwide<br class="">
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At my publisher you find books and task cards on open space, most in <br class="">
German, some in English, some as ebooks, some multilingual<br class="">
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