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OPEN SPACE
INSTITUTE OF Newsletter –
Bulletin de nouvelles |
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info@openspacecanada.org v www.openspacecanada.org |
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May 2007 |
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Des nouvelles
des membres… Member News… 4
Visually
Challenged Participants at an Open Space Event 6
Some Reflections on “Nexus for Change: March 21-23,
2007” 7
Upcoming events /
Événements futurs 9
À lire…
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“Practice of Peace” Book / Livre
“Practice of Peace” 11
Next OSIC Newsletter / Prochain
bulletin de l’OSIC 12
Next OSIC Telecall / Prochaine
téléconference de l’OSIC 13
Join
OSIC / Devenez membre de l’OSIC 14
OSIC Secretariat / Secrétariat
de l’OSIC |
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Chapter 2 |
Opposites creating |
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When people see things as beautiful, ugliness
is created. When people see things as good, evil
is created. Being and non-being produce each other. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short define each other. High and low oppose each other. Fore and aft follow each other. Therefore the Master can act without doing anything and
teach without saying a word. Things come her way and she does not stop
them; things
leave and she lets them go. She has without possessing, and
acts without any expectations. When her work is done, she takes no credit. That is why it will last forever. |
Non-doing defines doing. Sitting in stillness
invites people to move. Getting out of the way allows people to fill space with
their passion. Letting go of expectations leaves room for responsibility to
come forth. All of this is integrity. Every piece of doing requires the
strong presence of non-doing to anchor it. Stifling every impulse to
intervene, to give directions and orders leaves space for others to design
their lives. You can create a container and then stand by and watch it fill
and teem with life. You don’t resist the natural movements of groups of
people co-creating their futures. Instead you work on your own inability to
be still, to want to own the outcomes, to want to invest your ego. This is not your show. You are holding space,
embodying space and being empty and full at the same time. If they thank you in
the closing circle, you have not done enough. |
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When it starts is the right time. The evolution of Open Space in Whoever shows up is the
right people. Again, the principle showed its truth. People had an
affinity with the values and principles of OS and quickly felt the deep
potential of this approach ...beyond the method. On the second day, the key organizer had a
special meeting with his organization's decision makers and convinced them to
hold two Open Space events, 200 and 350 people. Two other participants sent
out an invitation the following week for an OS event on Creativity and
Management for mid-April in On the evening of day-2, three OS consultant
facilitators from the area and a number of workshop participants met in a
somewhat impromptu Stammtisch. The energy just
spread like wild fire and two weeks later, a conference call was held among
half a dozen people intent on building a French OS community in You will read hereunder about an international
OSonOS in French to be held in autumn in one of Things are not only brewing, they're perking!
It's so uplifting and rewarding to see OS doing it's magic. |
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Stammtisch à Montréal le 7 mai |
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Invitation à tous les intéressés! Nous nous retrouverons pour jaser de
Forum ouvert, de nos pratiques, de nos apprentissages, etc. vers 17 h 30 au
restaurant Le Cap Vert, 1200, av. McGill College, à Montréal, entre les rues Sainte-Catherine et Cathcart. Comme en Forum ouvert, on arrive quand on
arrive, on parle de ce qui nous inspire et on part quand on part. Le resto
est tout près de la station de métro McGill, de la
gare Bonaventure et pas très loin de la Gare Windsor. C’est donc facilement
accessible par tous les transports en commun. Il y a aussi un stationnement
intérieur gratuit accessible à partir de 17 h 15. Si vous nous prévenez de
votre présence (Esther, ematte@excellence.ca , 450-583-5849), ça aidera le resto à nous placer
et à nous servir. Sinon, demandez en arrivant la table Forum ouvert. Au
plaisir de vous y voir! |
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3.
Des
nouvelles des membres… Member News… |
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Jean-Pierre Beaulieu explore de nouveaux horizons |
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Depuis quelques mois, Jean-Pierre se la coule douce… à la retraite! Il
explore enfin à son goût une passion qu’il avait depuis longtemps : la
photographie. Voici quelques-uns de ses clichés. Souhaitons-lui le plus grand
des plaisirs et des succès comme chasseur d’images! |
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Bienvenue aux nouveaux membres
québécois! |
Wecome to new
OSIC members from… |
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Dans la dernière année, l’OSIC a accueilli quelques nouveaux membres du Québec Louise
Brissette, animatrice chevronnée qui s’intéresse au « leadership
créateur » et Marquis Bureau,
animateur d’expérience en Forum ouvert et expert en formation à distance et
formation en ligne, basé à Calgary mais travaillant beaucoup au Québec. Tous
deux sont les principaux instigateurs de la rencontre Forum ouvert sur le
Forum ouvert mentionnée dans l’article précédent «OS Perking
in Quebec». Pierre-Claude Élie, un expert de la
démarche appréciative qui vient d’ailleurs de publier un livre chez
Transcontinental – plus de détails dans la rubrique À lire… Esther
Matte,
qui a pris en charge le contenu de ce bulletin et anime des Forums ouverts
dans la région de Montréal. |
Antigonish,
Gabriola,
British |
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More OpenSpacenicks
in |
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A Workshop An OSonOS
Gathering in On
Friday evening April 27th at the Overdraught Irish
Pub on |
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4. Visually Challenged Participants
at an Open Space Event A few measures to support their participation |
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Diane Gibeault,
Open Space Technology Practitioner |
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With just a few support measures,
people who are visually challenged can easily participate like everyone else
in an Open Space event. Here are a few practical measures to support them in
expressing their passion and responsibility. Make the information available ahead of time Send an
electronic copy of the invitation and the participants’ kit and all OS or
other related documents – forms to be used during the event so that materials
can be transferred to brail or read to the participant. Ask! Communicate
in advance to explain the process in more details and ask what would help
them better participate. Topics They will
need a buddy to: -
Write down topics of interest as they are
announced -
Write that person’s own topic -
Read topics at the market place -
Write a list of topics of interest to the
participant with time and place, after the opening and revisit the market
place during the day as topic choices are revised or new topics are added
discretely. Walking Guide Identify a
walking guide, a person totally devoted to their choices and not a
participant with their own different interests for this OS. They will
need to guide the participant to the center to get paper and announce a
topic, post it on the wall, go to discussion sites, vote for priorities, go
for lunch, join the closing circle etc. News Wall and Reports Give an
electronic copy (on a memory stick or by email) of the reports to the person
if they have a computer at their office or at home to transcribe in brail. You could
have that equipment on site also to reproduce reports but depending on the
number of people needing copies, it may not be practical. It
is good to have at least one on site so that the person can enter their own
report in brail. A copy of that brail report has to be transferable
to the master computer collating and printing all reports. For the visually challenged people
who do not read brail, a reading buddy is an essential companion. Convergence Plan to
hold the convergence part of Open Space (report reading and priority setting)
on a separate day so there is time overnight for visually challenged
participants to convert the Book of reports in brail. They can
then have a head start and read at their own rhythm. Explain the priority
identifying process so that they can apply it as they read the reports. Facilitator in plenary Plenary: e.g. Action plan presentations and
leader feedback The facilitator has to pay closer
attention to see if the participant is wishing to speak because they do not
have the advantage of the non verbal signals. If the person indicates they
wish to speak, signal to the buddy that you are aware of it and will alert
them when it’s their turn or discretely go to the person and whisper that
message. With these
support measures, my experience is that the differences among participants
became almost invisible; at least, they were not an obstacle for true
participation for visually challenged people. |
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On
February 22nd, contacts from groups in In quick summary We agreed
to support the growth of the variety of emergent OSonOSs
and want to continue to support one, face to face, annual WOSonOS
– Worldwide Open Space on Open Space. The
Institutes and groups (which we define as OSIs or similar groups as those who tend to
have country meetings, OSonOS type events, “stammtishes”, some form of group decision making, with a
goal to support the development of Open Space (Technology) in their country
or region. Some are incorporated and others registered to allow for bank
accounts. They are beyond one person’s company or consulting practice) want to
provide more guidance and support to WOSonOS in the
future. This includes proposing a 2-3 year advanced planning cycle,
knowledgeable and experienced local planning capacity, and alternating events
between Europe, North America and Other locations (for the moment). We plan
to continue these calls among groups/institutes to help hold the space
for worldwide open space. Our strategy included specific
ways to more actively support the Kiev WOSonOS, a
conference call before The full
notes and list of participants from that call are now posted for you to read
at http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/netwiki.cgi?WorldOSonOS.
How this initiative came about As some of
you are aware, this was an initiative by contacts from three Open Space
Institutes, myself (Larry - We invited
folks from the institutes or groups of which we were aware and who responded
to our inquiry, and held the meeting in English. We did ask around a bit and
informed Expanding
our invitation We want to add contacts from other institutes or
groups to our list for the next call in early April. If you are part of such institute or group (see below) please let us
know. Or, if you are part of a group of three or more who intend to form an
institute or group in the next few months contact us as well. The free
conference call centre is in the |
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6. Some Reflections on “Nexus for Change: |
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On one blog,
according to the materials, it stated “Interested in large group methodology,
participative change or just hanging out with a lot of very
switched on people? Check out the Nexus for Change conference.” It was all of the above and more
and you can Google Nexus for Change and find it was held at | |
