Wednesday, November 30, 2011

GLOBAL DRUM PROJECT



Ex-Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart brings his band of international percussion superheroes to Geo Sessions, mesmerizing all who dare step in their path with intricate patterns of rhythm. See more GeoSessions at NatGeoMusic.net

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Saturday, November 26, 2011

WE ARE THE MANY


via @Tomatlee
Ye come here, gather 'round the stage
The time has come for us to voice our rage
Against the ones who've trapped us in a cage
To steal from us the value of our wage

From underneath the vestiture of law
The lobbyists at Washington do gnaw
At liberty, the bureaucrats guffaw
And until they are purged, we won't withdraw

We'll occupy the streets
We'll occupy the courts
We'll occupy the offices of you
'Till you do
The bidding of the many, not the few

Our nation was built upon the right
Of every person to improve their plight
But laws of this Republic they rewrite
And now a few own everything in sight

They own it free of liability
They own, but they are not like you and me
Their influence dictates legality
And until they are stopped we are not free

We'll occupy the streets
We'll occupy the courts
We'll occupy the offices of you
Till you do
The bidding of the many, not the few

You enforce your monopolies with guns
While sacrificing our daughters and sons
But certain things belong to everyone
Your thievery has left the people none

So take heed of our notice to redress
We have little to lose, we must confess
Your empty words do leave us unimpressed
A growing number join us in protest

We occupy the streets
We occupy the courts
We occupy the offices of you
Till you do
The bidding of the many, not the few

You can't divide us into sides
And from our gaze, you cannot hide
Denial serves to amplify
And our allegiance you can't buy

Our government is not for sale
The banks do not deserve a bail
We will not reward those who fail
We will not move till we prevail

We'll occupy the streets
We'll occupy the courts
We'll occupy the offices of you
Till you do
The bidding of the many, not the few

We'll occupy the streets
We'll occupy the courts
We'll occupy the offices of you
Till you do
The bidding of the many, not the few

We are the many
You are the few

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THE TIDE IS TURNING


Roger Waters - The Tide Is Turning (Re: Occupy)
Big Thank You goes to Stonehartfloydfan for making this video.
Copyright by Pink Floyd
via (@Tomatlee)

I used to think the world was flat
Rarely threw my hat into the crowd
I felt I had used up my quota of yearning
Used to look in on the children at night
In the glow of their Donald Duck light
And frighten myself with the thought of my little ones burning
But, oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
The tide is turning

Satellite buzzing through the endless night
Exclusive to moonshots and world title fights
Jesus Christ, imagine what it must be earning
Who is the strongest
Who is the best
Who holds the aces
The East
Or the West
This is the crap our children are learning
But oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
The tide is turning
Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning

Now the satellite's confused
'Cause on Saturday night
The airwaves were full of compassion and light
And his silicon heart
Warmed to the sight of a billion candles burning
Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
The tide is turning Billy

I'm not saying that the battle is won
But on Saturday night all those kids in the sun
Wrested technology's sword from the hand of the war lords
Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
The tide is turning Sylvester
Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
...

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

MOTHERS AND OTHERS: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy


I first knew about her work through Cacilda Jethá´s and Chris Ryan´s "Sex at dawn".


Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (author of "Mothers and others") presents in this video a new vision of human evolution and to argue that our capacity to understand, engage and empathise with each other stems from our status as a cooperatively parenting species.

Let love flow!



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FARMING WITH NATURE: SEPP HOLZER , on temperate PERMACULTURE


Let love flow! 

Monday, November 21, 2011

JOHN HOLT, leader of GROWING WITHOUT SCHOOL



John provides some expansive answers to questions about children, society, schools, and homeschooling in the debut of this raw footage.


let love flow,

Friday, November 18, 2011

WHAT ABOUT ON-LINE OPEN SPACE?

Annette  Zera asks on the OSLIST... "I've been asked if it is possible to run an *online *Open Space eventfor 500 people. I haven't a clue.  Can anyone help? I pick some pieces from the answers here.

Sure, we all prefer to open space in an atmosphere like the one in this photo :-)!... but sometimes an online OST meeting might be required too!




Currently in one single OpenSpace-Online conference 10-125 participants can work completely selforganized in a solution-oriented and high data-protected 4hour step-by-step open space workshop process. If a larger group wants to invite more than 125 participants, we can easily arrange a set of X simultaneous OpenSpace-Online conferences for hundrets or thousands of people - e.g. with exact the same main-theme/-question. In all cases our system produces an extensive just-in-time conference documentation (digital) at the end of the conference for immediate selforganized further work. If you wish to have more information, just write me separately (gabriela.ender[@]OpenSpace-
Online.com).

"OpenSpace-Online briefly": between 1999 and 2002 we developed the OpenSpace-Online Real-Time Methodoloy (and are enhancing the IT technology permanently - so far without investors). It has been used in more than 70 countries till today. The OpenSpace-Online process supports very much selforganization, because my vision was at that time (and still is), to enable open space empowerment around the globe without the must of having Open Space facilitators or consultants in the room. Our real-time online methodology includes a multi-dimensional virtual open space facilitation. Preparation and follow-up need the same quality as we know from well done OST processes. The realization of my vision and this technology was possible based on the deep trust in selforganization - in particular in the power of people and passion. In this way the OpenSpace-Online Real-Time Methodology works since 9 years. Harrison was my inspiration for that and is my role modell for true selforganization.

P.S. Thank you dear Holger, for mention OpenSpace-Online.

Best regards to London!

Gabriela Ender

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Lisa Heft adds on....

For something specifically Open Space - OpenSpace-Online has a virtual facilitator (a lovely character that welcomes and invites you, explains the principles and law), beautiful simple graphics that give the body-sense of sitting in a circle together, a virtual wall upon which to post topics, the ability to bumblebee from group to group, butterfly over to a 'cafe' and also have side butterfly conversations, and the output of a full Book of Proceedings printed out at your own desk. And you don't have to know anything technologically to do it - there is great support during the real-time of the online conference but most of it is completely intuitive to the participants.

Gabriela is an Open Space facilitator and she field-tested her design over several years with many of us Open Space folks.  Though text-based - as we know, there is nothing exactly like a group being together in person - it is amazingly close to the in-person feeling, because of its thoughtful design, visuals and options for any participant to self-organize into wherever they want to go, to write ('speak') or simply to wander amongst the conversations and witness.

I suggest you check it out.
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Suzanne Daigle explains their process to prepare:  Global Conversation

Thursday, November 17, 2011

What is Open Space? Tova Averbuch´s story: Opening Space to Collective Wisdom


I met Tova in Wosonos Berlin 2010. She shared some days ago on the OSLIST the way she knew about OST and her views. What a brilliant explanation of Open Space!. Here some lines from the TED page and some words on it by other people on the list

In her TEDxJaffa talk, Tova Averbuch explores the at-times contentious relationship between self and whole and proposes a form for resolution: Open Space

Tova has been an Organization Development consultant for 30 years, teaching in the graduate program of Tel Aviv University's business school. She is a facilitator and host of generative group meetings, applying methodologies and perspectives that enable and promote bottom up, cross boundaries and self-organizing processes, to create conditions for the emergence of collective new wisdom and new action in business and in socio-political life in Israel. Born in Poland, Tova emigrated to Israel in 1957 and is committed to promoting and exploring creative dialogue between polarized groups in the Israeli society and between 'center' and 'edge' in human systems.


"...At the risk of "gilding the lily" you speak so beautifully of a living entity - being and becoming,  autonomous and connected, the importance of diversity, wisdom that comes from that diversity, the simultaneous learning and self-organization, a living entity not an economic machine as companies so often are. Our work at Autognomics Institute has been working for over 50 years in the study of  the nature of living entities - you have spoken so eloquently on Open Space and on these foundational principles that show up throughout life - living organisms and the living cosmos in which we live.  Thanks so much for this.  And thanks for this Open Space list of fantastic conversations. You all inspire me to the bones. "

Skye Hirst, PhD (www.autognomics.org)
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The heart of your talk for me was in these words at about 16:30 in:
       “we've achieved a lot; we are in the growing business of making social living systems and not mechanical system. In mechanical system, we must start with clear goals and clear vision and clear objectives and we proceed to get them. In a living system we are preoccupied with being and belonging before we set objectives. A living system will try to root itself, preferably in nourishing environment, and to take time to make sure it's alive before it figures out its destination, and before the horizon is clear.”

This clarifies something I have never been able to put into words and metaphors before. It carries the thought further, and tells us what OS and all true conversation and meeting (see the work of Martin Buber) is about: birthing a living system.

This is a step off into wide open space...and we find solid ground beneath our foot. Anybody want to take this another step?

Tova, do you have similar writings available somewhere?
                               :- Doug.
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Dear Tova This is beautiful. Self organization by living systems
A write-up of the description of open space given by Tova at the TEDx talk:
We are trying to create an infrastructure for human interaction to take place, mainly face to face but also could be virtual, to create organizations that are living systems, not mechanical systems.

Now how do we work in open space? What kind of principles or ways of conduct do we use, that make it possible to come as fully me and yet in the same time to be totally open to others, to all sorts of others, to create a collective we.

From all the methodologies that I know that are opening space I could draw up seven principles or ways of conduct. They are weary simple.

1. You are invited, you don't have to come, but you are invited.
2. You are included, and what makes you included is that you wish to come.
3. You are the right people, no shame, no blame, you are perfect the way you are.
4. It is all done by self organization, no one is telling you what to do, you are making it happen, creating the agenda, etc.
5. Transparency, we do it all in transparency so we can build on the wisdom, of one and another, of layer by layer.
6. We encourage and invite simultaneity and multi version, it dose not have to be in sequential or linear logic, it happens all at the same time, it is great!
7. You are free at all times to be mobile, and let your legs carry you to where your heart and mind wants to be
If we are getting or putting people together and we do not insist that they must agree, then they don't have to fight and compromise. And if we take people and we allow them to move freely, that means that people can self regulate and if they had enough and they feel that the emotion is arising and they can not control it, they can go somewhere else, they can self regulate themselves and they feel no constrain. And in this way of work where individuals can be fully themselves,
they become, as I can see, fully alive, and create collectives that are living systems
and not mechanical or machine like systems.



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Thursday, November 10, 2011

MURMURATION by Sophie Windsor Clive


Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.
Lolll,
Eleder

The other day (2017 december), I see a similar one,


it seems that is doing interesting work.

Best,

@Eleder_BuM


Sunday, October 23, 2011

WOSONOS: using the IT to widen the concept (II)

And Phelim, of the WOSONOS 2012  (http://wosonos2012.com), next year, oct 11-14 in London, answers soon on the OSLIST...

Artur,

Thanks for this lots of great things to consider.

And prompts lots of thoughts for me...

As we begin to explore how technology links us up ( and as someone who is slightly geeky I enjoy those possibilities) I also find myself fascinated how often something like Suzanne's simple reports bring me closer than being able to view something through a camera like a security guard!  Perhaps more interesting than this would be a booth where people can go give personal reports at specific times. 

I'm thinking out loud here so..

I can hear lots of different sides to this...

Whoever comes are the right people.

Whoever went are the right people.

Sometimes we have to accept we didn't make it there.

A live feed doesn't always "feed", isn't always nourishing and also shouldn't mean we can expect to be fed!

Being able to see a little bit makes us think they should be thinking about us more? Makes us want to be part of a party we didn't make it to?

I think perhaps for those not there.. the communications that happen "Live" are less about information out... Than information in. What I mean for example is..  "Twitter" (and I know you say you don't like it) has really changed our D&D events by providing a  stream of information and support from the outside world into the space. It has let the people at the event know there are people elsewhere  thinking of us and proposing ideas. You aren't there but you can get messages in to people from outside.

The twitter stream only seems to take off internally when the people who use it... Use it. Often it's the younger people who it's second nature for. So in the "twittersfere" it becomes like a party people can hear next door. Then the information starts to move outward...

As ever you can't force it to happen and when it emerges it is both surprising and enjoyable. But being told to have a good time at a party and play a game you don't want to play can certainly slow down the fun happening. It's taken years for it to start happening at our D&D events but it did last year and brought a whole wave of new participants. This is like "atmospheric" communication out..

Like your being able to not hear whilst being able to see, it strangely stops us trying to imagine how we might join in the conversation.. (we can't in the same way as we are not there) but use our different senses to connect to the spirit of what is happening.

So if we go down the technology route I think the information out needs a bit more creativity and form... Such as editing and filtering so people get the feel of the event whilst accepting their live contribution will be limited because they are NOT present.  This needs time and energy and the stream out is more likely to happen after the event perhaps as a next wave. Also perhaps  making any kind of live OUT stream just more obvious to be used when people WANT to.

However.. rather like TV arrogantly thinking live theatre should accommodate it we should remember what makes OS special.  I think we have to be sensitive to the beauty of the LIVE event. Knowing that I have cameras watching me and having to think about it can just be something that can get in the way of getting on with the important work at hand. 

I think what I'm trying to say is. We shouldn't get confused by these possibilities into thinking its about people who aren't there being able to join in better!  Those possibilities are about communicating more elegantly to those not there what is happening!

This doesn't mean we shouldn't have all those tools ready to be used when the new form emerges out of the energy of the group to say for instance.."Suddenly go live.. And talk to the world!"

Or create the wiki that can be contributed to. Etc..

We can make the edges of the system more porous but those holding boundaries of the event are what make the event important in the first place. The edge between those who came and those who didn't.

In terms of the event I know that the real out comes.. "Out-streams" are never the ones i think they are going to be. Who ever knows what ways opening space changes things? Some conscious.. Some mysterious.

I do know the interface between technology and opening space is an interesting one and trying to catch ghosts on camera is always fun!

Love

Phelim X
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Saturday, October 22, 2011

WOSONOS: using the IT to widen the concept

 



Artur Silva makes interesting suggestions on the OSLIST for the next WOSONOS events, in order to use the Communication and Information Technologies to have more participated and productive meetings. WOSONOS 2012 will take place in London. Sure it helps!

While I wait for the fully report Juan Luis has offered I have been following the WOSonOS in Chile, from 3 sources: 
(1) The marvelous messages that Suzanne Daigle is sending regularly about what happens in Chile; 
(2) The very synthetic messages from Pablo at the "WOSonOS" group at the NING site (http://openspaceworld.ning.com/group/wosonoschile);
(3) The streaming available from http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wosonos-chile-2011
[I am not following Twitter, as I don't like it...] 
The streaming is interesting in many ways. I have "made time" to see the opening session and the morning (after my lunch in Lisbon...) and evening news of the second day (after my dinner). In the opening, one could see everything but hear nothing. After that, the position of the (fixed) camera has changed (thanks, Pablo) and, from time to time, I was able to understand small parts of some interventions...
It is interesting to see people moving around without hearing almost anything as in mute films or in bird watching - one can see the "dance" and that's it! From this limited point of view, I concluded that the dance was marvelous in the opening (made by Juan Luis and Karen) and not very interesting in the "Mexican Ola-like - but with shouting" (Ola meaning wave) in the beginning of the second day, and one could hear some of the interventions in the evening news.
One conclusion that I took is that people present in the event must be informed that the streaming is being done and that to be heard far from the location they must speak with the mouth close to the micro (and don't use bells near the micro...).
But a more general conclusions that I took is that if one plans to do a "Worldwide OSonOS" (and not only a "regional WOSonOS with some people from other regions" - a bunch from the USA, one from Asia and no one from Europe, if I understood well), close attention must be putted in the way to facilitate worldwide dissemination and even participation.
Please don't see my remarks and suggestions bellow as any criticism to the Chilean Host team, which is making a very good job, as I can understand from Suzanne's messages, but as suggestions for the London Host Team and for other future WOSonOS organizers.
First: WOSonOS must not be considered in the future only as a gathering of the people that are able to come to the event location, but as an event that takes place worldwide, based on a specific location, but not restricted to it. The new IT possibilities must be fully used to assure worldwide participation. 
Second: there must be used a fixed camera and a mobile one, and have someone monitoring what the world is seeing and hearing (or not) at every time. Having conversation in front of the camera must not be done.
Third: Reports of break out session must be made directly in a wiki, with instructions to the viewers that they can't edit, but they can add comments to the discussion (as it was done when the WOSonOS took place in Denmark some years ago). This can easily be done from free wiki site providers.
Fourth: a reporter must be assigned to make written and/or graphic reports to be displayed daily in the same wiki, or in a linked blog – with photos and videos (from the streaming) also available for the ones that can´t connect synchronously. 
Due to the special characteristics of the UK group that is inviting the 2012 WOSonOS, I think that all this suggestions will be easily done by them - if they accept the concept...

With care, 

Friday, October 21, 2011

WIDE SPACE OPEN IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY

I'm so happy with the news here that I feel I must share a bit of it with this community that brings so much joy and light to my life: the same day that Wosonos started in Olmué, 20-X-2011 we had great news for celebration in the other coin of the world:

Basque group ETA said armed campaign is over (BBC News).


Wide space opened in our souls. Same as some months ago, when we were so grateful opening space for peace in the Basque Country (a bit more on it here: http://flowandshow.blogspot.com/2011/03/opening-space-for-peace-in-basque.html) . One could breath in the air that peace was coming soon.

I'm sure many Chilean people with family roots in our coin of the world were profoundly touched by these long waited news, same as Pablo Villoch, same as many of you fellow coinspirators.

Let love flow,


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Monday, October 17, 2011

CONSENSUS (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street)


A look into the "HOW" of the Occupy Wall Street movement: The consensus process. Thanks Artur Silva for his great reccomendation in the OSLIST.


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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

What is Open Space Technology?


Open Space Technology (OST) 
 Alan Stewart send this interesting briefing to the OSLIST. More info at: www.openspaceworld.org
 Photo: opening space for peace in the Basque Country (March 2011)



What is OST?



It is a highly effective, participant-led process that has been described as the most powerful leadership and meeting approach for the 21stcentury.


For it is a way to rapidly increase participation, equality, engagement, inclusion, ownership, and energy for change within your organisation, community or project. 


These happen as it enables groups to identify critical issues, voice their passions and concerns, learn from each other, and take collective responsibility for finding solutions.


While being a process, practice and philosophy that is flexible and strong enough to work with a few people or with thousands, for a few hours or over several days or more.


In what contexts is OST of particular value?

  • a real issue of concern, a lot of caring about the issue and a lot at stake (personally or collectively; a reason for meeting that resonates embodied by a theme)

  • a high level of complexity (an issue to tackle that is bigger than any single individual or small group)

  • a real passion, caring a lot about the situation or issue

  • diversity (diversity in thinking, diversity in being open or in other words not rehashing the same stuff with the same people; a true interest in fully engaging, listening and speaking)

  • a spirit of invitation (you don't have to come but we'd love you to come and we'd want you there because you have a lot to contribute); and if you do decide to come, it's because you have passion and care enough to take responsibility and are making the commitment to be there the whole time

  • an open dialogue with the sponsor and host team in the pre-work about self-organization, how Open Space is not your typical predict-control model geared to a defined outcome, not your traditional facilitation, and not the oft way of leading when someone is expected to inspire, have all the answers or make the final decisions.

With acknowledgments to Liz Martins and Suzanne Daigle.
And with the thought that you may also find this useful for your purposes.
Go well,  Alan Stewart___Adelaide 

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Monday, October 3, 2011

IT IS I WHO MUST BEGIN

It Is I Who Must Begin
It is I who must begin.
Once I begin, once I try --
here and now,
right where I am,
not excusing myself
by saying things
would be easier elsewhere,
without grand speeches and
ostentatious gestures,
but all the more persistently
-- to live in harmony
with the "voice of Being," as I
understand it within myself
-- as soon as I begin that,
I suddenly discover,
to my surprise, that
I am neither the only one,
nor the first,
nor the most important one
to have set out
upon that road.
Whether all is really lost
or not depends entirely on
whether or not I am lost.
~ Vaclav Havel ~

Eleder BuM31    Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Sormen


Thursday, September 29, 2011

SUNNI BROWN: "Doodlers, unite!"

Great Sunni Brown visited us in Bilbao these days to share her knowledge, experience and passion in a Gamestorming workshop. Now we can watch also this video in which she accurately and briefly makes us understand the need of Doodling. Smart woman, smart job! Thanks so much, Sunni!




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NOBODY CAN PREDICT THE MOMENT OF REVOLUTION: Occupy Together




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Monday, September 19, 2011

BRIGHT LIGHT



I picked this video from @SunniBrown on Twitter. First thought was just wooow. Then, as ever, I realized there are always more faces on every reality. Reading the comments always is educating. It´s people who owns the knowledge. Each one has a part of the truth. That is,in fact, the spirit of Open Space.

Some comments from youtube viewers...

If any video deserves to go viral, this is it. Please share with everyone you know. TheBillysabu

solar power with a plastic bottle... they live day by day just enjoying life... thinking of other ways to live a natural life... todokiki

love this! love it! - to bad it is pepsi caps all over it     pzest
solar bottle skylight or the like, or look at the related videos for this. It works! They sell commercial products called Solar Tubes that do the same thing for a lot of money. ke6gwf
Of course part of it is also "clever" filming. If you got a camera you will know, that on film dark areas look even darker and filming any bright spots makes them shine even brighter,... YanaFramework

ideas tan sencillas y maravillosas hacen pensar que sí se puede tener una vida sostenible. Pero lo mejor es tener ventanas y aire en las casas  androgynonatus


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Thursday, September 15, 2011

GAMESTORMING+DOODLING WORKSHOP (SUNNI BROWN). BILBAO: 22+23 Spt

Some months ago we were inspired with taking Sunni Brown to Bilbao to share a bit of her knowledge and her originality. Next week it´s coming true: on 22nd +  23th September she´ll be offering a 2 day workshop in Bilbao (just this opportunity in South Europe)...


DESCRIPTION:  Gamestorming your Workplace (A.k.a., How to Design and Run a Meeting using Words AND Pictures)


Since the vast majority of us have to either plan or attend meetings, why not become a Jedi at designing and running them? The simple but revolutionary techniques of visual thinking and gamestorming assure that your meeting not only doesn’t stink, but that you make the best use of everyone’s time and dramatically shorten the length of time in which you do it. The value of visual thinking and participatory design with a group is enormous and the benefits include...

  • Using a simple, shared visual language to increase understanding and information retention;
  • Applying improvisational discovery to keep participants engaged;
  • Mapping the big picture, solving problems and innovating as a team;
  • Creating visual meeting artifacts to drive decisions forward.
You don’t need to be a rocket scientist or an artist of any caliber to learn how to design and lead better meetings. In this day-long workshop, you’ll learn the fundamentals of visual language, how to illuminate complexities by mapping the big picture and how to use improvisation and games to innovate and solve real problems. At the end of the workshop you’ll feel more confident about using visualization in meetings and you’ll recognize the power of doing so. So let the games begin!
OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this workshop, learners will be able to:
  • Recognize when to have a meeting (and when not to);
  • Design meeting agendas that move a group to a desired outcome;
  • Use games to support innovation and creative problem-solving;
  • Leverage techniques that lead to co-creation and team solutions;
  • Lead meetings, workshops, and group sessions comfortably using visual thinking and basic office supplies.
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 WHO IS @Sunnibrown?

.. a business owner, creative director, speaker and co-author of one of Amazon’s Top 100 Business Books titled GameStorming: A Playbook for Rule-breakers, Innovators and Changemakers. She’s best known for her large-scale live content visualizations, and she is also the leader of The Doodle Revolution – a growing effort to debunk the myth that doodling is a distraction.
Sunni’s work was recently featured on the Boing Boing, BBC, CNN, The Washington Post, Fast Company (coming in at #56 on the 100 Most Creative People in Business List and #5 on the 10 Most Creative People on Twitter list),...

+ INFO on Sunni Brown; VIDEOS: Gamestorming +The Doodle Revolution
and lots in the web,...
Language:
Sunni Brown will be speaking English and organization will be helping with Basque and Spanish 


When? September 22nd + 23r, 2011
Where? in EUTOKIA (Bilbao)
Registrations: info@eutokia.org
Time: 09:00-14:00 eta 16:00-18:00 (14 hours)
Price: 250,00€ (professionals, unemployed, sutdents,...) – 400,00€ (organizations)


Exclusice Workshop in South Europe,
take profit and  spread the word!
 
Eleder BuM31    Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity
www.burumapak.blogspot.com (eus)   @Eleder_BuM  (Twitter)
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Monday, September 5, 2011

ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE


Aretha Franklin ACCENTUATING THE POSITIVE by (lyrics by Johnny Mercer / Harold Arlen). 
Thanks to Gail West for sharing this great song on the OSLIST


You've gotta accent-tcu-ate the positive, eli-my-nate the negative,
Latch on to the affirmative, don't mess with Mister In-between.
You gotta spread joy up to the maximum, bring gloom down to the minimum.
Have faith or pandemonium's li'ble to walk upon the scene.
To illustrate my last remark, Jonah in the whale, Noah in the Ark,
What did theyou do just when everything looked so dark,
Man, they said we better
Accent-tchu-ate the positive, elim-my-nate the negative,
Latch on to the affirmative, don't mess with Mister In-between,
Don't mess with Mister In-between. 

Eleder BuM31    Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity
www.burumapak.blogspot.com (eus)   @Eleder_BuM  (Twitter)
www.in-fluyendo.blogspot.com (esp)   www.flowandshow.blogspot.com




Sunday, September 4, 2011

ONE WORLD BIRTH: help empower to have BETTER BIRTHS


ONE WORLD BIRTH is a unique FREE video website launching 1st Sept featuring evidence-based information and opinions from the world's leading birth experts including:

Ina May Gaskin, Sheila Kitzinger, Michel Odent, Elizabeth Davis, Debra Pascali-Bonaro, Cathy Warwick (RCM), Mary Newburn (NCT), Marilyn Curl (Lamaze International), Dr Sarah Buckley, Professor Soo Downe, Professor Lesley Page, Professor Cecily Begley, Professor Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg, Professor Ngai Fen Cheung, Associate Professor Denis Walsh and lots more leading midwives, academics, obstetricians, authors, doulas, birth educators and birth warriors around the world.

Here is a short video about the ONE WORLD BIRTH project and how together we can help change the world!.

Come join us and help empower ALL women to have better births. The website launches Thurs 1 Sept: http://oneworldbirth.net


Eleder BuM31    Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity
www.burumapak.blogspot.com (eus)   @Eleder_BuM  (Twitter)
www.in-fluyendo.blogspot.com (esp)   www.flowandshow.blogspot.com