World wide Open Space Technology email list of Peacemakers
Greetings to all 483 of you on planet earth!
Whenever silence creeped into our List, Harrison sent a question or an
idea...
immediately, a wave of reactions swept through the universe...
How about PoP, the Practice of Peace, in the endless waves of wars?
When approached with "The Practice of Peace", the book that HO wrote in
reaction to September 11, 2001, Berrett-Koehler who published a whole
bunch of the books Harrison wrote, was not interested in PoP.
Hmmm?
Within seconds, HO offered the book to any and all of us on earth to
publish wherever
we were... a wave of selforganizers published, translated, distributed
etc. the book
with the understanding that all had copyright and all money made with it
was to be
invested into the spread of OST.
Here is the list:
Mikk Sarv /Estonia, Erich Kolenaty/Austria, Tova Averbuch/Israel, Gail
West/Taiwan,
John Engle/Haiti, Gerard Muller / Denmark and Netherlands, Thomas
Herrmann/Sweden,
Brian Bainbridge/Australia, Larry Peterson/Canada, Peggy Holman/USA,
myself and others ...
For me, the view of OST workers as Peacemakers in PoP was a grand approach.
And here are the caveats for our work as peacemakers:
--- Never work harder than you have to
--- Don't fix it if it ain't broke
--- Never delude yourself into thinking you are in control
And what has that to do with our work ... our role when we work as
a witness to an open space event?
By the way, eventually the "Human Systems Dynamics Institute" did publish
the book. Its no longer available from them.
But there is one source that still has some of the paperbacks
and an e-book version
with:
A note on the e-book version in 2022
Why now and why an e-book version of The Practice of Peace? Stunned by
war raging in Ukraine and raging in many other places on planet earth
with ensuing famines, one hundred million refugees and other crises, the
demand for the book rose. Human Systems Dynamics Institute that
published the second edition in 2004 reported that it was out of print.
Both Harrison Owen and the Institute gave green light for a quick e-book
version of this edition. Other drivers to publish it again were the
following sentences in the invitation to a Practicing Peace event in
2005: “Peace and peacemaking often are thought to be the special
preserve of diplomats and professional negotiators, but Peace is too
important to leave to the professionals. It is everybody’s business.
Furthermore, when we have to call in the professionals, that is clear
and certain evidence that we (all of us) have not been doing our job.
Peacemaking is an everywhere, every day, every person job.”
That’s why!
Michael M Pannwitz
Berlin
Spring of 2022
Of course, the German paperbook version "Raum für den Frieden / The
Practice of Peace" is also available
All income from this book goes to the Revolving Credit Fund of the Open
Space World Map, see here the text
scroll down to "Surplus".
Greetings from Berlin
mmp
Michael M Pannwitz
Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
+49 30 7728000 mmpannwitz@posteo.de
See the Open Space World Map with 541
Open Space Workers living in 82 countries
and active in 146 countries worldwide:
www.openspaceworldmap.org
This year the WOSonOS will be in Kenya, have a look
https://www.wosonos2025.org/
Michael, to build on your theme of peace, long time Open Space practitioner and friend, Carol Daniel, who was part of organizing the Israeli/Palestinian Open Space that led to Harrison writing The Practice of Peace, just gave the Commencement Address at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University in the Washington, DC area.
It moved me to tears. While not explicit, I sensed Open Space’s influence on her work. Most visibly when she said, “nobody really knows what they’re doing.”
Do find the time to listen!
Peggy
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/caroldaniel_this-is-the-time-for-bold-measures-leading-activity-7330634792142594051-g4Se?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAAUVyQBK2V5NsqzXV9vpAKDw1QGdTika88
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Peggy Holman
peggy@peggyholman.com
Bellevue, WA 98006
206-948-0432
www.peggyholman.com
Enjoy the award winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity https://peggyholman.com/papers/engaging-emergence/
"An angel told me that the only way to step into the fire and not get burnt, is to become
the fire".
-- Drew Dellinger
Join the Open Space practitioner’s conference - the World Open Space on Open Space (WOSonOS https://www.wosonos2025.org/) - in Kenya, November 6-8.
On May 29, 2025, at 9:50 AM, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList everyone@oslist.org wrote:
Greetings to all 483 of you on planet earth!
Whenever silence creeped into our List, Harrison sent a question or an idea...
immediately, a wave of reactions swept through the universe...
How about PoP, the Practice of Peace, in the endless waves of wars?
When approached with "The Practice of Peace", the book that HO wrote in reaction to September 11, 2001, Berrett-Koehler who published a whole bunch of the books Harrison wrote, was not interested in PoP.
Hmmm?
Within seconds, HO offered the book to any and all of us on earth to publish wherever
we were... a wave of selforganizers published, translated, distributed etc. the book
with the understanding that all had copyright and all money made with it was to be
invested into the spread of OST.
Here is the list:
Mikk Sarv /Estonia, Erich Kolenaty/Austria, Tova Averbuch/Israel, Gail West/Taiwan,
John Engle/Haiti, Gerard Muller / Denmark and Netherlands, Thomas Herrmann/Sweden,
Brian Bainbridge/Australia, Larry Peterson/Canada, Peggy Holman/USA, myself and others ...
For me, the view of OST workers as Peacemakers in PoP was a grand approach.
And here are the caveats for our work as peacemakers:
--- Never work harder than you have to
--- Don't fix it if it ain't broke
--- Never delude yourself into thinking you are in control
And what has that to do with our work ... our role when we work as
a witness to an open space event?
By the way, eventually the "Human Systems Dynamics Institute" did publish
the book. Its no longer available from them.
But there is one source that still has some of the paperbacks
and an e-book version
with:
A note on the e-book version in 2022
Why now and why an e-book version of The Practice of Peace? Stunned by war raging in Ukraine and raging in many other places on planet earth with ensuing famines, one hundred million refugees and other crises, the demand for the book rose. Human Systems Dynamics Institute that published the second edition in 2004 reported that it was out of print. Both Harrison Owen and the Institute gave green light for a quick e-book version of this edition. Other drivers to publish it again were the following sentences in the invitation to a Practicing Peace event in 2005: “Peace and peacemaking often are thought to be the special preserve of diplomats and professional negotiators, but Peace is too important to leave to the professionals. It is everybody’s business. Furthermore, when we have to call in the professionals, that is clear and certain evidence that we (all of us) have not been doing our job. Peacemaking is an everywhere, every day, every person job.”
That’s why!
Michael M Pannwitz
Berlin
Spring of 2022
Of course, the German paperbook version "Raum für den Frieden / The Practice of Peace" is also available
All income from this book goes to the Revolving Credit Fund of the Open Space World Map, see here the text
scroll down to "Surplus".
Greetings from Berlin
mmp
Michael M Pannwitz
Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
+49 30 7728000 mmpannwitz@posteo.de
See the Open Space World Map with 541
Open Space Workers living in 82 countries
and active in 146 countries worldwide:
www.openspaceworldmap.org
This year the WOSonOS will be in Kenya, have a look
https://www.wosonos2025.org/
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Thanks, Michael and Peggy — and Carol!
The 2d edition of the PoP book is here for downloading (free), w/ some
commenting by Harrison:
openspaceworld.org/wp2/hho/practice-peace/
--
Michael Herman
Michael Herman Associates
312-280-7838 (mobile)
MichaelHerman.com
OpenSpaceWorld.org
On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 16:13 Peggy Holman via OSList everyone@oslist.org
wrote:
Michael, to build on your theme of peace, long time Open Space
practitioner and friend, Carol Daniel, who was part of organizing the
Israeli/Palestinian Open Space that led to Harrison writing The Practice of
Peace, just gave the Commencement Address at the Carter School for Peace
and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University in the Washington, DC
area.
It moved me to tears. While not explicit, I sensed Open Space’s influence
on her work. Most visibly when she said, “nobody really knows what they’re
doing.”
Do find the time to listen!
Peggy
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This Is the Time for Bold Measures: Leading with Purpose in Times of… |
Carol Daniel Kasbari, Ph.D. | 14 comments
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/caroldaniel_this-is-the-time-for-bold-measures-leading-activity-7330634792142594051-g4Se?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAAUVyQBK2V5NsqzXV9vpAKDw1QGdTika88
linkedin.com
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/caroldaniel_this-is-the-time-for-bold-measures-leading-activity-7330634792142594051-g4Se?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAAUVyQBK2V5NsqzXV9vpAKDw1QGdTika88
Peggy Holman
peggy@peggyholman.com
Bellevue, WA 98006
206-948-0432
www.peggyholman.com
Enjoy the award winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval
into Opportunity https://peggyholman.com/papers/engaging-emergence/
"An angel told me that the only way to step into the fire and not get
burnt, is to become
the fire".
-- Drew Dellinger
Join the Open Space practitioner’s conference - the World Open Space
on Open Space (WOSonOS https://www.wosonos2025.org) - in
Kenya, November 6-8.
On May 29, 2025, at 9:50 AM, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList <
everyone@oslist.org> wrote:
Greetings to all 483 of you on planet earth!
Whenever silence creeped into our List, Harrison sent a question or an
idea...
immediately, a wave of reactions swept through the universe...
How about PoP, the Practice of Peace, in the endless waves of wars?
When approached with "The Practice of Peace", the book that HO wrote in
reaction to September 11, 2001, Berrett-Koehler who published a whole bunch
of the books Harrison wrote, was not interested in PoP.
Hmmm?
Within seconds, HO offered the book to any and all of us on earth to
publish wherever
we were... a wave of selforganizers published, translated, distributed
etc. the book
with the understanding that all had copyright and all money made with it
was to be
invested into the spread of OST.
Here is the list:
Mikk Sarv /Estonia, Erich Kolenaty/Austria, Tova Averbuch/Israel, Gail
West/Taiwan,
John Engle/Haiti, Gerard Muller / Denmark and Netherlands, Thomas
Herrmann/Sweden,
Brian Bainbridge/Australia, Larry Peterson/Canada, Peggy Holman/USA,
myself and others ...
For me, the view of OST workers as Peacemakers in PoP was a grand approach.
And here are the caveats for our work as peacemakers:
--- Never work harder than you have to
--- Don't fix it if it ain't broke
--- Never delude yourself into thinking you are in control
And what has that to do with our work ... our role when we work as
a witness to an open space event?
By the way, eventually the "Human Systems Dynamics Institute" did publish
the book. Its no longer available from them.
But there is one source that still has some of the paperbacks
https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/produkt/the-practice-of-peace/
and an e-book version
https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/produkt/the-practice-of-peace-e-book/
with:
A note on the e-book version in 2022
Why now and why an e-book version of The Practice of Peace? Stunned by war
raging in Ukraine and raging in many other places on planet earth with
ensuing famines, one hundred million refugees and other crises, the demand
for the book rose. Human Systems Dynamics Institute that published the
second edition in 2004 reported that it was out of print. Both Harrison
Owen and the Institute gave green light for a quick e-book version of this
edition. Other drivers to publish it again were the following sentences in
the invitation to a Practicing Peace event in 2005: “Peace and peacemaking
often are thought to be the special preserve of diplomats and professional
negotiators, but Peace is too important to leave to the professionals. It
is everybody’s business. Furthermore, when we have to call in the
professionals, that is clear and certain evidence that we (all of us) have
not been doing our job. Peacemaking is an everywhere, every day, every
person job.”
That’s why!
Michael M Pannwitz
Berlin
Spring of 2022
Of course, the German paperbook version "Raum für den Frieden / The
Practice of Peace" is also available
https://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/produkt/raum-fuer-den-frieden/
All income from this book goes to the Revolving Credit Fund of the Open
Space World Map, see here the text
https://www.openspaceworldmap.org/about-the-world-map
scroll down to "Surplus".
Greetings from Berlin
mmp
Michael M Pannwitz
Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
https://www.google.com/maps/search/Draisweg+1,+12209+Berlin,+Germany?entry=gmail&source=g
+49 30 7728000 mmpannwitz@posteo.de
See the Open Space World Map with 541
Open Space Workers living in 82 countries
and active in 146 countries worldwide:
www.openspaceworldmap.org
This year the WOSonOS will be in Kenya, have a look
https://www.wosonos2025.org/
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Thanks Michael for the reminder.
A beautiful book.
I still have one copy of the version that Gerard Muller and I got printed. Precious words. Thanks to Harrison.
Let's continue to share this resource widely and wildly
🤠
Thomas
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Greetings to all 483 of you on planet earth!
Whenever silence creeped into our List, Harrison sent a question or an
idea...
immediately, a wave of reactions swept through the universe...
How about PoP, the Practice of Peace, in the endless waves of wars?
When approached with "The Practice of Peace", the book that HO wrote in
reaction to September 11, 2001, Berrett-Koehler who published a whole
bunch of the books Harrison wrote, was not interested in PoP.
Hmmm?
Within seconds, HO offered the book to any and all of us on earth to
publish wherever
we were... a wave of selforganizers published, translated, distributed
etc. the book
with the understanding that all had copyright and all money made with it
was to be
invested into the spread of OST.
Here is the list:
Mikk Sarv /Estonia, Erich Kolenaty/Austria, Tova Averbuch/Israel, Gail
West/Taiwan,
John Engle/Haiti, Gerard Muller / Denmark and Netherlands, Thomas
Herrmann/Sweden,
Brian Bainbridge/Australia, Larry Peterson/Canada, Peggy Holman/USA,
myself and others ...
For me, the view of OST workers as Peacemakers in PoP was a grand approach.
And here are the caveats for our work as peacemakers:
--- Never work harder than you have to
--- Don't fix it if it ain't broke
--- Never delude yourself into thinking you are in control
And what has that to do with our work ... our role when we work as
a witness to an open space event?
By the way, eventually the "Human Systems Dynamics Institute" did publish
the book. Its no longer available from them.
But there is one source that still has some of the paperbacks
and an e-book version
with:
A note on the e-book version in 2022
Why now and why an e-book version of The Practice of Peace? Stunned by
war raging in Ukraine and raging in many other places on planet earth
with ensuing famines, one hundred million refugees and other crises, the
demand for the book rose. Human Systems Dynamics Institute that
published the second edition in 2004 reported that it was out of print.
Both Harrison Owen and the Institute gave green light for a quick e-book
version of this edition. Other drivers to publish it again were the
following sentences in the invitation to a Practicing Peace event in
2005: “Peace and peacemaking often are thought to be the special
preserve of diplomats and professional negotiators, but Peace is too
important to leave to the professionals. It is everybody’s business.
Furthermore, when we have to call in the professionals, that is clear
and certain evidence that we (all of us) have not been doing our job.
Peacemaking is an everywhere, every day, every person job.”
That’s why!
Michael M Pannwitz
Berlin
Spring of 2022
Of course, the German paperbook version "Raum für den Frieden / The
Practice of Peace" is also available
All income from this book goes to the Revolving Credit Fund of the Open
Space World Map, see here the text
scroll down to "Surplus".
Greetings from Berlin
mmp
Michael M Pannwitz
Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
+49 30 7728000 mmpannwitz@posteo.de
See the Open Space World Map with 541
Open Space Workers living in 82 countries
and active in 146 countries worldwide:
www.openspaceworldmap.orghttp://www.openspaceworldmap.org
This year the WOSonOS will be in Kenya, have a look
https://www.wosonos2025.org/
OSList mailing list -- everyone@oslist.org
To unsubscribe send an email to everyone-leave@oslist.org
See the archives here: https://oslist.org/empathy/list/everyone.oslist.org