Greetings! I'm SO excited to announce <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7396260857430806528>enrollment is open for our next Village Growing Cohort, starting in January! I wanted to share this here in OS List because our Village project has been so immensely guided by the practice of Open Space. Our project is about helping neighbors learn to facilitate regular gatherings with a light version of open space - which (as you know!) allows for participants to bring up topics important to them, and creates space for deeper conversations. Folks are LOVING and needing these spaces!! We've already seen this model to be very impactful over the last year with our first cohort. I'm SO excited to see what emerges from our second cohort! *More details and to register on our website: https://www.villageco.org/village-growing <https://www.villageco.org/village-growing>* *(Please feel free to register and join us even if you're just curious about what we're up to!)* *Here's my ask of fellow Open Space practitioners*: perhaps in your work you have connected with folks who LOVE open space. Perhaps some of those folks would be up for bringing this practice into their neighborhood! If so, please connect those folks with us! I welcome an email intro (jason@VillageCo.org) - or pass along the info on our page above. *Going Deeper....* We are seeing our Village Model (shared roles, local events, regular gatherings using OS) as a new kind of platform - a platform that's not digital, but human. People with active Villages in their area have a space to bring things they want to talk with, ideas for getting involved or active, or more commonly, a place to meet others and build relationships. Unlike our digital platforms, this one connects folks locally - in line with our vision: a locally connected world. VillageCo is still in a startup phase - an all-volunteer, grass roots, sociocratically governed nonprofit. We've got a lot to learn, and this cohort is our next co-learning experience. Thanks for reading. Thanks for continuing to keep Open Space alive in our communities, our businesses, our civic spaces. It really makes a difference. Go OS World!!! For a locally connected world <https://villageco.substack.com/p/the-3-levels-of-local>, *Jason Sears,* Administrative Director <http://www.VillageCo.org> www.VillageCo.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonsears78/ *Schedule an appointment* with me here <https://calendar.app.google/vDbPQjRSYZfjm4kZ7>

Hello Jason, Such a wave of excitement and inspired action coming from your message. I just went to your website, browsed the first page, and CONGRATULATE you on what you are all co-creating!! The vision of your Village Model, held together by shared roles, local events, regular gatherings using OS as a new kind of platform, is intriguing to me. And I do wanna share about it. As a practitioner and lover of OST the essential way, my curiosity is naturally sparked by what you call „a light version of open space“. Would you be up for sharing a bit more? What do you leave out? What is so essential, you definitely keep it? Go Village and OS world! :) Marai > Am 19.11.2025 um 21:49 schrieb Jason Sears via OSList <everyone@oslist.org>: > > Greetings! I'm SO excited to announce <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7396260857430806528>enrollment is open for our next Village Growing Cohort, starting in January! > > I wanted to share this here in OS List because our Village project has been so immensely guided by the practice of Open Space. Our project is about helping neighbors learn to facilitate regular gatherings with a light version of open space - which (as you know!) allows for participants to bring up topics important to them, and creates space for deeper conversations. Folks are LOVING and needing these spaces!! > > We've already seen this model to be very impactful over the last year with our first cohort. I'm SO excited to see what emerges from our second cohort! > > More details and to register on our website: https://www.villageco.org/village-growing <https://www.villageco.org/village-growing> > (Please feel free to register and join us even if you're just curious about what we're up to!) > > Here's my ask of fellow Open Space practitioners: perhaps in your work you have connected with folks who LOVE open space. Perhaps some of those folks would be up for bringing this practice into their neighborhood! If so, please connect those folks with us! I welcome an email intro (jason@VillageCo.org) - or pass along the info on our page above. > > Going Deeper.... > We are seeing our Village Model (shared roles, local events, regular gatherings using OS) as a new kind of platform - a platform that's not digital, but human. People with active Villages in their area have a space to bring things they want to talk with, ideas for getting involved or active, or more commonly, a place to meet others and build relationships. Unlike our digital platforms, this one connects folks locally - in line with our vision: a locally connected world. > > VillageCo is still in a startup phase - an all-volunteer, grass roots, sociocratically governed nonprofit. We've got a lot to learn, and this cohort is our next co-learning experience. > > Thanks for reading. Thanks for continuing to keep Open Space alive in our communities, our businesses, our civic spaces. It really makes a difference. Go OS World!!! > > For a locally connected world <https://villageco.substack.com/p/the-3-levels-of-local>, > > Jason Sears, > Administrative Director > <http://www.villageco.org/> > www.VillageCo.org <http://www.villageco.org/> > https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonsears78/ > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonsears78/> > Schedule an appointment with me here <https://calendar.app.google/vDbPQjRSYZfjm4kZ7> > 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