Curriculum Vitae
- Born January 21, 1940 in Prague (Czech Republic)
- 1945 – 1953 elementary and highschool in Germany
- 1958 emigration to the USA
- 1958 – 1965 study of Zoology at Los Angeles City College and the University of California at Los Angeles, USA interrupted by a year in Paris (1962-1963)
- 1965 – 1969 member of the United States Peace Corps (2 years in Kerala, South India followed by 2 years of training and public relations work in Hawaii and Los Angeles, California)
- 1969 – 1971 Executive Director of the Missouri Delta Ecumenical Ministry (community organizing, development of agricultural production coops, credit unions and self help housing projects in the poorest rural area of the USA)
- 1972 – 1999 Social planner, organisational development consultant, trainer and consultant for community organizing with the Protestant Church in Berlin.
- Since September 1, 1999 independent consultant specializing in large group interventions with a focus on Open Space Technology
Professional development
- Natural science (Zoology, Marine Biology) at Los Angeles City College and the University of California at Los Angeles, California, USA
- Community organisation (Peace Corps Training at the University of California at Davis, Saul Alinsky)
- Training (Peace Corps, University of Hawaii, Hilo)
- Consultancy (Planned Parenthood World Population, New York, Los Angeles, Arkansas, Missouri)
- Parish Consultation (Church of Hessia, Germany)
- Community Organisation (Central Training Institute of the Protestant Church of Germany, Gelnhausen)
- Sociology / Urban development (Free University, Berlin)
- Consultancy (Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, Switzerland)
- Large Group Interventions (open space / Harrison Owen; future search / Marvin Weisbord, Sandra Janoff)
Professional Organisations
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pastoralpsychologie (DGfP), Trainer, Supervisor, Teaching Supervisor (until 2000)
- Gesellschaft für Organisationsentwicklung (OD-Association Germany) (until 1995)
- International Organisational Development Association (IODA) (until 1999)
- Future Search Network (current)
- Open Space Institute USA and Canada (current)
- boscop eg - berlin open space cooperative (current)
Other activities
- Trainer for parish consultants and community organizers
- Supervisor for parish consultants in training and for community organizers and social workers in training
- Trainer for open space – facilitators
- Coaching for professionals in leadership, consultancy and training positions
- Organizer of training events
- Facilitator for colleague counseling groups
- Union organizer (church workers in the Public Workers Union)
- Member of several colleague counseling groups and learning exchanges
- Producer of open space – videos (an open space in an elementary school; open space – technology)
- www.michaelmpannwitz.de
- www.openspaceworldmap.org
- www.boscop.org
- Initiator and co-founder of the berlin open space cooperative eg - boscop eg
- co-originator and participant in the german language listserve “openspacedeutsch”
- participant in the worldwide listserve “oslist”
- participant in the worldwide listserve “future search”
Family
- Married, 6 children, 8 grandchildren.