Curriculum Vitae
- Born January 21, 1940 in Prague (Czech Republic)
- 1945 – 1953 elementary and high school 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 co-ops, 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)
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
- member of the berlin open space cooperative 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, 7 grandchildren.