Dear Brendan, What a lovely phrase and what a lovely concise contrast of the formal system followed by the informal system - honoring them both and setting the stage for their next experience of Open Space. If I ever come up with something so brilliant, I'll let you know! Thanks,Linda > From: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:21:24 +0800 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OSList] OS Phrases for Poets > > G'day folks > > Yesterday I opened space for a very nervous first-time sponsor in a 'combo' > event. By that I mean the sponsor had a predetermined (conventional-style) > agenda for the first 90mins followed by Open Space for the rest of the day. > > There was a ten minute 'big boss' welcome and 'rally call', followed by next > biggest boss fifteen minute welcome and rally call, followed by two 30min > 'power-point stories from the trenches'...so we had 53 managers and > operations technicians sitting facing the front, theatre style for 90 mins > with nary a word spoken between them... > > Then they broke out for morning break and we reconfigured the room into > circles for OS.... > > While I was visiting the 'dunny' (bathroom) prior to them returning, I > thought of a phrase that described what I noticed happening - and used it in > the opening circle. > > We are now moving from 'listening to selective wisdom to sharing collective > wisdom'... > > Any other neat little phrases out there that folks use in their opening > scripts? > > Oh, and as you might guess, they loved it - 25 topics (some of which were > later combined) posted by 53 people during three highly engaged sessions and > four very energised Action Plans created - and a wonderfully affirming > closing circle! > > Magical moments and movements indeed... > > Cheers > Brendan > from a warming Perth > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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