What terrific advice and practice Michael! Chris -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Harvest Moon Consultants www.chriscorrigan.com
Art of Hosting - Participatory Leadership and Social Collaboration, Bowen Island, BC November 11-14,2013 > On Mar 26, 2014, at 3:04 AM, Michael M Pannwitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Hege and Eiwor, > you came up with a catchy theme, Eiwor, just what Hege was asking for. I am > not sure about the "triggy" part (my Big Webster does not know the word), > maybe you meant "triggering"? > I imagine there might be a bunch more themes that would fill the bill. > > In my experience, not finding a heading for an os-event in the planning > meeting or the prework, has always been a sure fire sign for trouble ahead, a > kind of indication that something is missing or not in place. > > If this rather rare situation of not finding a heading strikes, I encourage > the planning group step back (before continuing on the task of finding the > Heading they all like) to look again at > ---their expectation for the event > and to check once more if all > ---the people needed to fulfil the expectation (breakthrough) are identified > (important for the invitation) > and to look at the planning group once more as they are assembled and to > think a minute on whether > ---everyone needed for planning the event is present. > > The result of such reflection has been > ---OST is not the right approach in this situation (a hidden agenda surfaces > or it becomes very clear that one of the prerequisites for OST to do its > thing is not in place) > ---we need to meet once more with x and y being present for the planning > or, and this is the case most often > ---suddenly THE heading surfaces. > > Looking at this from this perspective, it is a blessing not to find a heading > in the first try... a situation that benefits from stepping back (expanding > the space) and have the planning group take this hurdle and not the > facilitator. After all, the facilitator should not work harder than the > client. > > Good luck, Hege > mmp > > > >> On 26.03.2014 09:52, Eiwor Backelund wrote: >> "Issues and opportunities to create the miracle we are looking for". >> Just occurred in my mind that they need a miracle and that is what people do >> when they work in Open Space. >> Good luck! >> Eiwor >> >> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- >> Från: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] För Hege Steinsland >> Skickat: den 26 mars 2014 09:13 >> Till: World wide Open Space Technology email list >> Ämne: [OSList] Looling for a good theme >> >> Hello wise people. >> >> I`m doing an OS on a shipyard soon. We just had the pre-work, but we did not >> manage to come up with a catchy and triggy theme.... >> >> The situation is that they really are trapped in a corner with a 2 month >> delay even before they have started the project. They are up against time >> and budget, and really need a breakthrough to make this work, and some real >> learning to gain for the future... >> >> Any suggestions >> >> Hege >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > -- > Michael M Pannwitz > Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany > ++49 - 30-772 8000 > > > > Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 428 resident Open Space > Workers in 70 countries working in a total of 143 countries worldwide: > www.openspaceworldmap.org > _______________________________________________ > 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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