The law of two ears. I love this! Would be a good addition. Ingrid ----- Original Message ----- From: Francoise Coupal, Mosaic.net International <cou...@mosaic-net-intl.ca> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 9:21 PM Subject: Re: Participant Driven Open Space Principles and Laws
> I am wondering if any of you out there on the list serve has ever > facilitated an open space event where the participants themselves determine > the principles/laws that will govern their open space event. Maybe this > type of approach would build a sense of ownership as to what would be > important to respect and would take into account different cultural > priorities. I have thought about Francis Gastman's email about her/his > experience in Berlin (which I found very illuminating). Maybe if there was > a space to consider key principles participants felt were important to > respect during the Berlin open space event, something like the Law of Two > Ears would have been deemed as important for all the participants to fully > consider/respect. > I use the concept of a Group Contract in non-open space events where > participants are asked to define the ground rules they feel would be > important to respect to ensure a successful workshop. We usually revisit > the group contract every day to see how we are doing and if we need to add > anything to the contract. > > Why not start an open space event asking participants to define the guiding > principles that will govern the Open Space? Has this been done before and > what were the results? > Francoise > ____________________________________________________ > Francoise Coupal > Mosaic.net International, Inc. > 705 Roosevelt Ave. > Ottawa, Canada K2A 2A8 > Tel: (613) 728-1439; Fax: (613) 728-1154. > Visit us on the World Wide Web at: http://www.mosaic-net-intl.ca > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > =========================================================== > osl...@egroups.com > To subscribe, > 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist > 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, > and choose a login ID and password > 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions > > To unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: > 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist > 2. Sign in and Proceed * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== osl...@egroups.com To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed
