Chris-- I have experience with Open Space, as a participant and facilitator, over the last ten years. My experience using Appreciative Inquiry is new--I've done it once, with our Siberian guests a couple of weeks ago.
My observation: After two weeks of experiences and presentations (lots of learning opportunities on an input model), AI worked very well to bring the subject to a very personal level and to encourage a deeper level of conversation. In the following three half-days in OS, the group was self-managing, deeply involved in passionate conversation, hard at work on how to take what they had seen and heard back home--and maybe they would have done the same had we started directly with OS. In this instance, AI seemed to make a good bridge between two very different modes of working. And, like many others, my first choice is usually to go with the least-structured method and watch what happens. My experience is that what happens is wonderful. Joelle * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
