Lisa-- As you say, the situation is ideal for Open Space, and if the clients are not accepting of that idea, I would still let Open Space inform my thinking about whatever design is chosen.
In Seattle, Open Space was used for one day of the District Annual Conference. It was a conference with a lot of painful issues, with two churches challenging the denomination's refusal to allow openly homosexual pastors to continue in their work. I was not able to participate, but the report I heard was that it worked very well and de-fused a lot of the tension--those who were upset and wanted to vent had space to do that, those who wanted to work on solutions were able to work on that, and the general feeling was that good work had been done. Don't have any schedule ideas off the top of my head, but I will let your questions incubate. Good luck on what should be a very worthwhile project! Joelle * * ========================================================== 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
