Hi Viv, OST for that first meeting with a broader theme is excellent. From that meeting, several opportunities will be identified. Harrison's dividing up of things at this point into those items that can be done without further ado (DO IT) can be pulled out, acted upon and the first great successes of that initial OST meeting will be experienced. Momentum will build :-) And then there are those items which will be marked as CLARIFY IT. This may or may not include more Open Space Technology facilitated meetings or other means of facilitation that is congruent in values and principles to OST, or might not involve meetings at all but rather phone calls and other means of research. And then there will be a category of opportunities from that first OST meeting that will be identified as excellent candidates for further OST meetings (one meeting per opportunity identified). And from these you and your group will again divide opportunities into DO IT, CLARIFY IT, and OPEN SPACE IT. And so on and so on......
For a visual of the experience to share with your group, you might go back to the picture I have in the Advanced Training manual of the pumpkin patch of DO IT, CLARIFY IT, OPEN SPACE IT. Blessings, Birgitt -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu]On Behalf Of Viv McWaters Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 2:11 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Meeting Procedure and OST Hi all I'm now back in Australia (home of OSonOSinOZ - yippee!!!) and starting to think again of the more mundane things in life after the inspiration of Vancouver (thanks everyone). I'd like your advice on the use or not of OST for a Steering Committee that I will soon have to chair. The Steering Committee will consist of about 15 - 20 members and will be responsible for the direction and conduct of a Coastal Action Plan for a part of the Victorian Coast where I live (Bells Beach). The group will meet when it needs to, usually for 2 - 3 hours, and in the initial stages will set direction for the consultants who will develop the Coastal Action Plan (this relates to management, conservation, development, surfing evnets, access etc) and later on sign-off on the plan as it's developed. The members of the Steering Committee (which will be drawn from existing Government and community organisations with a specific interest in the Coastal Action Plan) will expect a standard meeting procedure - agenda, minutes, business arising etc etc. I can see how OST can be used in the initial meeting to clarify the issues that need to be addressed in the Coastal Action Plan, but I'm less clear about how OST could be used in subsequent meetings. Does anyone have any experience or words of wisdom? Thanks Viv Please note NEW telephone number Viv McWaters Beyond the Edge Pty Ltd PO Box 665, Torquay 3228 Victoria Australia Ph/Fax: 61 3 5261 9498 Mobile 0417 135 406 "Thus the task is not so much to see what no-one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everyone sees." Schopenhauer * * ========================================================== 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...@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
