Dear Gerard, wonderful idea to work with such a mental voyage technique (perhaps we could also call it a version of de Shazer's "miracle question") to focus convergence even more on solutions as beeing mentally already in place.
Did others already try that? Bernd > I would invite to imagine that the next morning would be another meeting, > in a years time (or whatever horizon would seem to fit) and that the group > had achieved enormous progress since the Open Space. > And I would say we had agreed that before going on that meeting (a year > from now) a few would make a speech of a few minutes, looking back. The story > would be about > - where are we now, and what is different ? > - how has the journey been ? > - what were the main successes and problems, and how did we overcome those > problems ? > - how did this group support the journey ? > > I have just come back from an event where we had just 3 hours on the > second day, and this group actually told me that sometime long after I had gone > to bed they began designing stories to be told > and spent a couple of hours preparing - and convergence was no problem. > But then, the problem maybe existed only in my mind ? -- ------------------------------------------------- WB-TrainConsult management- & human resources training, consulting & development Vienna Office: Gumpendorfer Straße 88b/18 AT-1060 Wien, AUSTRIA fon & fax: +431 596 86 57 E-mail: <[email protected]> private E-mail: <[email protected]> Beira-Office: C.P. 1462, Rua Francisco de Almeida 208 Ponta Gêa, Beira, Sofala, MOZAMBIQUE fon: ++258 329859 .......... I closed down my offices in Vienna/Austria & Praia/Cape Verde and moved to Mozambique. Please delete the following email- adresses from your adressbook: Meine beiden Büros in Wien/Österreich und Praia/Kap Verde habe ich nach Mosambik verlegt. Bitte folgende Emailadressen löschen: Fechei os meus escritorios de Viena/Austria e Praia/Cabo Verde abrindo o novo na Beira/Mocambique. Por favor, substitue-os seguintes enderecos de email pelos acima mencionados: Mes adresses de e-mail suivantes (dans les iles des Cap Verts e en Autriche) n'existent plus: [email protected] [email protected] +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage! * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
