Hi Lisa, It also works if the planning committee has its desired "line up" of specialists who would normally lead workshops and they are asked to simply do it differently--by putting up their offerings as a topic, the same as everybody else. That might satisfy the planning group. The law of two feet applies and some will go to the traditional workshops and some will go to other offerings. And it will be very rich for all.
Blessings Birgitt -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Lisa Heft Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 5:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: OS deliverables for medical folks Hello, all – I have been planning an Open Space 1.5 day conference with a client – New Directions for Integrating Services For the Incarcerated and Their Families. This conference will be for about 75 medical clinicians (some who are staff of hospitals and other medical facilities ‘outside’ and some who are based ‘inside’ prisons and jails) who specialize in medical issues, mental health, addiction, treatment, diagnosis, and overall challenges of providing care in a prison/jail context. You’ve been through this before, and so have I – we had a planning meeting and it was a go ahead for a full Open Space conference, then a few weeks passed and I got a trouble message from my client (the doctor convening this conference and a great appreciator of Open Space) that went something like this: “most of the docs on the planning committee are leery of using Open Space for the entire day and a half conference. Like the idea of at least 1 session or portion, but the feedback was that they expect the prison/jail providers to be especially uncomfortable with such a dynamic process and that even if they liked it on 1 level (being able to voice their opinions and display their expertise) they would be suspicious and uncomfortable with the departure from the top down model they are so used to. I think 1 of the prison MDs felt that many of his colleagues would be watching for a sense of "expertise" in the traditional sense and will feel that it will end up in poor word of mouth if there is no labeled "moderator" or "leader" of sessions.” Of course I will be talking to my client about how to write up the conference in the words of deliverables, topics that will be discussed, big important people who will be there to talk about specific things, expertise words and such, as one can do for an OS event to speak to a culture such as this. But as usual, it will help my client talk to her planning committee if she has more concrete examples of experts / expertise / measurable outcomes / cutting-edge research being discussed / research-science-treatment-you get what I mean. Anybody care to share a few lines describing powerful outcomes and expertise in an Open Space with similar folks? Thank you, marvelous you, Lisa L i s a H e f t Consultant, facilitator, educator O p e n i n g S p a c e 2325 Oregon Berkeley, California 94705-1106 USA (+01) 510 548-8449 [email protected] * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.488 / Virus Database: 287 - Release Date: 6/5/2003 * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
