hi all a mini-conversation between Alan and me....
-------------Forwarded Message----------------- Hi Romy (and Ruth) Yes, it is indeed a remarkable story and opportunity for influence. You can see more about the program in South Aussie and the kind of people with whom I will be interacting at: Governor's Leadership Foundation http://www.sabv2010.com.au/sabv/site/index.html And I have been invited to facilitate the first ever gathering of people who are likely to be the key players in a major reform of health services in South Australia. This will be a one day OST on 20 Oct. It is estimated that the implementation of the recommendations of a report on this - which makes the point and so does the state government that there is no option but to DO IT - will take about 20 years! http://www.health.sa.gov.au/sahealthreform/ Romy, I wonder if you would be happy to send your note to me again through the listserv so that I can respond in a similar manner to all? Enjoy the rest of your time with Qimmiq in your green valley. With love Alan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Romy Shovelton" <[email protected]> To: "Alan Stewart" <[email protected]>; "Ruth Campbell-Hicks" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 7:45 PM Subject: Re: Open Space and World Cafe Alan brilliant story..... shall look at the World Cafe stories you've pointed to is there a website for the Aussie program? It sounds interesting in itself..... and of course will be even more effective now it has your help!! (I'm copying this to my wonderful sister in WA) xxx to you Romy (& Qimmiq the husky).... writing from wonderful Wales xxxxxxxxxxxx Message text written by OSLIST > G'day Open Space and World Café Friends This is being posted to World Café, OST and genuinecontact listservs with the thought that you may find it of interest and potentially useful. It comes to you from a lovely spring morning in Australia. There are periodic indications that some of us are using both OST and Café processes, sometimes independently and sometimes in combination. In my experience this can be very effective in contexts in which each is appropriate. A story of how they were used together in a series of community consultations can be seen at: In Conversing Cafes people come out on top downunder. http://www.theworldcafe.com/storyconversing.html Many people have commented on how useful they found the observed correspondence between purpose and process and outcome in this now well known 'Marion Story'. Reportedly it played a role in bringing about a cultural shift to 'all voices being heard' in the Financial Planning Association in the US. http://www.theworldcafe.com/storyfpa.html I wonder if you see that we could all benefit if the power and potential of these two processes was widely recognised by leaders through their having personal experience of them? A remarkable opportunity to do this with both has come my way recently. In each state in Australia there are leadership programs offered annually in which young 'high fliers' (people who have proven work experience and capability, vision and commitment) are given a comprehensive set of experiences to prepare them to assume leadership positions beyond their workplace. Participants are recruited from a wide range of backgrounds, industries and sectors - including business, government, social, community and the arts. The (new) director of this program in South Australia contacted me mid year to express her concern that the current group were not communicating at anything beyond superficial levels and that she had heard on the wind that I might be able to assist. One emerging is that, in the two day final retreat in November, the whole of the first day is to be allocated to: Conversation Cafe (morning) 'Reflection on the year' Open Space Technology (afternoon) 'Where to from here ..' in order to address the theme: How may we make the most of the experience of being participants in this program? My intuition is that the intimacy and inclusivity of sitting at small tables in the Café while reflecting on their shared experience will promote the listening and questioning through which participants may reach deeper levels of awareness, understanding and of relating. And then in the Open Space session the conditions will be right for all to announce what they feel 'bold and wild' about, and for like passioned people to link with each other. Whether it happens like this remains to be seen! (In next year's course, these processes will be introduced at the outset). I would add that, whichever process I use when facilitating/hosting, I invariably invoke the principles of OST. And I do not name an event Open Space unless it is the whole 'box and dice.' Also I use capitalized 'Café' when alluding to the process and when using diverse descriptors such as 'Conversation', 'Passion', 'Collective Wisdom', 'Knowledge' Café. With love Alan Adelaide ----------------------- Internet Header -------------------------------- Sender: [email protected] Received: from mta09.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta09.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.90]) by siaag2aa.compuserve.com (8.12.9/8.12.7/SUN-2.7) with ESMTP id h87C9ZpJ019864 for <[email protected]>; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 08:09:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fred ([203.102.232.229]) by mta09.mail.mel.aone.net.au with SMTP id <20030907120934.EUNC14137.mta09.mail.mel.aone.net.au@fred>; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 22:09:34 +1000 Message-ID: <017201c37538$e53ceee0$0100a8c0@fred> From: "Alan Stewart" <[email protected]> To: "Ruth Campbell-Hicks" <[email protected]>, "Romy Shovelton" <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Open Space and World Cafe Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:39:31 +0930 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
