yes, this is true, therese. AND many of these sessions are ONLY 90 minutes because the organizers have not heard about ost and don't know that it's possible to do this for a couple of days or in an ongoing, easy way. openspace is everywhere. awareness of power and possibility is somewhat more scarce. <grin>
the trick, and the query (i think) are about doing a 90 minute meeting in such a way that people can see more clearly that it IS possible to have a much longer meeting, much larger meeting, and more open meeting and still be very productive. more productive really, because it means we can take more directly and wholly the really long, large, open questions that we now face in orgs and communities. michaelh Therese Fitzpatrick wrote:
It is fascinating to me that you wonderful OS experts, living deep in the heart of OS world, do not seem to be aware that a ninty minute open space like the one Peggy Holman convened at Bowling Green happens constantly. People build in 90 minute open spaces into larger events all the time. People who have no idea that there is such a thing as an open space practitioner or training to be an open space practitioner hear about the concept and they start running with it. The genie of OS is out of the bottle and it has scattered around the world as a kind of phosphorescent pollen, taking root in all kinds of places that an OS expert practitioner might never imagine. If I understand OS, OS was here all along, right? I saw ninety minute OS moments for many years before I encountered OS days and OS events. It was years before I had the slightest awareness that there was such a thing as open space training. There are countless people in the world who think they understand OS and use it all the time for ninty minute 'things'. _________________________________________________________________ Take off on a romantic weekend or a family adventure to these great U.S. locations. http://special.msn.com/local/hotdestinations.armx * * ========================================================== 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
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