A few years ago, I was a sub-contracted facilitator for a three day annual
meeting of a trade group. I did not design the event. I was just hired to
facilitate some break out sessions.
In a ninety minute segment on the morning of the last day, the design
included a 90 minute OS. The lead facilitator,who also designed the event
and hired me, spoke about HO for a minute, explained the principles,the law
of two feet and butterflies and bumble bees. I think she even told the
coffee break story. Then she opened the marketplace. People went where
they wanted to go. Now that was using OS Technology, right?
I may be misunderstanding something here if this was not using OS
Technology. Is it only OS Technology if it is a larger and more powerful
event?
From: Michael Herman <mher...@globalchicago.net>
Reply-To: OSLIST <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu>
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Subject: Re: What would you do?
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:28:14 -0600
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'.
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