In the spirit of self-organisation, how about leaving all the materials for creating your own name-tag on a table near the entrance and people create their own - or not??? Brendan Perth
At 09:42 AM 8/6/2004, you wrote:
Hello Phil, I don't have any answers for most of your questions, but just an observation from that name-tagged Open Space that the photos are from (the Practice of Peace on Whidbey Island last year). A part of that experience which was very striking to me was how many people who didn't know each other (yet) looked each other in the eyes & greeted each other by name right from the first evening, even when, for example, just crossing paths in the hallways, and how people referenced one another by name when responding to comments during the sessions. (Important point: the nametags were printed in letters that were actually big enough to read from a little distance, so that you could look each other in the eyes when you got closer, and you could read someone's name from across a room) But at most conferences I've attended, there are almost always nametags--and no one really uses them. So, for me, the way the nametags at the Practice of Peace were used was more of a reflection of what was created by being in Open Space with the particular people who showed up--the tags were just a tiny aspect, but a really nice tiny aspect. Christy Lee-Engel Seattle -----Original Message----- From: Phil Culhane [mailto:pculh...@magma.ca] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 4:56 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: nametags? Name tags? In Open Space? Sorry...I just took a close look at the photos, and I see name tags? In my work, I often have people from wildly differing places on the org chart sitting in the same circle...with no nametags, everyone is an equal - a carbon-based life form, sharing a common passion. I have never used nametags just to keep that equality. A data entry clerk has as much validity as an ADM (and I had the two sitting side by side recently), but knowing who's who could distract? Although the control freaks want to go around the circle with introductions at the beginning of day 1, I've found the anonymity freeing. Does everyone else use nametags? Is there a time when nametags are useful? Am I missing out on value by not using them? * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
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