Doug -- no problem. Friends of mine who ran (were involved with) a large rural healthcare delivery organization did "an" Open Space -- and then resolved (actually the whole staff demanded) that they work from that time forward in Open Space. So. It became a matter of policy and principle the every person in the organization had both the opportunity and the responsibility to open a space any time there was an issue or opportunity affecting the life of the organization for which there was not immediate or obvious solution. Open Spaces happened all the time. Sometimes there were 5 people, sometimes 50.
ho Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas D. Germann, Sr. Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: After the OST event... Hi-- A couple of years ago a community OST event was held involving professionals with a common set of clients/patients. There was great enthusiasm and an on-going task group came out of it. It met for about 4 to 6 months and then fizzled out. Another community event recently resulted in an on-going group and an e-mail list-serv. The first month's meeting had about 10 or 12 people from the original 20+. The second month's meeting had 3 people. It occurs to me that what is needed to carry things through beyond the event is some open space in which we can re-enter dialogue. Open space is not something that goes into old skins: it bursts them. It is not the same kind of business meetings with pre-set agendas--it has to be open in the moment. It is not the networking function where we share small talk about experiences and titles and advertising slogans and elevator speeches. It is about encountering persons. We need a theme or a method of meeting that will allow the same kind of being to being contact and growth. How is this to be accomplished? Can we do the on-going meetings in an open space sort of way? Can we propose topics within a container topic and go to separate corners or address them serially? Is there another way to open space? Can we "post" topics virtually, say? What has been your experience? What has worked? How do you see people keeping it going? :-Doug. Germann Seeking people making community change. * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
