Hi, Wendy- You wrote: < I am working with a local Hospice Society that provides end of life care and bereavement support in my community. They have taken the courageous step of choosing OST for their strategic planning process, but can only manage a single day. I have advised them that they will get deep discussion of all issues of concern to anybody there and that some next steps will be possible, but not full action plans. I am turning to you, dear more experienced colleagues, for your advice on how to transition into next steps/commitments/action planning at the end of the day. Any experiences and tales you have of one-day events would be awesome!>
I agree with Therese - so much can happen in Open Space. However, I always like to look at the design of the Open Space - should it include action planning or not and why (of course, anything can happen spontaneously, that is not what I am talking about - I mean - how do you want to design the day). To me, the most important thing is to get a-l-l of the thoughts and ideas and 'what-ifs' and possibilities out of their heads - to bring forth all the emergent ideas, divergent ideas. And this sort of thinking happens faster and better and more intuitively as the day goes on and people cross-pollinate and mix and match. So I would hate to come in too soon and say 'okay, now let's fit you back in to thinking in a linear manner and have you do action planning' if instead I could work it into their post-event time. I like Thomas' ideas. Lisa ___________________________ L i s a H e f t Consultant, Facilitator, Educator O p e n i n g S p a c e 2325 Oregon Berkeley, California 94705-1106 USA +01 510 548-8449 <mailto:lisah...@openingspace.net> lisah...@openingspace.net <http://www.openingspace.net> www.openingspace.net * * ========================================================== 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 * * ========================================================== 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
