Peggy:
Please see below what I am commenting. I wonder if the "freedom shock" was created by OST or by the fact that OST was preceded by TWC. Interestingly, I made a misreading of your words “had a felt sense of community very quickly" that I first red "had a false sense of community very quickly" ;-( I would agree with you that maybe there are conditions that are suitable for TWC (for instance, the client is not prepared to OST, or the problem doesn't need a solution for yesterday). But if those conditions don't exist, I would say that to have TWC before OST has no added value and may help create (or maximize) the freedom shock; and the intimacy created by the "intimate groups" can be good, as you have explained, but it can also be bad in some cases, where the previous small groups (with a fixed number of 4 and a square table) will made more difficult the process of creating the feeling of belonging to a circle of the "large overall community" (all the people assembled) needed for OST to work properly. But I agree with you that beginning in small groups the evening session may be something worth trying in some situations. My two cents Artur Peggy Holman <pe...@opencirclecompany.com> wrote: Here's a bit more on World Cafe and OS from Tom Atlee, who just returned from a conference "downunder". (...): > A couple of points on the OS/WC experiment: > > It was explicitly noted that the groups could become more or less than 4 > (the ideal WC size); this is not significant to OSers, but is definitely > significant to WCers. Perviously Peggy wrote: (...) >>A reflection on how TWC affected the dynamic. >>It was clear that people had a felt sense of community very quickly >>through TWC. I think that the move into OS created that condition that >>Harrison calls "freedom shock". It's possible that the contrast >>heightened the shock. That said, I believe the sense of connection >>created during TWC enabled those who were distressed to seek out the >>friends they had made rather than completely check out (of course, being >>in a remote location would have made it difficult to leave!). I wonder if >>that is a benefit of a cafe prior to OS -- >>to create relationships that might support people to stay engaged if they >>have a tendency towards freedom shock? (...) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com * * ========================================================== 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
