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From: Artur Silva
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Fw: The World Cafe meets Open Space
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? (...)
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