I led Open Space event last week where all but 3 had not experienced it before. They were form multiple School Boards, exploring how to move forward with a new information management issues focused on student success.
I am intently listening for comments that people make about their experience these days and using Spiral Dynamics as a metaphor to assist my understanding. Of course, I got the "I was very sceptical, and then by noon something happened, I put up a topic and found out this was great!" However two comments stuck in another way: One who had experienced OST, said he was disappointed that there were not more topics. A younger man with an initial "results driven" or orange response (or maybe a red "ego" issue as he was on the planning team. In the convergence with his board team he got excited when he realized what his colleagues had learned and how that quickly translated in to their board strategy. Another was from someone who had not experienced it before and was a nice surprise. He said he was walking between sessions and realized that he could "feel the space" that had been generated -- he was glowing (certainly a second tier perception). He was touched in the space without any hugs or physical touching. We did not hold hands at the end of this one, as some of the school board chairs and superintendents are quite prickly. They were however, quite positive, about the event! Larry Larry Peterson Associates in Transformation Toronto, ON, Canada 416.653.4829 [email protected] www.spiritedorg.com * * ========================================================== [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
