Frank, What i suggest you is not to talk, explain or introduce OST, just say confidently "let's try another meeting method" as if you were introducing a new game to your friends, take the lead and invite them for a trial.
all the best, Funda Oral ----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Deitle To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 8:16 AM Subject: SOS for OS! Dear Open Space Friends, I just finished my first of three days attendance at a Fellowship for Intentional Community organizational meeting in Madison, WI(www.ic.org). It is not an OS meeting but I was expecting it to be at least engaging enough for me to learn and contribute as these folks in the intentional communities movement have been honing their process and facilitation skills for many years. This evening I am feeling disillusioned and frustrated. And my attempts at having conversations about Open Space have not been very productive. I am not feeling very clear about how and where to focus my energies for the next two days. I'd like to see Open Space be a more integral part of the FIC toolkit and the intentional communities movement in general--a movement I have a lot of passion for. And these are the people I would think would jump for the next best process--if they only knew! So I'm seeking advise from the list on two matters. 1) I could use something like a script sheet to talk about OS with these folks--like step by step instructions. Maybe an Introducing OST for dummies. The thing is, I feel like a pretentious bastard when I talk about OS and that's not how I want to come across. To a certain extent I think these folks believe they are getting along just fine doing things as usual (and of course in my opinion (which I haven't stated) they don't really know what they are missing). 2) I could use some list advice on how to funcion as an OS individual in a non-OS meeting while maintaining some sense of integrity and respect. I think developing some kind of OST emergency action kit would be a good topic for an OSonOS. Love and Thank You, Frank Deitle * * ========================================================== [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
