Joelle, Just a quick 'thank you' for your input. A lot of your comments resonated with me. I am at the early stages of the proposal, and would expect to go and listen. work through and arrive at a theme - but it was just great to see it written
I will keep you posted! Kind regards, Anne --- Joelle Lyons Everett <[email protected]> wrote: > Anne-- > > From my experience, you likely need a meeting with a > design team made up of > representatives from the various groups that you > mention in the organization. > Allow enough time to play with the theme until you > get beyond the obvious > expressions, to something that the team feels > excited about. > > I have found that as an outsider, I am a poor > predictor of what will > resonate, intrigue, and excite people within the > organization. Some design teams > have come up with themes that totally left me cold, > but they attracted lots of > people to the meeting and started lively > conversations. Your role can be to > listen for what brings up energy and excitement (in > the design team work), > perhaps combine a couple of thoughts or statements > and help the group shape the > theme so it reads easily and is not too long or > complicated. In other words, > you are a facilitator here, not the proposer. > > In a case or two where the organization was not > interested in getting > involved with this process, the resulting OS did not > work as well. When you have a > design team and it is truly representative, you will > begin to see the issues > and coalitions that are likely to show up in Open > Space. These people who are > involved in the OS before the actual meeting date > can also be your allies > within the organization, drawing in other people by > their own involvement and > enthusiasm. > > All my best wishes for a project that should be an > exciting one! > > Joelle > > Joelle Lyons Everett > Sound Resources > Shelton, Washington, USA > > > ************************************** > AOL now offers > free email to everyone. Find out more about what's > free from AOL at > http://www.aol.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 > * * ========================================================== [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
