Interesting. Is it to do with setting up of expectations? Was it because of some trying to get jobs there????
Any more open space events for the theatre community? Michele On 7/27/07, Phelim McDermott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there friends, > > I just held an open space event in Bristol for the theatre community > there. The Bristol Old vic theatre has been closed and there has been > a lot of intense feeling about this. The event invitation was "So, > Where do we go from here?" It was a good day I think... here is a > link to a press article about it which is very positive about open > space is good for situations of conflict. In my opening introduction > I was challenged that the meeting should not be happening in this way > and it was quite quite an aggressive challenge. I of course supported > the challenger and asked them to suggest their proposal as a > session... this worked well but i was also a bit knocked by this and > it meant i forgot a few things to mention in the introduction about > the news room and the reports. I was happy how open space included > this energy and also included it, as were a number of people who came > and spoke to me about it later. I am interested if other people have > tales of space invaders.. particularly in the opening and how they > have handled this. What i have noticed is that when people have been > angry about the way the event is happening they got angry because > they had felt patronised by something that seems so simple. Also they > were angry that I mentioned "passion and responsibilty" almost as if > I might be suggesting they weren't about the issue. > > Phelim x > > * > * > ========================================================== > [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
