Great! Haven't had a really good Space Invader in years!! As a matter of fact, I have even had some folks challenge me on whether or not they even existed in the form that I wrote about. So it is a great relief to know that the Space Invaders are indeed alive and well. Phelim -- my experience is that such folks are just plain angry in general. To be sure they will object to some things in particular - OS is too simple, you are a dictator, the coffee is cold. . . But really they are just mad. But they are also usually hooked on whatever it is the topic is -- after all they came. And that puts them in a real bind. They love it / they hate it. They are out the door / they are all involved. When somebody gets that confused, they need lots of space to figure things out - which is what you gave them. Good job!
-----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phelim McDermott Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 3:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Opening challenges 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
