Hello Peggy! Thanks! It was great to hear! I got the image of instead of speed-dating which is so popular right now it is Speed-openspacening J - maybe a new approach ..
I will meet with the Swedish organizing team on Friday so hopefully I know more after that. Until then thanks again! I will keep youall posted :o) Eva Bästa hälsningar Eva P Svensson EPS Human Invest AB Member of Beyond Performance Group "Verksamhetsutveckling genom människor skapar långsiktigt välmående företag och organisationer" Anåsbergsvägen 22, 439 34 ONSALA Besöksadress; Norra Allégatan 8, Göteborg Tfn: 0300-615 05, Mobil; 0706- 89 85 50 <http://www.epshumaninvest.se/> www.epshumaninvest.se Skype: eva.p.svensson Besök gärna min blogg; www.epshumaninvest.blogspot.com/ "Jag kan inte lära dig något. Allt jag kan göra är att ställa frågor till dig, och låta dig själv finna svaren." Sokrates Från: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] För Peggy Holman Skickat: den 29 juni 2009 00:01 Till: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Ämne: Re: [OSLIST] would you do it? Hello Eva, To the many questions and suggestions you've received, I'll add a story. I was asked to do a keynote at a conference on Open Space. Since Harrison had sent them my way because he had a conflict and had originally intended to do it, I didn't think twice. I said "yes". Then I discovered that what they wanted for the keynote was an Open Space. They were expecting 150 people and I had... 1.5 hours! Since this story is in the OSlist archives, I've copied it below. One last item about this story that I discovered recently. It turns out that the person who wanted the OS keynote was Steve Cady, who joined with Tom Devane and me for the second edition of The Change Handbook. Steve had never seen an Open Space. It was his way of experiencing the process and he had no idea what he was asking by requesting it be done in 1.5 hours. appreciatively, Peggy On Aug 3, 2004, at 3:57 PM, Peggy S. Holman wrote: Ralph -- I had a really different experience with 90 minutes. I'm guessing that it was because the topic was real (not just a demo). It was the keynote for the Bowling Green MSOD Alumni conference. They wanted the 150 or so participants to experience Open Space. After my first thought of "impossible", I thought, "why not?" It worked incredibly well! I was amazed at the energy of the group and that they really did move from topic to topic. It was like watching a speeded up video of an OS. For the closing circle, I invited people to reflect using a word or phrase. This actually left time in the closing for Q&A on OST. Mind you, I did this for graduates of an OD program who were as interested in the form as they were the content of the gathering. My take on it was that it would be impossible to do any subject justice in 90 minutes. Given that, rather than set the expectation of even one quality conversation, use the time for another purpose: to invite people to notice who else has passion for the same topics as you. 20 minutes to open, three 15 minute sessions, 20 minutes to close about does it. In that time, people will find out the range of subjects of interest and who else cares about them. They'll be able to touch in with the folks they meet after the OS. And another benefist is that it leaves participants with a very different embodied experience of what OST is. Joe -- to your second question - OS at a conference. I have also done this. It was a conference track that ran in parallel with other more traditinal sessions for the last 2 days of a three day conference. Some people stayed for the whole OS, others floated in and out. They loved it. home in Seattle at last, Peggy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Copleman" <rcople...@comcast.net> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 6:41 AM Subject: [OSLIST] Brief demonstrations Joe Bowers, Harrison and all, I agree that doing an OS demonstration is challenging. I did a 90-minute version once for a group of colleagues. Had three 20-minute sessions squeezed in. It was awful. Everybody looked bored. Never again. On the other hand, I did a 30-minute thing for a client once involving the top 20 managers in an American airline company. They kept pressing me for an explanation, so during a break I hurriedly made the posters and stuck them on the walls. Then I reconvened everyone in a circle and did the opening. That's all. No postings. No actual open space. They loved it. A month later I was doing a one-day event for them to explore their frequent-flier program, customers included. Ralph Copleman * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist ______________________________ Peggy Holman The Open Circle Company 15347 SE 49th Place Bellevue, WA 98006 425-746-6274 www.opencirclecompany.com www.journalismthatmatters.org For the new edition of The Change Handbook, go to: www.bkconnection.com/ChangeHandbook "An angel told me that the only way to step into the fire and not get burnt, is to become the fire". -- Drew Dellinger On Jun 25, 2009, at 3:49 AM, Eva P Svensson wrote: Hello! I have been asked to do an Open Space with about 800 people. Thats great BUT as its looks right now there will only be 1,5 hours timeframe for the entire thing What do you think about that? Would you recommend to go for it what would you do???? I know I have done a taster on OS in 1,5 hour with 100 people and it went well but 800 What would you do? Sunny warm greetings from Sweden :o) Eva Bästa hälsningar Eva P Svensson EPS Human Invest AB Member of Beyond Performance Group "Verksamhetsutveckling genom människor skapar långsiktigt välmående företag och organisationer" Anåsbergsvägen 22, 439 34 ONSALA Besöksadress; Norra Allégatan 8, Göteborg Tfn: 0300-615 05, Mobil; 0706- 89 85 50 <http://www.epshumaninvest.se/> www.epshumaninvest.se Skype: eva.p.svensson Besök gärna min blogg; www.epshumaninvest.blogspot.com/ "Jag kan inte lära dig något. Allt jag kan göra är att ställa frågor till dig, och låta dig själv finna svaren." 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