Recently, my friend and I facilitated an open space conference for musical theatre which was amazing, of course, because OST always works but in addressing this specific event, we used a new animal. Thought I¹d share.
We knew that there was an expectation amongst some in the room that more people would attend. And also different people. I suspect that may often be the case, and it certainly seems to always be the case that people come to open space with an expectation of some kind other than just to be prepared to be surprised. So we started off by talking about the elephant in the room: whatever size or shape it might be, because everyone brings a different elephant with them, we wanted to begin simply by acknowledging that the elephants were there with us and, having paid them that respect, to move on and see if they might choose to wander off to another watering hole now. Not that they¹re not wise, elephants. But they are quite big, and they do take up a lot of space, and we were hoping for as much OPEN space as possible Jen x Jenifer Toksvig ne...@acompletelossforwords.com * * ========================================================== 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
