I have been in conversation with a nice person who has been doing a little bit of Open Space. (40 min) and wasnt sure it was working well. I gently tried to suggest that doing a little bit of Open Space is roughly equivalent to being a little bit pregnant. I didnt use those words, fearing the worst -- but my meaning was clear. But I did rather like some of numbers I came up with suggesting that a little more time to enable the facilitator to get out of the way might be useful.
*********************************************************** But even with the standard OST gathering, I find that anything less than ½ a day ends up almost feeling like a party game or warm up exercise. In that small time span the emerging process usually doesnt have time to flesh out, expand and grow to the point that people forget that they are doing a process and simply get on with the business of doing what they need to do. In my book, facetime for the facilitator ( that time when the facilitator is out in front) should be very brief, a very small percentage of the time. In a full day Open Space, the introduction should take no more than 20 min. After that, things pretty well run themselves the people do it. This means that the facilitator holds the floor for 0.0416666666666667% of the time. Just about right, if not a little long. Personally, I find 15 min. will do. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) Camden, Maine 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 (summer) 207-763-3261 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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