Lori-
I think Birgitt Williams's (nee Bolton) story of running a large social
services nonprofit organization in Canada and regularly using Open Space
Technology and Whole Person Process Facilitation within clear givens might be
of interest to your client. The organization managed to thrive even in the face
of budget cut. And the regular use of these approaches led to the
creation/birth of a Conscious Open Space Organization (now called "the Genuine
Contact Organization")
I don't have a link for the story. Birgitt, is there somewhere online where one
can read the story now? I see that part of the story - with great
context-setting- is available here:
http://lists.openspacetech.org/htdig.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org/2001-January/002800.html
Also, I think you might find other examples of interest in the "Open Space
Examples" document at openspaceworld.org:
http://openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceExamples
Finally, I'll just repeat the off-repeated wisdom of others that you as a
lurker may have already heard:
You can cite examples of other OST applications to someone until the cows come
home, at the end of the day until one has had an experience these stories may
likely just sound like nice words. Kind of like walking endlessly around a
swimming pool with someone who has never taken the plunge, explaining the
benefits of swimming.
My two kopecks/rials.
appreciatively,
Raffi
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