Thank you for shearing this documentary. I learnt al lot, and it gives courage and inspiration :-)
I have one question : Do we really need chairs in a situation like this. Would it work to let people stand in a circle through the introduction and closing circle? Its so much more fleksible in a situation with little time, and you dot know how many will join in? Any experience? Love from Norway Hege Den 21. juni 2012 kl. 01:09 skrev JL Walker: > Hi friends, > > Inspired by the interesting discussion sustained in this list about “Any > experience with short open space” (thanks Catherine Corbaz!), I have decided > to write apart this recent and synchronous story that I think puts a two > cents on it. > > Within the framework of the 1st Meeting of Healthy Relationships and > Happiness(www.encuentrofelicidad.cl), which was held in Santiago of Chile on > 26 and 27 May last, which mainly included national and foreign expert > speakers and investigators on these topics for a total of 2000 attendees, we > in the CDIC(www.cdic.cl) had the great honor to facilitate a mini open space > of an hour and a half (90 minutes). > > We were invited there to share our accumulated experience in the citizen > ambit, from September 2011 to May 2012, with the facilitation of five open > space (up to the date of the event), that we have called Creative Dialogues > about Happiness (a beautiful project which I hope I’ll also be able to speak > you in details at a later time). > > The organizers have scheduled us in one of the last modules of more than 40 > presentations and conferences that have had been make in the two days of the > event. And if it from the outset we plan to do so in a form of experiential > workshop that could allow participants to have the real experience of an open > space, with also an certain pedagogical desire of grant them a global > understanding of the benefits of the method, this was especially enhanced by > changing conditions at the last moment. > > Few hours before our little open space workshop begins, they informed to us > that for reasons of force majeure, we should have to move to a much smaller > room that the one that they had originally assigned to us. > > One more reason to say “whatever happens is the only thing that could have” > and to remember also the fifth new principle pointed out recently by HO, in > the sense that “wherever it happens is the right place”. And because for that > moment there was a complete uncertainty of how many people would attend, we > then decided to put all the chairs stacked on both sides of the classroom and > give welcome to all participants standing on their two feet, inviting to all > to greet hand (often converted to hugs) and then, only then, they begin to > co-create together the circle with the chairs. > > After that, when we begin to open the space in the usual way, the first thing > that we pointed out was about the importance of the circle and how is it that > a previous phase of opening of the physical space it was always necessary for > to facilitate this dialogue method. > > The question of this mini open space was the same that we had been working in > the five previous dialogues: What can we do today to be happier in Chile? > > Then a burst of participation, positive energy and creativity occurred, in > which around 80 people lifted something like 60 topics that quickly were > merged into four working groups of 20 minutes each, for finally give way to a > memorable and inspiring closing circle that ended with the presentation of a > 5 minutes video which intent to summarize our five previous dialogues. > > At the end, the received samples of gratitude encourage us and excited to > take forward our next big meeting (7th Dialogue), when we hope to convene a > larger number of people representing the diversity that we are looking for: > experts, authorities, opinion leaders and common citizens, recognizing the > importance of dialogue to increase happiness in the life of people in Chile. > > In the following link you can see a photo sequence of all the moments that I > have talked you above:http://tinyurl.com/6ljuuco > > And here the link of the video that summarizes our five previous dialogues: > http://youtu.be/8xsNukuU5Fc > > Love & peace, > > Juan Luis Walker > PS: And as always, hope that my English goes well ;) > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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