Paul I don't ever recall actually "closing" a market place - as in saying that no other issues can be posted. I do suggest that people post all their issues at the start, and again on the morning of the 2nd Day (if there is one) - noting that while they certainly can post issues as any time, the likelihood that they will be seen is small. The reason is simple and practical: Everybody is off doing something else. I suppose in a small group, all working in a single room, new postings would get noticed - But most of my Open Spaces have been 100+ -- and for sure when you get 500-2000 folks all milling and wandering about new posting do go un-noticed, and announcing them on the PA System doesn't seem to do much good as the words just get lost in the ambient noise.
And Raffi - Thanks for sharing Rosa's work, but I do confess that doing what she proposes seems to require a lot more work to accomplish what pretty much happens all by itself. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) Camden, Maine 04843 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> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of paul levy Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 6:51 AM To: Raffi Aftandelian; World wide Open Space Technology email list Cc: Genuine Contact egroup Subject: Re: [OSList] a fresh look at the meeting "agenda" This also brings to mind one aspect of Open Space that might be worth reflecting on. Open Space Events begin with a marketplace - a wonderful rush of self-organising energy that results in a "programme" - often a packed one, set up for the whole day ahead (if it is a one-dayer). Often this programme remains fairly fixed and little if any new sessions are added to it over the day(even when there is a coming back together, say after lunch to re-open the market place). Yet what happens over the day is that the sessions evolve. The day emerges. The process develops. The content morphs. So, why not keep the market place open all day? (It often kind of is at some of the OS events I have participated in though often there is a feeling in the room that the programme bit was done at the start and there it is ). Why not allow that flow to flow wherever it does? Why Open and Close the marketplace at all? One less thing to do? - keep it open! I'm sure the self-organising spirit will find good ways to announce new and emerging sessions throughout the day without too much tinkering from the facilitator. Many of these new sessions will evolve out of earlier ones, many may start to focus on action, and some may be magically tangential. I've seen it done well and facilitated it a few times. Then we get to this magical place called END where we find out what the agenda WAS! That agenda then tends to feel more alive, still living, and can often have a "what next" feel about it. That, for me, is the perfect Open Space agenda - the one that only reveals itself at the end - as the thing that happened out of opening the space for self-organisation. warm wishes Paul Levy On 21 February 2013 05:12, Raffi Aftandelian <[email protected]> wrote: Dearest Open Space and Genuine Contact friends- I wanted to share a blog post written by Rosa Zubizarreta. It is a fresh take- to me, at least- at the idea of a meeting agenda. I believe the post has interesting implications and sparks new questions whatever our practice is as a facilitator. I really enjoy Rosa's take on process arts. As a longtime practitioner of Focusing and Dynamic Facilitation (along with being a psychotherapist), she has brought together both theory and practice in her writing on group dynamics. I also admire that she explores the intersections- the space between- the different process arts communities of practice. (interestingly her last name means "House on a Bridge") here is the post: http://rosaz.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/easing-shifts-in-group-dynamics-with-a -new-twist-on-the-conventional-agenda <http://rosaz.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/easing-shifts-in-group-dynamics-with- a-new-twist-on-the-conventional-agenda/> much warmth, raffi _______________________________________________ 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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