Dear Michael,
Thanks for clarifying. I don't have the answer, but I have another
question. As a successful practitioner of OST who has facilitated many
open space events and has supported other facilitators towoards
sustainability in holding open space events for clients - how do you
invite, engage, [insert whatever verb you want] your sponsors to bring
you into their organizations?
Thanks!
Harold
On 10/6/13 9:59 AM, Michael M Pannwitz wrote:
Dear Harold,
inviting folks is per se a grand idea.
What they are being invited to is a vast spectrum.
Who does the inviting, too.
As a facilitator I dont invite folks to an open space event, as a
sponsor, sure.
Often I talk about the nature of the invitation and the nature of open
space with the sponsor or the Planning Group as I see it in my limited
ways.
When talking with the sponsor I also talk about Life and Spirit as
stuff that are essential to groups, organisations and systems, with an
emphasis that they are definitely present (otherwise the group,
organisation or system would be dead) and could do perhaps better with
some loving tender care.
And I talk about selforganisation, reminding myself that
selforganisation is something I see all over, of which, however, I
know nothing (a little bit about preconditions) and probably never will.
Looking at it that way, my question is
How could seeing Open Space as a game help me in my work as
facilitator (working with a sponsor) to expand time and space for
selforganisation to unfold in the gathering planned? (keeping in mind
what people are gathering for in open space and that it is a good idea
to be prepared to be surprised).
Have a sunny Sunday evening
mmp
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