Thanks Rosa. I note that the event was on diversity AND entrepreneurship - good way to frame an open space of both important differences and passionate shared interests.
I have a teacher who prefers to work out important differences by working together on a project that serves larger and long-term community. Lots of juicy complexity here. Jeff On 6/9/14, Rosa Zubizarreta <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > not specific to diversity conversations, but in Austria we had good success > offering Dynamic Facilitation as an optional resource for Open Space > sessions. We've done this at least twice now, at conferences hosted using > Art of Hosting, with the theme of the conference being DF itself (the first > one) and public participation in Europe (the second one). > > In both cases, there were plenty of DF practitioners there, so it was a > fairly easy thing to do. We did find that it made sense to offer longer > sessions for those who wanted to use DF to delve more deeply into a subject > (2 hr sessions instead of 1 hr ones.) And sort of by implication, people > tended to stay, though they certainly could have used the law of mobility > to leave. > > Reason I'm bringing it up, is that DF is particularly helpful for engaging > in difficult conversations, so could be a useful adjunct to OS in this way. > > with all best wishes, > > Rosa > > *Rosa Zubizarreta* > > *Diapraxis: Facilitating Creative Collaborationhttp://www.diapraxis.com > <http://www.diapraxis.com/>* > > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Jeff Aitken <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Great to see this! What courage for two OS newbies to jump in like that. >> >> I'm curious about other experiences of hosting conversations about >> diversity using Open Space. >> >> I co-facilitated a daylong OS for the faculty at a graduate school, >> sponsored by the Faculty Diversity Committee, and it was a very useful >> day of conversations and reflections. >> >> I have also seen trained diversity facilitators convene sessions in OS >> where important and powerful conversations are beautifully held, in >> part because of their training in doing so. >> >> There is a question whether OS is the right container when, for >> example, people can use the law of mobility to avoid conversations >> which might trouble their worldview. Or when, for example, the only >> people who convene conversations about sexism in the workplace are >> women. (Extend the example to racism, homophobia, etc.) >> >> What's your experience? Any ideas about theme or invitation or >> resources (like the posters) to help enhance the learning and >> transformation that's possible? >> >> Jeff >> San Francisco >> >> >> >> On 6/9/14, Suzanne Daigle <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Love it Peggy...! Great idea to have the short data posters spread out >> in >> > a few places. >> > >> > Thanks for sharing! >> > >> > Suzanne >> > On Jun 9, 2014 11:32 AM, "Peggy Holman" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I believe I wrote a while back about some journalists I've been >> >> coaching >> >> long distance on opening space. Check out this wonderful video of >> >> their >> >> latest effort. >> >> >> >> I'm grinning for them! >> >> >> >> >> http://www.wecreatehere.net/2014/06/03/video-empowering-communities-conversation-entrepreneurship-diversity-intersect/ >> >> >> >> >> >> Peggy >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> >> >> 425-746-6274 >> >> www.peggyholman.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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 >> >> >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ 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 .
