What comes to me: Having as equal access to the space as possible. Or at least muuch beyond a 'normal' meeting. By the way. FOR HOW LONG IS A NORMAL MEETING GOING TO CONTINUE TO BE IMPRODICTIVE AND BORING?? Sorry I got upset :) I am lucky to never attend 'normal meetings' Gnight Thomas
Skickat från min iPhone > 14 dec. 2015 kl. 01:06 skrev Michael Herman via OSList > <[email protected]>: > > last week i discovered a kind of Not Quite Open Space. (with my hat off and > a forwards bow to paul levy, who posted here a Most Remarkable and totally > unrelated Winnie-the-Pooh story last week.) > > i've always understood that the whole point of opening space is to get All > The Issues That Matter up on the wall, so that everyone can see, understand > and deal with them. Last week I noticed that there's at least one other way > to go through the usual motions, but really just go through the motions, to > Not Quite Open the space. > > The alternative to inviting and making space for all the issues to be voiced > and posted, is to choose what the facilitator or sponsor pre-decides is the > right number of rounds and sessions and then, merely Seek To Fill all (or at > least most) of the "spaces." In their mind, they seem to be thinking "We're > going to have Open SpaceS, and we need about ___ many of them." > > in 20 years, i don't think it ever occurred to me to do it this way. and i'm > not here recommending it. i'm sure it limits what happens. for me it also > falls into the category of Trying To Get People To Do Stuff. but it seems to > actually happen in the world, sometimes. maybe even often? > > so it seems a useful distinction to look out for: am i trying to fill all > the spaces or have a certain number of breakout conversations -- or am i > really trying to invite ALL the issues and opportunities out of the circle > and onto the wall? > > the latter is almost surely more messy, more uncertain, and takes longer... > but it may well be that some of the most important work happens in the > sorting of Too Many Issues for the spaces available. > > are there other subtle things have you noticed that seem to make the > difference between Open Space and Not Quite Open Space? > > michael > > > > -- > > Michael Herman > Michael Herman Associates > 312-280-7838 (mobile) > > http://MichaelHerman.com > http://OpenSpaceWorld.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 > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
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