3 messages follow: 1. Johan's question about opening a small space
2. A request I sent for more information 3. His response He's describing an interesting situation that I hope some folks can help with. Peg Holman >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Marie Ryd <ma...@ajourodont.com> >> To: o...@tmn.com <o...@tmn.com> >> Date: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 7:49 AM >> Subject: Open Space >> >> >> >¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ >> >I was introduced to Open Space by Sussanne Maxwell at the Business and >> >Conciousness-conferance in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico last November. >Sussanne >> >kindly let me borrow her book on Open Space during the conferance. >> > >> >In a few months I intend to use Open Space with a customer of mine and >> >while planning the event we realize that we are somewhat short of time. >It >> >will be en evening event. We have three to four hours at our disposal. >My >> >question is: >> > >> >- should we have two one-hour groupsessions after the introduction, in >> >order to cover as many groups as possible or >> >- should we rather have one groupsession of 1,5 hours in order to give >the >> >groups some more time and to be able to finish the event earlier in the >> >evening ? >> > >> >The customer is a departmentstore. The attendees are the clerks. The >event >> >starts after the closing of the day i.e. 8.00 pm. They may be too tired >to >> >continue until midnight. >> > >> >Thankful for an answer - best regards Johan Ryd >> > >> > >> >Johan Ryd >> >Missing Link Consultants >> >Järneksvägen 10 >> >S-131 40 Nacka >> >Sweden >> > >> >tel. +46-8-718 51 30 >> >mob. +46-708-52 67 91 >> >fax. +46-8-716 43 30 >> >e-mail mj....@swipnet.se >> >¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ >> > >> From: Peg Holman, Open Space Institute <o...@tmn.com> >> To: Marie Ryd <ma...@ajourodont.com> >> Subject: Re: Open Space >> Date: den 10 december 1998 17:29 >> >> Johan, >> >> I have a few more questions for you before answering your question on >number >> of sessions. For me, the answer depends on the purpose of the open >space. >> This tells me what I am trying to accomplish and gives me some feeling >for >> whether a 3-4 hour session can accomplish that purpose and in what form. >> >> My other question is how many people will be there? That, too, would >> influence my decision. Please let me know and I will give you my >opinion. >> >> If you would like, I can also pass your message to the Open Space >listserv >> and you can get the opinions of many OS practitioners. Please let me >know >> if you want me to do this. >> >> Peggy Holman >> Open Space Institute (US), part of World-wide Open Space >> 425-746-6274 >> >> > >> >> > -----Original Message----- From: Marie Ryd <ma...@ajourodont.com> To: Peg Holman, Open Space Institute <o...@tmn.com> Date: Wednesday, December 16, 1998 2:21 PM Subject: Re: Open Space >Hello Peg, > >Thank you for replying to my question. Here is some additional information. >The purpose of the Open Space is to bring all the employees of a department >store into participacion in a vision-mission-value project that the company >is running. A vision-mission and values statement has been created by >management and some 300 middle-managers. The statement and the project has >been presented to all employees (1200-1500 persons in all, but only 650-700 >actually participated during this event) > >In late January and early February we are planning to run Open Space on 4 >occations, in the evenings, after the store has closed. The purpose is to >give everyone an opportunity to make their voice heard regarding what >activities they see fit in order to make the vision-mission and values >come true. We intend to invite with a broad subject i e cooperation in the >workplace, cooperation between departments etc. > >We will invite everyone to participate and expect 100 - 200 people at every >occation (4 times) > >I would love to be posted on the Open Space listserve. > >Best regards - Johan >----------
