Dear colleagues, today the sponsor opened the space for "How will we create and sustain a healthy community". Felicia introduced the open space-technology classically. The 40 participants came up with 22 issues. 14 issues came from male and 8 from female participants, although the gender distribution is 50/50. Most of the issues offered by women came shortly before the market place was opened. What conditions are needed so that all people can participate fully? If you are curious open the attachment for the list of the 18 issues that were reported on. There were three sessions, reading the book of proceedings and a phase dedicated to "Agreeing on next steps". Some of the things observed in "real life" open spaces were apparent here too: no action taken on the hottest issue and frustration in confronting the reality of taking action. And it became clear again a TRAINING IS A TRAINING IS A TRAINING. Here are some of the things shared in the closing session: - It was beneficial for the group when I obeyed the law of two feet and it opened space for me to be very productive in another group - I participated in an exercise and that was frustrating but it gave me some insights of what it is like to be a participant - I'm eager to reflect on what we did today in the open space on open space tomorrow - It's important not to judge everything right away but to give ourselves space and time to let things sink in
Participants tried out being bumblebees and butterflies, tested the law of two feet, had intensive discussions in small groups, found the written reports from groups they had not been part of to be fairly meaningless, were excited or turned off by the action planning, etc. A pretty good starting point for becoming a facilitator of open space? All are looking forward to what will happen next. Including ourselves. All in all an exciting learning journey. Greetings from Hungary Michael, Felicia and Jo P.S. By the way - there are the most gorgeous sunrises over lake Balaton every morning! Michael M Pannwitz Draisweg 1 12209 Berlin, Germany FON +49 - 30-772 8000 FAX +49 - 30-773 92 464 www.michaelMpannwitz.de To subscribe to the oslist, send the following message (and nothing but the message): "SUBSCRIBE OSLIST" to lists...@listserv.boisestate.edu SUBJECT field should be left BLANK
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