I want to echo Lisa's advice reminding us that posting questions at OSonOS (or any OS event) in-the-moment of co-creation works well.
I participated in a think tank called Spirited Business for a long time. Almost all participants were longtime participants in Spirited Work, which is an ongoing COSO. At one important, day-long planning meeting, the morning was devoted to presenting the mission/values statement. The presentation was the culmination of lots of hard work over a long period of time. I mention this for context. After the morning of presentation, we had agreed to spend the afternoon in open space, letting the participants decide what to do next after we had a concensus to adopt the misison/values statement. But for some reason, the person who 'facilitated' the afternoon, decided to speed up the open space. It was pretty obvious which topics would be addressed in the afternoon open space so he figured he would save some of our limited, prescious time and post the topics and direct people to go where they wanted. All thirty of us just sat and stared at him. I remember my own inner process: I kept looking at those topics, which had no owner/convenor, and looking some more. I couldn't figure out what had heart and meaning for me as I looked at those pre-posted questions. The pre-determined quesitons had no energy for me. And, as it turned out, they had no energy for anyone else. No one got up to go to any of the offerings. After a few moments of collective puzzlement, someone pointed out that something was missing. EVeryone quickly realized we had not opened space. And there had been no ownership of the questions. Duh! Almost everyone in the room was accustomed to gathering in open space but we had skipped a few steps thoughtlessly. So then we quickly opened space and those who wanted to post questions posted questions and people got to work. The pre-posted questions were virtually identical to the ones posted in the open space marketplace. . . but the energy was completely different. -- Warmly, Tree Fitzpatrick * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist