Bui -- Welcome to the OSLIST and to Open Space! I am sure that all the good folks here will be glad to help you get started and may I suggest a quick perusal of my book, "Open Space Technology: A User's Guide." I think that you will find that most if not all of the questions you raise here are addressed. The book is published by Berrett-Koehler and Amazon.com will deliver. Of course that is just one point of view, but it might be a good place to get started.
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 301-365-2093 207-763-3261 (summer) website www.openspaceworld.com Personal Website www.ho-image.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Bui K. Petersen To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 1:31 PM Subject: introduction I am new on this list (and I am now able to email to it as well). I have only recently become interested in Open Space but have yet to experience it first hand. I am in the process of building a practice as a mediator and facilitator. I have for several years worked in non-profit and co-operative management but prior to that I have a background as a performing musician. It still amazes me how similar I find the work of facilitation to the work of music making. You work with other people, you create something, you never now what is going to happen, and it comes in so many different forms. Music making can be very prescripted with music written on a page and with a rigid conductor, or it can be totally free form (free improvisation), and with a whole range in between. Being a facilitator is like being a conductor and in this role you can choose to be directive, or facilitative, or try to stay more out of the way. Staying out of the way seems to be is what OS is more about which is why I find it so interesting. In my work, my predicament is that I often work with groups that have little ability to meet for whole days and challenge for me would be to find a way to use something like Open Space in these circumstances. (I actually got intrigued by Lisa's and Chris' recounts of events where almost no one showed up. That's perhaps something I could use) Another thing that I am curious about is when to use OS and when not, and what people like to use instead? Looking forward to Open Space. Bui K. Petersen www.buildconsensus.ca -- Búi K. Petersen, Cert. ConRes. mediator and facilitator -------------------------------- c.solutions Vancouver, B.C. Canada Phone: 604.724.4954 Web: www.buildconsensus.ca * * ========================================================== 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 * * ========================================================== 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
