Sounds a little closed to me, Sheila. In fact what it sounds like is something called The Technology of Participation (TOP)which was created about 35 years ago by people from ICA.
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 Skype hhowen Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website www.ho-image.com OSLIST: To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Sheila Beauchemin Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 4:22 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: When is Open Space Not Open Space Hello all, I'm very new to Open Space and am still feeling my way around. While discussing Open Space with a former colleague (and potential client) recently, I was surprized to hear her take on this method. She was familiar with it, and indicated she had indeed delivered two or three Open Space sessions - one for about 80 people and another for about 300. However, her description of how the events were managed was not strictly speaking, "by the book". Here's what was described: - all participant were given post-its and asked to identify their topic areas and put up on the wall. Then, these were themed by someone and participants were then given 3 votes and asked to place check marks next to those items of highest importance to them. The topics with most ticks then became the breakout session topics. - these sessions were short - only 2 hours in one example - circle was not created - results were mixed. So, my question is...though I am definately all for adapation to meet circumstances, when is "Open Space" not open space? And, how do you counter the perception that what was done is what you understand to be OS? Thanks for any thoughts on this - Sheila * * ========================================================== 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
