Hi Lisa, good answer, I really enjoyed reading it!
The reason behind is often fatigue of communication inside organization. Refresh and restart can make the healing. OS is a good remedy for it, but the ill behavior might be too deep and rooted to get done at once. I love your throughout approach and caring! Mikk On Dec 19, 2012, at 7:41 AM, Lisa Heft wrote: > Hi, Kári - > > My experience is it is not the method / process that is the issue, it is that > any process / one meeting does not shift behavior. > A single 'intervention' does not change behavior. > So often a meeting or retreat (Open Space or otherwise) is thought to be the > thing that solves conflict, when actually it is a whole series of actions and > relationships. > The higher the conflict, the more the relationships may have to be formed and > fostered before there is any event such as a meeting. > > Passion fuels Open Space. But if an Open Space or any other approach is just > dropped in as the thing that is thought to resolve internal conflicts just > like that - without looking at the whole ecology of communication, history, > context, resources, differences, internal and external reasons for issues > that feel like conflict, communication styles, what happens before and after > the event, how the event fits into the ongoing work of the community or > organization, and so on.... then it may not yet be time to have the event - > before other work is done. Sometimes it is as simple as helping an > organization look at who does what tasks and re-arranging each role's tasks. > Or doing an assessment of what is reasonable pay. Or giving the organization > some sample structure for how to hold supervisor-staff individual meetings or > quarterly evaluation. > > So it is not the Open Space that does or does not work - at least in my > experience - Open Space is great when there is passion, of course. It is the > need to look at the whole picture and do assessment and analysis to see what > is useful, when, why and at the end of that analysis, how. > > I look forward to hearing others' input for Kári, > > Lisa > > > On Dec 18, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Kári Gunnarsson wrote: > >> Is Open Space not working when there are many internal conflicts? >> >> This is stated in one of the reports from the Wosonos2012 "The limits >> of Open Space" >> >> I believed that the passion fueling the conflict was the stuff that >> fuels the Open Space activities and without this fuel nothing real >> will happen for nobody will care sufficiently to have an opinion or >> take up a conflict. >> >> I am not able image the case where the many internal conflicts will >> inhibit the Open Space if the preconditions are fulfilled, perhaps >> someone could enlighten me about such a case. >> >> Is there a different approach that is better for such condition, will >> nothing work or will Open Space work? >> >> with love from Iceland and with a hope for an answer >> Kári. > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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