Lisa--
Yes, a topic for WOSonOS! Something like When the time is short, what is
better than OS?
:- Doug.
On 04/12/2013 05:22 PM, Lisa Heft wrote:
To me, it is the questions you ask yourself - and your client - when
someone invites you to facilitate - Open Space or otherwise.
All those analysis questions that inform choice of process and knowledge
about possibilities.
How much time is available, is more time possible... not because a short
time is necessarily bad, but it may inform whether I choose Open Space
or another process.
I feel that doing things quickly leaves out the reflective thinker as
usually only the quick-responders have time to engage, thus reducing
diversity.
So I ask some of these questions of myself and of the client (and make
some recommendations - can they bring their lunch and can we use that
time, also?) to see what the most expansive possibilities may be.
Or to see if something other than Open Space will help both kinds of
thinkers given the very short time available - such as a reflective
dialogic process including silence or graphics or other modalities.
Also as the deliverables of shorter Open Space are different than longer
Open Space. Just something to discuss with the client in terms of what
fits best and what is possible - when thinking of Open Space as one of
the possibilities.
I am not saying that doing a super-short Open Space is 'bad' or that
Open Space is not part of every living system - it is. Or that people
conversing and working together during tiny times cannot feel
expansiveness.
However when I find in my conversations with the client that only an
hour or so is available, I tend to select another amazing wonderful
dynamic process instead of Open Space. Because often those other
processes deliver rich interchange within a very short time.
In saying this, I also completely support each of you explorers in the
use of super-short Open Space events...
Hmmm. Maybe this is something some of us will be exploring at the World
Open Space on Open Space in Florida USA next month. Do you think?
Lisa
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