Hi Dan and all of you!
I so much agree Dan - to my experience it opens up to have a question.
iI "Fixing Arizona" I think the "How are we going to do?" or "What would
it take to...?" is underlying questions.
I am thinking and experimenting a lot with "challenges" - how to create
a powerful challenge. For Open Space and for my projectspace game
(projectspacegame.org). The words from User's guide are very useful for
that and I would like to add: The challenge/question opens even more, if
the challenge is made more ambitious - in the direction you want to go -
so ambitious that it seems unrealistic to achieve it. My experience is
that we lift off the pressure and anxiety of failure - and creates lots
of openness, learning, creativity...
Greetings and hug's
Lise, Copenhagen
Lise Damkjær
Learning4life
www.projectspacegame.org
www.learning4life.dk
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Den 24-03-2014 12:05, Daniel Mezick skrev:
Is the OST theme always defined as a question? Is it ever offered as a
statement? I'm not sure.
I'm not sure because in the USERS GUIDE TO OPEN SPACE book from
Harrison, the story about the theme "Fixing Arizona" is not a
question. So, I'm guessing a non-question is OK. For the record, I
prefer a question. And I tell clients to frame it as a question, on
the hypothesis that questions tend open space and statements tend to
close space...
THE BRIEF USERS GUIDE (http://www.openspaceworld.com/users_guide.htm)
is silent on the issue:
/<BEGIN>
THE THEME/ -- Creation of a powerful theme statement is critical, for
it will be the central mechanism for focusing discussion and inspiring
participation. The theme statement, however, cannot be a lengthy, dry,
recitation of goals and objectives. It must have the capacity to
inspire participation by being specific enough to indicate the
direction, while possessing sufficient openness to allow for the
imagination of the group to take over.
There is no pat formulation for doing this, for what inspires one
group will totally turn off another. One way of thinking about the
theme statement is as the opening paragraph of a truly exciting story.
The reader should have enough detail to know where the tale is headed
and what some of the possible adventures are likely to be. But
"telling all" in the beginning will make it quite unlikely that the
reader will proceed. After all, who would read a story they already know?
<END>
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