Good points, John. I would come out very strongly to say that if the *facilitator* is combining, sorting or having the group vote on or reduce / compress / decide on topics, it is not Open Space. It is something else where some facilitator is using some portions of what they may have seen done somewhere. My assumption in seeing that would be that that particular facilitator may have seen something called Open Space but not studied it. And when I say ’study’ I don’t just mean learned in workshops, I also mean self-study - simply reading the book can tell you this.
Lisa On Jan 28, 2015, at 8:44 AM, John Watkins via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote: > Just a simple thought here: I have almost never as a facilitator sorted or > combined any kind of brainstormed list for participants. I find that they > are really good at doing whatever sorting and combining is needed themselves, > sometimes with a minor prompt, and sometimes with no prompting at all. > Sometimes sessions combine very naturally if people understand they can do > that. I am not always a believer that human social emergence processes are > entirely like non-human natural emergence processes (because we have more > agency and capacity for self-reflection as a form of systems feedback than > most natural systems), but in this case, it is almost like the ways that over > the timeframe of evolution simpler organisms combine together to form higher > complexity organisms. > > John >
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