Barry's wedding

1999-02-10 Thread Birgitt Bolton
Such a time of excitement for someone in this Open Space List Community. I extend very special good wishes to Barry Owen for this Saturday the 13th as he marries his wonderful Debbie. May you experience joy, safety, and harmony in your union and in all that you do. May light and love envelope you f

Re: Small Group OS

1999-02-10 Thread Birgitt Bolton
Hi Joe, In doing OS I always start from a point that is the ideal situation and then realize that much of what I need to work out is not in that ideal. Now for your example. OS in small groups can work well. The synergy is not the same.People do not feel so free to bumblebee and butterfly, although

Re: Small Group OS

1999-02-10 Thread owen
At 01:19 PM 2/10/99 -0400, you wrote: > > Friends, > > Are there any special considerations when using Open Space with a small group > within a small company--say 7-12 people? The smallest group I have ever worked with is 5. It wasn't intended that way -- but that's the way it turned out. We were

Re: education stories

1999-02-10 Thread Jeff Aitken
Steve and Birgitt: Thanks for your efforts to spread the stories. However, I received eleven huge messages full of unintelligible symbols. (Ah, the problem with attachments.) I once copied a long article directly into email and sent it to OSLIST which seemed to work. So we learn as we go. Jeff

Re: Small Group OS

1999-02-10 Thread Bert Elliott
I have had success using a OS with a small group in that it gave people a chance to develop a relevant agenda and people dealt with it earnestly. I did notice however that people did not use the law of two feet when it looked like they were neither learning nor contributing. It was also hard for m

Small Group OS

1999-02-10 Thread Joe Szostak
Friends, Are there any special considerations when using Open Space with a small group within a small company--say 7-12 people? I have colleague who runs a small sporting goods store. She is a remarkable person who won a national Entrepreneur of the Year Award awhile back. She has taken

Re: about attachments (lecture! ;-)

1999-02-10 Thread Murli Nagasundaram
Folks, I agree with Koos. Attachments are generally considered inappropriate for lists. The OST website would be a great place, since such attachments would be available even to future participants. Best, Murli .. Murli Nagasundaram, Ph.D., Asst. Prof., C

Re: about attachments (lecture! ;-)

1999-02-10 Thread Michael Herman
koos, et. al. i'd be glad to post most anything to the web for the purposes of sharing. i have the space and the capability to deal with most file types, i think. worst case, i can print it out and scan it back in. might take me a week or two to get it posted, depending on what else is going on,

Re: about attachments (lecture! ;-)

1999-02-10 Thread Peg Holman
The Open Space Institute (US) site is also available to post things. As a matter of fact, the OS in education document collected by Birgitt is on the site at http://www.tmn.com/openspace in Resources/Stories from the Field. To put something on the site, send a message/attachment to o...@tmn.com

Boston this weekend

1999-02-10 Thread koos de heer
Hi all, This coming weekend I will be passing through Boston and I will have some spare time. Anyone in the Boston area interested in joining me for a coffee or a bite and have a little chat about Open Space and all the other great things in life? Would be nice. Send an email to my email address be

about attachments (lecture! ;-)

1999-02-10 Thread koos de heer
Dear folks, For those who know everything about attachments: there is a practical proposal on how to handle binary files on this list at the end of this message. You may skip the lecture. Sometimes we want to share information that is hard to put in the text of an email message. Binary files like