Chris wrote:
How important is it for action groups to report back to the
circle? What are the pros and cons of such reporting compared to simply a
Talking Circle closing?
I had a couple of less than thrilling experiences with the report back process I
was using (the group standing in front of t
Thank you Larry and Richard
Your messages both make sense. Open Space both as a space (e.g. the
inter-active organization, coral meme, whatever) and as a gateway from
wherever you are (e.g. blue meme) to peek experiences of higher levels,
(yellow, coral) But you still have todo the work to move a
In a message dated 9/13/00 3:18:43 PM Central Daylight Time,
cor...@interchange.ubc.ca writes:
<< I make the effort to tell people that I
have been trained by Birgitt and Harrison so that folks understand that
I'm not just fooling around with this stuff! >>
Chris:
I agree that this is a nice w
Hi Chris,
my inclination would be not to do this in Open Space Technology. For me,
the ethical issues are huge, in capital letters, and simply advising people
clearly about the theme and advising of the law of two feet just doesn't do
it. In one sense, advising of theme and law of two feet is like
Harrison,
when I learned "do it" from you, it meant just that. Take action. "clarify
it" is just as you describe and "open space it" also just as you said here.
"do it" gets done. "clarify it" often becomes "do it" or "don't do it" and
sometimes becomes "open space it". "open space it" leads to "do
Thanks for your advice Birgitt, and to all those who responded on this one. I
know right now that the sponsor is thinking carefully about whether we should
use OST for this meeting, and I'll be meeting with them next week to discuss the
approach.
I don't know how you can ever tell anyone that the
