Re: Short OS on Diversity with university students

2003-02-10 Thread Esther .
Thanks Lisa. Esther Ewing The Change Alliance - Assisting Individuals and Organizations to Build Capability www.ChangeAlliance.com 330 East 38th St, Suite 53K New York, NY 10016-9804 212-661-6024 Authorized Distributor, Panoramic Feedback www.panoramicfeedback.com

Re: Short OS on Diversity with university students

2003-02-10 Thread Esther .
Lisa: You wrote: Were you worried about so short a time? Well, Lisa, given that they had only planned 7-9pm and I got them up to three hours and then gave them a copy of Chris' recent posting about the 2.5 day version so that they could understand the value that could be harvested, I think we did

Re: Story of a 2.5 day Open Space (long)

2003-02-10 Thread Averbuch
Chris, Joelle and all Chris, I love your form of convergence, and am going to try it on and see how it fits - it resonates very deeply with every cell of me so I'll tell you how it went. Joelle wrote:" I appreciate the respect and care that you bring to every group you work with. This is the kin

Re: Short OS on Diversity with university students

2003-02-10 Thread Lisa Heft
Esther - it was the right time exactly. And it opened up new thinking and possibilities of future open space events - it may have even started a tradition of convening in Open Space, eh? They were lucky to find you in their journey and I think that you and they will travel along well together.

Short OS on Diversity with university students

2003-02-10 Thread Esther .
Hi there: Well I promised to report on this exercise for you. First the background: The client was the student government of a university graduate level theatre program. It is a small student community of about 120. They have a student run extra-curricular theatre program that puts on a differen

Re: Short OS on Diversity with university students

2003-02-10 Thread Lisa Heft
Esther - Thanks so much for posting that report. I am interested in the fact that with so much passion you had only time for a relatively short OS. Interested in the fact that that short time brought up issues and participants felt satisfied with the evening. And even with people arriving later

Re: Half day intro and small group Training

2003-02-10 Thread Lisa Heft
Sharon -- This sounds excellent! Like Brendan, you are combining the energy of newly interested folks with that of a practice community. Sounds like the way to go. I am inviting small organizations to apply for having a day's retreat in Open Space *during* my next learning workshop - to give th

Re: LOCAL OS PRAC GROUP

2003-02-10 Thread Lisa Heft
Brendan -- What a great practice group gathering! And it was wonderful that you used it as a way to introduce new people to the wild and wacky world of Open Space. Delightful. Warm greetings from sunny Berkeley, Lisa L i s a H e f t Consultant, facilitator, educator O p e n i n g S p a c e

Re: Story of a 2.5 day Open Space (long)

2003-02-10 Thread Lisa Heft
Dear Chris -- Sounds like you held space for yet another amazing event. Thank you so much for the careful way you write things up - makes me feel a bit as if I were there! I love your action planning form and process, of course. And I am glad that people see the benefit of doing longer OS's. R

Open Space & First Nation people

2003-02-10 Thread Faye Adams
Hi Louise, How are you? Trust you are busy and back into the hurl & burl. We must catchup. I have a favour to ask of you. Could you forward this email onto Trevor Satour, if you have his details & cc me at the same time. The email I have for Trevor just does not compute and I'd like to keep i

OS for Russian Rotarians in Sacramento

2003-02-10 Thread Lisa Heft
[This post is from our Siberian colleague, Elena Marchuk, who is visiting the west coast of the USA - I posted a note about this Sacramento, California Open Space under the title of "Brief Stories." - here is the real story, from Ms. Elena -- Lisa Heft] - - - Hi dear OSers Thank you, Lisa, for you

Half day intro and small group Training

2003-02-10 Thread Sharon Quarrington
We just finished a very successful OS training with a different format from what we have done before - so I wanted to share because it touches on both the 2.5 hr "demo" OS and the small group training. We invited folks to both a half day OS experience and a 2 day training. We had 25 people sign u