Re: Help with Open Space in Mexico?

2003-04-21 Thread Michael Herman
hello yifat, thanks for your message. i am forwarding this to the OSLIST (details for your joining are at http://www.openspaceworld.org) and asking anyone who can help to contact you directly. with luck you'll find a number of helpers. hello OSLIST... this came into the osw.org website. can y

Re: the gift of open space music from chris

2003-04-21 Thread Birgitt Williams
Penny, thank you for sharing this with us. Chris is gifting Bowen Island and the world. Blessings, Birgitt -Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu]On Behalf Of Penny Scott Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 2:04 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: the g

Question - more than one theme?

2003-04-21 Thread Ulrika Eklund
Dear all, a new question Is it possible to have an common OS-meeting with one overall theme and then five subtopics within the theme? I am thinking of presenting the big theme and then have five agenda walls with the five subtopics. Have any one tried this? Any other suggestions? Thanks Ulrika Sw

Thanks for answering a CEO question a long time ago

2003-04-21 Thread Ulrika Eklund
Dear all and especially you that answered me about CEO, Just wanted to say thank you for all your good advice. I had this problem with a OS-meeting where the CEO (in this case one of the Swedish minister in the government). She could not attend the whole meeting and the question was if she should

Re: the gift of open space music from chris

2003-04-21 Thread Chris Corrigan
Oh my. Thank you. Chris --- CHRIS CORRIGAN Bowen Island, BC, Canada http://www.chriscorrigan.com ch...@chriscorrigan.com (604) 947-9236 -Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Birgitt Williams Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 11:33 AM To: o

the gift of open space music from chris

2003-04-21 Thread Penny Scott
Check out what our friend Chris Corrigan is gifting Bowen Island with on Sunday nights.. an excerpt from Kathryn Thomson's letter in our local paper, The Undercurrent, this week. On Sunday I experienced something extraordinary - a choir of angels was singing in the United church. This choir must

Re: Question - more than one theme?

2003-04-21 Thread Ralph Copleman
On 4/21/03 9:16 AM, "Harrison Owen" wrote: > I favor a completely blank wall -- maybe a sign that says "Market" but that is > it. Really makes the point -- The agenda is yours, and you are the agenda. I agree with Harrison. And while I favor a blank wall, I¹ve also done it this way. Clients wh

Re: Question - more than one theme?

2003-04-21 Thread Chris Corrigan
I prefer the blank wall too, but I have also done this: In a recent Open Space on strategic planning with 18 people, coming into the event there was a consensus from the whole group that one of the givens of the event was that there were four main areas of work that needed to be addressed. The Ne

Re: The magic that happens...

2003-04-21 Thread Pannwitz, Michael M
Dear Julie Smith, I have a couple of questions in the context of the international os-training in Weimar in May (of the 68 applicants, 48 were selected from 14 European countries) and your story (see below). Could not find your email address. Pleae bear with me, list! and Happy Easter Monday to all

Re: Question - more than one theme?

2003-04-21 Thread Harrison Owen
At 12:28 PM 4/21/2003 +0200, you wrote: Dear all, a new question Is it possible to have an common OS-meeting with one overall theme and then five subtopics within the theme? I am thinking of presenting the big theme and then have five agenda walls with the five subtopics. Have any one tried this

Re: Question - more than one theme?

2003-04-21 Thread Winston Kinch
Off the top, my thought is that this would be too "directive". How about keeping working on the wording of the theme so as to "allow" or even "suggest" but not "require" certain sub-topics such as "with particular regard to A, B and C, what are the I&O for X" -or- mention the sub-topics during