--- kerry napuk wrote:
> Plexus should start their investigation with the evolution of
> decision making and the exclusion of stakeholders, then the Institute
> will start understanding large group processes, participatory
> democracy, equality and open space.
As usual I totally share Kerry's vie
29 May
I just finished a 160 person OST in Belgrade for a large International
Development Consulting Company. One of the participates heads a Polish
Consulting firm and is interested in using OST in his business.
I promised to put the word out,to those of you close by Warsaw, who
might be intere
- Original Message -
From: "John Engle"
To: "GraceAnn"
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: Open Space ,Self-Organizing Systems, and The Plexus Institute
> thank you for your post, graceann. i have just noticed
> that it came to me but that it did not go to the
> entire list
> --- GraceAnn wrote:
> It's true.. we so often think we can be instruments of empowerment,
and yet we slide toward a "power over" role so often. Either we take over,
or we insist on someone else taking over. Paulo Freire had the right idea,
but it's so difficult to put his theory into practic
I just had a conversation with a client about an upcoming 2-day Open Space.
The group is composed lots of high-powered executives. As my contact put it,
"there are undoubtedly people in the group who haven't taken their own notes in
40 years."
The planners are envisioning having staff do the
At 01:40 PM 5/27/2003 -0700, you wrote:
I just had a conversation with a client about an upcoming 2-day Open
Space. The group is composed lots of high-powered executives. As my
contact put it, "there are undoubtedly people in the group who haven't
taken their own notes in 40 years."
The planne
Hi Peggy:
I have had "secretaries" type up notes and find that the end result is
not nearly as satisfying as when people do it themselves. I wouldn't
classify them as disasters however, in my experience anyway.
I find that for anything less than one day, people generally express the
complaint th
Peggy,
Your thought of "power as love" is profound and you struck a chord with
me. I would carry it on to say, "Love is Service". At the heart of my
thinking are the notions that it is in giving that we gain, and that in
dying we live. And then I admit that I have a long way to go.
Thanks for shari
Hi Peggy:
I have done a one day for sixty CEOs (Harrison facilitated the same group two
years before). No change in the process is necessary or appropriate IMO. As you
well know, you are speaking of the "planners" concerns, not those of the execs
themselves. What we did was to have a typist avai
Very interesting!
Perhaps I coddle my clients too much ;-) but I do what Chris suggests
pretty much all the time -- ask the convenors to see to it that a
posterboard is generated which captures the learnings to share with
everyone else. If I limit them to one posterboard, or at most two, they
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