stammtisch in Budapest

2005-03-07 Thread Filiz Telek
Dear all, In Budapest we are meeting today at 7 pm at Kicsi a Vilag tea house. Address is Madach utca 11. Cheers! filiz every day is a good day * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To s

Re: facilitation questions

2005-03-07 Thread Harrison Owen
Ah -- A little bit of Open Space! I have tried what you are suggesting several times (concurrent Open and closed space) and it never seemed to work very well. But I have to admit, that is a personal judgment based on what I knew could have happened had it all been in Open Space. I also have to admi

Re: facilitation questions

2005-03-07 Thread Steve Gawron
Hello All, Has anyone pursued the Six Sigma "Voice of the Customer" concepts into an Open Space facilitation? It seems that if the topics introduced into an open space discussion do not concern the participants, they will not respond. There is also a 'fear factor' in this equation. If the parti

Re: facilitation questions

2005-03-07 Thread Harrison Owen
The problem with the "demonstration" OS had nothing to do with fear, hostility, or anything like that. Actually if both fear and hostility had been present, thing might have been more fun. As it was, the real issue was total, unabated, lack of anything meaningful to talk about. As I said, there was

Re: Why is the Universe Lumpy?

2005-03-07 Thread Jeff Aitken
This is nothing new. Way back in the early 70's, the comedy group Firesign Theatre did a brilliant album, I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus, in which our hero Clem enters a Disneyland-like tour of the future, and the voice over the loudspeakers begins a story of the universe: "Before the begi

Re: Why is the Universe Lumpy?

2005-03-07 Thread Larry Peterson
As a peer of Einstien, a mathematician and philosopher -- A.N. Whithead, developed his view of vibrations (and maybe lumpiness). In Process and Reality, he suggests that every entity comes into being in a moment self-organizing its existence in relation to its environment from the past moment and

Re: Why is the Universe Lumpy?

2005-03-07 Thread Harrison Owen
Larry wrote: "Turtles all the way up and all the way down." Actually, I think it is Turtles in the Round. Certainly fits with Open Space. ho Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.open