Not so frequently told stories

2006-01-04 Thread Kevin Cameron
So I was just reading over the Frequently Told OST stories list at Michael Herman's site, ( http://www.globalchicago.net/wiki/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceTech/FrequentlyToldStories ) and I started wondering about the "not so frequently told stories". Don't get me wrong, I'm a big believer, and my limit

Re: SV: OS Institutes

2006-01-04 Thread Marei Kiele
Hello Thomas, thank you for answering my question. I will take the idea of the German OS Institute to two open space meetings where many of the german open space people participate in, both in January. And I am open for more input from other countries !! Greetings, Marei "Thomas Herr

Re: Not so frequently told stories

2006-01-04 Thread Tree Fitzpatrick
Sorry. I don't think this note made it to the list earlier today . . . but if it did, I apologize for the redundancy. Well, Kevin, you already have your answer from the master but the fact that you mentioned that you are going to be 'pitching' OS to a (prospective?) client made me think of a conv

Re: Not so frequently told stories

2006-01-04 Thread Birgitt Williams
Kevin, OST always works. That is the good news and that is the bad news. If it is set up incorrectly, it works in accordance with how it is set up and because the facilitator doesn't intervene, the facilitator can't stop it if it is going in a direction not intended. It is kind of like a toboggan g

Guardian Article

2006-01-04 Thread Phelim McDermott
Hi Folks, This is the Guardian Article.. I wrote for This weekends Theatre Open Space event. D & D. Unfortunately they edited me down a fair bit. But it Gives Open space a decent mention. http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1677553,00.html Phelimx * * ==

Re: Guardian Article

2006-01-04 Thread Julie Denny
Phelim: Very interesting article. I've forwarded to Jim. I think you gave OST great space, even edited, and of course I'm most eager to hear about outcomes from the big event! Julie Julie Denny Resolutions People talk...people listen...things change. 31 Poe Road Princeton, NJ 08540 TEL

Re: Guardian Article

2006-01-04 Thread Harrison Owen
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Re: WC and OS in the classroom

2006-01-04 Thread Blake Mills
Melinda, Hello to a fellow New Englander! Yes, an instructor at the photo and film school I attended here in Rockport, Maine, used OS to design the curriculum for a mandatory class called "Professional Development". It's purpose is to prepare the students for life in their chosen field af

Re: WC and OS in the classroom

2006-01-04 Thread miworld
Hello Melinda. My university experience was all shared learning, with action learning sets for small (local) groups and open space for lager (national) groups. My first experience of Open Space was at the university residential and it took a wee while to come to terms with the fact that we (the stu

Re: WC and OS in the classroom

2006-01-04 Thread Michael Herman
hello diane, melinda might want to talk with judi richardson, who might yet pop up here in this thread. in the meantime, and just in case she doesn't pop up, i have judi's original notes on os in the classroom, and i think some others, listed in the bottom half of this page... http://www.globalchi

Re: Not so frequently told stories

2006-01-04 Thread Harrison Owen
Kevin -- I would guess that your search will not be too productive, which is not to say that some folks over the past 20 years have found OS not to be their cup of tea. In most of the situations which I have been able to run down, the unhappy person was the sort who absolutely required somebody els

Re: Not so frequently told stories

2006-01-04 Thread Tree Fitzpatrick
Well, Kevin, you already have your answer from the master but the fact that you mentioned that you are going to be 'pitching' OS to a (prospective?) client made me think of a conversation I had with Lisa Heft, aka Access Queen, while standing in line to take a shower at a small conference last spri