Dear Owen,
Thanks for making me laugh with some of your insights, especially about
perhaps looking around for another company if the session is short. Being
genetically half-Japanese, I'm a little familiar with the Japanese-Engineer
effect. It has something to do with politeness and respect for
Hi everyone!
This discussion of different time schedules in OS is most intriguing. It
is so often that client wants to get everything and more in shortest
time period. And this is probably where the need to hurry up comes from.
Could we just introduce different types of OS - fast, normal and s
Dear Harold,
I can resonate with your agony. I have held a few Open Space
conferences for IT people (up to 200) and I have had the same
worries. But believe me, even the toughest nerds are able to function
fine in Open Space. Be prepared to sit on your hands for a number of
seconds. They may
Hallo Harold,
As an engineer and open space-freak I have to answer your beautiful
challenge! I do understand your questions, but calm down, I'm sure the
engineers will surprise you (and probably themselves aswell)!
The theme should at least engage yourself - and be a question, that you and
your co
Dear Peggy, dear Tova, Tree and all the others who have shared their
wisdom about time keeping:
This time keeping thing is a frequent topic over here. In an OS
meeting, it often happens that someone comes up to me and tells me it
is time to tell the time. People in the Netherlands are very fon
Dear friends in Open Space
Im in the middle of a 3 day OS training with 16 participants and weve
discussed similair things at times during this first day. Such as does the
facilitator have to tell people that they may help themselves with coffee
and tea although it is just in the face of them,
Dear Peggy, Michael, Elena and others!
I will support Elena and tell why we are doing this in our part of the
world. We have the lucky opportunity to introduce OST to different
categories of the state and municipal civil servants here at the Siberian
Academy for Public Administration (SAPA). It's
for me it was letting go of the notion that there is "a way to do it
right". I started by being very puritan"by the book" and I am very
glad I did. it helped me a lot in stating to live open space in my
daily life and uncovering what open space is. Being the one to bring
the use of OST to I
Dear Peggy
I guess I am lazy.
I really have never used any form of time-keeping or time-crying.
Even in short events, I reckon if people are so wrapped up in the topic they
have started and are pursuing, then "whatever happens..." in a
self-organizing fashion is how I have always seen things. Wh
Harold -- It is not about trusting the process for after all Open Space has
been "done" well over 100,000 times in 134 countries -- and it always seems
to work. It is really about trusting the people. And if the 150 employees of
your company are anything more than marginally competent, committed an
Harold -- Welcome!
Invitation: Short, sweet, and open. For a theme -- maybe something like
"Issues and Opportunities for Building Our Business." Presuming they (your
engineers) care about the business, that should get them started.
Don't try and explain Open Space. Folks wouldn't believe you anyh
Dear Owen,
Thank you, it's such an honor to get a reply directly from you. I think my
issue is faith in myself and in the process. I've read the book (some
chapters more than once). I think maybe I just needed to hear it again in a
different way to help me "get" it. I appreciate the encouragem
Greetings to all. Before I respond to Peggy's 'town crier' post, I pause to
remind all who might be reading that when I share my opinion, I am not
putting down others' comments. Sometimes when I have commented on this list
(and others) people seem to hear me putting down others' ideas when I am
sim
Peg, Jeff, and all,
My response to a participant who wants me to ring the bell after lunch
might have been to suggest to him that he was perfectly free to remind
people about the time, if he chose to. I agree that it's not a role I
personally want to take on.
Gabriella, old friend,
Cong
Ringing Bells for sessions.
I guess I can understand why you might be tempted in a short Open Space with
short sessions, but even then my feeling is that is a temptation to be
resisted. Part of this is the whole question of participants really taking
responsibility for what they care about - in
Dear Open Spacetronauts,
This is my first post to the list after an excellent training in San
Francisco in OS Facilitation from Lisa Heft. With a one day OS coming up
that I'll be facilitating in February, I'm a little daunted by the process
of building the invitation and the theme and I have a f
Interesting example of how we show up, even in small things, communicates
big time values and believes.
Even a Town crier to me is the continuation of the "culture of dependency "
Open Space is wanting us and helping us get away from. It's nourishing the
old mental model that the participants
Hi Michael, thank you for the idea,
I love it and will think, how to do it on my time/place schedule
and wonder, what do you mean by cardboard arrow?
is it magnetic?
as usually I have just space near the blackboard, which I use to be free for
posters, and it is just for one flip-chart paper and
Dear Peggy,
I wish I could NOT ring the bells and let participants to work as they care,
but most OSs I provide are very limited in time, and several time I missed the
time by chance (though not much...) I could see, that people are just seeting
and talking in a previous groups. If I had the tim
Dear Elena,
oh, this arrow is very hightech, of course.
It is made of 160g red heavy paper, cut with a scissor.
It is attached to the schedule either with a pin in case the surface
permits that or with a short piece of adhesive tape rolled together and
stuck to the backside (a chewing gum might
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