Re: pre-planned sessions?

2010-10-27 Thread Christine Whitney Sanchez
Ho! Christine Sent from my iPhone On Oct 27, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Harrison Owen wrote: > Anybody can preplan whatever they want. And they will. But I always suggest > in the opening that if folks come out with the agenda they came in with -- > everybody will be the loser. Truth of the matter is t

Re: pre-planned sessions?

2010-10-27 Thread Jorge amigo
Buen tema Raffi Una vez que se está en la situación que describes, creo que solo cabe aceptar que lo que ha ocurrido ha sido lo único que pudo ocurrir. Entendiendo que siempre habrá amigos del control que querrán controlar y dirigir la libertad del espacio abierto, la pregunta entonces es ¿Qué hace

Re: pre-planned sessions?

2010-10-27 Thread Harrison Owen
Anybody can preplan whatever they want. And they will. But I always suggest in the opening that if folks come out with the agenda they came in with -- everybody will be the loser. Truth of the matter is that whatever emerges is so much better than what folks thought beforehand that preplanning is a

Re: pre-planned sessions?

2010-10-27 Thread Raffi Aftandelian
Queridos amigos, Thank you Harold, Wendy, Jorge, and Harrison for your responses. Wendy: Yes, to clarify- these are "pre-designed" sessions. So, the Community Bulletin Board is blank at the outset. Harold: Yes, I do make sure that there are enough session times, so scarcity of breakout spaces

Re: [OSList] pre-planned sessions?

2010-10-27 Thread Harold Shinsato
Hello Raphael, Wonderful topic! It's probably not that uncommon at OST events for some of the presentations to be pre-prepared, canned, or well rehearsed by the conveners. I'd not intervene with the particular folks who convene such sessions. If those sessions are what people want to go to, an

Re: pre-planned sessions?

2010-10-27 Thread Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
Thanks for asking this Raffi, I'm interested in hearing others experiences with pre-planned sessions within an OS container. I am going to be facilitating an experiment with a blended event in Feb where some of the sessions are 'pre- planned'. I have some reservations about going this rout

pre-planned sessions?

2010-10-27 Thread Raffi Aftandelian
Queridos amigos del espacio abierto, A friend of mine who took place in an OST event I organized and facilitated recently (a daylong Compassionate Communication practice event) expressed dissatisfaction about the following: It seemed that most everyone who had convened a session already had a pl