Re: [OSList] Any experience with short OST

2012-06-11 Thread Catherine Corbaz
Hi everybody. The discussion is really interesting. Now I'll follow my intuition and I'll do it and see what happen. Besides there seems to be some confusion with me and Catherine Pfaehler. I'm Catherine Corbaz and I also live in Switzerland in Bienne, where Catherine P. used to live afew

Re: [OSList] Any experience with short OST

2012-06-11 Thread Blundell, Keith
I am having some success in introducing OS as a meeting format. Nearly all the meetings have been 3 to 4 hours with 8 to 30 participants. Only one meeting has ended early, for all the others I have had to (sadly) call time. Although there is some scepticism from both those running the meeting

Re: [OSList] Any experience with short OST

2012-06-11 Thread Jeff Aitken
I was asked to introduce OST to the student leadership group of a local community college. I was given an hour at lunch! At first I didn't want to offer any experience of the process in such a short time. But when the morning arrived I chose to go for it. The introduction that I typically use alre

Re: [OSList] Any experience with short OST

2012-06-11 Thread Harrison Owen
Joaquim – Marvelous question: “Is it better to open a little space, or to open no space at all? :-)” And I think the answer is pretty obvious but for reasons having little to do with Open Space Technology as a process. Life (at least my life) requires the opening of time/space. When all of that

Re: [OSList] Any experience with short OST

2012-06-11 Thread Joaquim Baptista
Greetings, All I've done were 5 short OST meetings plus a longer but biased OST track at a conference. I understand that these short meetings were not ideal, they did not lead to strong conclusions. On the other hand, it would have been impossible to ask parents that were strange to each other to

[OSList] Midway between horror and beauty_3C´s_3´video

2012-06-11 Thread Eleder_BuM
Hi friends, I think you´ll like watching this 3´video (*"A powerful, poetic, visual and introspective journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy"* , producers say) and will fiind threads that may make us embrace our ancient companions: chaos, confusion and conflict..