Harold – love what you say! And… it isn’t all bad when people change their
minds. Indeed I always relish the moment when The Hot Issue (whatever) is
forgotten. Reminds us once again that setting agendas in advance (6 months,
Year, ???) is really a fool’s mission J
ho
Winter Address
7
Thanks for that report Diana. My first foray into Open Space I set up an
online system to allow folks to propose (but not commit) to topics. Very
few of those early proposals were actually convened the actual day of
the OST, same as Diana reported. I stopped doing that after my second event.
W
Hi Jean,
No advice. Just a story.
Last week I opened space for a group that decided (reasons) to limit hosts to
their one most "passion/responsibility" topic per day on the marketplace. Some
folks were sure they'd want more and others had new topics that emerged that
they wanted to remember
Instead of the Marketplace you could simply have an ideas wall, and anyone
who has an idea for a session the next day could stick it up there without
any feeling of commitment.
Then the next day open the Marketplace with the usual blank wall, remind
people that today is a new day and all are free
