OS and SFBT

2004-11-21 Thread david mckay
I attended a trainers event here in Oshawa last week. The presenters gave us a demo/intro to open space for non-open-spacers and that was a part of my impetus for joining this list. What struck me was the parallels with a counselling strategy called solutions focussed brief therapy (sfbt). It is

Givens

2004-11-21 Thread david mckay
As someone utterly new and as a non-practitioner I have been trying to decode the conversation about "givens" -- so I bring my context to the interpretative endeavour. I write. Mostly short fiction and non-fiction and I belong to a creative writing circle where we discuss our writing in particula

newbie delurking

2004-11-15 Thread david mckay
Hello. I have had an on-off interest in Open Space ever since I attended a religious conference which used OS to structure some of the time. I'm attending a local networking event for trainers in a week and someone there will be talking OS but I don't believe they will be doing OS. My knowledge