Colleagues:
I have just got off the phone with a potential client who very much
wants to use Open Space, but has an Executive Director who is a little
nervous.
The situation is this...a non-profit approached me wanting to use Open
Space for a two day Board and staff planning retreat. The organiz
At 08:34 PM 4/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
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>Things have changed and the call that has come forward now is to do the
>meeting without the staff because a number of them are to be let go as
>the operation restructures, and they want a much more controlled process
>now to deal with HOW the restructuring
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Subject: An inquiry
Colleagues:
I have just got off the phone with a potential client who very much
wants to use Open Space, but has an Executive Director who is a little
nervous.
The situation is this...a non-profit approached me wanting to use Open
Space for a two day Board and
Hello all of you,
I am reading every message posted to this list and learning so much from all of
you. What a great resource for ongoing learning!
One question from Birgitt to Chris recently caught my attention and an ah-hah!:
> In the situation you describe, is there any open space that the spo
Susan:
You're right about space needing to be opened up within the organization, that
why
the sponsor is the one who "opens the space." As a facilitator, I just do the
opening, but only the sponsor can open space.
Regarding the other case of opening space for collaboration, there are still
give
Even when it is a group of organizations coming together, and I have led a
number of such Open Space events, I have always had a "sponsor group" that
was sponsoring the event (calling the meeting, doing the logistics planning
and details) and hence they were opening the space for the gathering. Th
think that this mutual
interest/commitment of developing the issues at hand should be clear in the
invitation.
Greetings Thomas
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From: "Susan Lilley"
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Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: An inquiry
> Hello all of you,
>
> I am re
Chris,
Thank you for including parts of your invitation.
I am curious about the description of OS you sent out with that invitation.
I am still new at opening space, and would love to see some other examples
of invitations from people who have been doing this for a while,
particularly examples o
Okay...here is the description of OS...What I love about this is that it
was written by the sponsor...all of the following came true by the
way...
CJC
Some Basic Information about the Open Space Process
What is Open Space?
Open Space is a meeting technology which draws on some very old
pri
Hi Chris - I have been following conversations and threads on the
listserve since my training with you and Birgitt in Vancouver in
February - what a wonderful event. Since I am preparing for my first OS
session - what you have provided here is really practical and is going
to be helpful, so I did w
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