Continuing OS on-line

1999-12-16 Thread Peg Holman
I am about to do some work with the Washington State Arts Commission to create a strategic plan. It starts with a one-day statewide OS, followed by 18 1/2-day OSs in communities around the state all focused on the "issues and opportunities for arts and culture in the state and in your communiti

Re: Continuing OS on-line

1999-12-16 Thread Jim Lord
Peg Holman wrote: > I am about to do some work with the Washington State Arts Commission > to create a strategic plan. Dear Peg, Your posting brings up an interesting question for me. It's one that I find arises in most situations when "organizations of social good" (a.k.a. "nonprofits") turn t

Re: Continuing OS on-line

1999-12-16 Thread Muriel Finegold
Peg: What about combining some Appreciative Inquiry with Open Space and gathering stories from each of your events. "Stories have wings" as it is said, and they can help cross-pollinate wisdom and inspiration from one event to another. Muriel Finegold

Re: Continuing OS on-line

1999-12-16 Thread kerry napuk
Dear Peg I did a major piece of planning work with the Scottish Arts Council in 1992/93 and with the team at Design 99 Year of Architecture and Design in Glasgow. As the arts are so experientailly based, might you consider a rapporteur for each travelling session, that is, bring one person from t

Re: Continuing OS on-line

1999-12-16 Thread Harrison Owen
> > > One of the questions we are sitting with is how to carry the spirit of the > meetings from one to the next and ultimately to the second large gathering. > We've discussed a nineteeth "virtual" OS using an electronic bulletin board, > a regularly scheduled on-line chat time and/or a listserv.

Re: Continuing OS on-line

1999-12-16 Thread koos de heer
Hi Peg, Sounds like an interesting project. At 06:25 16-12-1999 -0800, you wrote: We will be making arts materials available and inviting people to express their ideas not only in words but in other media. That is very good. Not only because it fits in with the topic, but also because

Re: Continuing OS on-line

1999-12-17 Thread BJ Peters
> Peg Holman wrote: > >> I am about to do some work with the Washington State Arts Commission >> to create a strategic plan. > Jim Lord wrote: > For how can we succeed in bringing these resources to the surface, and > realizing their generative potential, if not through our conviction > that plent

Peg Holman Re: Continuing OS on-line

1999-12-17 Thread Fr Brian S Bainbridge
Dear Peg Two questions/observations which might matter. 1.Are the 18 sessions to build on one another ? If so, then some continuity format would be critical. If not (as seems the case) then each session would have the option of starting afresh from where the first 1-day session left off and e