Dear Adrienn, ok, I will post our exchange to the oslistserve (if you want to see possible responses you need to sign in, the procedure is quite simple, take a look at the bottom of my mail). Will your thesis be in English? I would like to receive it (pay the expenses, of course) peace mmp
Dear Mr. Michael Pannwitz, Thank you for your answer. I talked to Csaba Csaszar and his collegaues about Open Space and I also write my thesis with the help and support of them. Thank you for your invitation, but unfortunately I can not take part on this training, because I have just started to work, and at the first time I have to be there every day. You can post my questions to the OS list, because it would be interesting that what kind of answers will I get for it. (I think, that everyone have a lot of different experiences and opinion about this.) Thanks again, Adrienn >From: "Pannwitz, Michael M" <mmpa...@snafu.de> >Reply-To: "Pannwitz, Michael M" <mmpa...@snafu.de> >To: "Adrienn Sápi" <sapi_adri...@hotmail.com> >CC: "Pannwitz, Michael M" <mmpa...@snafu.de> >Subject: Re: thesis on Open Space >Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:57:21 +0100 > >Dear Adrienn Sapi, >happy to hear from you....am presently at an open space with some 70 >African women and their families (loads of kids, too, just now >playing soccer in the park just outside of my window). >Before I say something to your questions let me point out that it >might be helpful if you also talked to os-colleagues in Budapest, >such as Csaba. >Also, there is a European training on os-t in English in Weimar May >25 through May 30th for colleagues that have the focus of their work >with youths. >Several people from Hungary have applied. It is free of charge and >might be of some interest to you. If you want more info, let me know. > >To your questions: > > > >- What kind of problems can be solved with this method? >Complex, conflicting, urgent questions that no one person has a real >answer to. The range is very wide. >A difficulty with your question is the word "problem". In a systemic >context, organisations and systems develope in the direction of the >question that you pose in the organization or system. If someone asks >you to help them with problem x, one response can be to ask what it >is they want to achieve. Often, or almost always, a different angle >developes out of this kind of questioning with the client focusing >more on his ressources and challenges. And that then can become the >focus of an open space event. >If you look at the list of os-events that I have worked on and also >have a look at the links in my collection of links, you will find >that there is practically no field that open space has not been used >in. > > > > >- Has it any meaning to use when the management canºt give up the >controll > >and canºt provide safe space for the self-managing group? (when the > >facilitator thinks or feels that it can happen) > >I gather that you are asking whether it makes any sense to use open >space when management cant give up control. >It does not make sense. >As long as management can not leave the control mode the time is not >right for them to use open space. > > > > > > >-As I see the Open Space flow itself is more important than the theme >they > >are discussing. I mean its a good thing that they have ideas that can be > >implemented to the normal life of the company, but the more long term >effect > >is the participantsº personal learning flow during the process. What do >you > >think of it? > >Well, the effects of open space on the short range are quite easy to >see. I have not seen any study that supports your view. >However, it is a thesis that I think needs testing. >My experience is that participants in open space regularly achieve >great progress in short time but that they themselves dont feel that >they have done much of anything. >Harrison Owen has observed this repeatedly and keeps asking why >participants dont see or honor their own great success. >Maybe, they feel it to be very natural what they are doing and >achieving, and of course, it is very natural but still very special. >What I also observe, in myself, and in others is that open space has >a liberating and transforming effect which is much more on the level >you are talking about than on achieving results that can be >implemented. > > >-How can the facilitator help the work of the self-managed teams and to > >sustain the energy level of the conference? Is it his/her responsibility? > >By getting out of the way and letting people do their thing. >Recently, in Poland, energy seemed low in a particular phase of the >open space. I was not bothered by it, but one participant felt that I >should do something about the low level of energy. Before I could say >anything another participant said: Why do you want to close the space >for low energy that we just opened for ourselves. >I could not have said it in such straight and simple wordsl. > > > > >I hope that you can find some time to answer me. Thank you for your help. >Thanks for your questions. >I would like to post our exchange on the oslistserve, I think there >might be a number of colleagues around the world that would add their >observations and questions. >Let me know if you agree. >Good luck with your thesis...will it be in English? >peace >mmp Michael M Pannwitz boscop Draisweg 1 12209 Berlin, Germany FON +49 - 30-772 8000 FAX +49 - 30-773 92 464 www.michaelmpannwitz.de An der E-Gruppe "openspacedeutsch" für deutschsprechende open space-PraktikerInnen interessiert? Enfach eine mail an mich. * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html