Dear Friends
Thanks for the posting on the WTO. Reading the reports yesterday on the
internal processes that lead to the breakdown of negotiations, I was
thinking alot about what would happen if you used Open Space in such a
politically motivated environment. Does it work? Or does the lack of
David corrected me: the WTO piece was written by Susan Partnow on the AI
list and David forwarded it to us.
Regarding drop-off: I opened the space on the second day of a four-day
annual conference last spring near Lake Tahoe - 380 people in three
concentric circles. There were 23 sessions created
9 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: WTO; drop-off
> David corrected me: the WTO piece was written by Susan Partnow on the AI
> list and David forwarded it to us.
>
> Regarding drop-off: I opened the space on the second day of a four-day
> annual conference last spring near Lake Tahoe - 380 peo
I have also led a number of Open Space events at conferences where there has
been some drop-off by closure, and some who chose not to attend. I think
this is normal for conferences anyway. The stakes are very different,
individual learning rather than organizational performance. People at
conferenc
understood the necessity for dialogue.
Perhaps most absent (from what I have been able to gather here in NY) from
the WTO protests was that important ingredient >>
In a message dated 12/5/1999, soren...@onramp.net writes:
<< Demonstrators fail to see that when they move from expression
