SV: Re: Participant Driven Open Space Principles and Laws

[Ingrid Olausson]

The law of two ears. I love this! Would be a good addition.
Ingrid
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From: Francoise Coupal, Mosaic.net International <coupal at MOSAIC-NET-INTL.CA>
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Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: Participant Driven Open Space Principles and Laws


> I am wondering if any of you out there on the list serve has ever
> facilitated an open space event where the participants themselves determine
> the principles/laws that will govern their open space event.  Maybe this
> type of approach would build a sense of ownership as to what would be
> important to respect and would take into account different cultural
> priorities.  I have thought about Francis Gastman's email about her/his
> experience in Berlin (which I found very illuminating).  Maybe if there was
> a space to consider key principles participants felt were important to
> respect during the Berlin open space event, something like the Law of Two
> Ears would have been deemed as important for all the participants to fully
> consider/respect.
> I use the concept of a Group Contract in non-open space events where
> participants are asked to define the ground rules they feel would be
> important to respect to ensure a successful workshop. We usually revisit
> the group contract every day to see how we are doing and if we need to add
> anything to the contract.
>
> Why not start an open space event asking participants to define the guiding
> principles that will govern the Open Space?  Has this been done before and
> what were the results?
> Francoise
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