OST with local Catholic Diocese (long)

[Lisa Heft]

Peggy --

Your thoughts are going where ours have been.  We're still talking about design,
but we really asked ourselves, "Let's say we converged and identified all that
was needed for the 15 hot issues, and got all that done in the first five
minutes, or the first evening, or whatever.  How do you want to use the rest of
the weekend?'

The sponsor identified three things she wants us to cover in this weekend:

1
Identify 15 issues out of the many

2
Trust building, clarity on what this means, grieving changes if you don't see
your topics as hot topics, all the feelings

3
Clarity as to the role of this group - 'what you've done has been a piece of
this bigger process' - of the fact that the work of these weekends has now
concluded and this group becomes once again part of the greater group, weaving
in and out of the changes we will see happening and making also personal
commitments and personal changes.


We are indeed thinking lately about using this next OS to go into the personal,
go inside to connect self and to focus.  To personally dedicate their energy, as
you said.

We'll see how it all unfolds, eh?  I'll keep you posted.

Lisa

Peggy Holman wrote:

> Lisa,
>
> This sounds like the perfect case for my favorite form of convergence.  Do
> an Open Space.  The question is something along the lines of "what is the
> essence of our work to reach our aspirations?"  The opening is one
> encouraging focus rather than divergence.  It is an invitation to look
> within and ask where personal passion rests for reaching the desires of the
> whole.
>
> I did this for the Washington State Arts Commission strategic planning
> effort.  They had held a series of open spaces around the state to explore
> arts and culture in the state.  The OS for convergence had people from all
> over the state.  We posted the flip chart notes from all twenty OSs on the
> walls(big room!) .  We also printed booklets with the reports.  After saying
> hello in the circle, people took about an hour to look through all the
> materials, sitting with the question of what was essential from their
> perspective.  We followed this with an OS asking what was essential for the
> future of the arts in our state; where did they personally wish to dedicate
> their energy?  We ran one very long session that started before lunch and
> continued following lunch.  This worked really well in that people went
> really deep in their planning.  The lunch break gave people a little
> distance so they came back refreshed to continue their work.  We held a
> "bazaar" at the end where one person stayed with the flip charts and
> answered questions, noted reactions from others who visited the various
> discussions.  Then, a closing circle.
>
> Peggy

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