Answer to Carla: OST "presentation"

[Vliex, Carla (cvl)]

Lisa, Thomas, Harrison and Martin

Thank you, with all your ingredients I can weave my 40 minutes Open Space!

Lisa, could you send me the article too??

Love and friendship

Carla
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> From:         Lisa Heft[SMTP:lisaheft at pacbell.net]
> Reply To:     OSLIST
> Sent:         Wednesday, 18 December, 2002 16:56
> To:   OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Answer to Carla: OST "presentation"
>
> Hello Ms. Fabulous brilliant Carla --
>
> (Carla, Janet Pinto, Allison Baensch and I were all housemates at
> Allison and Jim's wonderful house in Healesville, Australia just before
> the Open Space on Open Space last month.  And let us not forget the most
> endearing four-footed wonderdog, Ms. Rosa!)
>
> I have given a 1-hour 'presentation' on Open Space at conferences.  I
> ask for a big room and chairs set up in a circle - all the same as if I
> were doing an Open Space itself.  I have the signs all around the room,
> markers and paper in the middle and so on, and for the agenda wall I
> have the theme
>
>                       Strategies for Moving Our Work Forward
> Opportunities / Challenges             Creating / Sharing Resources
>
> If I want to give them an idea of what it would be like for what they
> are currently experiencing (in this case, I will pretend that I am
> giving this presentation in a conference) I set up the agenda wall so
> that it includes, say, 5 discussion area A-B-C's down the left side of
> that wall and across the wall, session times like
>
> Wednesday       Wednesday       Wednesday       Thursday        Thursday
> 10:00-11:00     11:00-12:00     1:00-2:00       10:00-11:00
> 11:00-12:00
>
> Also on the wall are two more signs:
>
> Lunch is available 11:30-1:30
>
> And
>
> Closing Circle 2:00-3:00 (or something like that)
>
> (By the way, and thanks to inspiration from the most amazing BJ Peters,
> I no longer use a time/space matrix on a big piece of paper with
> Post-Its on it, but instead I make the whole agenda wall a grid so
> people can place their topic signs directly onto the wall in the
> time/space zone, eliminating a step to go pick something up on the
> left-hand side and bring it over to post on the wall).
>
> By the door I have an article I wrote describing Open Space (let me know
> anyone if you would like me to send you a copy) and a sheet letting them
> know when the next learning workshop is (in San Francisco and in other
> places in the world) and other ways to find out more).  This they pick
> up as they leave the presentation.
>
> I start seated in the circle and tell them I will be giving them a
> feeling for what it would be like to hold this conference in the method
> of Open Space - if it's a big conference I ask them to think about what
> it would feel like to walk into a room with a circle of 300 chairs (or
> whatever).  Then I tell them I'm going to show them the process (I want
> to give them the clarity that we are now segueing into enactment rather
> than my describing something) and I stand up and 'open' the space.  As
> always, I remind them to step out of their roles in their organizations
> and think as people - what are they passionate about and what do they
> feel is crucial for us to talk about before the conference/meeting
> closes?
>
> They write their topics and post them, and I give them lots of time for
> this.  And then I finish with just exactly what I would tell any group
> before they set off to do their discussions.  And I ask them to go to
> the wall and sign their names on all the topics they would like to
> attend if they could bumblebee around, then to sit back down and join me
> in the circle.
>
> Then I make a change in the dynamics and let them know I am now changing
> back from the simulation to processing it.  And the first thing I ask
> them is to look at the wall.  Would they be stimulated by going to such
> a conference?  And aren't these much more diverse and exciting topics
> than any of us could have developed in all our good intentions in
> advance?  And so on.
>
> Then we talk about it, I bring up who they might have invited and who
> they could invite that would make it even better, they ask questions,
> and as the session closes I welcome them to pick up the article and
> information sheet by the door.
>
> - - -
>
> What I'm trying to do here is to give them a full-body understanding of
> the process, how they would feel, what it would stimulate, and so on.
> That's why the room is set up just like an OS, why I have them walk to
> the wall and sign their names on the topic sheets, etc.  Works pretty
> well in those short timeframes.
>
> The End by Lisa Heft.
>
> Warm greetings from rainy Berkeley, California USA, and Carla, I have
> heard that the Ketchup Song is coming to the States...and now you are
> going to have to explain that to the list...
>
>
>
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