What are the unstated assumptions and aims of OS?

[Eiwor Backelund]

Doug,
a few thoughts about this:
I would think the seniors to be the experts on this issue. Why don´t bring
them together with the health care staff and  I am sure they will solve
the problem.
About the divided OS meeting. I once facilitated a two-day meeting with
two weeks dividing the two days. I did not feel any loss of energy between
the meetings but we had two whole days and I am not sure that you get
enough energy to continue from only one hour of discussion. Some issues
might also take more time to discuss than one hour and we are asking
people to take their time and to continue until they are done and I feel
this is so short. When I facilitated the two day divided event I made a
short reopening the second day so they had possibility to post new issues
and they also had the reports from the first meeting sent out in between.
I think OST always works as a meeting method but what is interesting with
OST are the results and by that I mean the way people participates and
goes on working with the issues they have passion for also after the
event. The event is often only a starting point for something much bigger.
And if this is what we want, I also think we should fight for the
participant´s right to have their space of time to go deeply in the
discussion of their issues. I think that what might happen in a discussion
is that a sort of window opens to let us see other pictures and sometimes
also the bigger picture and we can learn about other people´s world views.
And like all creativity that can not be ordered and must be given some
space (time).
Blessings
Eiwor

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