OS deliverables for medical folks

[Birgitt Williams]

Hi Lisa,
It also works if the planning committee has its desired "line up" of
specialists who would normally lead workshops and they are asked to simply
do it differently--by putting up their offerings as a topic, the same as
everybody else. That might satisfy the planning group. The law of two feet
applies and some will go to the traditional workshops and some will go to
other offerings. And it will be very rich for all.

Blessings
Birgitt
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  Subject: OS deliverables for medical folks


  Hello, all –



  I have been planning an Open Space 1.5 day conference with a client – New
Directions for Integrating Services For the Incarcerated and Their Families.

  This conference will be for about 75 medical clinicians (some who are
staff of hospitals and other medical facilities ‘outside’ and some who are
based ‘inside’ prisons and jails) who specialize in medical issues, mental
health, addiction, treatment, diagnosis, and overall challenges of providing
care in a prison/jail context.



  You’ve been through this before, and so have I – we had a planning meeting
and it was a go ahead for a full Open Space conference, then a few weeks
passed and I got a trouble message from my client (the doctor convening this
conference and a great appreciator of Open Space) that went something like
this:



  “most of the docs on the planning committee are leery of using Open Space
for the entire day and a half conference.  Like the idea of at least 1
session or portion, but the feedback was that they expect the prison/jail
providers to be especially uncomfortable with such a dynamic process and
that even if they liked it on 1 level (being able to voice their opinions
and display their expertise) they would be suspicious and uncomfortable with
the departure from the top down model they are so used to.  I think 1 of the
prison MDs felt that many of his colleagues would be watching for a sense of
"expertise" in the traditional sense and will feel that it will end up in
poor word of mouth if there is no labeled "moderator" or "leader" of
sessions.”



  Of course I will be talking to my client about how to write up the
conference in the words of deliverables, topics that will be discussed, big
important people who will be there to talk about specific things, expertise
words and such, as one can do for an OS event to speak to a culture such as
this.



  But as usual, it will help my client talk to her planning committee if she
has more concrete examples of experts / expertise / measurable outcomes /
cutting-edge research being discussed / research-science-treatment-you get
what I mean.



  Anybody care to share a few lines describing powerful outcomes and
expertise in an Open Space with similar folks?



  Thank you, marvelous you,



  Lisa



  L i s a   H e f t

  Consultant, facilitator, educator

  O p e n i n g  S p a c e

  2325 Oregon

  Berkeley, California

  94705-1106   USA

  (+01) 510 548-8449

  lisaheft at pacbell.net



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