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[Brendan McKeague]

G'day Joe

I have used this recently at a three-day national conference -
non-residential - about 100 folks - theme: Spirituality in Leadership and
Management.
For days two and three, the mornings had keynote addresses and then
traditional smorgasbord offerings after lunch - three streams to choose from -
1) presentation of papers - academic stream
2) workshops - interactive, facilitator-directed stream
3) Open Space - 2 x one hour conversation sessions

First day about 4 people came into the 'space' initially - had a
conversation, were joined by another couple - had some further
conversations - were satisfied with the choices; second day first session 6
people - later joined by about 10 others - very stimulating and energised -
people who admitted to being overloaded with info and wanted some time for
good conversations...
 From my perspective - this was about using the framework of OS for
creating space for conversation - it worked insofar as the right people
came etc - and received what they needed at the time.
Was it Open Space? dunno about that...certainly a version of OS - though
not very satisfying for me as space-holder - in comparison to the 'real
thing' ....eeek, what am I saying?  since my views are irrelevant (other
than 'silent witness' ) in the 'evaluation' in any event - the folks who
came created their own space and whatever happened happened...

I would offer this again within such a conference setting - at the very
least it gave participants an articulated 'freedom-option' that was not
normally available to them (or so they believed...!)

Brendan


At 04:35 PM 8/2/2004, you wrote:
>2. Having OS as one Workshop option at a Conference - so people could
>choose to do traditional workshops or engage in a 2 or 4 hour OS.

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