nametags?

[Brendan McKeague]

In the spirit of self-organisation, how about leaving all the materials for
creating your own name-tag on a table near the entrance and people create
their own - or not???
Brendan
Perth

At 09:42 AM 8/6/2004, you wrote:
>Hello Phil,
>
>I don't have any answers for most of your questions, but just an
>observation from that name-tagged Open Space that the photos are from (the
>Practice of Peace on Whidbey Island last year). A part of that experience
>which was very striking to me was how many people who didn't know each
>other (yet) looked each other in the eyes & greeted each other by name
>right from the first evening, even when, for example, just crossing paths
>in the hallways, and how people referenced one another by name when
>responding to comments during the sessions. (Important point: the nametags
>were printed in letters that were actually big enough to read from a
>little distance, so that you could look each other in the eyes when you
>got closer, and you could read someone's name from across a room)
>
>But at most conferences I've attended, there are almost always
>nametags--and no one really uses them. So, for me, the way the nametags at
>the Practice of Peace were used was more of a reflection of what was
>created by being in Open Space with the particular people who showed
>up--the tags were just a tiny aspect, but a really nice tiny aspect.
>
>Christy Lee-Engel
>Seattle
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Phil Culhane [mailto:pculhane at magma.ca]
>Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 4:56 PM
>To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>Subject: nametags?
>
>Name tags? In Open Space?
>
>Sorry...I just took a close look at the photos, and I see name tags?
>
>In my work, I often have people from wildly differing places on the org
>chart sitting in the same circle...with no nametags, everyone is an equal
>- a carbon-based life form, sharing a common passion. I have never used
>nametags just to keep that equality. A data entry clerk has as much
>validity as an ADM (and I had the two sitting side by side recently), but
>knowing who's who could distract? Although the control freaks want to go
>around the circle with introductions at the beginning of day 1, I've found
>the anonymity freeing.
>
>Does everyone else use nametags? Is there a time when nametags are useful?
>Am I missing out on value by not using them?
>
>
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