Ongoing, easy OS?

[Therese Fitzpatrick]

Michael, you mention, in passing, that OS can be done in an ongoing, easy
way.  Could you expand on that?  How long is ongoing?

>From: Michael Herman <mherman at globalchicago.net>
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>Subject: Re: What would you do?
>Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:28:14 -0600
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>yes, this is true, therese.  AND many of these sessions are ONLY 90
>minutes because the organizers have not heard about ost and don't know
>that it's possible to do this for a couple of days or in an ongoing,
>easy way.  openspace is everywhere.  awareness of power and possibility
>is somewhat more scarce.  <grin>
>
>the trick, and the query (i think) are about doing a 90 minute meeting
>in such a way that people can see more clearly  that it IS possible to
>have a much longer meeting, much larger meeting, and more open meeting
>and still be very productive. more productive really, because it means
>we can take more directly and wholly the really long, large, open
>questions that we now face in orgs and communities.
>
>michaelh
>
>
>
>
>Therese Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
>>It is fascinating to me that you wonderful OS experts, living deep in the
>>heart of OS world, do not seem to be aware that a ninty minute open space
>>like the one Peggy Holman convened at Bowling Green happens constantly.
>>
>>People build in 90 minute open spaces into larger events all the time.
>>People who have no idea that there is such a thing as an open space
>>practitioner or training to be an open space practitioner hear about the
>>concept and they start running with it.   The genie of OS is out of the
>>bottle and it has scattered around the world as a kind of phosphorescent
>>pollen, taking root in all kinds of places that an OS expert practitioner
>>might never imagine.  If I understand OS, OS was here all along, right?
>>
>>I saw ninety minute OS moments for many years before I encountered OS
>>days
>>and OS events.  It was years before I had the slightest awareness that
>>there
>>was such a thing as open space training.  There are countless people
>>in the
>>world who think they understand OS and use it all the time for ninty
>>minute
>>'things'.
>>
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