What would you do?

[Michael Herman]

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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