A question

[Artur Silva]

Reinhard:

Yours is a "marvelous" story :-((

Thanks for it.

I couldn't imagine that even the less experienced OST
facilitator, if only he had "read the book" and had "a
good mind and a good heart", would say something so
silly.

No, it is not true that in Open Space "everything is
possible". Precisely it is not possible what happens
to close the space. If what closes the space (like
"formalized interviews") are possible then the space
is no longer open...

But you are saying that the lady is an experienced
facilitator and I will not question that. I will think
about it with a complete "appreciation"...

Artur

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--- Visuelle Protokolle <mail at visuelle-protokolle.de>
wrote:
> Dear Openspacers,
>
> Yesterday I took part in an OS and am not clear
> about an observation I
> made. So I want to ask you for your view.
>
> An experienced OS facilitator offered a session "How
> can internal HR
> people and external consultants win the management
> for innovative
> ideas?". At the beginning she explained, that she
> wanted the group to
> split and everybody to go into formalized
> interviews, then summarize and
> cluster the results in prepared forms, and come to
> conclusions. Some
> participants got angry and stopped the procedure,
> because of their
> understanding of OS as an open process also inside
> of each group.
>
> Afterwards somebody told me: in OS everything is
> possible, and the
> participants can vote with their feet, if they
> disagree. Now  I must
> tell you that I am astonished and confused.
>
> So I want to ask you : is it in your sense if for
> example somebody
> offers trainings, lectures and other structured
> processes in an OS,
> under the headline "Everything is possible"?
>
> Mit freundlichen Gruessen
> Best regards
>
> Reinhard
>
> VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE
> Kuchenmueller & Dr. Stifel
>
> Munich Germany
>
> Tel: +49-89-202 447 48
>
> www.visuelle-protokolle.de
>
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