OST and Open Forums

[Erich Kolenaty]

<If  have understood wel it is very similar to RTSC.
<And again it is directive.

<At least, sponsors know what they are paying
<consultats for. Any other advantages, apart from that
<one?
<Artur

Artur,

it IS RTSC. And it IS more directive than OS, ofcourse.  On a scale for
"Openess" between 0 and 100, OS maybe range at 85, and a RTSC. Open Forum at
65. But, so what?

In my opinion the task IS NOT to keep it max. open at anytime (which sounds
to me to be a little orthodox), but to do what fits and what helps further
most in that moment.
And to be true, there is not much activity done by the consultant, much
less, than spending this time for opening the Space.

What makes an Open Forum open?
1. People in the groups have an intimate and safe frame to talk it all over
and to select comments and questions they have passion for, they have a
speaker to make this public.
2. People are completely out of control what they talk and what they select
to present. And they select usually hard truths, believe me.
3. There is a complete transparency in the room what's on in the system at
that moment. What kind of questions are asked, what kind of answers are
given, is it all credible. What's it all about.
4. Everybody gains this in 60 - 90 min of time.

What can be an advantage by using this setting?
To make Open Space work best, you need volunteers with passion and
responsiblility and a kind of chaos, right? But what to do, if you have a
crowd which feels well settled, with not much passion for anything special?
Can be rather boring. the other option is to stir them up a little, to make
them affected, to create tha chaos you need for Open Space.

That's why i sometimes use an Open Forum before I go over to Open Space.

Erich

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