MORE THAN 40 OPEN SPACE MEETINGS IN CHILE
Harrison Owen
hhowen at comcast.net
Wed Oct 13 08:38:59 PDT 2004
Well - Great story. And of course I will be pleased to look at your paper -
as I am sure will all members on this LIST. You will know that the 300-400
folks who hang out here do their homework and share the results. The only
problem I have ever had with sharing material online here is the
super-abundance of responses. When I was working on The Practice of Peace,
and asked for comments some 180 people volunteered. And it was all totally
worth while to me. So thanks for sharing and I look forward to more.
Harrison
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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Johann
Borquez
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:03 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: MORE THAN 40 OPEN SPACE MEETINGS IN CHILE
Dear Harrison,
Your words are really encouraging. When I first knew about Open Space
Technology it seemed to me almost impossible to make it happen here.
Fortunately, soon after I received a request from the local government to
facilitate a meeting with more than 200 people. They were in a rush, had
almost no money, and no idea about how to make people talk in a short
period. I proposed Open Space and they were reluctant at the beginning. In
the end, the ended with a bunch of relevant issues, the leaders who carried
those issues at the grassroot level, and networks of people around those
same issues. Later I was hired by the Chile Labour Training Agency (SENCE)
which was having lots of trouble and conflict with their clients, to
facilitate Open Space Meetings in several regions of Chile. It worked out so
well, that they asked me to prepare a national Open Space Meeting for the
agency's workers. I have a video on it prepared by them, which I will be
glad to share with you. Bad news are -! it's in Spanish.
It was so different from everything tried before, that my regional
government (Bio Bio Region) asked me to train the members of the
Intersectorial Committee on Citizen Participation (CIPAC) on Open Space
Technology. So I have trained people who now use OST in their organizations
-from Healthcare to Education- as a way of communication with citizens. As
an anecdote, I can tell you that the discussion about the new Citizen
Participation Law in my region was conducted in Open Spaces with local
grassroots leaders -in urban and rural areas alike-.
In the meantime, I have gained a huge experience. I have learned to care
more about certain issues -as the comfort of people in the room- and less
about others. I'm preparing a video and a paper about my practice, and I
hope to have them ready by November. Would it be very nasty from my part to
ask you to revise at least the paper and write perhaps a stroke or two to
begin it with?
It's been a hard way to make gov't leaders believe in transfering power to
the people to voice out their needs and dreams, but it's working now. Thanks
for everything. Thanks for sharing this amazing piece of methodology with
all of the world. Thanks for giving it a philosophy which I -and many
others, I think- can adhere to. I think this is the most powerful tool for
real human understanding since the invention of the mobile type by
Gutemberg.
Best wishes,
Johann Borquez Bohn
Open Space Practitioner
Chile
zekrov at hotmail.com
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>Hi,
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>I've been practicing Open Space in Chile for the last 4 years and I have =
>to
>say that I AM GRATEFUL to Harrison and all the practitioners who add to =
>this
>global learning experience and from which I have learned the =
>fundamentals to
>begin my own practice. The technology itself is -compared to other
>methodologies for Large Group Interventios- the lightest in terms of
>logistics, the quickest to be organized, and the one that get the best
>results from -and for- people. And it's cheap.
>
>All of the almost 40 Open Space Meetings I have facilitated had been for =
>the
>Public Sector, i.e. State organizations ranging from Education to the
>Housing Service. Allmost always, the concerns of the clients have been =
>the
>same: fear of "losing control" of what happens, of not being able to =
>cope
>with the demands of people, of being criticized openly, of not being =
>able to
>concentrate on the specific themes about which the Open Space is =
>convened.
>Also, they always remain skeptic about the minimal preparation necessary =
>to
>make OST happen (they seem to think that it won't work and that I'm =
>bluffing
>them by being so "light"). All this concerns have been followed by =
>relief
>when the client sees that the OST really works, that the order emerges =
>from
>chaos every time. Old clients have been the best promotors of the =
>Technology
>among new ones.
>
>My last experience is still developing, as on Saturday we met with about =
>250
>leaders from the neighborhood on Pedro de Valdivia Bajo (a bidonville by =
>the
>riverside) in the city of Concepcion, to plan the needed interventions =
>from
>all the different State services to improve the area. The curious thing =
>is
>that always, both conveners and participants evaluate the OST as the =
>"best"
>participatory experience they ever had. This was not the exception, and =
>is a
>real achievement in a neighborhood with a history of conflict and acute
>poverty. We have had illiterate group conveners! To help this, this time =
>we
>had the help of student volunteers to take notes of the full =
>conversation in
>every group. My main fear was that the students could somehow intervene =
>and
>manipulate the discussion, but it was they who, at the end of the day, =
>were
>impressed by the quality of people's participation. This Open Space is =
>still
>hapening, as next saturday (october 16th) we will meet again! to discuss
>solutions for the discussed problems.
>
>Best wishes and keep on!
>
>=20
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>Johann B=F3rquez Bohn
>
>Open Space Practitioner
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>CHILE
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>OPEN SPACE
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><p style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New =
>Roman"><span
>style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>I've been practicing Open Space in Chile for =
>the last
>4 years and I have to say that I AM GRATEFUL to Harrison and all the
>practitioners who add to this global learning experience and from which =
>I have
>learned the fundamentals to begin my own practice. The technology itself =
>is
>-compared to other methodologies for Large Group Interventios- the =
>lightest in
>terms of logistics, the quickest to be organized, and the one that get =
>the best
>results from -and for- people. And it's cheap.</span></font></p>
>
><p style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New =
>Roman"><span
>style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>All of the almost 40 Open Space Meetings I =
>have
>facilitated had been for the Public Sector, i.e. State organizations =
>ranging
>from Education to the Housing Service. Allmost always, the concerns of =
>the
>clients have been the same: fear of "losing control" of what =
>happens,
>of not being able to cope with the demands of people, of being =
>criticized
>openly, of not being able to concentrate on the specific themes about =
>which the
>Open Space is convened. Also, they always remain skeptic about the =
>minimal
>preparation necessary to make OST happen (they seem to think that it =
>won't work
>and that I'm bluffing them by being so "light"). All this =
>concerns
>have been followed by relief when the client sees that the OST really =
>works,
>that the order emerges from chaos every time. Old clients have been the =
>best
>promotors of the Technology among new ones.</span></font></p>
>
><p style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New =
>Roman"><span
>style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>My last experience is still developing, as on =
>Saturday
>we met with about 250 leaders from the neighborhood on Pedro de Valdivia =
>Bajo
>(a <em><i><font face=3D"Times New Roman">bidonville </font></i></em>by =
>the riverside)
>in the city of Concepcion, to plan the needed interventions from all the
>different State services to improve the area. The curious thing is that =
>always,
>both conveners and participants evaluate the OST as the "best"
>participatory experience they ever had. This was not the exception, and =
>is a
>real achievement in a neighborhood with a history of conflict and acute
>poverty. We have had illiterate group conveners! To help this, this time =
>we had
>the help of student volunteers to take notes of the full =
>conversation in
>every group. My main fear was that the students could somehow intervene =
>and
>manipulate the discussion, but it was they who, at the end of the day, =
>were
>impressed by the quality of people's participation. This Open Space is =
>still
>hapening, as next saturday (october 16th) we will meet again! to discuss
>solutions for the discussed problems.</span></font></p>
>
><p style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New =
>Roman"><span
>style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>Best wishes and keep on!</span></font></p>
>
><p style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New =
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