mini Open Space

Thu Feb 10 01:08:59 PST 2005

Dear Gyuri,

This is great to hear about Open Space happened in Hungary!!!
Open Space works everywhere and I know some of us are realy keen to use it
more often.

Congratulation for the OS Tales, it is a great tool for us to tell stories
in Hungarian. I'm sure I'll use it:)

Warm regards
Bea

>From: Beck György <gbeck at axelero.hu>
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>Subject: mini Open Space
>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:11:40 +0100
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>Dear All,
>
>Let me let you know :-) about a super mini OS in a little bit hassled
>environment.
>It was a corporate training on selling and team building. They love to
>combine different directions and also the learning and socializing. The
>opportunity has come on  the third 3-day meeting.
>Some group members were trying to influence others to finish the program on
>the evening of the second day and go home on saturday morning. The client
>ordered three days and also we had our plans for the time frame.
>So we suggested a compromise: we extend the day two and leave only 2 hour
>for the morning of the third one, so that they could go home in time.
>Because of the very sales training those not concerned in the sales came in
>the afternoon of the second day.
>Another important preliminary was that they had discussions earlier about
>the 2005-2010 strategy, but the sales reps were not involved.
>
>We finished the sales program at 5:30 p.m. and after a short break I opened
>the space for the full group. The theme was set after consulting the client
>boss but phrased by myself. I had no chance to make it more sophisticated.
>Any way it worked:
>2005 - 2010 Procrastination is the thief...
>
>There were 24 members who haven't heard about OS earlier. We started at
>5:45
>
>After the short introduction they collected 11 issues for two time "slices"
>of 25 minutes each quite quickly.
>
>On the market place there were a 15-20 minutes hesitation about self
>organization. Finally they joined to two groups that were really important
>for them and used the full time until 6:25.
>In the closing cycle they reported about constructive discussions and they
>wish to go ahead.
>
>Here I closed the space and agreed to meet in the morning to make some
>action plan for the two issues.  Then came the evening program with bowling
>and drinking. Several of the got to bed in the morning 4-5...
>
>Everybody was there at 9 a.m., but those who wanted/needed to go home
>early.
>
>The planned discussion was 1 hour and then the closing circle because we
>promised to finish by 11. and let them go.
>
>The discussion was so involved and constructive, not missing some deep
>emotional feed backs, that the worked up till 12.
>In the final feed-back circle they evaluated very useful this OS event and
>decided to go ahead with the "open and honest discussions" that is needed
>to
>work together.
>
>I finished the program with a favourite metaphore. Let me finish with this.
>
>"Possibly you know about the Szarvas arboretum /it is a little village in
>the country in Hungary and every Hungarian know of/. This is a place where
>unique and rare plants, trees and bushes grow. If you would replant any of
>them out of the arboretum to the surrounding /relatively dry plain in
>Hungary/ even 1 kilometer far, they would die. They make a microclimate for
>each other where all of them can live and it has been going on for around
>150 years. This arboretum is my gift to you."
>
>Hugs, Gyuri
>
>P.s.: Let me announce with pleasure, that the Hungarian version of the most
>of  stories from Tales from the Open Space has been put on my web page with
>the permission of Harrison. Thank you and all those who contributed to this
>book.
>http://www.beckground.hu/050206/htm/mesek.htm
>
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