An open space game?

[Harrison Owen]

Funny Open Space. Sounds more like Gaul -- divided into 4 parts. Or was that
three parts. Why not just do Open Space, pure and simple. Plenty of room for
all sorts of diverse opinions, to say nothing of diverse reasons for being
there. And it is a lot less complicated. Read, "Less work." May be a great
game, however :-)

Harrison

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of chris
macrae
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:24 PM
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Subject: An open space game?

I was at a quarterly meeting recently where I realised that the 40
participants mainly had different views of the reason they were there -
Actually a group concerned with SUSTAINABILITY

So I volunteered to be content person guiding their next quarterly
meeting

My plan - loose as it is - is to try to get them to create the same map
on the wall

With 4 playing areas

Area 1 which is just below the top right corner of the wall is yellow
postits- will each person complete a mission in life that they will
always be championing around sustainability

Area 2 the very top corner is sustainability: I want to leave that area
blank unless diverse views of what sustainability's gravity come up in
which case they can all be put up there

3 Now as we look at each other's postits in area 1 I want to ask people
to discuss which of a list of 15 conflict barriers I have seen
repeatedly to most conflicts to do with creating the world we want have
a vote as to which conflicts are stopping you from progressing your
mission postit (discuss in groups if necessary)

4 Since house rules only give me 2 hours, we now get back to a circle
and attend to 4: what worldcongress (eg large open space) would we need
to map back, invite network representatives of sustainability to etc if
we were to get everyone to see the same number 1 conflict (whichever it
is) as the main problem to resolve

I wrote this for 2 reasons:
-Any suggestions on improving this and is it an Open Space type of game
or not?

A picture of this game appears at
http://www.disruptive-mice.org/forums/102/ShowPost.aspx

sincerely
chris macrae

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