Open Space intro at Google Headquarters--I'm looking for intro ideas

[Jaime Pedreros]

Hello Matthew!

Congratulations! Your project is amazing.

If yo go to openspaceworld map and click on Bolivia/Peru yo wil find a link
to a presentation I addressed two years ago. The material is well known and
relates to "transforming organizatios" which I am afraid is not relevant for
what you are trying now. However, there you may find a brief
exercise/demonstration of OS. At the beginning I show to the participants
20/25 objects of daily use. I have the audience identify each one and after
that I put each object inside a bag.

The second step is to make a list of the 20/25 objects (by writing on a
board as each participant recalls the objects). That time I used an overhead
projector instead of writing on  a board; names were covered with a small
piece of post-it pad and I removed the pad as the object was recalled.

At the end of the recall (most events result in a 100% accomplishment) comes
the most important part of the exercise: debriefing.

I began with an acknowledgement, praiseng the remarkable result; next, I
asked what happened? What if someone suggested "to go in order", trying to
identify some patterns in the objects (size, material, alphabetical, type of
use etc.) to "order" the recalling process? After refflecting about this, I
usually ask Who was the main person in the recalling process? What kind of
encouragement arises as the audience noticed that they only had one object,
then two... 15...20/25?

Well, all these comments and some I am sure you will add makes the very
essence of OST.

Good luck with you presentation! Revert if you need more information

Jaime




2006/4/21, Matthew Blom <learnbyliving at yahoo.com>:
>
> Dear people who open space,
>
> My name is Matthew, and I'm new to the list and a half-year new to open
> space facilitation (trained by the bunny lovable Lisa Heft).  I've been so
> jazzed by the idea of getting open space to Google, a place which already
> explores many new ways of behaving in the business world.
>
> Yesterday, I got an in.
>
> I'll be doing a "tech talk" on May 3rd, and I am now running multiple
> scenarios through my head about how to introduce open space there.  These
> talks are usually an hour, and I imagine it being rather boring to talk
> "about" open space, and I'm unsure how to go about actually experiencing it
> in that short a time frame.
>
> Ideas I've had thus far--kick, bite, and scream for more time (what's an
> ideal intro. time frame?  3 hours? How long should the sessions be?)
>
> Try an experience of it with very short sessions--like 10 minutes long?
>
> I'm also wondering about a theme.  I'll need to talk more with someone out
> there about that piece.
>
> Any ideas and/or experiences from those who have done something like this
> would be very helpful!
>
> peace,
> Matthew
>
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