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

[Melinda Salazar]

Hi Jaime,
I am very interested in learning more about what you've been doing in  
Bolivia and with whom. I am having trouble accessing the link you  
recommend, not sure if its the website or my computer. Looking  
forward to your reply.
Thanks,
Melinda Salazar


On Apr 29, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Jaime Pedreros wrote:

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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