Moving to action

[Chris Corrigan]

I'm here!  Just absolutely buried in work and an email backlog that
stretches over several screen feet.

You have me right Harrison.  It's a simple piece for me really.  And the
truth is that if we have cracked open a good theme and a great set of
questions, the energy flows.

In fact, I usually talk about Open Space almost exclusively as "the fastest
way I know of getting a group to work."  For me OST actually busts apart
that false dichotomy between talk and action.  Working in OST is more like
playing soccer - it is action conversation, talk that at every moment
produces little current of action and flow and relationship to support the
ongoing emergence.

Cheers,

Chris

On 12/12/06, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I guess a more appropriate phrase might be something like, "Opening the
> Space for Action." I think that is what Chris Corrigan said (by the way,
> Chris seems to have gone missing :-( )I have found that it works best the
> morning after -- giving everybody a night to sleep on the work already
> done,
> and maybe reflect on what next. And also morning is always a good time to
> start something new. But I have also done it at the end of the day, but
> there is an energy problem.
>
> Harrison
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Phelim
> McDermott
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 7:43 AM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Moving to action
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm interested ... "opening the space again" implies it got closed..
> or does it open wider? How does this fit in to the scheme.. and when
> do you feel the right time is for this in relation to an approaching
> closing? I've been using stickies but as they've been two day events
> without a next day follow on... it always seems to collide a bit with
> closing as people are still writing reports and have just finished
> their last sessions.
>
> Phelim
> On 12 Dec 2006, at 12:28, Harrison Owen wrote:
>
>
> > Diana -- I presumed that you meant to send your response to OSLIST,
> > but it
> > came just to me -- so I took the liberty of forwarding it.
> >
> > And it may well be that my presumptions also got the better of me
> > in my
> > response. Your description of your actions made me think of TOP -- The
> > Technology of Participation which ICA created perhaps 40 years ago.
> > It was a
> > wonderful thing in its day, but boy, did that facilitator work hard
> > fielding
> > ideas and arranging affinity groups. My problem with that approach was
> > always that the facilitator seemed to be working much too hard, and
> > at a
> > practical level, he or she often essentially defined the affinity
> > groups. If
> > there had been no other way to go, I guess it is OK -- but my
> > experience
> > said that the group could do all of this by itself.
> >
> > Voting, whether by computers or sticky dots, is pretty low
> > visibility stuff,
> > at least as far as the facilitator is concerned. But it does
> > require a full
> > listing of the issues discussed. This is typically available in the
> > proceedings which had been printed up over night or simply on the
> > wall where
> > the issues are posted. But as I said, I personally prefer opening
> > the space
> > again for action. This allows the group to rework the shape of the
> > issues,
> > either by combining issues, or by identifying some subset. Of
> > course they
> > can also identify some totally new area for action. And in any case
> > the
> > "rules" are the usual and the presence of the facilitator can be
> > minimal to
> > non-existent. By that time in a gathering the group can usually
> > facilitate
> > itself.
> >
> > Harrison
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CHRIS CORRIGAN
Consultation - Facilitation
Open Space Technology


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