Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 & Strategy Cafes for thousands more

Claudia Haack claudia at kairosalliance.com
Sun Feb 5 13:08:28 PST 2006


Harrison, 

While I did share this "little funny story" verbally with the sponsors, I
think it got lost in the sheer volume of other things that were accomplished
and that are happening at the GS right now.  Actually, I was trying to sort
through so much at the time myself, that it really took the place of a funny
anecdote for "insiders".  The potential for reflecting on the learnings of
the story as an illustration of how Open Space works didn't occur to me.  So
I really like your suggestion for finding a way to do that now in one of
their publications.  Or, maybe on the site where they have all the reports
etc.  

Thanks - Claudia

 

Claudia Haack

KAIROS Alliance Inc.

tel. 608.288.8315

fax.480.247.4824

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Claudia - I think that is precisely the sort of story that should be fed
back into the system. At the very least it should be part of whatever report
you all may be making to the sponsors. There is an enormous amount of
learning about what happens in Open Space (and I think all self-organizing
systems) over time. People start where they are, and if they are in a
complaining mood, that is what you will get. And it is very necessary. You
have to go through the past before you can deal with a future. And the point
is - they obviously got to a future which I would guess is what the
"critics" saw as being "better." And the fact that the level of training in
all sessions (as far as facilitations skills was concerned) was the same -
all Zero is noteworthy. The people did it all by themselves. We may know all
that - but this little, funny story could well take the sponsors and others
to a new level of understanding. How about an article in the "Scouting News"
- or whatever it may be called?

 

Harrison  

 

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Yes, I am anxious to see myself what will happen with all this.  One of the
funnier examples of how well Open Space works is reflected in this little
story.  

A rather large group of attendees was about 2 hours late.  They missed the
opening of the space and arrived just at the tail end of the time when
sessions were posted.  After the event was over they debriefed and agreed
that the "facilitators" of the first series of sessions were the worst -
they definitely needed more training.  They said that during those first
rounds of sessions people were mostly complaining.  But the last series was
much better, because the "facilitators" were so much better. They
recommended to us to please make sure that we would train "facilitators"
better and spread the good ones out over the different session spaces. 

If they only knew:)

Claudia

Claudia Haack
KAIROS Alliance Inc.
606 Orchard Dr.
Madison, WI
phone: 608.288.8315
fax: 480.247.4824
www.kairosalliance.com <http://www.kairosalliance.com/>  


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Report available - Girl Scout Open Space for over 1,600 &
Strategy Cafes for thousands more
From: Joelle Lyons Everett <JLEShelton at aol.com>
Date: Sat, February 04, 2006 11:23 pm
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU

wow, Christine and Claudia, what a beautiful piece of work!  I'm eager to
reconnect with the local council (who had their own Open Space a couple of
years ago) and hear what they have to say about the national event.

Thanks for your vision, your courage, you willingness to hold space for
Council and volunteers to work out all the details.  I'm very excited to see
what comes out of this initiative.

Joelle


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