question on residential OS

[Marty Boroson]

Thank you all for your comments on holding (or not holding) an evening event
at a residential OS.  I have benefitted from your wisdom, and enjoyed your
stories.  

 

Most of you, in your comments, predicted that people will spontaneously
organize themselves to do some fun things in the evening.  I have no doubt
about that.  But I'm wondering if, in your invitations, you tend to
signalthat this might happen.  Assume that you have a crowd gathering to
work on an issue, or for networking purposes, (rather than to "have fun")
and that they're unfamiliar with open space  ... would you hint in your
invite that there will be spontaneous socializing?  Would you suggest that
people bring drums, paint, dancing shoes, etc ... ???

 

Marty

 

P.S.  I particularly enjoyed the story about the organized trip to the
baseball game ... it reminded me of a weeklong project I facilitated where
there was so much conflict and stuckness that, in desperation, I organized
field trips just to get everyone out of the building for a change of scene.
(This was in my pre-Open Space days.)  I only found out, many years later,
how deeply controlling I'd been throughout the week, and how much of the
problem had stemmed from me.

 

 

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