Future Search

Tue Jun 13 03:00:59 PDT 2006

Dear Tree and Agneta,

whatever you may have experienced and whatever you might think about other 
ways of bringing change into life except open hearts and open space - there 
is one little thing I want to remind to you:  Open Space always works, if 
you can fulfill some conditions - we discussed this many times.

Unfortunately sometimes you find yourself in a place where you CANNOT 
fulfill these conditions for specific reasons and you know, that open space 
WILL NOT work properly. So you have to look for other options and future 
search sometimes is one of them.

Paul Watzlawick once wrote a very nice aphorism: "I you only have got a 
hammer, every problem appears to be a nail"

Erich from sunny and lovely Vienna

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tree Fitzpatrick
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
  Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:21 AM
  Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Future Search

  Thank you, Agneta, for writing what you did.  This is how I feel about 
most large-scale change methodologies:  they try to make me think about what 
they think I should think about, they try to start and stop conversations, 
when I should talk, with whom I should talk.  There can be lovely exchanges 
but, fundamentally, somewhere, in any tool but OST, there is someone, 
somewhere, deciding what people should think, do, say, and, even want.  Pish 
posh.

  The only change tool I have ever come across that truly welcomes the 
emergent, the evolutionary, is open space.  Well, I take that back:  an open 
heart is an excellent change methodology, also.

  Thanks, Agneta.

  On 6/12/06, Agneta Setterwall <agneta.setterwall at telia.com> wrote:
    Hello!
    Some years ago I attended a couple of future search conferences, and 
also a training in the method. I don´t know if I was perhaps not the right 
person, but I got angry and frustrated many times, not to say worse words. 
They tried to make me think about what the facilitator told me to think of, 
and they tried to make me stop think when the time was out, they tried to 
make us start conversations, and to stop conversations, they decided which 
group we should talk in, and they sliced the gruops and put us in new 
constellations not when we wanted but when their method so required. We then 
had to agree on what was left or at least keep our mouths shut. That was the 
"common ground".

    Still, it was much of the time nice, interesting and a creative clima - 
I  thought that it was an interesting method, giving much more room for 
participants than many other. But after that I met Open Space...and I 
understood that I will never never recommend Future Search to anybody, if 
Open Space is an option.
    This is my opinion. Perhaps I am wrong.
    Agneta,
    in a too hot Uppsala, Sweden

    Vliex, Carla (cvl) wrote:
      Hi Lenore

      We are doing with soem people in the netherlands a research and an 
article on Future Search and one on Open Space. There are many differences 
but to keep it simple.  If you want to know waht people really think, want, 
wish, go for use Open Space but hen your never know with what tey will 
come....  (it is often a concern of sponsors). Future Search is, I think a 
more structured process, you go form one predefine step to another. It will 
bring the participants sure to a common ground on what they want. As for 
Open Space you also get the diversity, the differences ans the disputes..... 
I think a three day Open space is more fun and gives a more complete 
picture.
      my two cents

      Carla

      Met vriendelijke groet,

      drs. Carla Vliex
      Adviseur Organisatie Ontwikkeling
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      From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Lenore Mewton
      Sent: zaterdag 10 juni 2006 14:26
      To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
      Subject: Future Search

      Hello All;

      I have an OS related question- I've only recently come across the 
Future Search process and training. While it has several components similar 
to OS and World Cafe- and perhaps other participative processes- I'm 
wondering if any uses this process- and if so, does it dovetail with OS? Do 
you use it differentially - in specific situations? One major difference 
that I see, initially, is the length of time for these workshops, 2-3 days.

      Thanks, in advance, for any thoughts/info. on this!

      Best Regards,

      Lenore
      _______________________________________________
      Lenore Mewton- Organizational Consultant
      Executive, Leadership and Career Management Coaching
      (ph) 781-639-2659
      lenore at lenoremewton.com
      _______________________________________________
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