great succes for Open Space in the Netherlands

[Patricia Haines]

Good idea, Harrison - the Cornell course on adult education and community development used to
include introductions to various kinds of participatory program planning, including Future Searches,
but no one ever mentioned Open Space or World Cafe or any of the other more relatively recent
processes. The person who taught that course has now moved on. 

HOwever: would anyone be interested in joining me in proposing a session on Open Space for the Adult
Education Association's national conference next year? this gathering is for academics mostly, with
a few academically-oriented practitioners. Don't know where it's taking place but I'll look it up.

----- Original Message -----
From: Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net>
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Sent:         Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:52:26 -0500
Subject: Re: great succes for Open Space in the Netherlands

> Carla -- you also give all those academic types a small push. You might ask
> why it is that the Academic Community has so far managed to ignore OS? Here
> is something that is 20 years old with 60,000+ applications in 100
> Countries. This is the perfect opportunity for a little PhD research. These
> folks could become famous!
> 
> Harrison
> 
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> Carla (cvl)
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 6:13 PM
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> 
> Hi all
>  
> Last week we had a meeting with about 20 OD consultants in the Netherlands.
> Some who lecture about OD at University, some who do research on OD and some
> who work as OD consultants (like me).  I was invited to write an article an
> how Open Space works and why it works according to my experinces with Open
> Space. I used many of the things I have read over the years on the list! 
> The article is going to be published in juni in one of our more prestige
> journals (for the dutch: Management en Organisatie).  And there will be a
> national congres on Open Space and other inteventions who really are
> interactive (appreciative inquiry, Future Search, and much much more) 
>  
> I was very honoured not only to be asked but that Open Space is goging to be
> even more 'hot' in the Netherlands. 
>  
> So if there are some reflections on the the next two items, it would help me
> very much to rewrite some parts of the article:
> - why does Open Space work? (those academic boys and girls over ?here want
> to know something about theoretical background and start looking very upset
> as I told them that it just works).
>  
> - as Harrison wrote in his book Open Space; exapanding our now, Open Space
> has very ancient backgrounds (meeting in a cirkel, breathing, starting en
> ending 'time' and son on). What is more to say about these ancient ways of
> meeting? 
>  
> Anything or everything is welcome
>  
> warm regards
> Carla 
> 
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