Open space during a "lunch for learning"

Tue May 2 05:25:20 PDT 2006

yes also google and all of us can do lunch for learning. I am convinced -from 
one hour collaboration cafe formats we have trialled - this is a huge 
opportunity but only if we move up a level from open space and across to other 
structures

You know more than me but 3 sub-system interfaces that facscinate me about 
open space are :
the invitation phase- wil the people who come be the most passionate people 
about one specific context resolution?

the open space itself, which doesnt rush to answers nor to individual 
ownership since the innovation values are in the interaction web of flows

the interface after the open phase back to projects in the ordinary world's 
environments

hold those 3 interfaces and think of people in an organsiational structure: 
they have 2 more ways to space and networek; that inside the organsiation , 
and that they care about as bumping into social or communal needs outside

now suppose any person who wishes to is empowered by an organsiation to 
nomiane an issue they care passioately about exploring that is in some way 
related to work but potentially very laterally; will thye whole of the 
organisation network that person's inviation to a lunch circle in a way that 
the 10 people who mst passionately want to explore that issue turn uo at the 
same circle

where I have used the word organsiation, it could be any association or 
network you belong to (most exciting of all are yout hubs becasue these chnage 
schooling forever and essentially multiply a network of montesorri type 
learning and co-mentoring circles until a teacher is liberated from 
examination books)

 but the organsiatioanl structure is: do leaders or whomever's budget of 
resources and rulemaking open up the cultural roghts of the structure so that 
everyone is encouarged to buy into zeroising degrees of separation ar0und 
lunchtime invitation circles; there are for example half-way check points; the 
leader's pa could review topics before giving them the zero degree of 
separation approval to be an invitation post that goes to everyone

chris macrae wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk
http://ninenow.blogspot.com/1999_12_01_ninenow_archive.html
http://collaborationcafe.blogspot.com
ps anyone around here know Bill Drayton of www.ashoka.org and 
www.youthventure.org - I have an odd feeling that the 2 most revolutionary 
people for humanity's common sense within 15 miles of the white house have 
been netowrking for 30 years without connecting with each other? Love to be 
wrong of course!

Quoting john engle <englejohn at hotmail.com>:

 greetings.

 i presented our DVD circles of change: a quiet revolution at Milton Hershey 
 School yesterday (the orphanage and school founded by founder of Hershey 
 Chocolate http://www.mhs-pa.org/ ) and followed it by a mini open space. 
 numerous people among the 25 present--several of which are in high levels of 
 leadership--expressed how much they enjoyed it and that "we need to have 
 more of this."

 the school's "Director of Organizational Learning and Leadership 
 Development" invited me to come to present as part of their "lunch for 
 learning" programs. it's just one hour and people who are interested sign up 
 and bring their lunch. i told the group from the outset that following the 
 DVD i would ask them to decide together which method they'd like to 
 experience: reflection circles (also known as Touchstones Discussions) or 
 open space. i stated, "i think it will be more valuable to live it rather 
 than to talk about it."

 1) we watched the abbreviated DVD (11 minutes) and i presented briefly our 
 story of open space and reflection circles in Haiti (5 minutes).

 2) they chose open space and i quickly presented the principles and how it 
 worked (10 minutes), invited them to propose subjects--6 quickly emerged--

 (our topic, which i had ready on a flipchart was "Student Achievement: 
 Issues and Opportunities")

 3) i had the people who proposed them hold rather than post on wall, their 
 subjects, and go to a corner of the room and invited those interested to 
 join them (thanks michael herman)

 4) their conversations were just 12 minutes

 5) we returned to closing circle and did a 10 minute talking stick exercise.

 i was surprised by the comments about how interesting and powerful this mini 
 experience was and how they wanted to continue the conversations that just 
 began. the person who invited me told me to expect to hear from her about 
 doing more open space with Milton Hershey School.

 best,

 john

 http://circlesofchange.com participatory learning & leadership in Haiti
 http://johnengle.net Open Space facilitation

 email: john at johnengle.net
 telephone: 202-236-6532

 P.O. Box 337
 Hershey, PA 17033

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