Proximity and Open Space after presentations
Zelle Nelson
zelle at knowplacelikehome.com
Thu Nov 2 21:07:44 PST 2006
Hello,
I had one more thought about Open Space after keynotes and
presentations ~
An invitation prior to the event goes out much like any invitation
for a regular
Open Space. The invitation is used to set the tone, initiating and
generating
thoughts and attention before the presentation or keynote. Asking
questions for
the group to think about in the invitation leads the group more
easily into an Open
Space frame of mind.
In the case of the meeting we just facilitated for bp where
presentations and OS
were intermingled there was an umbrella invitation, and then sub-
invitations for
each specific presentation. Here is one presentation invitation of
the several sub-
invitations:
You’re Invited...
And the invitation is this...
What thoughts, knowledge, challenges or passion do you have around
these questions...
1. How much room for improvement do
we have in terms of quality and
performance - are there any limits?
2. Where is the first, most important
place to start in improving quality—
Which "Missed Opportunities" have
the greatest potential impact for D&C
as a whole?
3. What are the areas where you could make a significant
impact on your day-to-day
performance, your long-term performance?
4. How do we create best practices across D&C Digital?
You’re invited to explore the potential for improving the quality of
our performance based
decisions through the use of the Technical Limit Process. As a group
we'll discuss the need for a change in our coding perspective, a move
toward exploiting "Missed Opportunities", the use of offset
information and get a first glimpse at the utilities available in
OpenWells for capturing non-productive time.
(This invitation also included graphics which can't be sent to the
OSLIST.)
So, invitation and circle are 2 foundations for preparing the group
to move from a
presentation or keynote into Open Space.
with grace and love,
Zelle
Zelle Nelson
Know Place Like Home/Engaging the Soul at Work/State of Grace Document
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On Nov 1, 2006, at 10:32 PM, douglas germann wrote:
> Zelle--
>
> Fantastic! That was just the sort of low-down I wanted. Now I have a
> good idea what you mean.
>
> It is a wonderful way to open some space for people who often find it
> closed by the "do-me" meetings so prevalent in our society. You are to
> be congratulated for being innovative in opening these spaces.
>
> Which brings me to something you told me off-line a few months ago,
> something I think others might be interested in conversing around out
> here in the open spaces (if you are willing): how you view opening
> space
> in corporations and hierarchical organizations and similar settings
> which seem to me to prefer closed spaces and control. Why spend your
> time and energy trying to convince people against their natural
> inclinations? Is it not an uphill battle, and would it not be
> better to
> work where the seed could fall on more fertile soil?
>
> :- Doug.
>
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 19:15 -0500, Zelle Nelson wrote:
>> Hi Doug, Chris, Herman, et al.,
>>
>>
>> Chris mentioned the speaker setting the right tone. One way we
>> accomplish this
>> is to have the speaker talk from a circle of chairs, not to theater
>> style seating (this
>> also makes for a very efficient, and immediate transition to OS). see
>> the graphic
>> down the right side of the page at:
>> http://engagingthesoulatwork.com/engagingthesoul.htm
>>
>>
>> The invitation is "What thoughts, ideas, actions have been sparked by
>> this
>> speech? What did you learn and what do you want to take away from
>> this
>> speech
>> going forward?"
>>
>>
>> One OS event after a speaker I posted on the OSLIST was after a
>> political
>> candidate:
>>
>>
>> Out of an short (3 hour) OS following a speech given by presidential
>> hopeful Col.
>> Robert Bowman in the summer of 2004, the Kindness Campaign -
>> www.thekindnesscampaign.org was created and has been sustained to the
>> present in Asheville, NC. There were 50? participants. We did 15 min
>> action at the
>> end after a 20 min closing circle. I believe the speech was 45 min
>> and
>> that would
>> make the OS 2.25 hours. The whole event was maybe 4 hours one
>> evening.
>>
>>
>> These were the topics, and action round topics:
>>
>>
>> Topic 1: Electing Progressive Representatives
>> Convener: Clyde Michael Morgan
>>
>> Topic 2: The Current Extinction Crisis
>> Convener: Greg Wilcox
>>
>>
>> Topic 3: The People of the World are with Us – We are the
>> Majority – How do we Spread the Word?
>>
>> Convener: Robin
>>
>> Topic 4: How can we help the under 30 crowd and other
>> citizens feel empowered enough to get involved in the political
>> process?
>>
>> Convener: Cathy S.
>>
>> Topic 5: Local Power Over Economy
>> Convener: Kevin
>>
>> Topic 5: Peace Dividend
>> Convener: Brad Dienst
>>
>> Topic 6: Explore ways to identify and speak about the
>> fundamental truths about which our government is doing.
>>
>>
>> Convener: Hugh Huntington
>>
>> Topic 7: Patriot Act – How to get our freedom back
>> Convener: Pamela
>>
>> Topic 8: Unifying Global Resistance
>> Convener: Mark
>>
>> Topic 9: Bringing Heart, Soul, Creativity, and Bliss to
>> Politics
>> Convener: Daniel
>>
>> Topic 10: Leadership Training
>> Convener: Rich Livernois
>>
>>
>>
>> Action Notes:
>>
>> Topic A: Who wants to be in a network of people accepting
>> REAL money, not Federal Reserve Notes
>>
>> Convener: Kevin
>>
>> Topic B: How to start a kindness campaign in Asheville
>> Convener: Barry Weinhold
>>
>> Topic C: Let’s Stay in touch with a Yahoo group or
>> something similar. Let’s work together
>>
>> Convener: Clyde Michale Morsan
>>
>> Topic D: Institutionalizing Change: Department of Peace;
>> Ombudsman, Reform
>>
>> Convener: Grant Miller
>>
>> Topic E: Finding ways to speak the truth about our
>> government
>> Convener: Hue
>>
>>
>>
>> We just did 1/2 day World Cafe; 1.5 days of OS interspersed with
>> presentations ~
>> 1-2 presentations, followed by 3 hours of OS; 1-2 presentations
>> followed by 3
>> hours of OS; 1-2 presentations, followed by 3 hours of OS; finishing
>> with a day of
>> action rounds. There were 80 people from bp. We've been asked to do
>> their next
>> meeting and in the "after action review" all the items the planning
>> team wanted to
>> be covered were covered, plus a hairy elephant was talked about and
>> moved
>> towards resolution.
>>
>>
>> However you look at it, when you open more space, people get what
>> they
>> need.
>> All we do when we put together Open Space and a keynote speech or
>> presentation is combine the one-way learning phase of life with the
>> multi-input
>> way of learning way of life which is Open Space. The process is
>> happening all the
>> time, but not always one after the other, or moving in between the
>> two, and
>> sponsored by the same organization. We're just directly linking what
>> has been the
>> model for many years - one-way/single input learning and another way
>> to learn -
>> multi-input learning.
>>
>>
>> You know in Open Space ~ fantastic results!
>>
>> with grace and love,
>>
>>
>> Zelle
>>
>>
>> Zelle Nelson
>> Know Place Like Home/Engaging the Soul at Work/State of Grace Document
>>
>>
>> www.knowplacelikehome.com
>> www.engagingthesoulatwork.com
>> www.stateofgracedocument.com
>>
>>
>> zelle at knowplacelikehome.com
>>
>>
>> work/home: (001) 828.693.0802
>> mobile: (001) 847.951.7030
>>
>>
>> Isle of Skye
>> 2021 Greenville Hwy
>> Flat Rock, NC 28731
>> USA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 26, 2006, at 10:24 PM, douglas germann wrote:
>>
>>> Zelle--
>>>
>>>
>>> Great picture you give.
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you say a little about what you mean by fantastic results?
>>>
>>>
>>> I am even more curious about what the topics and invitations look
>>> like
>>> for those "3-hour following OSTs." This sounds truly exciting. Can
>>> you
>>> put some more meat on those bones for us all?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, Zelle! And say Hi to Maureen, too, for me. How is she doing?
>>>
>>>
>>> :- Doug.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 11:50 -0400, Zelle Nelson wrote:
>>>> Hi Doug,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Proximity: very elegant!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Maureen and I have been offering and delivering Open Space after
>>>> keynote
>>>> speeches, after presentations in corporate meetings, after
>>>> political speeches -
>>>> anywhere we can open up space and allow everyone to be the expert
>>>> or
>>>> at least
>>>> ask questions about what was a spark for them. It works incredibly
>>>> well.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Generally, we hold a 3 hour Open Space after keynote speeches. In
>>>> terms of
>>>> presentations in corporate meetings, there will sometimes be
>>>> multiple
>>>> presentations in the mornings and then hold Open Space in the
>>>> afternoons.
>>>> We've had fantastic results!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> with grace and love,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Zelle
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Zelle Nelson
>>>> Know Place Like Home/Engaging the Soul at Work/State of Grace
>>>> Document
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> www.knowplacelikehome.com
>>>> www.engagingthesoulatwork.com
>>>> www.stateofgracedocument.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> zelle at knowplacelikehome.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> work/home: (001) 828.693.0802
>>>> mobile: (001) 847.951.7030
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Isle of Skye
>>>> 2021 Greenville Hwy
>>>> Flat Rock, NC 28731
>>>> USA
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>>>> On Oct 26, 2006, at 10:35 AM, douglas germann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all--
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris's Tao of Holding Space stopped me in my mental tracks last
>>>>> night
>>>>> with one word: proximity.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What we are about in opening space is bringing people into
>>>>> proximity,
>>>>> yes?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Proximity: notice what can happen when we bring people who care
>>>>> near
>>>>> each other. Ideas bounce and blend and reproduce. Passions
>>>>> infuse.
>>>>> Keep
>>>>> us in tightly sealed containers and nothing new happens.
>>>>> Juxtapose
>>>>> us
>>>>> and there is possibility. For fire.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Which raises for me the question of why do people try to keep
>>>>> others
>>>>> in
>>>>> tightly sealed containers, such as "do me" audiences who are not
>>>>> allowed
>>>>> to talk back, let alone with each other? Is it lack of
>>>>> experience
>>>>> with
>>>>> any container where people can let their lights shine on each
>>>>> other?
>>>>> Is
>>>>> it fear of the fire? Something else?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ever notice that after a play or a good seminar, when we go home
>>>>> we
>>>>> want
>>>>> to talk about it? We want to assimilate it, re-enjoy, extend it.
>>>>> What if
>>>>> we could harness that energy at the event itself? Get the people
>>>>> there
>>>>> to assimilate, re-enjoy and especially extend it, starting right
>>>>> there?
>>>>> What if?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this what OS is?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> :- Doug. Germann
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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