Opening up more space - when it gets juicy

[Thomas Herrmann]

Dear friends
Before I go to bed I´d just like to share a little story that happened last
week during a follow-up meeting after a 2,5 day OS with 2 merging schools.
The organization is a bit "stressed" so some of those who came to the
meeting didn´t know why they were there and I think some of them felt
commanded to come although they had so so much else to do right now. The
management of the schools has shown some signs of struggling to remain in
control.

So not surprisingly one lady showed quite clearly that she did not like to
be at the meeting and that´s when magic happened...

At the start of the meeting I mentioned that the four principles and the law
are with us today too. So, when I during the meeting, opened space for
conversations of their choice - by raising issues the OS-way - she
protested - we´ve done this before - I don´t understand why we do this
again. And actually I have so much else to do...

So I reminded the group of the 4P and L2F. After that it seems she turned
completely quite fast. In fact while working through the 3 issues they had
raised she kneeled down and brought up another one: How can we share with
the others about this meeting?! And in the closing circle she shared that
she was happy with this meeting... Wow, what an experience.
Warm regards & good night
Thomas Herrmann         Phone +46 (0)709-98 97 81
Open Space Consulting   Fax   +46 (0)300-713 89
Pensévägen 4
434 46 Kungsbacka, Sweden
Email: thomas at openspaceconsulting.com
www.openspaceconsulting.com

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