the circle, luminaries, personal growing edges

Brendan McKeague mckeague at iprimus.com.au
Tue Aug 21 18:08:06 PDT 2007


Kaliya - it sounds as though you have been both sponsor and 
facilitator of growing an 'open space culture' in your community over time...
and you have been successful in achieving what you set out to do.....
The journey from semi-circle to circle worked!
Cheers
Brendan

At 06:10 AM 22/08/2007, you wrote:
>What I put forward to you has worked really well for me in the Tech 
>communities I have grown and cultivated.
>
>  I have an very high level of credibility and trust among very very 
> senior people in the industry (to people in BIG corporations) in 
> part because I built trust with them and the community I helped to 
> build "OVER TIME" (we are having our 5th event in the fall (we do 
> them every 6 months).  This last OST we closed with a group poem. 
> My goal with each event is to expand their process horizons every time.
>
>  These people now tell me they have a much lower tolerance for 
> 'talking heads' conferences and events with 5 papers....they are in 
> love with open space.
>
>   Part of the reason for this I believe was my choice - my 
> perception of where they were at culturally as a group and what i 
> could do - interms  of pushing their boundaries - (having NO agenda 
> was already pushing it at the beginning) an not going 'over board' 
> in the pushing. It is not like I had a client or committee I was 
> pleasing by not doing a circle- I was it - the designer/facilitator 
> (I always run my event designs by my co-producer and a process ally 
> in my tech community)..

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