OS, FS, WC, etc.

[ingrid ebeling ebus]

Hi Ralph,

I can confirm what you just said about the World Café preceding an  
open space. It correspond with my own experience. It is obviously  
easy going and helps focussing.

Greetings from Hannover

Ingrid



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Am 29.08.2007 um 16:01 schrieb Ralph Copleman:

> Hi,
>
> My morning thoughts today...
>
> I’m with Harrison (surprise, surprise) on the point that OS is the  
> easiest method and I, too keep coming back to it, regardless of the  
> group, organization, theme, degree of urgency, and so forth.  It’s  
> the only thing I know that mimics real life, i.e. self-organization.
>
> And I still use future search, happily, because it does produce the  
> same results, and for some clients it’s a better fit.  They need  
> the outcomes, and they’re more comfortable with the FS process, so  
> that’s what they choose.  I don’t argue.  FS does make me work much  
> harder, but because in FS the whole thing unfolds in one room in  
> front of me, I learn more surely (for me) what is going on in the  
> system.
>
> What I continue to learn from Marv Weisbord and Sandra Janoff about  
> how the human mind works in group and system settings delightfully  
> fills my head.  I have a lot of confidence in what I do (and what I  
> don’t do) in front of groups, big and small, largely because of  
> them.  (Their new book, “Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There”, by  
> the way, is terrific.)  What I continue to learn from Harrison is  
> a) all about self-organization, and b) about the journey of spirit  
> in human life and how it’s possible to open hearts (including mine)  
> by opening space.  And he named “grief work” for me way back a long  
> time ago.  That was a big help.
>
> How could I work if I did not have both of these types of influences?
>
> I’ve experienced World Café a number of times, and I like it, and  
> to my friend who said it might be too much effort to come with the  
> questions, etc., I had to giggle at the remark, and I agree.  OS  
> spoils us.  But I’m not sure the questions matter so much.  In my  
> experience, the conversations at the tables never seems to answer  
> the questions directly, and this is okay, too, of course.  The last  
> time I was in a WC activity, it preceded a three-day OS event.  It  
> helped open the space faster, I would say.  By this I mean, we  
> needed less time in the open space to get our minds and energies  
> going.  It was as if we were already in it when we began.  But this  
> effect did not last very long.  We got a “jump start”, but once the  
> engine was on, it ran in the usual way.  These are observations on  
> my part, not judgments.
>
> I, too, resist, using other methods.  I don’t have the time to fill  
> my quiver with yet more arrows when what I already have there works  
> so well.
>
> Ralph Copleman
>
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