Craig

[Barry Owen]

I have done this a few times (2) - Worked great. The times I did it were small groups (less than 10 people), and the purpose of the meetings was Strategic Vision stuff for a Leadership Team.

The first time, we did it by accident - We had a 2 day retreat scheduled, and the "sponsor" had failed to think about the structure of the meeting . . . I was in the room, so I just said: "Let's Open The Space!" We did - Had @ 20 Issues posted . . . The group "self-organized" the time allotted . . . and everything got done.

That first time went so well that we did the 2nd one intentionally. This one was to develop the "Plan" . . . Again, it worked great.

I'm not sure I'm ready to try this with a larger crowd - I think there really is value to having some semblance of visible structure for those folks in the crowd who get the heebie-jeebies when they see "weird stuff."

b

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Raffi Aftandelian
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 12:29 AM
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Subject: Craig

Thank you for the story, Craig.

As for 

> Have you ever done an OS where you did not even schedule the sessions—
> you simply let them happen as they need to happen, or is this schedule
> a needed “basic bones” of the structure?

I recall hearing in a butterfly conversation at the Goa WOSonOS that the
Spirited Work community near Seattle hasn't used the the time-space matrix
since the late 90's. Mark? Peggy? Anne? Michael? Tree? 

warmly,
Raffi

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