SV: [OSLIST] would you do it?

Eva P Svensson eva at epshumaninvest.se
Tue Jun 30 13:13:04 PDT 2009


Hello Peggy!
Thanks! It was great to hear! I got the image of instead of “speed-dating”
which is so popular right now – it is “Speed-openspacening” J - maybe a new
approach
..

 

I will meet with the Swedish organizing team on Friday so hopefully I know
more after that. 

Until then – thanks again!

I will keep you’all posted

:o)

Eva

 

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Från: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] För Peggy Holman
Skickat: den 29 juni 2009 00:01
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Ämne: Re: [OSLIST] would you do it?

 

Hello Eva,

 

To the many questions and suggestions you've received, I'll add a story.  I
was asked to do a keynote at a conference on Open Space.  Since Harrison had
sent them my way because he had a conflict and had originally intended to do
it, I didn't think twice.  I said "yes".  Then I discovered that what they
wanted for the keynote was an Open Space.  They were expecting 150 people
and I had... 1.5 hours!

 

Since this story is in the OSlist archives, I've copied it below.

 

One last item about this story that I discovered recently.  It turns out
that the person who wanted the OS keynote was Steve Cady, who joined with
Tom Devane and me for the second edition of The Change Handbook.  Steve had
never seen an Open Space.  It was his way of experiencing the process and he
had no idea what he was asking by requesting it be done in 1.5 hours.

 

appreciatively,

Peggy

 

 

 

On Aug 3, 2004, at 3:57 PM, Peggy S. Holman wrote:





Ralph -- I had a really different experience with 90 minutes.  I'm guessing
that it was because the topic was real (not just a demo).

It was the keynote for the Bowling Green MSOD Alumni conference.  They
wanted the 150 or so participants to experience Open Space.  After my first
thought of "impossible", I thought, "why not?"

It worked incredibly well!  I was amazed at the energy of the group and that
they really did move from topic to topic.  It was like watching a speeded up
video of an OS.  For the closing circle, I invited people to reflect using a
word or phrase.  This actually left time in the closing for Q&A on OST.

Mind you, I did this for graduates of an OD program who were as interested
in the form as they were the content of the gathering.

My take on it was that it would be impossible to do any subject justice in
90 minutes.  Given that,
rather than set the expectation of even one quality conversation, use the
time for another purpose: to invite people to notice who else has passion
for the same topics as you.  20 minutes to open, three 15 minute sessions,
20 minutes to close about does it.  In that time, people will find out the
range of subjects of interest and who else cares about them.  They'll be
able to touch in with the folks they meet after the OS.  And another
benefist
is that it leaves participants with a very different embodied experience of
what OST is.


Joe -- to your second question - OS at a conference.  I have also done this.
It was a conference track that ran in parallel with other more traditinal
sessions for the last 2 days of a three day conference.  Some people stayed
for the whole OS, others floated in and out.  They loved it.

home in Seattle at last,
Peggy


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Copleman" <rcopleman at comcast.net>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 6:41 AM
Subject: [OSLIST] Brief demonstrations





Joe Bowers, Harrison and all,

 

I agree that doing an OS demonstration is challenging.  I did a 90-minute

version once for a group of colleagues.  Had three 20-minute sessions

squeezed in.  It was awful.  Everybody looked bored.  Never again.

 

On the other hand, I did a 30-minute thing for a client once involving the

top 20 managers in an American airline company.  They kept pressing me for

an explanation, so during a break I hurriedly made the posters and stuck

them on the walls.  Then I reconvened everyone in a circle and did the

opening.  That's all.  No postings.  No actual open space.

 

They loved it.  A month later I was doing a one-day event for them to

explore their frequent-flier program, customers included.

 

Ralph Copleman

 

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On Jun 25, 2009, at 3:49 AM, Eva P Svensson wrote:





Hello!
I have been asked to do an Open Space with about 800 people. That’s great –
BUT as it’s looks right now – there will only be 1,5 hours timeframe for the
entire thing



What do you think about that? Would you recommend to go for it – what would
you do????

I know I have done a taster on OS in 1,5 hour with 100 people and it went
well – but 800


What would you do?

Sunny warm greetings from Sweden

:o)

Eva

 

Bästa hälsningar

 

Eva P Svensson

 

EPS Human Invest AB

Member of Beyond Performance Group

 

"Verksamhetsutveckling genom människor skapar långsiktigt välmående företag
och organisationer"

 

Anåsbergsvägen 22, 439 34 ONSALA

Besöksadress; Norra Allégatan 8, Göteborg

Tfn: 0300-615 05, Mobil; 0706- 89 85 50

 <http://www.epshumaninvest.se/> www.epshumaninvest.se

Skype: eva.p.svensson

Besök gärna min blogg; www.epshumaninvest.blogspot.com/

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dig, och låta dig själv finna svaren." Sokrates

 

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