[OSList] Stating the subject at the Opening

[Eleder_BuM]

Dear open space facilitator colleagues, in between Olmué and London,
wherever we are we continue opening space and learning by doing... I'm
opening space 3 times in the next weeks after a busy spring and calm
summer.... This is great news and this is what takes me back to deepen in my
learning process.

During the evaluation meeting of my last experience I got curious about an
important subject. The promotor felt that after the opening the group wasn't
clearly headed towards the goal she had in mind. She found the group a bit
lost, in part because of Open Space Technology itself was strange for them,
but in part also because, during the 15 minutes introduction and before with
the invitation and pannels we didn't get them to understand well what they
were supposed to pursue during the day.

The group wasn't a established one. People didn't know each other much and
they were spending just one day in OS. I suppose that specially in these
cases, prework is most important to try to define a clear objective for the
meeting, specific enough to reach some interesting point during the OS.  I
read here some time (and it seemed very reasonable to me): the shorter the
OS the more specific the subject should be.

But besides, some of my doubts are as follows:

   - Do you think that, even if we reach a smart invitation text that points
   to a well defined subject, it's usually efective enough? I mean, maybe
   people read it some days/weeks before the event, they just thought "oh,
   interesting, I'll go!" and some days later they just appear on the OS day
   with a fuzzy idea of the purpose...
   - Do you try to get the subject of the OS to penetrate you deep and take
   some time during the opening to explain it as well as you can to have the
   group well directed and energized from the start ? Or, maybe, you just state
   it with not too much passion and you have the promotor explain the subject
   -who knows how- before you take your turn as facilitator?
   - Would a good explanation of the subject really be important to have a
   more productive time together?
   - Or... is some indefinition wellcome to have the group take the time to
   find their own definitions and the most interesting fields?
   - What is you practice and experience on this?

I'm sure this questions will dive us in interesting conversations and quite
good learning. I'm eager to listen your voices. Who takes the first turn?

Lolll,
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