[OSList] advice and courage

[Catherine Pfaehler]

Dear Hege

Yes, they can. Everybody can. Children can! When my daughter Sarah
experienced her first Open Space (she was my assistant) as a 12 year old
girl, she very enthusiastically said in the end "Mama, if school was like
this, then I would LOVE to go to school!". 

Trust, and be prepared to be surprised. It always works when you do your
pre-work carefully.

Good luck - and go for it! Catherine 


Catherine Pfaehler
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Open Space Begleitung
Burckhardtstrasse 2
CH - 3008 Bern
Telefon +41-(0)31 - 536 05 31
Mobile +41-(0)76 - 488 15 46
c.pfaehler at open-space-begleitung.ch
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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Hege Steinsland [mailto:steinslandhege at gmail.com] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2012 21:11
An: World wide Open Space Technology email list
Betreff: Re: [OSList] advice and courage

Lovely, Eva! Thank you! Its great and encourageing to hear this kond of
experiences :-)

KLem tilbake
Heg
4. des. 2012 kl. 21:05 skrev Eva P Svensson <eva at epshumaninvest.se>:

> Hi Hege,
> YES they can :-) - have those conversations! One of my first OS was with
people who worked so to speak on the productionfloor. They worked and talked
and in the morning the second day when the book on proceedings where in the
middle of the morning circle they said "have we done that?! It's not à
consultant, its us!" and that was soo great!
> 
> Klem
> Eva
> 
> Skickat från min iPhone
> 
> 4 dec 2012 kl. 20:43 skrev Hege Steinsland <steinslandhege at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Thanks Harrison :-)
>> I must admit, Im afraid. Open Space is not known at all around here. They
are so used to an other way of working, more tradicional, often wih a well
known and succsessful person to have a motivation lecture ore something like
that...
>> 
>> I think about the open space people in London.( WOSONOS) So wice, so 
>> used to listning, talking polite,  openly and supportive to 
>> eachother. Can people, Who`ve ben working on a ship yard all their 
>> life, make this kind of conversations, just like that? I struggle 
>> with faith... ( They are world leading in what they do, but this kind 
>> of thing is not what they are doing)
>> 
>> Hege
>> 
>> 4. des. 2012 kl. 20:30 skrev "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net>:
>> 
>>> This could be fun. Two thoughts immediately spring to mind. 1st and 
>>> Best -- How about a 2 day Open Space with "all hands" (not just the 
>>> managers) with a theme something like, "Building the Best Ships: Issues
and Opportunities."
>>> You would get some real work done, motivation would be a natural 
>>> byproduct, and everybody would have fun. I've never worked in a 
>>> shipyard this way -- but it did remind me of the 500 Boeing 
>>> Engineers, mechanics, and managers who got together for several days 
>>> and redesigned the way they made doors for their aircraft. Of course 
>>> you could do the same thing with just the managers, but that 
>>> wouldn't be as effective or fun -- therefore the 2nd Best idea.
>>> 
>>> ho
>>> 
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>>> Steinsland
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>>> 
>>> Hi wise people.
>>> 
>>> I ve been i an meeting today with a production leader in a big shipyard.
>>> They are in for a year with heavy work, and want to start i january 
>>> with a couple of days to motivate and empower the leaderteam in the
production.
>>> This is in mainly operational leaders, on the floor. The group is 
>>> about 20 people.
>>> 
>>> They are used to Quite a hiarcic organisation, but are sometimes 
>>> working in a projects, and sometimes in the line ( if that make 
>>> sence)
>>> 
>>> The production leader and HR manager want to do use some of the 
>>> time, thise two days, to really emphasize the impotance of work 
>>> moral, short brakes and fleksebillity, and accountability fram everyone.
>>> 
>>> And then they ask me what I can offer?
>>> 
>>> Are any of you motivated to join in with some thoughts or Ideas 
>>> here? Im not sure how to approach this.
>>> 
>>> All the best from
>>> Hege
>>> 
>>> ( will be away for a couple of days...) 
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