[OSList] Open Space on private Mediation in Portugal on 3. /4. Febr. - coming soon!....

Mon Jan 30 14:05:17 PST 2012

Junta – Not to worry. Just remember the 1st Principle! Whoever comes are the right people. Really, it is not about “how many” but rather about Who Cares. If it is 12 – that is the perfect number. 

A long time ago I was asked to open space for a group of institutions that were about to merge. I think some 20 people from the several organizations indicated they were coming, but on the day of the event we had a snow storm. A big one. Five people made it through the blizzard. And what to do? 

Not having had a great deal of experience with Open Space at that point (it was long, long time ago!) I was a little worried. Of course we could have canceled and everybody could have gone back out into the snowy night… But that seemed a little extreme. So we thought to give it a try. I did say that I didn’t quite know what would happen, if anything but – once we sat in the circle, created the bulletin board, opened the market place – Wham! They went to work!!

Frankly I was blown away but none of the participants, so far as I could tell, were at all concerned. Truth of the matter was that they were being too productive and having too much fun to even think about all the reasons why it could not work. Fortunately we had representation from all the organizations – and as far as the Open Space went – it was just like usual. That group met in every permutation of “5” – 2-3, 4-1, etc. and all 5 together. The closing circle was intense – and the merger took place – right then in spirit, and several days later, in fact. 

So no worries my friends. Works just like always!

Have fun.

Harrison 

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From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Jutta Weimar
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 2:48 PM
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Subject: [OSList] Open Space on private Mediation in Portugal on 3. /4. Febr. - coming soon!....

Dear Open Space friends,

Sitting at the kitchen table in our partners house in Estoril, near Lisbon / Portugal we just talked about the Open Space event that will happen here on friday and Saturday this week. 

We met in Berlin last October, when Katian and Jose (www.mediarcom.com) came to be part of a boscop team and experienced Open Space. And here is our concern:

Sofar about 12 people have registered for the event and in a way it feels as this will be little. And to make a long story short: It will be very helpful, if you share stories of small-scale Open Space events with us (especially with groups unfamiliar with Open Space).

Love to hear from you

thanx in advance

Junta Weimar

Am 30.01.2012 um 18:22 schrieb <donna.read at managing4wellness.org>:

There is a great chapter on charrettes in the Change Handbook (see Chapter 32, p. 309 on Dynamic Planning and the Power of Charrettes).  Would love to hear about what you are working on.  Intriguing. D.

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Subject: Re: [OSList] Charrette and Open Space ?
From: David Osborne <dosborne at change-fusion.com>
Date: Mon, January 30, 2012 7:58 am
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I'm familiar with charettes from architectural clients I have and believe this is an approach architecte's use. From what I understand they will establish a set time frame - An afternoon for example - give the design challenge and then have individuals or teams all working on designs. They then collect everyone's designs and then share to look at the various approaches to inform the eventual design. the term itself may be from the architectural field.

David

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Eva P Svensson <eva at epshumaninvest.se> wrote:

Hi all wise people!

Anyone having experience from a method called charrette? When I looked it up on Wikipedia it says this:

"A charrette is a method of organizing thoughts from experts and the users into a structured medium that is unrestricted and conducive to the creativity and the development of myriad scenarios.

The word charrette may refer to any collaborative session in which a group of  <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designers> designers drafts a solution to a design problem. While the structure of a charrette varies, depending on the design problem and the individuals in the group, charrettes often take place in multiple sessions in which the group divides into sub-groups. Each sub-group then presents its work to the full group as material for future  <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue> dialogue. Such charrettes serve as a way of quickly generating a design solution while integrating the aptitudes and interests of a diverse group of people. Compare this term with  <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workshop> workshop."

To me it sound very very much like an Open Space meeting! Do you know the difference? Any experiences, thoughts?

Hugs from a winter-like Sweden

:o)

Eva

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