[OSList] Fwd: Brainstorming versus Open Space

[Peggy Holman]

Dear Gijs,

I would say that Open Space has little to do with brainstorming.  Ideas in brainstorming are abstractions, something to throw out and release.  They belong to no one.

The invitation in Open Space is to follow what has heart and meaning, to take responsibility for what you love.  That has a whole different energy about it.  People step forward because they care.  When they do that, their whole being is involved.  The result is that even when it is tough, people work through whatever dissonances arise.  Breakthroughs happen.  It's an essential part of the secret sauce that makes the magic called Open Space.

Congratulations on your talk!

appreciatively,
Peggy


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On Jun 25, 2012, at 7:53 PM, Gmail wrote:

> Dear OS colleagues,
> 
> Can someone add to my answer below. At yesterrday's independently organized TEDxBinnenhof event in Shangai, I presented a personal story: "Open Space helps Innovation". Time given  was only 7 minutes, so had chosen the short explanation (the criteria of complexity, urgency, passion and Openess to outcome, the circle, the invitation, the bulletin board as well as the spirit of an experienced session and the benefit fit had for the sponsor. After the presentation I got the logic pragmatic question of clarifying the difference between OST and the known-brainstorming sessions. 
> 
> My answer:
> Open Space (OS) is a very structured process and therefore can have up to 2000 participants without prior set agenda. Everyone is free to put up a subject of discussion/brainstorming that matters to them. In turn these particular subjects form their own ' circle'.Adjacent sessions are convened at the same time with different hosts from the participants themselves. . During the sessions, there will be several groups of people discussing different topics but with relation to the main crux of the meeting.  Participants go in and out different sessions, like bumblebees in nature, cross pollinating. OS may look like brainstorming in a very short meeting, but in OS you get more structured feed-back from different perspectives and from different groups. 
> 
> I hope to learn from you.
> 
> Gijs
> 
> 
> Send from iPad
> 


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