[OSList] R: medicine wheel? anyone?

Tue Sep 4 15:14:24 PDT 2012

Hi everyone,

I find that at the end of an OS event, people have invested themselves so intensely that the energy looks like " it's over". So like the fourth principle says, I prefer to let go. In the preparation, I coach the host to encourage follow-ups of all kinds in his comment during the closing circle. 

I find that using the medicine wheel at the debrief meeting with the OS event organizing committee, then later with the management team brings helps to deepen the reflection. A very practical and useful tool which because of its origins, helps to keep the spirit there even after the event.

I have used it as well during OS training to deepen the reflection on the impact of the OS event that participants experience at the beginning of the training.

So it's not necessary but it can bring value depending on the context.

Diane

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>Dear friends in Open Space
>I have been using the Medicine Wheel as a reflection tool at the end of almost all my OST’s. Depending on timing and design I do it slightly differently. Mostly I present the Wheel and then invite the participants to think about leadership – what did you experience/learn, what was different? Talk to your neighbor for a minute and then I invite anyone to share in the circle. Next to Vision…Community, Management… Just as Raffi points out I think this can bridge the learning to everyday life. I like to offer this opportunity
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>Same for me Raffi. I have been using the medicine wheel for years - especially in training settings - without really connect to it. 
>What I most like of the medicine wheel is that I feel it can invite participants to shift their attention from leadership and management to community and vision. What I feel not comfortable with is the clockwise (right) and anticlockwise (wrong) interpretation described in the OST guide. Maybe cause I’m anticlockwise openspacer – am I right MMP ;-)? 
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>Inviato: martedì 4 settembre 2012 05:39
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>friends,
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>craig's questions encouraged me to post about something i've been meaning to ask for a while:
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>i'm curious how much - if at all- do you use the medicine wheel reflection activity described in the ost user's guide at the end of an ost meeting.
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>do you see it as an essential element of a carefully facilitated ost meeting? or not?
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>or is it best dropped ('one more thing not to do').
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>in my training in ost it was presented as essential and for years i did it and couldn't quite connect to it. but with time however, my relationship to the medicine wheel changed. and i think it has lots of value. at the very least it serves a role in bridging, bridging the experience of the meeting to the monday after the meeting...and beyond. as in, 'how do we take what we experienced here into our day to day life in our organization?'
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>also my curiousity comes from hardly ever seeing it mentioned on the list...
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>curious about your responses,
>much warmth,
>raffi
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