[OSList] OSONOS Reykjavík - Open Space Iceland - osis2013

[Be Trained]

It was great!!  Good JOB!!!


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Kári Gunnarsson
<kari.gunnarsson at simnet.is>wrote:

> Dear self-organizing space-opening people.
>
> I accept the responsibility in the invitation of Harrison Owen from 1993
> from his User's Guide "Of course, there is one small responsibility that
> accompanies this invitation. Please, share what you discover and we will
> all be the richer."
>
> To day we had the 1st Open Space on Open Space in Icelandic, We had it
> short with only 3 hours to use. There were two companies, and two
> associations that use Open Space here in Iceland as generous sponsors, so
> we were able provide free participation for the event.
>
> We opened the space at 13:00 to day (on a working day). The door was open
> for registration with coffee, tea and Yerba Mate, from 12:30. I did the
> opening remarks and the opening, then I opened the marketplace. I opted for
> a single paper size of standard unmarked printing paper for topic writing,
> documentation and sign making. We had two time-slots and unmarked spaces. I
> asked the participants to bring there topic signs to mark out there own
> space for there discussion, this way we did not use any post-it notes. The
> second discussion opened on 14:30 with the words, "whenever it starts". The
> closing circle was set at 15:20 with two caps of my hands, I left my temple
> bells at home, for not everyone has such items. I used a roll of tape (used
> to hang topics on the wall) as the walking stick in the closing circle.
> many of these design decision where taken to symbolize the accessibility of
> this methought to everybody,
>
> There was a lot of rush, as people rued from one group to the next (I will
> opt for a longer time for the second osis2014, where we will include the
> lunch hour).  Many pictures were taken and people took many personal notes.
> We agreed to compile a book of proceedings in the next week from our notes
> and photographs.
>
> I discovered that this can be extremely successful, with several things
> not done, for it happened to be somethings "not to do". This will be an
> interesting year for Open Space here in Iceland. I'm still looking forward
> to use my temple bells for my next open space. When do you ring your bell?
>
> with best regards
>
> --
> Kári Gunnarsson
> www.openspace.is
> gsm: +354 8645189
>
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