[OSList] 120 minutes of Open Space ….

[doug]

Lisa--

Yes, a topic for WOSonOS! Something like When the time is short, what is 
better than OS?

			:- Doug.

On 04/12/2013 05:22 PM, Lisa Heft wrote:
> To me, it is the questions you ask yourself - and your client - when
> someone invites you to facilitate - Open Space or otherwise.
>
> All those analysis questions that inform choice of process and knowledge
> about possibilities.
> How much time is available, is more time possible... not because a short
> time is necessarily bad, but it may inform whether I choose Open Space
> or another process.
>
> I feel that doing things quickly leaves out the reflective thinker as
> usually only the quick-responders have time to engage, thus reducing
> diversity.
> So I ask some of these questions of myself and of the client (and make
> some recommendations - can they bring their lunch and can we use that
> time, also?) to see what the most expansive possibilities may be.
> Or to see if something other than Open Space will help both kinds of
> thinkers given the very short time available - such as a reflective
> dialogic process including silence or graphics or other modalities.
>
> Also as the deliverables of shorter Open Space are different than longer
> Open Space. Just something to discuss with the client in terms of what
> fits best and what is possible - when thinking of Open Space as one of
> the possibilities.
>
> I am not saying that doing a super-short Open Space is 'bad' or that
> Open Space is not part of every living system - it is. Or that people
> conversing and working together during tiny times cannot feel
> expansiveness.
>
> However when I find in my conversations with the client that only an
> hour or so is available, I tend to select another amazing wonderful
> dynamic process instead of Open Space. Because often those other
> processes deliver rich interchange within a very short time.
>
> In saying this, I also completely support each of you explorers in the
> use of super-short Open Space events...
>
> Hmmm. Maybe this is something some of us will be exploring at the World
> Open Space on Open Space in Florida USA next month. Do you think?
>
> Lisa
>
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