[OSList] 120 minutes of Open Space ….

[paul levy]

Or perhaps Time doesn't have length - only our perception of it ? Perhaps
Time has depth and resonance and maybe we open space for that ?

On Saturday, 13 April 2013, doug wrote:

> 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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