[OSList] inquiry OS

[Christine Whitney Sanchez]

Celia,

Adding to Harrison's and Chris's questions about invitation and voluntary participation, I wonder whether the participants are working together on something and truly understand the process and benefits of cross-pollination?   Are you working with public forums or within an intact system?  

And I wonder if it might be counter cultural (within the system or in the larger culture) in some way?  

Thanks for bringing the discussion to the list.  I love a good mystery!

Warm wishes from the air from Phoenix to DC,

Christine

On Mar 4, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Chris Corrigan <chris.corrigan at gmail.com> wrote:

Agreed…sounds like a passion deficit.  In my experience, when people are gathered to discuss an issue that just burns within them, OST meetings fly.  We are never bored by immediate need!

My advice in the pre-meetings with your sponsor is to ask - "Why do we need to hold this meeting?  What is happening that makes this meeting important for everyone who will attend?"  From there, your invitation process should be to reach all of those for whom this issue matters greatly.  The key is not in doing Open Space, it is in invitation.  If the structure of Open Space is a fireplace, invitation is the wood and passion is what lights it.  If one of the three is missing, your OST will fizzle (or work anyway, but with low energy, if you want to put it that way).

Chris


On 2013-03-04, at 9:21 AM, Harrison Owen wrote:

> Celia – Odd indeed! My first thought is two questions: A) Is participation totally voluntary, or have the people, in some way or another, been “told” to come? B) Is the subject (Theme) of the OS something that the people truly care about? If the answers are No, No – then I am not very surprised with the results. On the other hand, if the answers are Yes, Yes – this is definitely weird and worthy of study.
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> I have been working in Kenya for the last 8 months and facilitated a few open space forums. I have noticed a pattern developing in my OS forums that is not great. I am not sure if i am doing something wrong when opening the space. It seems that when it is time to start session 1, if people don't have their own topic in session 1 they just sit there. People only really engage in the topic they put up themselves and sit around being butterflies for the rest of the forum, complaining they are bored and waiting for their session. Also, when they have finished their discussions they don't join other people's group to contribute.
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> It has happened a few times. I wonder if it is normal or if I am missing something. I do explain that if they are not discussing their topic they can look at other people's topics and go to other groups, but it seems to not be heard. It is not just a few, it is many people, sometimes half or more of the forum are sitting waiting for their topic.
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