[OSList] inquiry OS

[Bhavesh Patel]

As I read your inquiry I am thinking:

   - Do the group feel safe enough to be open with each other?
   - Maybe some pre-OST warm up which builds clarity around the aim of the
   day?
   - Did you get them to sign up for the topics they are interested in,
   even ones happening at the same time?


May or may not be of any use, Smiles Bhav...




On 5 March 2013 05:45, Lourdes Adriana Diaz-Berrio Doring <
adriana at diazberrio.com> wrote:

> Lisa: Thank you for all this sharing, you make me fell safe, it is
> strange but that is how reading this makes me fell, I fell that open
> space is something that you get to understand much better when you
> accumulate experience as you have and I like this explanations that
> are precises, clear and very helpful to me.
> Adriana
>
> 2013/3/5 Lisa Heft <lisaheft at openingspace.net>:
> > Celia - thank you so much for sharing your reflections, observations,
> > learning and interest with us. We all learn together, in this sharing.
> >
> > So many things can affect how a dialogue-based event goes, Open Space or
> > otherwise.
> >
> > I agree with what brother Chris and others say about invitation - to me,
> > invitation - is an essential, important, key part of any dialogue-based
> > event. Messaging, strategy, how, whom, why, giving enough advance time
> for
> > people to plan for attending, and many other things. Pre-registration is
> > also useful - finding out about people, engaging them with outreach and
> > relationship during and after the registration process, and so on.
> >
> > Then there is the selection of what process best fits the overarching
> > objective (reason for this particular meeting), Open Space or otherwise.
> > Based on an analysis of why, for whom, to what end, context, what came
> > before and what follows, how will the information / ideas / relationships
> > generated at this event be used post-event, and so on. Then the choice of
> > best-fit process to fulfill that - plus documentation design to support
> > that, and so on.
> >
> > Then there is the way - if Open Space is the process that fits the
> situation
> > - how we explain the Principles and Law, how we hold the space, and so
> on.
> >
> > Harrison is correct - there is hierarchy and cultural reasons for being
> not
> > used to self-organization, education systems that do not engage people in
> > critical thinking or dialogue, power dynamics - across all cultures. Not
> > just Kenya.
> >
> > And there are other cultures where people are expected to be paid for
> things
> > - take for example some clients of some NGOs for whom vouchers are given
> so
> > they can attend, or for whom meals or child care or bus money is offered
> so
> > they can attend... But this in itself does not seem to change the
> dynamics
> > of engagement. It just changes who attends and who cannot or who chooses
> not
> > to.
> >
> > I have facilitated Open Space in Mozambique and South Africa and other
> > dialogue-based processes in Zambia. I have not worked yet in Kenya. All
> has
> > gone very well, no problem with culture and and not only that: Open
> Space,
> > when it has been used - has broken through power dynamics and hierarchal
> > dynamics and intercultural differences and class and academic level and
> > everything else.  So I do not see it as different in Africa - although of
> > course wherever we work - whomever we work with - it is important to be
> > aware of our own cultural filters, expectations and lenses. But Open
> Space
> > itself has a way of working even if we are not the same culture as the
> > people for whom we facilitate - because the facilitator very quickly
> becomes
> > invisible - though completely present.
> >
> > There is also the idea of timing. In so many countries such as so many
> > African countries - the time of elections is fraught with memories of
> > violence and corruption and grief. Could this event have been timed at
> the
> > right time? Would another time of the year have been best?
> >
> > There is also the question of - was it full, complete form of Open Space
> -
> > or was it compressed into a very short time, was it not the complete
> form,
> > and so on - because if not, that can change the dynamics, productivity
> and
> > results.
> >
> > A million questions. A million things for you to share and explore.
> >
> > What does all of our sharing of ideas and questions bring up for you?
> Upon
> > reflection, what would you yourself say? What are your theories about
> why it
> > may not have worked, or worked in the way you thought it would?
> >
> > You teach us so much, in your discovery and learning,
> >
> > Lisa
> >
> >
> >
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