[OSList] Impact of open space

[Royle, Karl via OSList]

Hi

I think in this case the idea coincided with necessity and existing external drivers for enhancing the student experience ...outcomes. So I think there was already space opening for something to happen. I also think the head of faculty ... for all her faults, and she had many, was willing to take a chance on OS...to try to bind us together or at least get us all talking. The otherness of the external facilitator was crucial too. At the event people came to me and said that it was the first time they had felt able to speak at an event and felt
Listened to.

Since then we have used os with school kids and next month with our health and art faculty to start projects that combine the two disciplines... so I think there is space for os and still space for what happens afterwards... it certainly releases creative energy... much of which falls into the cracks and fissures of the organisation but other bits lodge and take root like benevolent viruses within the culture

:-)

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On 17 Feb 2017, at 21:31, Birgitt Williams via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org<mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:

Beautiful example Karl!!!! I also like that you have a faculty of educational health and well being. That is awesome too.

Would you be willing to say more about how the outputs from the OST meeting(s) bumped up against the existing 'reality' of structure etc., and what happened to soften all of that up sufficiently for the outputs from the OST to make the difference that they did. This is the transition point that I am personally so dedicated to that can be challenging...and it seems that you all did so successfully!

Warmly,
Birgitt

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 4:22 PM Royle, Karl via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org<mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
About three years ago in
2013 our university decide to merge four schools into an über faculty. We needed to get people working together . So I suggested an open space meeting ably facilitated by my colleague Jasmina Nikolic and supported by Suzanne Daigle's guide to open space. We had about 300 people in a sports hall...

Fast forward 4 years and the university is running a careers development week across all faculties and some 20000 students opening up opportunities for our students in one of the most deprived areas of the uk. The guy organising it messaged me saying he could draw a direct line from careers week back to the os event where he first had the idea.

Just thought I would share that story with you all...



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