[OSList] canadian tables

[Chris Corrigan]

The story is this:

IN 2003 Michael Herman, Judi Richardson and I were doing an Open Space in Fairbanks Alaska in an amazing room which had a full mural on the wall.  There was no way to tape anything to the wall, and there were no rolling whiteboards.  We had to improvise.  Micheal is the clever one, and he started setting up two meter tables on their end, by extending one leg and standing them up to make a portable wall.  As our agenda, and then news wall grew with the 60 or so sessions over two days, the wall grew too and it soon encompassed one end of the space and curled around the sides. It looked very much like a hockey rink.

One of our participants was a young man who played on the Alaska ice hockey team and he had a puck shaped stone in his pocket.  He noticed the resemblance to an ice hockey rink.  During lunch one day he dropped the stone on the floor and a spontaneous game of foot hockey broke out at the end with the curved wall of tables.  

Michael called his innovation “Canadian tables” because anything in a system that causes an ice hockey game to break out is, by definition, Canadian.

Chris

> On Dec 3, 2018, at 12:20 PM, Jeff Aitken via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
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> I sent a photo of Chris Corrigan in Canada with Canadian Tables ! but the file size sent it to the list moderator.
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> Portable tables are set up on their ends to make 2 meter tall portable walls perfect for os agenda making!
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> Jeff
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> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 11:50 AM David Osborne via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> As a Canadian I have to ask. What are “Canadian Tables”?
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> Let me know and my best to all.
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> David
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Dec 3, 2018, at 11:33 AM, Doris Gottlieb via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
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>> Hi Eva,
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>> Thanks for that lovely note. I have used Canadian Tables a few times and I am so glad that way back when there were so many great OST facilitators who discovered these ways to keep space open.
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>> With love,
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>> Doris
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>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:28 PM Eva P Svensson via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Long time no see or post from me - but I really need to say that for the first time since about 20 years with Open Space I had the chance to use ”Canadian tables” when I worked at the Royal Opera house in Stockholm - and you could tell that there was NO way to put tape on the walls. Worked great of course :-)
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