[OSList] canadian tables

[David Osborne]

Michael,

As someone who says "It's all good" frequently, I appreciate this addition
to the story!

best to all,

David



*David R. Osborne*
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 4:45 PM Michael Herman <michael at michaelherman.com>
wrote:

> i love this part from chris... "...anything in a system that causes an ice
> hockey game to break out is, by definition, Canadian."  ...but while I was
> pretty sure it was my engineering, I was thinking that Chris, the hockey
> nut (i.e. the Canadian) must have come up with the name.  I'd forgotten the
> kid with the rock, but i did remember those tables wrapping all around one
> end of the room and thinking it looked just like an indoor rink.
>
> here's another favorite little bit from that time... Chris might remember
> more of this one, too, but what i remember is that chris and judi and i
> were laughing a lot and found ourselves making lots of references to fr.
> brian bainbridge in our conversations.  we had a lot of fun describing
> everything as "it's all good," for instance.  when the three of us sat down
> to eat lunch together one day, somebody brought us, or we found on the
> table, somehow, some silverware and four napkins... three of the napkins
> were the same red that everyone else seemed to have at their tables but the
> fourth one was black.  brian, we laughed, was taking "fully present and
> totally invisible" to a whole new level!
>
> thanks for sharing these stories.
>
> michael
>
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> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 2:35 PM David Osborne via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>> Chris,
>>
>> This story is priceless for many reasons. Not only do I now know the what
>> and why's of Canadian Tables but also it takes place in one of my
>> favorite places on earth AND the gift keeps on giving. It reminds me of
>> Judi Richardson who is a friend who I haven't seen in years from my
>> hometown in Canada. And of course as is true with every Canadian any story
>> that involves ice hockey is good.
>>
>> Thanks for humoring my curiosity and sharing such a great story.
>>
>> Best to all of you,
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> *David R. Osborne*
>> Organization and Leadership Development
>>
>> 6402 Arlington Blvd., Suite 1120, Falls Church, VA 22042
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>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:29 PM Chris Corrigan via OSList <
>> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>> I sent a photo of Chris Corrigan in Canada with Canadian Tables ! but
>>> the file size sent it to the list moderator.
>>>
>>> Portable tables are set up on their ends to make 2 meter tall portable
>>> walls perfect for os agenda making!
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>> San Francisco
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 11:50 AM David Osborne via OSList <
>>> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org wrote:
>>>
>>>> As a Canadian I have to ask. What are “Canadian Tables”?
>>>>
>>>> Let me know and my best to all.
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 3, 2018, at 11:33 AM, Doris Gottlieb via OSList <
>>>> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Eva,
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> With love,
>>>>
>>>> Doris
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:28 PM Eva P Svensson via OSList <
>>>> 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 :-)
>>>>> hugs
>>>>> Eva
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