[OSList] OST in India

Jeff Aitken r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 21:43:58 PDT 2018


http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/country/IN

Several people listed here who have worked in India using OST.

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 7:25 PM R Chaffe via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> To support the posts so far.  Open Space technology that I had the
> privilege to be part of seemed to be just the right thing as it reflected
> many of the values that are present in the various cultural and religious
> practices in the society that I shared.  Because it is so your client may
> be looking for the Western World simplistic imposed solutions.  You
> challenge may be the fact that everyone has an equal space, every idea is
> welcome, complexity is seen as a natural component of the issues and
> opportunities and that there may be confronting, challenging and radical
> suggestions.  Opening space has the promise of gleaning the ideas,
> suggestions, issues that are within that business community so the sponsor
> must be able to accept this and in their opening, enabling address must
> sincerely convey this to the participants.  So when they step back the
> participants are ready to post their topic without hesitation.  The social
> structures in India often mean that various sections of the community are
> excluded as they are members of the other class or cast. This will be the
> major barrier to getting the whole of the business involved and therefore
> major issue in engaging other sections in any change the event using Open
> Space Technology “invents”.
>
> Best of luck,  if you mission is based on pluck you will succeed if on
> luck success is optional
>
>
> Regards
> Rob
>
> On 31 Mar 2018, at 11:38 am, Jeff Aitken via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
> OST was in India nearly before it was established in the USA - both in the
> same few years late 80s!
>
> Others have stories I'm sure..m
>
> Jeff
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 5:30 PM Heidi Nobantu Saul via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>> Greetings OST World Community - from the high desert of Santa Fe, New
>> Mexico ~
>>
>> I have a potential client in India (a tech company) and it would be very
>> helpful to be able to provide them with some companies, institutions or
>> organizations that have used Open Space in India in recent years.  Meaning
>> more recent than the original event in Goa - which I have mentioned to my
>> client.
>>
>> They have the idea that it is an 'American' thing and therefor may not
>> work as easily with Indian participants.
>>
>> If any of you who have facilitated OST in India are willing to share
>> where you did it/who for, I would be most appreciative!
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Heidi
>>
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