[OSList] Large Open Space with Anglican Church Australia

[R Chaffe]

Harrison, I can remember the events well.  The sight of a forklift load of proceedings certainly puts an exclamation on the sign of the contract to deliver.  

The big events with large numbers are very impressive and are great conversation starters.  The next thing that happens to me is I tell an individual’s story about participation and being valued while their suggestions are embodied in the conversations and proceedings.  

I think I am try to say league tables have a place and there is a lot more to a successful process, the event and what happed next.

Regards
Rob

> On 26 Aug 2019, at 10:05 pm, Harrison Owen via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> 
> Congratulations! And I hate to tell you, The United Church of Canada beat you by a bit. Participants: 500, days: two, Date: mid 90’s  And actually the Presbyterian Church USA beat that by several years with the same number of participants – but best of all was the Proceedings. 320 odd pages, printed and delivered before departure. 500 copies came in a fork lift! Have fun!
>  
> Harrison
>  
> From: OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Michael Wood via OSList
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 3:14 AM
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> Cc: Michael Wood
> Subject: [OSList] Large Open Space with Anglican Church Australia
>  
> A few weeks ago Brendan McKeague and Michael Wood co-facilitated what might be the largest ever Open Space in Australia (certainly with a church group) when the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane took the step of hosting most of the first day of Synod (the annual large gathering of representatives of Anglican parishes, schools and other organisations) for 6 hours in Open Space. 450 people attended around a very spacious question, ‘what is God calling us to be and do at this time’.  Three sessions of 1.5 hours each led to the posting of 56 conversation topics and 14 action plans. One of the interesting pieces of feedback at the end of Synod is that the remainder of Synod (which is conducted in a traditional Westminster Parliament format) ‘felt’ more calm and respectful that in previous years – no surprises there.  Although it’s early days the whole thing felt to me like an opening up of new possibility about the way we meet in the church and I personally hope it might be part of a cultural shift starting to happen. Time will tell.
> Michael Wood. Perth, Western Australia.
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