[OSList] Large Open Space with Anglican Church Australia

Wed Sep 4 12:21:51 PDT 2019

Brendan, Love the added details you provided. And appreciated all the
comments above including the fork lift and the gift of spacious time. I've
been absent from the OS list for awhile, living a nomad life on the road
that I call "Open Space on the Open Road".  Wish you were coming to WOSonOS
~ far I know but certainly it would be lovely to relive the memories of our
time spent in Manilla.

Yippeee right back at ya,
Suzanne

Suzanne Daigle
Open Space Facilitator
NuFocus Strategic Group

Cell: 203-722-2009
www.nufocusgroupusa.com
s.daigle at nufocusgroup.com
Twitter @Daiglesuz

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 8:53 PM Brendan McKeague via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Thanks Birgitt - we did a bit of serious discernment around the session
> times, given the numbers involved, the transitions between spaces (and
> paradigms), and the time we had available to open the space.
>
> A couple of interesting variations to our usual practice emerged
>
> 1) we decided to put the starting times on the Agenda Wall and not
> nominate the finishing times (ie Session 1: 10:30, Session 2: 12noon,
> session 3: 1:30; reconvene for convergence: 2:45 - or something like that
> from memory)
>
> 2) we then offered an invitation to Action Planning from 2:45-3:15’ish
> when participants could nominate the action areas they were interested in
> pursuing, the place where they could be found, and inviting others to join
> them around the grounds during afternoon break 3:15-3:50, before they all
> returned to the hall which by then had been reconfigured into the
> conventional Synod style - rows, microphones etc...
>
> 3) we invited participants to continue having conversations throughout
> the remaining 1.5 days of the Synod and if they chose, to record these and
> submit for inclusion in the Book of Proceedings… an invitation to ‘keeping
> the space open’ for as long as they wished, in the context of their
> gathering.
>
> All in all, we embraced a few challenging contextual concerns around time,
> space, numbers…..and as usual, collective intention and openness to
> co-create with willing sponsors enabled us to experience yet another
> complex adaptive system in motion….
>
> Yippeeeeee :)
>
> Brendan
>
>
> On 27 Aug 2019, at 8:08 am, Birgitt Williams via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
> Congratulations Michael and Brendan ,
> Among the many aspects of this story that are just great, the one I am
> appreciating the most is that you did your OST design so that all sessions
> were given 90 minutes, using the gift of time within the space, time for
> meaningful conversations.
>
> in genuine contact,
> Birgitt
>
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> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 3:14 AM Michael Wood via OSList <
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>
>> 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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