<html><div>At 03:32 AM 11/17/99 -0800, you wrote:</div>
<div>>romy shovelton wrote:</div>
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<div>>> At almost all events I do these days (including Open
Space), I take with me</div>
<div>>> a graphic facilitator (trained with the folks at Grove -
David Sibbert et</div>
<div>>> al)..... and we produce a large graphic record of the whole
event. You</div>
<div>>> probably know of the Grove work.</div>
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<div>>Romy:</div>
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<div>>Do you have any examples of this type of graphic record that I
could</div>
<div>>see - this really intrigues me - I've been trying to imagine
how</div>
<div>>someone would "capture" the essence of an OS visibly
but am having</div>
<div>>trouble.</div>
<div>>--</div>
<div>>Sharon</div>
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<div>David Sibbet and Grove are in San Francisco. I don't have a number,
but probably information does. David is an old friend, personally and of
OST. He was present at OT1 and OT3 -- (the first Open Space). OT3 was
held in Monterey, CA -- and just down the hall from us in the same
conference center there happened to be a Free Real Estate Seminar. Over
the several days of our gathering, several folks from the Real Estate
crowd chose to join us for vartious things, including the closing circle.
Sometime later, David remarked that he had finally figured out what Open
Space really was -- A Free Real Estate Seminar. I guess that is about as
good a definition as any.</div>
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<div>I have done several Open Spaces with some of David's proteges in
attendance. The do some marvelous quick sketches of what they saw/heard.
It's fun and a good show. But I have always been a little worried that
the net impact was sort of under the heading of "done to" as
opposed to "done with." Everything else in Open Space is done
by the participants themselves, which is what self-organization is all
about. Having a "professional" doing for the group what the
group might well do for itself has always bothered me. On the other hand
putting up some large pieces of butcher paper with a supply of magic
markers, and opening space for the graphic talents of the group seem to
work pretty well. Some people call this a graffetti wall. It may not be
as gorgeous as what David et all produce, but it is totally homegrown,
which I take to be an advantage.</div>
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<div>Harrison</div>
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