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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=570245814-29082000>Hi
Chris,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=570245814-29082000>nice
to hear from a person from NC. I stayed in Raleigh, NC, for half a year in 1992
from February to August and worked in the business inqubator (sorry for
spelling) in the First Flight Center on 2 Davis Drive in Research Triangle Park.
Is it too hot now?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=570245814-29082000>Thank
you for your ideas, I nearly come to the same statement - not providing an
acquatence part - idea too. not yet decided with the reporting, especially on
the first day, I still think the people need to hear each other and think if
just closing circle will be enough for them to understand what they are doing.
I'm not rely much on written reports...though I also think it will not be the
good possibility for printing them out quickly - so there will be flipchart
presentation first.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=570245814-29082000>Best
wishes to you</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=570245814-29082000>Elena
Marchuk</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=570245814-29082000>Novosibirsk, Russia</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Rhett Hudson/Chris
Weaver<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 29, 2000 4:55 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Acquantence &
Reports for 2 days OS in Siberia<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>Dear Elena,<BR><BR>Your
questions are important and similar to ones I have pondered myself this very
week.<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>It
looks like that my proposal to provide a workshop for meeting of business
people and local government people, who visited US for their professional
exchange, with the idea to discuss <BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>How do they use their
experience? and What they can do more together?
<BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR>It sounds like these two questions are your
theme. It seems like a good theme.<BR><BR><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><FONT face=Arial>in a form of OS was heard and it will be held in a
week, so there is no possibility to predict what will be discussed and the
name is just used as Open World (so I think we need to say more about some
possible goals at the beginning?) <BR><BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial>"No possibility to predict..." is good. When I open the
space, I do elaborate about the theme and its importance. But I
am very careful not to suggest specific outcomes; I invite individual,
private attention on what the people in the circle care about most related
to the theme.<BR></FONT><BR><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><FONT
face=Arial>and for more dinamic, and experience (people are not used to such
a form at all), I want to make presentations at the end of the first day
with more proposals for discussions on the second day.
<BR><BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial>Until this week, I had never
used presentations or group reports in Open Space. It is not a part of
the process. But this week, in a group of sixteen, my friend Peter
Donaldson facilitated a "working lunch." Our four sessions of Open
Space were complete. It was noon on our second day and we were about
to move to convergence and action planning. We arranged the
eating tables in a big hexagon. The convenor or reporter from each
group stood with their flip-chart and made a report. The group asked a
few clarifying questions, and toasted and applauded each reporter. It
was lovely. We only had ten or eleven reports. <BR><BR>I know it
is very important not to break the flow of Open Space. Perhaps others
will comment on this related to your idea of making presentations at the end
of the first day. Can someone share how you do "evening news" and how
it is different from reporting? <BR><BR>The time-tested practice for
closing is to hold a talking circle. People don't report; they share
whatever is on their mind, often a highlight from the experience. The
written proceedings provide the report.<BR></FONT><BR><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>As I think people need to hear
each other!</FONT></FONT></FONT> <BR><BR>Yes! Our group this week,
like yours, did not have experience in interactive processes. They
kept looking to a designated leader for permission to act. Sensing
their anxiety, there was a moment when I was tempted to change the process,
but I trusted the process instead. Which was right. <BR><BR><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>also 2 more
questions:</FONT></FONT></FONT> <BR><BR> <FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2>1/ If people are not acquanted, will the process of acquantence, even
short one change the atmosphere? <BR>is it better with the process of
acquaintance or without? there will be some 45 people.</FONT>
<BR><BR></FONT>Introductions can slow a group down. People get to know
one another as they engage in their work in Open Space.<BR><FONT
color=#0000ff><BR><FONT size=2>and <BR></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2>2/ As we are still not used to read reports at
the end and I would like to make presentations, is it better to make it at
the first day and then at the second - the rest, or at the end - before
closing session? How do you think?<BR><BR></FONT></FONT>I would like to hear
from others about this.<FONT color=#0000ff> <BR></FONT><BR>Best wishes,
Elena. Thank you for your fine questions.<BR><BR>Chris
Weaver<BR>Asheville, North Carolina,
USA<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>