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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'>Hello, Brendan –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The planners had then <span class=SpellE>organised</span>
for the retreat to follow much of the same pattern<span class=GramE> -</span>
I was not on the planning group - and had been asked to facilitate the second
half of the second day of the retreat in OS - <span class=SpellE>ie</span>
Sunday afternoon </span></font><st1:time Hour="13" Minute="0">1 - 5pm</st1:time>.
I had expressed concern that there would be too much input and not much time to
'retreat' and process the responses - still, "participants needed value
for money and would not expect to pay<span class=GramE> considerable</span>
dollars just to sit around and talk or walk or sleep or meditate..." <br
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'>I have done Open
Spaces where the group was <span class=GramE>very</span> energized and did a
lot of work from just </span></font><st1:time Hour="13" Minute="0"><font
size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'>1-5pm</span></font></st1:time><font
size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'>. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Although I am always engaging with the
organizers for as long as I can keep the conversation / possibilities going as
to how we can stretch it to longer. (<span class=GramE>and</span> doesn’t
it just make you crazy about the organizer’s ‘participants needed
value for money and would not expect to pay…’ comment? Okay well
that’s another conversation…)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sunday morning was pretty full-on again with
interactive workshops on Leadership - the Art of Seeing, Who Are You Really?,
The Emerging Big Story: Its Impact on Individual and Corporate Spirituality,
Creating Spirit in a Local Health Care System.... So - by the time post-lunch
Open Space came along, I'm wondering if you can guess how the group was
feeling.... absolutely so...!!!!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Many
of their minds (those that could still function) had begun to wander to the
two-hour journey home, kids, school and work tomorrow, missing partners etc....<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'>So of course I
have a lot of questions here – how was the OS ‘advertised’ to
the constituents, is the main one.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
class=GramE>Could it be best advertised as a ‘putting it all together’
or a ‘plenary’ session?</span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>And what was the lunch like, and where?<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Could it have been brought as box
lunches into the same room where the Open Space was / would be? <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Was that the same room where the
workshops were?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Could the workshops
in the morning be done in the big room in discussion areas, to set the
mind/body up for Open Space and ownership of the room? <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Could the question / theme of the Open
Space have built somehow off the energies in the morning – they were
already talking about <span class=SpellE>enspirited</span> workplaces –
what’s the next question to ask them / energize them around?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
Anyway, they all wanted to stay long enough to see how Open Space worked - I
opened the space (on the theme: "opportunities for creating an <span
class=SpellE>enspirited</span> workplace") with two x one-hour time slots
available and time for convergence - three 'tired' conversations went up - a
quarter of the group left after the opening and the others went to the first
session of conversations, one of which was a continuation of one of the morning
sessions - at the end of this a further quarter left and the remainder 9taking
up the Two Feet) suggested we have the closing circle and go home - so be it
and that is what happened!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'>…Which was
all perfectly great, of <span class=GramE>course.</span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>And you saw the effectiveness of the
Open Space reflected in Closing Circle comments.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'>The thing I have
seen which r-e-a-l-l-y is hard for doing workshops and conferences – if travel
day is the same day as closing day there is always a greater need for many of
the attendees to check out of their rooms, rearrange their flights, etc. <span
class=SpellE>beFORE</span> they can concentrate on the workshop/conference that
day – as those are the matters of greater urgency.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I wonder if a celebration that evening
would have kept more people there for the <span class=GramE>day?</span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span class=GramE>Or not?</span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>After all, the right people stayed, of
course…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'>And your title
for this message – you opened the space – you didn’t close it.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Sounds like it all worked out quite <span
class=GramE>well,</span> and even better – the conference organizers want
to include Open Space next year!! <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>My recommendation is that they *<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>not</span></b>* put it just for the first morning, of
course, because it’s hard for folks to fit back into ‘normal’
conference mode, physically and otherwise, after experiencing Open Space –
but that it appears later (and of course longer).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span class=GramE>And is maybe marketed
differently in conference materials.</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'>So what you did
was Open Space for the participants who cared, and then you Open Space for more
Open Space in next year’s conference!!!<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Bravo!!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:blue'>Lisa<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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