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<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" DEFAULT="FACE"><FONT SIZE="3" POINTSIZE="12" DEFAULT="SIZE">Dear Adrienn,<BR>
ok, I will post our exchange to the oslistserve<BR>
(if you want to see possible responses you need to sign in, the procedure is quite simple, take a look at the bottom of my mail).<BR>
Will your thesis be in English?<BR>
I would like to receive it (pay the expenses, of course)<BR>
peace<BR>
mmp<BR>
<BR>
Dear Mr. Michael Pannwitz,<BR>
<BR>
Thank you for your answer.<BR>
<BR>
I talked to Csaba Csaszar and his collegaues about Open Space and I also <BR>
write my thesis with the help and support of them.<BR>
<BR>
Thank you for your invitation, but unfortunately I can not take part on this <BR>
training, because I have just started to work, and at the first time I have <BR>
to be there every day.<BR>
<BR>
You can post my questions to the OS list, because it would be interesting <BR>
that what kind of answers will I get for it.<BR>
(I think, that everyone have a lot of different experiences and opinion <BR>
about this.)<BR>
<BR>
Thanks again,<BR>
<BR>
Adrienn<BR>
<BR>
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>From: "Pannwitz, Michael M" <<FONT COLOR=0000ff><U>mmpanne@snafu.de<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"></U>><BR>
>Reply-To: "Pannwitz, Michael M" <<FONT COLOR=0000ff><U>mmpanne@snafu.de<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"></U>><BR>
>To: "Adrienn Sápi" <<FONT COLOR=0000ff><U>sapi_adrienn@hotmail.com<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"></U>><BR>
>CC: "Pannwitz, Michael M" <<FONT COLOR=0000ff><U>mmpanne@snafu.de<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"></U>><BR>
>Subject: Re: thesis on Open Space<BR>
>Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:57:21 +0100<BR>
><BR>
>Dear Adrienn Sapi,<BR>
>happy to hear from you....am presently at an open space with some 70<BR>
>African women and their families (loads of kids, too, just now<BR>
>playing soccer in the park just outside of my window).<BR>
>Before I say something to your questions let me point out that it<BR>
>might be helpful if you also talked to os-colleagues in Budapest,<BR>
>such as Csaba.<BR>
>Also, there is a European training on os-t in English in Weimar May<BR>
>25 through May 30th for colleagues that have the focus of their work<BR>
>with youths.<BR>
>Several people from Hungary have applied. It is free of charge and<BR>
>might be of some interest to you. If you want more info, let me know.<BR>
><BR>
>To your questions:<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
> >- What kind of problems can be solved with this method?<BR>
>Complex, conflicting, urgent questions that no one person has a real<BR>
>answer to. The range is very wide.<BR>
>A difficulty with your question is the word "problem". In a systemic<BR>
>context, organisations and systems develope in the direction of the<BR>
>question that you pose in the organization or system. If someone asks<BR>
>you to help them with problem x, one response can be to ask what it<BR>
>is they want to achieve. Often, or almost always, a different angle<BR>
>developes out of this kind of questioning with the client focusing<BR>
>more on his ressources and challenges. And that then can become the<BR>
>focus of an open space event.<BR>
>If you look at the list of os-events that I have worked on and also<BR>
>have a look at the links in my collection of links, you will find<BR>
>that there is practically no field that open space has not been used<BR>
>in.<BR>
> ><BR>
><BR>
> >- Has it any meaning to use when the management canēt give up the <BR>
>controll<BR>
> >and canēt provide safe space for the self-managing group? (when the<BR>
> >facilitator thinks or feels that it can happen)<BR>
><BR>
>I gather that you are asking whether it makes any sense to use open<BR>
>space when management cant give up control.<BR>
>It does not make sense.<BR>
>As long as management can not leave the control mode the time is not<BR>
>right for them to use open space.<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
><BR>
> ><BR>
> >-As I see the Open Space flow itself is more important than the theme <BR>
>they<BR>
> >are discussing. I mean its a good thing that they have ideas that can be<BR>
> >implemented to the normal life of the company, but the more long term <BR>
>effect<BR>
> >is the participantsē personal learning flow during the process. What do <BR>
>you<BR>
> >think of it?<BR>
><BR>
>Well, the effects of open space on the short range are quite easy to<BR>
>see. I have not seen any study that supports your view.<BR>
>However, it is a thesis that I think needs testing.<BR>
>My experience is that participants in open space regularly achieve<BR>
>great progress in short time but that they themselves dont feel that<BR>
>they have done much of anything.<BR>
>Harrison Owen has observed this repeatedly and keeps asking why<BR>
>participants dont see or honor their own great success.<BR>
>Maybe, they feel it to be very natural what they are doing and<BR>
>achieving, and of course, it is very natural but still very special.<BR>
>What I also observe, in myself, and in others is that open space has<BR>
>a liberating and transforming effect which is much more on the level<BR>
>you are talking about than on achieving results that can be<BR>
>implemented.<BR>
><BR>
> >-How can the facilitator help the work of the self-managed teams and to<BR>
> >sustain the energy level of the conference? Is it his/her responsibility?<BR>
><BR>
>By getting out of the way and letting people do their thing.<BR>
>Recently, in Poland, energy seemed low in a particular phase of the<BR>
>open space. I was not bothered by it, but one participant felt that I<BR>
>should do something about the low level of energy. Before I could say<BR>
>anything another participant said: Why do you want to close the space<BR>
>for low energy that we just opened for ourselves.<BR>
>I could not have said it in such straight and simple wordsl.<BR>
><BR>
> ><BR>
> >I hope that you can find some time to answer me. Thank you for your help.<BR>
>Thanks for your questions.<BR>
>I would like to post our exchange on the oslistserve, I think there<BR>
>might be a number of colleagues around the world that would add their<BR>
>observations and questions.<BR>
>Let me know if you agree.<BR>
>Good luck with your thesis...will it be in English?<BR>
>peace<BR>
>mmp<BR>
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