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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=150000319-08052003>Dear
Gabriela,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=150000319-08052003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=150000319-08052003>I am
surprised about myself. Usually I don't participate so much actively in the
debates in OS-Lists, but after the Würzburg OS it is different - I feel even
more enthusiastic about OS than before. I don't know whether this effect will
last longer, I'll see.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=150000319-08052003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=150000319-08052003>Being
part of the 2108-OS as an assistant there are two things I learned, which
are very essential for me in my own role as an OS facilitator (I am sure for
most of you it's nothing new, but for me it was really a learning
experience):</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=150000319-08052003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=150000319-08052003>Firstly: In Würzburg I have learned that we need
nothing more than the circle, the market place, bulletin board... to get an
OS working. No chairs, no pinboards, no flipcharts, no report forms, no
signs, no break out rooms, no fineliner, no copies, no pillows etc. 2108 people
have proofed that they are perfectly able to organise themselves. Everything was
reduced to the max in Würzburg, we needed only 45 minutes to put all our
material for this giant OS in a normal car. And after that I would say that it
could have been less or even nothing. The crowd would have been able to cope
with that without any problems. Thats for me as an OS facilitator very
relieving and reassuring, especially for the preparation of an OS and
in the case the resources (in terms of finances, staff, facilities, space, time,
material) are limited. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=150000319-08052003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=150000319-08052003>Secondly: But, but, but I see my role as OS
facilitators to create working conditions which enable the group to concentrate
on their issues as much as possible - and not to distract people. chairs instead
of pillows to sit comfortably, enough chairs to have a seat and not to search
for, break out rooms to work in immediately, pinboards to work with and to get
more silence in the break out rooms, signs to find the rooms easily, fineliners,
markers and paper to notice things in the moment they come into my mind, report
forms as a help to write down the most important results of the work, copies to
be able to follow what happens or has happend, flipchart paper to enable
participants visualise group discussions, to get something to eat all the time
in order not to be hungry but also not tired and so on, and so on. As a
participant in a lot of OS I have always enjoyed (and still do) very much this
easiness - for the duration of the OS I have the chance to take care for nothing
else than my passion.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=150000319-08052003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=150000319-08052003>We
have been working very often and succesful as an organisation with embeded OS.
>From that perspective t<SPAN class=150000319-08052003>here is a lot to say
</SPAN>- but later in a seperate email.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=150000319-08052003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=150000319-08052003>Hans-Georg Wicke</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----<BR><B>Von:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>Im Auftrag von </B>Gabriela
Ender<BR><B>Gesendet:</B> Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2003 09:37<BR><B>An:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Betreff:</B> Re: 2108 -- Remember the
Number<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080 size=2>Dear Harrison, and dear
Michael!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080 size=2>Congratulations to this amazing
record!!! </FONT><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080 size=2>I am happy to know,
that you are very pleased with the run of your big Open Space!
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080 size=2>For me, OST with 10 people is
always so very different as with 30. And OST with 90 participants is also so
different as with 150. And an one-day is so different to a two, or three-day
OST. And it is so different, if you have your "own" Open Space or if it is
combined with another event.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080 size=2>What do you think, is there also
a special difference between 1000 and 2000? What I know is, that your OST
was an one-day-event at the end of a very big 4-days-conference. With your new
experiences of today - what have you learned about that imbedded setting?
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+0>I would very much appreciate </FONT><FONT face=Verdana
color=#000080 size=2>to learn more from your work, and I am curious about the
longer effects.<BR><BR>Best wishes </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#000080
size=2>Gabriela</FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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