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Joelle, Raffi,<br>
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My wife, Maureen and I facilitated an Open Space where we used special post-its
(tree and flower shaped) to indicate that certain sessions would be in a
story-telling or training format with one primary speaker. We explained in
the invitation and the opening circle that sometimes we learn best from one-way
communication as opposed to two way communication, or multiple way communication
that we focus on in OS. We invited people to take what they learned from
the storytelling sessions and then post new topics based on the learning.
The traditional OS sessions ran concurrently with the storytelling sessions.
<br>
<br>
In this way each participant had the space to tell a story or teach/explain
an idea and each participant could choose to attend those sessions they wished
with a simple visual clue (those flower and tree post-its) as to which ones
were one-way communication. I noticed that most of the one-way communication
started with the story or explanation of a new idea or way of seeing the
world and then the session was opened up so everyone could say what was sparked
from the primary/opening speaker. I would say about 1/4 to 1/3 were storytelling
sessions.<br>
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It seemed to work very well. The participants liked the format and the opportunity
to do both styles of OS sessions.<br>
<br>
With Grace and Love, <br>
<br>
Zelle <br>
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Zelle Nelson <br>
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Joelle Lyons Everett wrote:<br>
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family="SANSSERIF" size="2">Raffi--<br>
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People do and will present lectures and trainings in Open Space, and some
of these sessions will be effective. If this is the intention, might be
good to say so. But I suspect that the elaborate boundary-setting that
you suggested might rub people against the grain a bit, once they have been
introduced to the principles of OST.<br>
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I've been on both sides of this one as a participant. I've offered a workshop
that has been effective in other settings, and found it did not work out
as well in Open Space. I've convened sessions where I asked an honest question
and had magnificent conversations. I find I like that better; other people
are more interesting when they have space to expand, explore, open to others,
dance with ideas. I've been in sessions convened by others which took me
to places I could never have arrived at on my own.<br>
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I don't think there is any one right answer for all situations. I'm just
discovering what it fun, and productive, for me.<br>
<br>
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