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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>G'day Christine and All</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wonderful to hear your lovely voice too.
</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Taking just one - seminal in my mind - point from
your posting: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#008080>"Since meaningful questions
form the fulcrum of each process, some of our most generative
learning came from crafting questions out [of] the key learnings
from each part of the training."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Could it be that different <FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>'conversational and collaborative learning
approaches'</FONT> (Juanita Brown) generate and/or address different
kinds of questions? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I say this remembering that 'Strategic
questioning' of Fran Peavey * is a process of <STRONG>generating</STRONG> a
question which is likely to take at least three years to answer.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Which is not the purpose of using approaches for
'decision time is yesterday' issues! </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#008080></FONT> </DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">I appreciate that you and
I, like other OST practitioners on this list, will likely have
associated ways of seeing things. Pat Black, for example, recently
described beautifully the operation of her OST 'lens'
in </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">'I do not
come to open space from any kind of professional facilitator or corporate
background ...' (leverage points Thurs 26 May, 2005). </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face=Arial> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Nonetheless I would be most
grateful for any illumination on the validity of the notion of 'different
questions for/from different approaches' (- and folks!) from 'spacers' who
have also worked with other processes. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face=Arial>Knowing that
this somewhat confused way of expressing could be through my n<SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">ot yet finding the right
question :-) * </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS">With love</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS">Alan </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS">Hong Kong </FONT></SPAN></P></SPAN></FONT>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><STRONG><FONT color=#cc3300
size=3></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></FONT> </P><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">
<P align=left>* 'When you go to the edge of what is and what is yet to become,
it is not<BR>an easy journey. Sometimes upset is going to come. Be patient
with<BR>yourself and with each other. It's ok to feel creepy. It doesn't
mean<BR>that you are a creep. It means that you feel creepy. It means that
you<BR>live in a creepy world. When you feel creepy you're part of the
world<BR>feeling itself. You're part of the world feeling itself into healing
and<BR>its alright. Help each other through it. So don't be afraid of
upset.<BR>It's only pain moving, nothing more, nothing
less.'<BR>
Fran Peavey: Heart
Politics</P></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=milagro27@cox.net href="mailto:milagro27@cox.net">Christine Whitney
Sanchez</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 01, 2005 2:31
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Appreciative Inquiry meets The
World Cafe meets Open Space</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=750251101-01062005><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#008080>Hi Peggy, Alan, Harrison, and all you WC and OS
combiners,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=750251101-01062005><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#008080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=750251101-01062005><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#008080>If I may weave Appreciative Inquiry to this discussion -
last October, Genevieve Treille, Christine Kohler and I piloted
the "Transformative Large Group Conversations" training with a small
international group outside of Paris. With participants from South
Africa, France, Spain, Israel, France, Mexico and Ireland, we experienced
just how well Appreciative Inquiry, World Cafe and Open Space all
resonate with people from diverse cultures and across
languages. Since meaningful questions form the fulcrum of
each process, some of our most generative learning came
from crafting questions out the key learnings from each part of
the training.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=750251101-01062005><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#008080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=750251101-01062005><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#008080>A
bit about the training design. We used the 4 D's of Appreciative Inquiry
as the organizing model for this training. DISCOVERY: We started
with an original set of AI questions focused on
"change" for the interviews, small group and large group discovery
process and then wrote World Cafe questions from the AI themes which
we used for the DREAM portion of the training on the second
day. The key findings from the cafe conversations were synthesized
and then crafted into one convening question for the next 1.5 days
in Open Space (DESIGN). Each participant left with project plans
for using one of the methods back home (DESTINY). </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=750251101-01062005><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#008080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=750251101-01062005>
<DIV><SPAN class=750251101-01062005><SPAN class=750251101-01062005><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#008080>Recently, Claudia Haack and
I facilitated the second version of this training with a
gathering of 35 people in Chicago. Based on the evaluations,
of both of these events, I would say that each person left the training with
one or two "favorite" methods. For some, the heart and warmth
of Appreciative Inquiry is a great place to start any type of large
gathering because it helps to ease people into deep one-on-one
conversations and can be used for full blown change processes as well as
15 minute conversations. </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
class=750251101-01062005><SPAN class=750251101-01062005><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#008080>Many participants had great
fun while discussing challenging topics during the World Cafe
portion of the training and some left with intentions to really take
care to spice up the atmosphere at the cafes they offer at home (there has
been talk about designing "Cafes in a Bag"). Open Space was initially
uncomfortable for a few (perhaps that shock of freedom) but, of course,
it worked brilliantly and I think was the overall favorite for
many. As we kept discovering together, the "best" method(s) will depend
on the purpose, the group, and the
facilitator. </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=750251101-01062005><SPAN class=750251101-01062005><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#008080></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=750251101-01062005><SPAN class=750251101-01062005><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#008080>Several people commented on how cool it was
to see how the questions naturally arose from method to method and that
"doing' each process first was the best way to learn about it. By
the way, at the second event, participants received a copy of the AI
Thin Book, the quintessential user friendly Open Space Users Guide, and
the beautiful new The World Cafe book. What a delight to have such great
resources! </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=750251101-01062005><SPAN class=750251101-01062005><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#008080></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV></SPAN><FONT face="Viner Hand ITC"
color=#008080><EM><STRONG>Christine</STRONG></EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT color=#008080>W<SPAN
class=750251101-01062005>ho is relishing the hundreds of postings I'm getting
to after a couple of non-stop months</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><FONT color=#008080><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS">Christine Whitney Sanchez<BR><FONT color=#800080>Triune
Milagro, LTD</FONT><BR></FONT><STRONG><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS">480.759.0262 <BR></FONT></STRONG></FONT><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" size=1>VISIT OUR WEBSITE: </FONT></FONT><A
href="http://www.triunemilagro.com/"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
size=1>www.triunemilagro.com</FONT></A><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">
</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=1><EM><STRONG>Invoking the
wisdom and capacity of the human spirit! </STRONG></EM></FONT></P>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Alan
Stewart<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 31, 2005 5:09 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: The World Cafe meets
Open Space<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>G'day Peggy and All</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>It's wonderful indeed to have the
comprehensive account of your observations and experience to complement
Tom's enthralling report. Maybe Juanita would wish
</FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>to add her's too ...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Several queries for you
Peggy:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>. At what stage were the OS
principles and law introduced to the participants? Was this at the first
evening circle or at the Open Space the following
afternoon? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>. Did you have any sense
that issues/questions posted in Open Space were related to those
which emerged in the opening Cafe session? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>. You mentioned that you got to
participate in the Cafe. I wonder if Juanita did likewise in the Open Space?
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>. I wonder too if what you
interpreted as 'freedom shock' was related to the fact that participants did
not know each other, whether or not they came from different backgrounds.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT size=2>I ask this because I have
used the two processes in combination - in the same order - with people from
very diverse backgrounds and who had encountered each
other previously (they were members of a leadership program). They did
not manifest this kind of distress, at least in my observation. Mind you
some of them were </FONT><FONT size=2>quite taken aback initially by the
very notion of turning to face each other rather than their accustomed
experience of someone speaking to them! </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>With love</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Alan </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Hong Kong </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=peggy@opencirclecompany.com
href="mailto:peggy@opencirclecompany.com">Peggy Holman</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 30, 2005 2:04
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> The World Cafe meets Open
Space</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>You've seen Tom Atlee's description
of the recent "Evolutionary Salon". Here are my reflections,
mostly on the partnership between TWC and OS.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>We began our first evening in a
circle with a check in, people speaking to what attracted them to the
Evolutionary Salon. We described the process that we'd be using for
the conference as a living experiment in being an evolutionary social
system. This let us use our real time experience as a mirror for our
learning.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>The next morning, Juanita Brown
took us into a World Cafe. I got to participate. We focused on
a question about our burning questions. I think I had the honor of
experiencing TWC at its very best. Juanita is a master of her
craft. When reflections were harvested at the end of the session,
people said they were touched by the experience, discovering the feeling
of connection to each other, the synergy among their burning
questions. They expressed excitement at the sense of intimacy and
kinship they felt. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I have to admit that as a
participant, I felt as I did the last time I experienced TWC: constrained
by the expectation of staying at the table. It was quite a contrast
for me to hear the excitement of others in the room! </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>We began the Open Space in the
afternoon. Of course, people jumped in with their sessions.
They seemed to be doing just fine. Come the closing circle, several
people expressed distress at their experience. One went so far as to
ask if we could go back to the comfort and intimacy
of a cafe-like format. I thought to myself, "freedom
shock" is alive and well. The mix of people at the conference
included scientists and people of spirit. It seems there was
something of a clash of cultures going on in many of the sessions. I
just listened -- no defending, no fixing.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>As is my practice in multiple day
events (learned from Spirited Work), the convening group met to
reflect on how things were going after the evening circle. The
meeting was open to any who wished to join us. A few people
did. One wondered if we needed to do something to "push the
group" in the direction we wished them to go (as if we knew what
direction that was!). We discussed the fact that the
discomfort people experienced wasn't necessarily a bad thing, that it
provided an opportunity for something new to emerge. I encouraged my
nervous sponsors to trust that things were going just fine.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2> </DIV>
<DIV></FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>That evening I found myself
in a butterfly conversation with a couple of people distressed by the
"yang" energy they ran into, feeling unsafe to express their "yin"
selves. We talked at length about what it means to take
responsibility for what you love. They left the conversation
thinking about how to come fully present tomorrow in all their "yin"
glory. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>The next morning,
someone announced 3 new "yin" meeting spaces. There was
much laughter as people bantered about yin-ness and yang-ness and its
intersection. Turns out there had been LOTS of butterfly
conversations and those who had felt distressed, found their way,
dissipating the angst before it became a real issue. In
fact, from that point forward, the OS just flowed.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>A reflection on how
TWC affected the dynamic. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>It was clear that people had a felt
sense of community very quickly through TWC. I think that the move
into OS created that condition that Harrison calls "freedom shock".
It's possible that the contrast heightened the shock. That said, I
believe the sense of connection created during TWC enabled those who were
distressed to seek out the friends they had made rather than completely
check out (of course, being in a remote location would have made it
difficult to leave!). I wonder if that is a benefit of a cafe
prior to OS -- to create relationships that might support people to
stay engaged if they have a tendency towards freedom shock?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>THE TWC MEETS OS
EXPERIMENT</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>The OS continued as usual over the
next couple days. During our preparation for the conference, the
planning team (Tom Atlee, Michael Dowd and myself) discussed the
possibility of convening evening sessions on "what are we
learning?" On the third evening, Tom and I decided
that it would be useful to do so and that we'd do it using "TWC
meets the law of two feet".</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Our session question: what patterns
do you see emerging? About 12 people came. We started in
groups of 4 with an agreement that we'd come together as a whole to see
what we'd uncovered in about an hour. In the meantime, people were
invited to stay or move as they wished. As context, I said that
we knew from the cafe experience that patterns become visible quickly
when people move around periodically, so moving is useful. At
Juanita's suggestion, we had blank cards in the clusters so that
groups could send an idea to another group if they wanted. They
could also send an emissary. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>That was it. Basically, it
was OS with groups of four discussing the session topic. What
happened was a kick. Two groups were quite intent in their
conversations, clearly not moving, just going deeper and deeper. The
third group eventually dissipated, a couple people going to sleep,
the others joining the two hot groups. And then others started
arriving. They just opted for one or the other of the groups.
The conversations were animated and intense. At one point, the group
I was in sent a card with an idea to the other group. In all, I
think about 20 people were there by the end of the evening.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>After about an hour, we came
together as one. First one group described what they'd learned, then
the other group did the same. The second group mentioned that they
used the idea they'd received on the card. The remains of the
original third group added their thoughts into the mix. Llyn
Peabody, new to graphic recording, but clearly in her element, took notes,
drawing an incredible visual map of the weave of our
stories. The result was electrifying and became the basis
for some breakthrough ideas the last day!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>One side note -- someone said
during the session that they often looked for what was missing to
understand a situation. I pointed out that the yin/yang laughter in
the morning signaled something rather remarkable that was missing from our
living experiment of an evolving social system: angst. Rather
than fragmenting into conflict, people had transcended it. That drew
a raised eyebrow or two as people digested how the space had made
room for conflict to be embraced with grace.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>A reflection on the TWC meets OS
experiment</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Next time I'm a participant in an
OS and have a large group, I'd likely split up again in this way. It
was a great way to reflect on our question when the group was
large.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>THOUGHTS FOR THE
FUTURE</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Juanita and I talked the next
morning about our impressions of the intersection of TWC and OS. We
discussed several strengths of TWC -- creating a sense of
community and uncovering patterns quickly. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Given my own biases, I wouldn't use
TWC as an opener unless the client had some specific situation that moved
things that way. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I can imagine experimenting with
doing an evening reflection with people beginning in small
groups. I can see this as a natural flow of the
energy as people wander in, talking together before
coming into a single circle. I think this could be a low
key transition that actually makes it easier to convene the evening
circle. By following the energy of people arriving for the close,
inviting them into reflection as they arrive rather than waiting for
everyone before beginning, I think something simple and useful could
occur. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Juanita
suggested explicitly encouraging people post their sessions in
the form of questions. It made me smile when Harrison recently
posted: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I think of every Open Space gathering as a
(potentially) question rich environment. That is why I always suggest to
people that they phrase the theme as a question, as opposed to a
statement.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Questions are certainly a place of
coming together.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>So, that's about all of my musings
on this subject.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>yours, on a warm evening in
Seattle,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Peggy</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
size=2>________________________________<BR>Peggy Holman<BR>The Open Circle
Company<BR>15347 SE 49th Place<BR>Bellevue, WA 98006<BR>(425)
746-6274 </FONT></DIV>
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