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<DIV>Hi Matthew,</DIV>
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<DIV>Well done on getting a foot in the door!</DIV>
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<DIV>A longtime colleague applied to be director of a graduate program where I worked. He had about twenty minutes to introduce Open Space to the selection committee. </DIV>
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<DIV>After a short talk to frame what he was doing, he led us through the first part of an Open Space opening, inviting us to write down a topic about which we are passionate and would take responsibility. We were seated in a semi-circle and did not leave our chairs.</DIV>
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<DIV>We did not post our topics on a wall, but held them up for the others to see. I think it would have been more effective to actually post the topics, so that we could see them together.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have done a similar, short taste of the "bulletin board" component of Open Space in a job interview. It led to a deeper than expected conversation about the organization.</DIV>
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<DIV>If you do this with an evocative, inspiring theme, it might lead to your getting more than an hour to work with them, in a massive Law of Two Feet decision, right on the spot!</DIV>
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<DIV>Happy to discuss anytime -- <BR><BR>Jeff Aitken</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Matthew Blom <LEARNBYLIVING@YAHOO.COM><BR>Sent: Apr 21, 2006 10:13 AM <BR>To: OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU <BR>Subject: Open Space intro at Google Headquarters--I'm looking for intro ideas <BR><BR>Dear people who open space,<BR><BR>My name is Matthew, and I'm new to the list and a half-year new to open space facilitation (trained by the bunny lovable Lisa Heft). I've been so jazzed by the idea of getting open space to Google, a place which already explores many new ways of behaving in the business world.<BR><BR>Yesterday, I got an in.<BR><BR>I'll be doing a "tech talk" on May 3rd, and I am now running multiple scenarios through my head about how to introduce open space there. These talks are usually an hour, and I imagine it being rather boring to talk "about" open space, and I'm unsure how to go about actually experiencing it in that short a time frame.<BR><BR>Ideas I've had thus far--kick, bite, and scream for more time (what's an ideal intro. time frame? 3 hours? How long should the sessions be?)<BR><BR>Try an experience of it with very short sessions--like 10 minutes long?<BR><BR>I'm also wondering about a theme. I'll need to talk more with someone out there about that piece.<BR><BR>Any ideas and/or experiences from those who have done something like this would be very helpful!<BR><BR>peace,<BR>Matthew<BR><BR><BR>************************************************<BR>"Once man begins to think about the mystery of his life and the links <BR>connecting him with the life that fills the world, he cannot but accept,<BR>for his own life and all other life that surrounds him, the principle of<BR>Reverence for Life.<BR><BR>He will act according to this principle of the ethical affirmation of life<BR>in everything he does. His life will become in every respect more<BR>difficult that if he lived for himself, but at the same time it will be richer, more beautiful, and happier.<BR><BR>It will become, instead of mere living, a genuine experience of life."<BR><BR>-Albert Schweitzer
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