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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sorry I am a little late with this -- been having some
email problems. And Eric, I can certainly see your point about having more
strings for your bow, and more tools than a hammer, lest the whole world become
a nail. And at some level, Open Space Technology is one method amongst many
others, to be used (or not) depending on the circumstances. However I think this
conversation might take place at a different (deeper) level, and the question
changes. The critical question for me is always how to create the conditions
underwhich a particular group can function in an optimal fashion. In approaching
this question, I confess to a certain pre-conception -- that all human systems
are self organizing. Or put in slightly different terms -- There is no such
thing as a non-self organizing system. There are only some misguided folks that
think they did the organizing and control the system. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I recognize this assertion can be provocative -- but the
more I think about it the more I feel comfortable with it. It is true that
people spend a lot of time organizing and controlling. But the organization
created is really (in my opinion) only a map which will hopefully correspond
with the territory. But maps do not create the territory. And once we move from
abstract (paper) design to implementation (execution) all the best
laid plans are thrown into a totally self-organizing world, and
become just one more piece in the self-organizing stew. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Optimal function of any organization occurs, in my
judgment, when an organization (and the people in it) has sufficient room
(space) to operate fully and effectively as the self-organization it is
inherently . Restrictions, of one sort or another reduce agility, capacity for
adaptation, opportunity for learning (all of which self-organizing systems do
quite well). When the restriction is sufficient, the organization will
strangle.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>So the real question for me is always, How much open space
can be offered such that the organization can be fully and effectively what it
is -- self-organizing? Some approaches provide lots of space (FS), some
virtually none (Strategic Real Time Change), and only one -- all the space
anybody cares to deal with (OS).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>At the end of the day, it is all about opening space. The
only question is how much? Personally, I have never encountered an organization
that could not negotiate Open Space. I have met managers, MDs, CEOs who get very
nervous -- maybe even too nervous. But that, it seems to me, is their issue. I
do try to be helpful -- but to quote another old saw, "You can take a horse to
water, but you can't make him drink." </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Harrison</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>Harrison Owen<BR>7808 River Falls Dr.<BR>Potomac, MD
20854<BR>USA<BR>301-365-2093<BR>207-763-3261 (summer)<BR>website <A
href="http://www.openspaceworld.com">www.openspaceworld.com</A><BR>Personal
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<DIV
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<A title=e.kolenaty@aon.at href="mailto:e.kolenaty@aon.at">Erich Kolenaty</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 13, 2006 6:00
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Future Search</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Dear Tree and Agneta,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>whatever you may have experienced
and whatever you might think about other ways of bringing change into life
except open hearts and open space - t</FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#800080
size=2>here is one little thing I want to remind to you:
</FONT> <FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Open Space always works, if
you can fulfill some conditions - we discussed this many times.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Unfortunately sometimes you find
yourself in a place where you CANNOT fulfill these conditions for specific
reasons and you know, that open space WILL NOT work properly. So you have to
look for other options and future search sometimes is one of
them.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Paul Watzlawick once wrote a
very nice aphorism: "I you only have got a hammer, every problem
appears to be a nail" </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Erich from sunny and lovely
Vienna</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV
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<A title=therese.fitzpatrick@gmail.com
href="mailto:therese.fitzpatrick@gmail.com">Tree Fitzpatrick</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:21
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [OSLIST] Future
Search</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Thank you, Agneta, for writing what you did. This is
how I feel about most large-scale change methodologies: they try to
make me think about what they think I should think about, they try to start
and stop conversations, when I should talk, with whom I should talk.
There can be lovely exchanges but, fundamentally, somewhere, in any tool but
OST, there is someone, somewhere, deciding what people should think, do,
say, and, even want. Pish posh. <BR><BR>The only change tool I
have ever come across that truly welcomes the emergent, the evolutionary, is
open space. Well, I take that back: an open heart is an
excellent change methodology, also.<BR><BR>Thanks, Agneta.<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 6/12/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Agneta
Setterwall</B> <<A
href="mailto:agneta.setterwall@telia.com">agneta.setterwall@telia.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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<DIV text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">Hello!<BR>Some years ago I attended
a couple of future search conferences, and also a training in the method.
I donīt know if I was perhaps not the right person, but I got angry and
frustrated many times, not to say worse words. They tried to make me think
about what the facilitator told me to think of, and they tried to make me
stop think when the time was out, they tried to make us start
conversations, and to stop conversations, they decided which group we
should talk in, and they sliced the gruops and put us in new
constellations not when we wanted but when their method so required. We
then had to agree on what was left or at least keep our mouths shut. That
was the "common ground". <BR><BR>Still, it was much of the time nice,
interesting and a creative clima - I thought that it was an
interesting method, giving much more room for participants than many
other. But after that I met Open Space...and I understood that I will
never never recommend Future Search to anybody, if Open Space is an
option. <BR>This is my opinion. Perhaps I am wrong.<BR>Agneta,<BR>in a too
hot Uppsala, Sweden<BR><BR>Vliex, Carla (cvl) wrote:
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi
Lenore</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>We
are doing with soem people in the netherlands a research and an article
on Future Search and one on Open Space. There are many differences but
to keep it simple. If you want to know waht people really think,
want, wish, go for use Open Space but hen your never know with what tey
will come.... (it is often a concern of sponsors). Future Search
is, I think a more structured process, you go form one predefine step to
another. It will bring the participants sure to a <STRONG>common
ground</STRONG> on what they want. As for Open Space you also get the
diversity, the differences ans the disputes..... I think a three day
Open space is more fun and gives a more complete picture.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>my
two cents</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Carla</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN>Met vriendelijke
groet,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN>drs. Carla Vliex</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN>Adviseur Organisatie
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> OSLIST [<A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU"
target=_blank>mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Lenore Mewton<BR><B>Sent:</B> zaterdag 10 juni 2006
14:26<BR><B>To:</B> <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU"
target=_blank>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A><BR><B>Subject:</B>
Future Search<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello All;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have an OS related question- I've only
recently come across the <STRONG>Future Search</STRONG> process and
training. While it has several components similar to OS and World Cafe-
and perhaps other participative processes- I'm wondering if any uses
this process- and if so, does it dovetail with OS? Do you use it
differentially - in specific situations? One major difference that I
see, initially, is the length of time for these workshops, 2-3
days.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks, in advance, for any thoughts/info.
on this!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best Regards,<BR><BR>Lenore</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>_______________________________________________<BR>Lenore Mewton-
Organizational Consultant<BR>Executive, Leadership and Career Management
Coaching<BR>(ph) 781-639-2659 <BR><A
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target=_blank>lenore@lenoremewton.com</A><BR>_______________________________________________</FONT></DIV>*
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