<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">On the circle...I've had an experience that worked surprisingly well when a friend opened a space in a room set for a World Cafe (lots of small tables with stuff on it). He began with a guided imagery in which he took us in to seek the question most important to us. Paper and markers were on the table. When the guided vision ended, he invited anyone who wished to do so to put their topic on paper, come to where he was standing and announce it. While he didn't have us envision ourselves as a circle, I would.<div><br></div><div>Usually I hate guided meditations, but this worked and it drew people into a sense of resonance.</div><div><br></div><div>Best of success!</div><div><br></div><div>Peggy</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>______________________________</div><div>Peggy Holman</div><div>The Open Circle Company</div><div>15347 SE 49th Place</div><div>Bellevue, WA 98006</div><div>425-746-6274</div><div><a href="http://www.opencirclecompany.com">www.opencirclecompany.com</a></div><div><div> </div><div>For the new edition of The Change Handbook, go to: <br><a href="http://www.bkconnection.com/ChangeHandbook">www.bkconnection.com/ChangeHandbook</a> <br> <br>"An angel told me that the only way to step into the fire and not get burnt, is to become <br>the fire".<br> -- Drew Dellinger</div></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:43 PM, Chris Corrigan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">This is what I need guys...thanks for the wisdom, and keep it coming.<br><br>You're never too old to be stumped, and never to experienced to ask for help!<br><br>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Esther Matte <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ematte@excellence.ca">ematte@excellence.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div link="blue" vlink="blue" lang="FR-CA"> <div><p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">I’ve had a soft/fabric covered and we used both pins and blue 3M tape. I thought the tape wouldn’t hold, but it did! Throughout the whole day too!</span></font></p><div><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">I’ve also had a stage, and used it as the newsroom. Worked wonderfully – nice overview of the room, good feeling of a “whole”.</span></font></p><div><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">The tables are definitely a downer… but I would say trust the process. Instead of walking the circle, walk the tables. Take more time maybe and make sure you do a lot of eye contact.</span></font></p><div><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">And if you do this with the tables, let us know the results and the feeling of it. </span></font></p><div><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">If anything else comes to mind, I’ll send another message. Good luck and have fun too!</span></font></p><div><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> <div><p><font color="navy" face="Monotype Corsiva" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">Esther Matte</span></font></p><p><font color="navy" face="Monotype Corsiva" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">Discover - Engage - Accomplish</span></font></p><p><font color="navy" face="Futura Lt BT" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Futura Lt BT"; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">New York: 212.755.0551</span></font></p><p><font color="navy" face="Futura Lt BT" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Futura Lt BT"; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">Montreal: 450.583.5849</span></font></p><p><font color="navy" face="Futura Lt BT" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Futura Lt BT"; color: navy;" lang="EN-CA">www.excellence.</span></font><font color="navy" face="Futura Lt BT" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Futura Lt BT"; color: navy;">ca</span></font></p><div><font color="navy" face="Futura Lt BT" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Futura Lt BT"; color: navy;"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> </div><div><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;" lang="FR">-----Message d'origine-----<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De :</span></b> OSLIST [mailto:<a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De la part de</span></b> Chris Corrigan<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé :</span></b> 31 mars 2009 15:38<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> <a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> [OSLIST] Help!</span></font></p><div style="margin-left: 35.4pt; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin-left: 35.4pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">I've been at this a long time now, but I've run up against a situation like this. I'm stumped and looking for help.<br> <br> I;ll be opening space for a gethering of 500+ people. The client is completely unwilling to set the room in a circle. Instead, we will have 96 tables with 6 chairs at each table packed into a spacious but full ball room facing a stage. The walls of this room are incredible...they appear to be actually stuffed with cotton and covered in fabric. There is little hope of putting anything on the walls.<br> <br> On the plus side we will have lots of AV, so there is a goodly amount of technology available to play with for agenda setting and huge screen projection. <br> <br> I'm worried on a number of levels as you can imagine, but at the moment I'm trying to put that all aside and figure out, in this worst case scenario, what is the best thing we could do to Open Space? Anyone been faced with similar constraints? Help me out here...<br> <br> All tips and support I get on this, I'll roll up into a little document on "what to do when nothing is what you need it to be" and we can share it out.<br> <br> OSLIST group mind...activate!<br> <br> Chris <br clear="all"> <br> -- <br> CHRIS CORRIGAN<br> Facilitation - Training - Process Design<br> Open Space Technology<br> <br> Weblog: <a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot" target="_blank">http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot</a><br> Site: <a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com" target="_blank">http://www.chriscorrigan.com</a><br> <br> Principal, Harvest Moon Consultants, Ltd.<br> <a href="http://www.harvestmoonconsultants.com" target="_blank">http://www.harvestmoonconsultants.com</a><br></div></div><div class="im"> * * ========================================================== <a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a> ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of <a href="mailto:oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu" target="_blank">oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu</a>: <a href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html" target="_blank">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</a> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist" target="_blank">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</a> </div></span></font></p> </div> </div><div><div></div><div class="h5"> * * ========================================================== <a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a> ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of <a href="mailto:oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu" target="_blank">oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu</a>: <a href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html" target="_blank">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</a> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist" target="_blank">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</a> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>CHRIS CORRIGAN<br>Facilitation - Training - Process Design<br>Open Space Technology<br><br>Weblog: <a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot">http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot</a><br> Site: <a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com">http://www.chriscorrigan.com</a><br><br>Principal, Harvest Moon Consultants, Ltd.<br><a href="http://www.harvestmoonconsultants.com">http://www.harvestmoonconsultants.com</a><br> * * ========================================================== OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu: <a href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</a> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</a></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>*
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