<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello Eva,<div><br></div><div>To the many questions and suggestions you've received, I'll add a story. I was asked to do a keynote at a conference on Open Space. Since Harrison had sent them my way because he had a conflict and had originally intended to do it, I didn't think twice. I said "yes". Then I discovered that what they wanted for the keynote was an Open Space. They were expecting 150 people and I had... 1.5 hours!</div><div><br></div><div>Since this story is in the OSlist archives, I've copied it below.</div><div><br></div><div>One last item about this story that I discovered recently. It turns out that the person who wanted the OS keynote was Steve Cady, who joined with Tom Devane and me for the second edition of The Change Handbook. Steve had never seen an Open Space. It was his way of experiencing the process and he had no idea what he was asking by requesting it be done in 1.5 hours.</div><div><br></div><div>appreciatively,</div><div>Peggy</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Aug 3, 2004, at 3:57 PM, Peggy S. Holman wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Ralph -- I had a really different experience with 90 minutes. I'm guessing<br>that it was because the topic was real (not just a demo).<br><br>It was the keynote for the Bowling Green MSOD Alumni conference. They<br>wanted the 150 or so participants to experience Open Space. After my first<br>thought of "impossible", I thought, "why not?"<br><br>It worked incredibly well! I was amazed at the energy of the group and that<br>they really did move from topic to topic. It was like watching a speeded up<br>video of an OS. For the closing circle, I invited people to reflect using a<br>word or phrase. This actually left time in the closing for Q&A on OST.<br><br>Mind you, I did this for graduates of an OD program who were as interested<br>in the form as they were the content of the gathering.<br><br>My take on it was that it would be impossible to do any subject justice in<br>90 minutes. Given that,<br>rather than set the expectation of even one quality conversation, use the<br>time for another purpose: to invite people to notice who else has passion<br>for the same topics as you. 20 minutes to open, three 15 minute sessions,<br>20 minutes to close about does it. In that time, people will find out the<br>range of subjects of interest and who else cares about them. They'll be<br>able to touch in with the folks they meet after the OS. And another<br>benefist<br>is that it leaves participants with a very different embodied experience of<br>what OST is.<br><br><br>Joe -- to your second question - OS at a conference. I have also done this.<br>It was a conference track that ran in parallel with other more traditinal<br>sessions for the last 2 days of a three day conference. Some people stayed<br>for the whole OS, others floated in and out. They loved it.<br><br>home in Seattle at last,<br>Peggy<br><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Ralph Copleman" <<a href="mailto:rcopleman@comcast.net">rcopleman@comcast.net</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a>><br>Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 6:41 AM<br>Subject: [OSLIST] Brief demonstrations<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Joe Bowers, Harrison and all,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I agree that doing an OS demonstration is challenging. I did a 90-minute<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">version once for a group of colleagues. Had three 20-minute sessions<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">squeezed in. It was awful. Everybody looked bored. Never again.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On the other hand, I did a 30-minute thing for a client once involving the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">top 20 managers in an American airline company. They kept pressing me for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">an explanation, so during a break I hurriedly made the posters and stuck<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">them on the walls. Then I reconvened everyone in a circle and did the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">opening. That's all. No postings. No actual open space.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">They loved it. A month later I was doing a one-day event for them to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">explore their frequent-flier program, customers included.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ralph Copleman<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">*<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">*<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">==========================================================<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">view the archives of <a href="mailto:oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu">oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu</a>:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>*<br>*<br>==========================================================<br><a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>------------------------------<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,<br>view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu:<br>http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html<br><br>To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:<br>http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist<br></div></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; 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; 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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><a href="http://www.journalismthatmatters.org">www.journalismthatmatters.org</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></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Jun 25, 2009, at 3:49 AM, Eva P Svensson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; 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: 0px; "><div lang="SV" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">Hello!<br>I have been asked to do an Open Space with about 800 people. That’s great – BUT as it’s looks right now – there will only be 1,5 hours timeframe for the entire thing……<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">What do you think about that? 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