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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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Space! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks for your reflections – I enjoyed
them!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Maybe the law of two feet actually worked –
if they did not move, they must have been learning and contributing in the
place they were – don’t you think?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>And to your question (nr 7) about having a
mindmap: I always put the principles, the law and other stuff I have to remember
on posters on the walls, so when I walk around I can see everything that I have
to say. Very easy. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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in weeks)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>På vegne af </span></b>ELEDER AURTENETXE
PILDAIN<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sendt:</span></b> 10. juli 2009 09:21<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Til:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Emne:</span></b> [<st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>]
REFLECTIONS ON MY FIRST OPEN SPACE</span></font><span lang=DA><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist" target="_blank"></a>Hello,
bright summer morning here in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bilbao</st1:place></st1:City>.
How are you?<br>
I'm writing some lines now to report on my first OS experience (Monday,
2009/6/29). <br>
Thanks for your attention, beforehand.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Overall, the event ran ok, and first time is usually harder, isn't it?<br>
<br>
I've realised some things to improve, though, and some doubts have also
aroused. First I'll say that my first OS<br>
was, maybe, a bit artificial (nine people interested in creativity and not
knowing each other before - 3 exceptions -<br>
were invited to build some knowledge about it, with these questions:<br>
<br>
"CREATIVITY (ability to create). It is useful in
education, anyone's life, the arts, enterprises,...<br>
* is there a way to improve it?<br>
* are techniques really useful. Which
ones and in which ways? "<br>
<br>
I'll search the OST files about them, but here some of my thoughts:<br>
<br>
1. Not too hot topic. No real deadline. RESULT: Tension was
lacking.... but it worked as a tool. <br>
People got involved in real conversations and written reports were distributed
in the afternoon.<br>
The day after we commented on the experience itself, and people found it
useful... <br>
but next times I'll only use it in more real issues and more suitable
conditions.<br>
<br>
2. The law of two feet wasn't almost really used (although it was extensively
explained at the beginnig).<br>
<br>
Afterwards I was explained that they wouldn't feel comfortable doing so because
of habits, believes,...<br>
It helped me understand this behaviour and realising that, next times, it'll
have to be more stressed in the opening.<br>
<br>
But, besides it, should the facilitator remind it to people DURING the OS is
running?<br>
<br>
3. LUNCH TIME:<br>
We had lunch together (unless one fellow that got home and back with us after
lunch). How should the facilitator behave meanwhile?<br>
<br>
Conversations were the typical of a learning group, not directly regarding the
issues spoken in the OS. I suppose it is quite normal.<br>
Should/Could the facilitator, maybe, be apart at lunch time?<br>
<br>
4. I read <i><span style='font-style:italic'>"OST user's guide"</span></i>
to try to visualise my behaviour after opening space and holding space during
the meetings. <br>
But still I felt sometimes uncomfortable not knowing how to behave. Trying to
do nothing, not thinking, just being at hand,...<br>
<br>
Would it be OK, for example, me just listening to a any group's conversation? <br>
<br>
I was appart all the time but quite near, I sometimes felt they could be
thinking <br>
I was some kind of spy :-),... I went off... came back afterwards, I avoided<br>
to get in contact with the stuff people for other subjects I had to deal
with,<br>
I would then start thinking they were all thinking "what a witty guy, <br>
he just put the people working, now he's just wandering and will be charging us
for it!" :-)...<br>
<br>
5. Would it be ok if I disappeared for a time to do something of my business?<br>
(I guess not because this would involve being absent for a while)...<br>
<br>
I'll reread the user's guide and the ost-list for this issue, no doubt,...<br>
<br>
6. After proposing a discussion subject and having a group formed, being part
of the agenda, the one who had called for it<br>
said she wouldn't write the report (she wasn't good at it). I suggested she
could have someone else of the group write it. <br>
<br>
At last the group discussed about the specific subject ("creativity and
physical movement") but no report was raised.<br>
I let it be and pointed that due to it the people that weren't engaged in this
discussion would not know much about it<br>
(the real aim of writing reports). <br>
<br>
Next meetings finished with their reports written. <br>
<br>
Any other ideas about how I could have behaved?<br>
<br>
7. Another question (the answer of which I can guess :-):<br>
<br>
would it be ok if I had a small Mind-Map with the main points <br>
I wouldn't anyway want to forget to explain in the opening?<br>
I found myself realising having forgot to say something<br>
and saying it afterwards,... although there was no big trouble about it.<br>
<br>
8. An organisation issue. As the place would be open just one hour before
beginning the OS,<br>
I made the preparation in the hotel the day before, and was a bit uneasy this
morning.<br>
I suppose it would have been better leaving the main things prepared on Friday
evening <br>
(the OS started on Monday morning and I wasn't let enter the place during the
weekend).<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
<br>
<b><font color="#009900"><span style='color:#009900;font-weight:bold'>Eleder
Aurtenetxe Pildain</span></font><br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">BILBAO</st1:place></st1:City><br>
BM<font color=red><span style='color:red'>31</span></font></b><br>
<a href="http://www.burumapak.blogspot.com">www.burumapak.blogspot.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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