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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dicky wrote: “I wonder whether this outcome is another proof of the power of self organisation. Or does it mean that people had just brought the things they wanted to do anyway and it would have happened even without Open Space? Or maybe it would have happened anyway but less quickly and less efficient/effective.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>How about all three? And I think there may be something else of note here. It seems to be an article of faith that the way to insure that “things get done” is to take detailed notes of the discussion and then use them (the notes) as the insurance policy for future action. Following this line of thought it is obvious that more and better notes will improve the situation. I think this is a nice idea, but I don’t see a great deal of evidence that things work that way. For example, the US Congress (both Houses) is a copious note taker – and the resulting Congressional Record is monstrous – but the follow through may leave something to be desired. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> I am being facetious to a point, but I think the real issue is that we might view the written record as somehow superior to the record imprinted in the hearts and minds of the participants. This doesn’t mean that the written record (Proceedings) are unimportant, but I think the importance lies in their function as “aide de memoire.” These are not detailed manuals of procedure, but rather reflections of where people were at the time. Given a different time and circumstances all those “great ideas” will be viewed differently. Some, indeed will pass from view – to the great relief of everybody.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Dr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone 301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.openspaceworld.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.ho-image.com (Personal Website)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org"><span style='color:blue'>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Methorst, Dicky<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 10, 2011 7:20 AM<br><b>To:</b> Suzanne Daigle; Nancy White; oslist@openspacetech.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] Knowledge sharing open space?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>hi Suzanne and Nancy,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Thanks for your thoughts and contributions. I would like to share my experience with follow up of an Open Space event within my organisation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands. As I am within the organisation I had a chance to follow through what happened after the Open Space with all the harvest. After two months we decided to go through the harvest again and ask the convenors of the sessions what had happened. Curiously enough they had forgotten what was written in the reports. When they reread the reports, however, they found that a lot of the suggestions had found their way somehow into the organisation. They had become an integral part of the work, had been executed or had been integrated into policies. Some issues did not need explicit follow up: the participants had enjoyed the discussions, had learned a lot or gotten other perspectives. On other issues no follow up action had been taken: these appeared to be the suggestions that on second thought were regarded as not feasible or not important enough. So without any explicit and conscious follow up action or controlmechanism by management.the things that needed to be handled got adequate attention. There was one exception: suggestions given bij outsiders (ie external experts/stakeholders) who wanted the Ministry to take certain actions) had not been taken on board (yet). It is possible that this will still be done, as the time between the Open Space and the questions asked about follow up was too short. But these things were more likely to be forgotten. By the way, the main purpose was not "knowledge sharing" but finding opportunities to realize our ambitions for reaching the Millenium Development Goals within a new challenging political policy environment.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>I wonder whether this outcome is another proof of the power of selforganisation. Or does it mean that people had just brought the things they wanted to do anyway and it would have happened even without Open Space? Or may be it would have happened anyway but less quickly and less efficient/effective. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Greetings from a sunny Netherlands!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Dicky</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetechorg] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Suzanne Daigle<br><b>Sent:</b> zaterdag 9 april 2011 17:53<br><b>To:</b> 'Nancy White'; oslist@openspacetech.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] Knowledge sharing open space?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Nancy, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Makes a lot of sense to me! <b><u>Would love to know more</u></b> about what you mean by less “line of sight” and “more ongoing knowledge sharing behaviors and practices over time.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>For first timers in Open Space especially and also for others who are more familiar, I often feel that the conversations originating from topics that people care deeply about, on which they convene others to join, can be exhilarating, exhausting and intense. Capturing the true essence of those conversations in the reports is almost impossible and while I trust that each will have a cellular memory of what they heard and spoke, I feel that we all want more. A “more” that is totally in the spirit of Open Space, self-directed and self-organized, not facilitated, led or interpreted by others. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Often, it is so foreign for people to engage as they do in Open Space, foreign to the typical ways that we know: meetings, workshops, conferences, etc. etc. I feel that people leave with a memory of something that happened that was so extraordinary and while the photos and documents do capture some of what took place, the way of anchoring this initial experience and building on it is not clear. Certainly, thinking and planning ahead as part of the pre-work with an intent to open space in the future is one way…though not always easy. As one Engineer PHD Scientist said once during morning news: “You can’t know Open Space until you experience it”. The conundrum then is that it’s not easy to discuss and plan future open spaces with a sponsoring host or team when you’ve never experienced Open Space in the first place. Regardless, I keep trying to build “what happens next” as part of the pre-work conversations, inspired much by Lisa Heft whose passion for pre-work knows no bounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers on a Sunny Saturday in Florida,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Suzanne<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nancy White<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 09, 2011 11:09 AM<br><b>To:</b> oslist@openspacetech.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] Knowledge sharing open space?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I have been trying some new things with knowledge sharing OS in terms of the harvest. The traditional notes are great, but we started doing some visual harvests (sometimes with post it notes, card sorting, sometimes with a graphic recorder, etc.) to start "connecting" conversations across sessions. This has proven useful because often the people coming together for the OS have TONS of knowledge to share, but less "line of sight" to the importance and value of the PRACTICES of knowledge sharing over time (and beyond the session). So while tons of knowledge can be shared during the event, the breakthrough possibility is shifting towards more ongoing knowledge sharing behaviors and practices over time. Does that make any sense?</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Methorst, Dicky <<a href="mailto:dicky.methorst@minbuza.nl">dicky.methorst@minbuza.nl</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lisa, you mention a book about knowledge sharing Open Space or Open<br>Space in university settings. 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