<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">wonderful sentence. i will often go back to this, i think.<div>thank you for sharing.</div><div>greetings from a cooling Berlin : )</div><div>Meike</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Am 27.10.2012 um 07:21 schrieb Brendan McKeague:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>G'day folks<br><br>Yesterday I opened space for a very nervous first-time sponsor in a 'combo' event. By that I mean the sponsor had a predetermined (conventional-style) agenda for the first 90mins followed by Open Space for the rest of the day.<br><br>There was a ten minute 'big boss' welcome and 'rally call', followed by next biggest boss fifteen minute welcome and rally call, followed by two 30min 'power-point stories from the trenches'...so we had 53 managers and operations technicians sitting facing the front, theatre style for 90 mins with nary a word spoken between them...<br><br>Then they broke out for morning break and we reconfigured the room into circles for OS....<br><br>While I was visiting the 'dunny' (bathroom) prior to them returning, I thought of a phrase that described what I noticed happening - and used it in the opening circle.<br><br>We are now moving from 'listening to selective wisdom to sharing collective wisdom'...<br><br>Any other neat little phrases out there that folks use in their opening scripts?<br><br>Oh, and as you might guess, they loved it - 25 topics (some of which were later combined) posted by 53 people during three highly engaged sessions and four very energised Action Plans created - and a wonderfully affirming closing circle! <br><br>Magical moments and movements indeed...<br><br>Cheers<br>Brendan<br>from a warming Perth<br>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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