<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Marvelous, Brendan.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15.833333015441895px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15.833333015441895px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>(What a pity you didn't came to London...)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15.833333015441895px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15.833333015441895px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>Regards</span></div><div style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15.833333015441895px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15.833333015441895px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>Artur</span></div><div><span></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Brendan McKeague <mckeaguebrendan@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, October 27, 2012 6:21 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [OSList] OS Phrases for Poets<br> </font> </div> <br>
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 ymailto="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org" href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a ymailto="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org" href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click
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