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Dear Brendan,<BR> <BR>What a lovely phrase and what a lovely concise contrast of the formal system followed by the informal system - honoring them both and setting the stage for their next experience of Open Space.<BR> <BR>If I ever come up with something so brilliant, I'll let you know!<BR> <BR>Thanks,<BR>Linda<BR><br> <BR><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> From: mckeaguebrendan@gmail.com<br>> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:21:24 +0800<br>> To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org<br>> Subject: [OSList] OS Phrases for Poets<br>> <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 OSList@lists.openspacetech.org<br>> To unsubscribe send an email to OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org<br>> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br>> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org<br></div> </div></body>
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