Thank you too Suzanne! sorry, my emails are coming in in a strange way. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Suzanne Daigle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdaigle4@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdaigle4@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Tricia, I agree with Jeff, breathe deeply, smile, trust this beautiful process, and enjoy this experience of opening space. It will be fine and you will be fine. Suzanne</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 12, 2013 2:36 AM, "Jeff Aitken" <<a href="mailto:r.jeff.aitken@gmail.com" target="_blank">r.jeff.aitken@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
breathe. go slow. you'll be fine! it will work great.<br>
<br>
jeff<br>
<br>
On 2/11/13, Jeff Aitken <<a href="mailto:r.jeff.aitken@gmail.com" target="_blank">r.jeff.aitken@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Tricia,<br>
><br>
> you have a relatively small group (you have 14 right?) and a long os<br>
> meeting (you have three days right?)<br>
><br>
> with that length of space, i'd be confident that all the issues raised<br>
> will be covered well, and by the last day there easily can be<br>
> prioritizing and action planning and next steps.<br>
><br>
> i'd be confident that the agenda wall and marketplace process will do<br>
> what it does, allow them to organize themselves for the tasks at hand.<br>
><br>
> any participant can suggest that a posted topic be moved to a<br>
> different time, including the principal who wants to form them into a<br>
> priority list; but it's up to the convenor of each topic to agree to<br>
> move it. i explain this after the agenda wall is filled and they are<br>
> ready to approach the wall as a group.<br>
><br>
> I also explain that combining topics is ok, but again it's the<br>
> convenor who decides to do that or not, and sometimes it's best if two<br>
> similar topics are not combined but dealt with separately in more<br>
> depth. but it's up to them.<br>
><br>
> In my experience the length of time that a topic requires is handled<br>
> by the four/five principles of os. 'when it's over it's over' and the<br>
> corollary (which I always mention in the intro) 'when it's not over<br>
> it's not over.' sounds like you have an idea about handling the<br>
> situation already.<br>
><br>
> jeff<br>
> san francisco<br>
><br>
> by the way, one interesting thing i've encountered is when a<br>
> relatively small gathering looks at the agenda wall and someone<br>
> suggests 'let's stay together and address these topics one by one' and<br>
> people agree to do it that way. because I have let go at that point, i<br>
> don't want to intervene in their plan, but I now remind them that the<br>
> amount of time available for each topic has now shrunk because they<br>
> can't be done concurrently (and I suggest they write the new times on<br>
> the topics to make that visible.) not to add another thing for you to<br>
> think about, but i wanted to mention it.<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 2/11/13, Tricia Chirumbole <<a href="mailto:tricia@investorswithoutborders.net" target="_blank">tricia@investorswithoutborders.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Hello all!<br>
>><br>
>> I am facilitating my 1st OPen Space tomorrow and lookingly heartily upon<br>
>> the challenges being presented as good learning opportunities, BUT....a<br>
>> few<br>
>> things are worrying me a bit about this particular circumstance....last<br>
>> minute advice or good juju welcome!<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> 1. The focus is on "hands on skill transfer/learning among company<br>
>> members" - I was comfortable with this, but it was revealed this<br>
>> afternoon,<br>
>> in addition to having a number of things that people want to learn<br>
>> about<br>
>> overall, the group has a number of urgent projects that need work done<br>
>> that<br>
>> can't wait until we're done - so part of the idea was to make this a<br>
>> part<br>
>> of the learning experience, which is great and I also felt confident<br>
>> with<br>
>> 1. BUT.....one of the principles is having a hard time letting go<br>
>> of<br>
>> his top down mgmt and wants to include priority rankings for some<br>
>> of<br>
>> the<br>
>> projects and is suggesting we need different lengths of time slots<br>
>> since<br>
>> some items will require a deep dive - so I am worried about this<br>
>> added<br>
>> complexity, former more than latter - I have ideas about how to<br>
>> work<br>
>> with<br>
>> this, but am interested in ideas from those with experience.<br>
>> 2. Also, they have what I think is an exceptional amount of issues<br>
>> -<br>
>> We all work in different cities, so today was a beginner's session<br>
>> to<br>
>> our<br>
>> meeting, and they tricked/pressured me into allowing a<br>
>> brainstorming<br>
>> session on the topic - which was great but revealed a HUGE list of<br>
>> r5<br>
>> flipchart pages of items across only 13 people! In addition to<br>
>> the 3 pages<br>
>> of project tasks.<br>
>> 2. I was even getting some push back on the removing of the table and<br>
>> continued confusion...which is why I kept trying to tell them that it<br>
>> will<br>
>> be explained in detail tomorrow and will become clear and<br>
>> simple....this<br>
>> was all hastily decided upon with minimum discussion between me and<br>
>> the<br>
>> principles...<br>
>><br>
>> any advice welcome! Want to add that the one principle is very open and<br>
>> very deferential to me and the process, whereas the other one wants to be<br>
>> open, but keeps putting up roadblocks in almost every breath - they are<br>
>> great people and I think I can address these issues, but still a little<br>
>> concerned!thank you :_))))<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Tricia Chirumbole<br>
>> US: <a href="tel:%2B1-571-232-0942" value="+15712320942" target="_blank">+1-571-232-0942</a><br>
>> Skype: tricia.chirumbole<br>
>><br>
><br>
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