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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'>Paul I don’t ever recall actually “closing” a market place – as in saying that no other issues can be posted. I do suggest that people post all their issues at the start, and again on the morning of the 2<sup>nd</sup> Day (if there is one) – noting that while they certainly can post issues as any time, the likelihood that they will be seen is small. The reason is simple and practical: Everybody is off doing something else. I suppose in a small group, all working in a single room, new postings would get noticed – But most of my Open Spaces have been 100+ -- and for sure when you get 500-2000 folks all milling and wandering about new posting do go un-noticed, and announcing them on the PA System doesn’t seem to do much good as the words just get lost in the ambient noise.<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'>And Raffi – Thanks for sharing Rosa’s work, but I do confess that doing what she proposes seems to require a lot more work to accomplish what pretty much happens all by itself.<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'>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'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Camden, Maine 04843<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'>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'>(summer) 207-763-3261<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'><a href="www.openspaceworld.com%20"><span style='color:blue'>www.openspaceworld.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="www.ho-image.com%20"><span style='color:blue'>www.ho-image.com</span></a> (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><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>paul levy<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 21, 2013 6:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> Raffi Aftandelian; World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Cc:</b> Genuine Contact egroup<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] a fresh look at the meeting "agenda"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This also brings to mind one aspect of Open Space that might be worth reflecting on.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Open Space Events begin with a marketplace - a wonderful rush of self-organising energy that results in a "programme" - often a packed one, set up for the whole day ahead (if it is a one-dayer). Often this programme remains fairly fixed and little if any new sessions are added to it over the day(even when there is a coming back together, say after lunch to re-open the market place).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Yet what happens over the day is that the sessions evolve. The day emerges. The process develops. The content morphs.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>So, why not keep the market place open all day? (It often kind of is at some of the OS events I have participated in though often there is a feeling in the room that the programme bit was done at the start and there it is ). Why not allow that flow to flow wherever it does? Why Open and Close the marketplace at all? One less thing to do? - keep it open! I'm sure the self-organising spirit will find good ways to announce new and emerging sessions throughout the day without too much tinkering from the facilitator. Many of these new sessions will evolve out of earlier ones, many may start to focus on action, and some may be magically tangential.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I've seen it done well and facilitated it a few times. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Then we get to this magical place called END where we find out what the agenda WAS! That agenda then tends to feel more alive, still living, and can often have a "what next" feel about it.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>That, for me, is the perfect Open Space agenda - the one that only reveals itself at the end - as the thing that happened out of opening the space for self-organisation.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>warm wishes<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Paul Levy<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 21 February 2013 05:12, Raffi Aftandelian <<a href="mailto:raffi_1970@yahoo.com" target="_blank">raffi_1970@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Dearest Open Space and Genuine Contact friends-<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>I wanted to share a blog post written by Rosa Zubizarreta. It is a fresh take- to me, at least- at the idea of a meeting agenda. I believe the post has interesting implications and sparks new questions whatever our practice is as a facilitator.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>I really enjoy Rosa's take on process arts. As a longtime practitioner of Focusing and Dynamic Facilitation (along with being a psychotherapist), she has brought together both theory and practice in her writing on group <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>dynamics. I also admire that she explores the intersections- the space between- the different process arts communities of practice.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> (interestingly her last name means "House on a Bridge")<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>here is the post:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><a href="http://rosaz.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/easing-shifts-in-group-dynamics-with-a-new-twist-on-the-conventional-agenda/" target="_blank">http://rosaz.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/easing-shifts-in-group-dynamics-with-a-new-twist-on-the-conventional-agenda</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>much warmth,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>raffi<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><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" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>