This also brings to mind one aspect of Open Space that might be worth reflecting on.<div><br></div><div>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).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Yet what happens over the day is that the sessions evolve. The day emerges. The process develops. The content morphs.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've seen it done well and facilitated it a few times. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>warm wishes</div>
<div><br></div><div>Paul Levy</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 February 2013 05:12, Raffi Aftandelian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raffi_1970@yahoo.com" target="_blank">raffi_1970@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:14pt;font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif"><div>Dearest Open Space and Genuine Contact friends-</div>
<div><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:19px;background-color:transparent;font-family:garamond,'new york',times,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.</div>
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:19px;background-color:transparent;font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:19px;background-color:transparent;font-family:garamond,'new york',times,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 </div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:14pt;font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif"><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:19px;background-color:transparent;font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif">dynamics. I also admire that she explores the intersections- the space between- the different process arts communities of practice.</div>
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(interestingly her last name means "House on a Bridge")</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:19px;background-color:transparent;font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:19px;background-color:transparent;font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif">
here is the post:</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:19px;background-color:transparent;font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif"><br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:19px;background-color:transparent;font-family:garamond,'new york',times,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><br>
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much warmth,</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:19px;background-color:transparent;font-family:garamond,'new york',times,serif">raffi</div> </div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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