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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Dan and all of you!<br>
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I so much agree Dan - to my experience it opens up to have a
question. iI "Fixing Arizona" I think the "How are we going to
do?" or "What would it take to...?" is underlying questions. <br>
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I am thinking and experimenting a lot with "challenges" - how to
create a powerful challenge. For Open Space and for my
projectspace game (projectspacegame.org). The words from User's
guide are very useful for that and I would like to add: The
challenge/question opens even more, if the challenge is made more
ambitious - in the direction you want to go - so ambitious that it
seems unrealistic to achieve it. My experience is that we lift off
the pressure and anxiety of failure - and creates lots of
openness, learning, creativity...<br>
<br>
Greetings and hug's<br>
Lise, Copenhagen<br>
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Lise Damkjær<br>
Learning4life<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.learning4life.dk">www.learning4life.dk</a><br>
+45 2949 9636<br>
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Den 24-03-2014 12:05, Daniel Mezick skrev:<br>
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Is the OST theme always defined as a question? Is it ever offered
as a statement? I'm not sure.<br>
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I'm not sure because in the USERS GUIDE TO OPEN SPACE book from
Harrison, the story about the theme "Fixing Arizona" is not a
question. So, I'm guessing a non-question is OK. For the record, I
prefer a question. And I tell clients to frame it as a question,
on the hypothesis that questions tend open space and statements
tend to close space...<br>
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THE BRIEF USERS GUIDE (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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THE THEME</em> -- Creation of a powerful theme statement is
critical, for it will be the central mechanism for focusing
discussion and inspiring participation. The theme statement,
however, cannot be a lengthy, dry, recitation of goals and
objectives. It must have the capacity to inspire participation
by being specific enough to indicate the direction, while
possessing sufficient openness to allow for the imagination of
the group to take over.</p>
<p>There is no pat formulation for doing this, for what inspires
one group will totally turn off another. One way of thinking
about the theme statement is as the opening paragraph of a
truly exciting story. The reader should have enough detail to
know where the tale is headed and what some of the possible
adventures are likely to be. But "telling all" in the
beginning will make it quite unlikely that the reader will
proceed. After all, who would read a story they already know?</p>
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