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Hi Michael, Hi Chris,<br>
<br>
Thank you both, for your kind attention and responses to my post on
public vs. private Open Space events. Both of your responses are
interesting, especially your subsequent conversation. I'm learning a
lot and continue to learn, as a result of doing experiments.<br>
<br>
Thanks again, with kind regards,<br>
Daniel<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/17/14 6:58 PM, Michael Herman
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">one of my favorite stories, too, chris. here's
some of the detail, from my website. some of the links might be
dead, but the story is a good one. and it was totally open,
public. he (vancouver, bc) and i (chicago) worked with a
blogger in texas to set it up. we were about 40 people at the
first event, but we touched many more, in various organizations
and networks. the proceedings were posted online (still are,
actually) during the event, so definitely weren't late! i can
think of at least two others from the list here who
participated.
<div><br>
</div>
<div>the last line of this story reminds me of another dimension
of public vs. private, that the public events can be a lot
harder to track. it's not that action isn't there, it's that
it takes place in a more diffused way and/or in a larger
space.
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<div><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">...began
with the </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.michaelherman.com/wordpress/projects/%E2%80%9C/givingconference%22"
style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">GivingConference</a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">,
initiated with Phil Cubeta at </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.michaelherman.com/wordpress/projects/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.gifthub.org%22"
style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">GiftHub</a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">, which
brought together philanthropists, weblog publishers,
financial advisors, and community organizers. A core
group then moved to </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.michaelherman.com/wordpress/projects/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.omidyar.net%22"
style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">OmidyarNetwork</a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"> and
convened a number of O.net members summits. Some of the
people at the first of those summits went on to
organize </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.michaelherman.com/wordpress/projects/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.recentchangescamp.org%22"
style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">RecentChangesCamp</a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">, which
connected software technologists and community leaders
and activists (see </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.michaelherman.com/cgi/wiki.cgi?OregonianNewspaper"
style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">OregonianNewspaper</a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">). All
of these summits have been 3-day meetings, attended by
40-120 people, and run completely in </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.michaelherman.com/cgi/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceTechnology"
style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">OpenSpace</a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">. At
least three new conferences are now being planned for
2006. </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.michaelherman.com/wordpress/projects/%E2%80%9Chttp://giving.typepad.com/theworldwewant/2006/05/open_letter_to_.html%E2%80%9D"
style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Update
May 2006</a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">. </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.tedernst.com/"
style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Ted
Ernst</a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">facilitated
another in this lineage, O.net Uganda, 2007 and later
introduced WikiSym to meeting in </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.michaelherman.com/wordpress/projects/%E2%80%9C/cgi/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceTechnology%22"
style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">OpenSpace</a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">.
Theresa Williamson took </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.michaelherman.com/wordpress/projects/%E2%80%9C/cgi/wiki.cgi?OpenSpaceTechnology%22"
style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">OpenSpace</a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"> back to
her work running </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.michaelherman.com/wordpress/projects/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.catcomm.org%22"
style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">CatalyticCommunities</a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"> in Rio
de Janeiro. </span><strong
style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">UPDATE
2011:</strong><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"> See</span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.michaelherman.com/wordpress/projects/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.recentchangescamp.org%22"
style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">RecentChangesCamp</a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"> which
has been a great success story, in its own right, now
having been repeated on three continents since 2005.
Beyond this, results flowing from </span><a
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href="http://www.michaelherman.com/wordpress/projects/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.recentchangescamp.org%22"
style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">RecentChangesCamp</a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream
Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">,
WikiSym’s shift to Open Space, and other Giving
Confernce beginnings get harder and harder to track and
record — which is just great.</span><br>
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--<br>
<br>
Michael Herman<br>
Michael Herman Associates<br>
312-280-7838 (mobile)<br>
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target="_blank">http://MichaelHerman.com</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Chris
Corrigan <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:chris.corrigan@gmail.com" target="_blank">chris.corrigan@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Underlining this. The
Giving Conference, an open and public event in 2003 was
transformational for the few dozen people who were there
and launched scores of long term and sustained work that
had a influence far beyond what we could have imagined.
It’s one of my best practice stories, and it was entirely
a public thing.
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Also, an initiative I was a part of in 2011 to
address addictions related stigma in the health care
system was both open to the public and supported by an
organization (The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority).
The weight and institutional support made it possible,
supported many follow up experiments and sustained
results. the reliance on a single institution for this
work also eventually compromised the results when the
organization was restructured and the directorate that
had initiated the work ceased to exist. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Chris</div>
<div><br>
<div>
<div>
<div class="h5">
<div>On Oct 17, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Michael Herman
via OSList <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org"
target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>
wrote:</div>
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<div class="h5">
<div dir="ltr">it's not about minimum
requirements for me, daniel. many of the
things on your list show up in most of the
meetings/events i've facilitated, but it's all
very situation specific.
<div><br>
</div>
<div>what i heard you saying earlier, and
maybe i heard it wrong, was about
corporate/organization/private events that
have org structure and process and culture
behind them, adding momentum and to longer,
more resource-full meetings/events. AND i
heard public events described as being
shorter and bringing fewer resources and
less common cultural momentum. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>if i heard those characterizations
accurately, i only wanted to say that they
can be teased apart. generalizing on public
vs. private is not going to be as accurate
as generalizing on the quality of the
preparations, commitment, energy... shall we
say... complexity, diversity, urgency and
passion. yes, organizations have some ways
of whipping up these conditions, but they
also have ways of damping them down. energy
and resources in communities can be more
diffused, but also very focused and
abundant.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>i'm just saying that just cuz it's
public, you can't assume than it's shorter,
lower quality and that the proceedings won't
be out when promised. that can happen in
orgs, same as anywhere else. and long, high
quality, on-time and ongoing work is very
possible in open, emergent community events.
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div> </div>
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<br>
Michael Herman<br>
Michael Herman Associates<br>
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(mobile)<br>
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<div class="h5">On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 1:38
PM, Daniel Mezick via OSList <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org"
target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div class="h5"> Hi Michael,<br>
<br>
I'm confused now, and so I believe I am
about to learn something new here...
I'll know by your answers to these
questions:<br>
<br>
What are the minimum essentials of Open
Space structure? For example, are the
following elements necessary at all?<span><br>
<br>
<ol>
<li>Sponsor</li>
<li>Theme<br>
</li>
<li>Invitation in advance, referring
to Theme<br>
</li>
<li>Opening Circle</li>
<li>Facilitator</li>
<li>Explanation of the 1Law/
5Principles</li>
<li>Posters</li>
<li>Closing Circle</li>
<li>Timely Proceedings</li>
<li>Sponsor commitment to follow
though on Proceedings</li>
</ol>
<br>
If these are not essential to
structure, why not? If so, why so?<br>
<br>
Thanks for your help! Very Eager to
hear your (hopefully <i>detailed</i>)
answers!<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
<br>
<br>
<div>On 10/17/14 1:27 PM, Michael
Herman wrote:<br>
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<div>
<div class="h5">No. I'm saying the
setting, context, culture doesn't
matter so much. The structure, setup
and commitment matter. I'm saying
don't assume that public gatherings
aren't capable of having real impact.
And of course
corporate/organizational/private isn't
any guarantee of impact and follow<span></span>through. <span><br>
<br>
On Friday, October 17, 2014, Daniel
Mezick <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:dan@newtechusa.net"
target="_blank">dan@newtechusa.net</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div class="h5"><span> Hi Michael,<br>
<br>
I hear you, saying: <br>
<br>
"I've seen very loose corporate
add-on events" <br>
<br>
..and then I also hear you
saying:<br>
<br>
I've seen...very productive and
long-lived action (spanning
years and continents) come from
open public conferences. <br>
<br>
I do not hear you saying this:<br>
<br>
"I've seen very loose corporate
add-on events generate very
productive and long-lived action
spanning years" <br>
<br>
I wonder if you are saying this.<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
<br>
<div>On 10/17/14 10:15 AM,
Michael Herman wrote:<br>
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<div>
<div class="h5">Not sure the
differences you articulate have
anything to do with public and
private, Daniel. It's about the
different structures. I've
seen very loose corporate add-on
events and very productive and
long-lived action (spanning
years and continents) come from
open public conferences. So id
say structure matters much more
than setting. </div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<div class="h5"><span><br>
<br>
On Friday, October 17, 2014,
Daniel Mezick via OSList
<<a
moz-do-not-send="true">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>
wrote:<br>
</span></div>
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<div class="h5"><span>
Greetings Christine, <br>
<br>
Thanks for your detailed
reply. I must admit, I
have no experience
whatsoever with doing
quasi-public OST events
arranged for guilds,
industry-associations
and the like. I'm
clueless! <br>
<br>
As such, my opinion does
not have much (if any)
validity about those use
cases. I do have some
theories however, and I
hope I can ask some
questions about OST for
guilds & industry
associations...<br>
<br>
I see it like this:<br>
<br>
(1) At one extreme end
of the spectrum, there
is the very private,
business-org-specific
event. A kind of
big-family system.<br>
<br>
(2) At the other
extreme, there is the
totally public
conference that anyone
can attend, if they pay
the money... <br>
<ol>
<ul>
<li>It is an event
that has some Open
Space of varying
quality, in 1/2
day, full day or
multiple day
formats. <br>
</li>
<li>It may of may
not have a
Sponsor, it may of
may not have
Proceedings. It
may or may not
have posters on
the wall. If it
has Proceedings at
all, they are
often late.</li>
<li>"Agile"
conferences are
commonly at found
at this end of the
range.</li>
</ul>
</ol>
<br>
My theory is that
quasi-public OST events
for and with guilds,
industry associations
and the like lie
somewhere in the middle
of these two extremes.
And I can certainly
imagine (theorize) how
these events take on the
look, feel, tone, temp
and flavor of the very
private,
business-org-specific
event. They might even
effectively BE private
events. It's not like
anyone with the fee (if
any) can just waltz into
the meeting right? <br>
<br>
<br>
And so, for now, I want
to set these
quasi-public OST events
aside, and/or
characterize them as
private events. Is that
OK? <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
And so, referring to (1)
and (2) above, I
continue to see very
huge differences between
these two ways to use
Open Space. <br>
<br>
Like, the difference
between Night and Day. <br>
<br>
<br>
Here's one of those very
striking differences: in
public-conference events
where OST is an add-on
in 1/2 or full day
formats, getting good
Proceedings is
difficult. Or
impossible. The
Proceedings are
typically late and
poorly formatted, or
more commonly: <i>non-existent.</i>
<br>
<br>
Yet inside private
events, you can't pull
the people off the task
of Proceedings creation.
The task attracts them
like a magnet. They
typically wave off any
offers of help and take
an absolutely huge
interest in the
Proceedings generation.
They rivet on it. <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
And this is just one
example. There are many
more BIG differences.
And so I continue to
assert that for
public-conference events
where OST is a full day
or 1/2 day add-on, a
Barcamp or Unconference
can and does get
equivalent, similar,
as-good results. <br>
<br>
Stated another way,
Barcamp and/or
Unconference can never
do what Open Space does
for organizations. And
that's because Open
Space is optimized for
enabling "development
and transformation in
organizations. "<br>
<br>
And those other two
aren't. <br>
<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
<br>
PS I realize some
public, paid, Agile
conferences that feature
all-day Open Space do a
very good job with
Proceedings. Yet this is
clearly the exception,
and not the rule where
Agile conferences are
concerned. <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<div>On 10/15/14 11:43
AM, Christine Whitney
Sanchez wrote:<br>
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<div>
<div class="h5"> Daniel
and all,
<div><br>
</div>
<div>In my experience,
public events have the
same buzz and
meaningful results as
an in-organization
OST. I’ve
facilitated a number
of them that were
sponsored by a group
of organizations in
the community. For
instance, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://vibrantphx.com/next-actions/top-ideas/" target="_blank">Vibrant
Phoenix</a>, was a
very productive
economic development
OST, sponsored by two
mayors of large
municipalities and
several local
businesses. One of
the business sponsors
agreed to be the
contact for folks who
wanted to take their
“actionable ideasâ€
to the next level.Â
However, there was no
budget and no
infrastructure to
really keep folks
connected the the
ideas they cared the
most about. Â </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>This is where the
public open spaces
generally fall
short. Because the
ongoing action is not
the core mission of
any of these
organizations, it is
hoped that the
participants will
self-organize going
forward. With very
few exceptions, this
does not happen. I
believe that
sponsorship for the
work after the OST is
what is called for.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>The <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/channeling_change_making_collective_impact_work"
target="_blank">Collective
Impact</a>Â model
speaks to this.Â
It’s nothing new,
really, but does
represent a simple way
to talk about the
necessary conditions
for sustaining
collective action. I
now include my version
of this model when I
talk with potential
sponsors to shine the
light beyond the
meeting so that we can
discuss their
intentions for
providing backbone
support for
self-organized action
going forward.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I especially love
public Open Space
events and look
forward to working
with sponsors who see
the meeting as merely
the first small step
in collaborative
action. There is so
much potential!</div>
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in the
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<span>Christine</span><br>
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<div>On Oct 15,
2014, at 6:33
AM, Daniel
Mezick via
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Greetings To
All,<br>
<br>
I notice that
there are many
big
differences
between
public-conference-type
OST events,
and OST events
arranged for
organizations.
<br>
<br>
Do you also
notice this?
Maybe I am
imagining
this....just
making stuff
up...<br>
<br>
...maybe not.
In many key
dimensions, I
experience
these
differences as
striking. Even
disturbing.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
And so I have
been poking
around inside
the GUIDE (3rd
edition) and I
notice that,
in some spots,
the
implication is
that the
discussion is
about a public
event. Up to
page 18 for
example, this
implication is
clear:<br>
<br>
<br>
<THE GUIDE
PAGE 18><br>
<br>
Working With
The Client if
you ARE NOT
the Sponsor<br>
<br>
"To this point
I have assumed
that you (the
reader) will
be the sponsor
and
facilitator of
the Open
Space, and
therefore <b><i>it
is your
decision as to
whether or not
to proceed</i></b>...(<i>emphasis
added.</i>)<br>
<br>
</THE GUIDE
PAGE 18><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
My current
belief is that
having the
same person in
the Sponsor
role **and**
the
Facilitator
role is
probably a
very bad idea
for an OST
event <i>inside
an
organization</i>.
For the
typical
public-conference
event on the
other hand,
this seems to
work just
fine. Kinda
like a Barcamp
or
Unconference....<br>
<br>
<br>
Another
current belief
I hold is that
OST is the
essential tool
for creating
"Development
and
Transformation
in
Organizations".
It is best
suited for use
in
organizations.
<br>
<br>
It is
interesting to
note how the
Barcamp and/or
"Unconference"
formats seem
to get the
same or
as-good
results as
Open Space, in
the public
conference
setting. <br>
<br>
Not so inside
organizations!
In fact, as of
now, I don't
think Barcamp
or
Unconference
has any chance
whatsoever at
being
effective in
bringing about
Development
and
Transformation
in
Organizations
the way Open
Space can.
Something
about the
Sponsor?<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
<br>
<br>
</span>
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</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://newtechusa.net/about/the-culture-game-book/"
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