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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Dear Hege,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Filling the complete agenda beforehand is not something I would do in Open Space. I do allow people to prepare topics beforehand if they want to, but then these conveners have to put their topic on the marketplace with all the others. For me, the power of Open Space is in the present, in the now. The passion of the people at that moment is what drives it. That moment when the invitation is out and people come forward to write their topic on a piece of paper is a very special moment, where the passion of NOW becomes tangible. A pre-filled agenda does not fit in with that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>An interesting question of course is why they want to do it that way. If only politicians can fill the agenda, then (at least in my book) only the politicians can be participants. If they want the people of the community to be participants, then everybody gets the opportunity to fill the agenda together. If I understand yout mail correctly, they want the community to participate but only the politicians to create the agenda. There must be a reason for that. Finding out that reason is important, because then you might be able to show them that they are trying to take a long route to their goal and that there may be a much better, more direct route.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Good luck<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Koos<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Van:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>Namens </b>Hege Steinsland via OSList<br><b>Verzonden:</b> vrijdag 7 augustus 2015 11:56<br><b>Aan:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org><br><b>Onderwerp:</b> [OSList] is OS apropriate to fill a structure<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Dear list - colleague.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>I´ve worked with Open Space on two occasions in the same municipality, and they seem to enjoy and value it. I always work with OS as a process with a pre meeting and a follow up meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Now they have designed a new structure for how the politicians should organize </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>decision-</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> making in order to let the politicians govern more for real and have more interesting and meaningful tasks. They want let the politicians be involved in filling the structure with content, and want to use OS for this purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>My question:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Is this open enough for an OS meeting? Is the structure simply the givens and the question « how do we serve our community the best within this structure» or something like that?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Or do we work better with World Cafe or other tools in this situation?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Do you have experience or advices to give me?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>I wonder...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>All the best from<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Hege<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>