<p dir="ltr">Bonjour chère Christine,</p>
<p dir="ltr">What a lovely gift that you share this invitation and adventure with us. I imagine the possibilities of so much coming from it. Simply by opening space, again and again over the course of a year and beyond.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It would start with a co-creative invitation that captures the bigger purpose and imagines the issues, the possibilities, the reflections and actions to follow.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I was particularly drawn to your intro.</p>
<p dir="ltr">"I came across a potential client who wants to co-create a vision involving all collaborators (2500 people in 11 countries) and even more (clients, suppliers..) and is looking for someone to help them for this one-year process.'</p>
<p dir="ltr">I imagined how much could happen by simply opening space between them and with them. You could, involve a small diverse representative team from the 2500 to execute on the planning steps, a team whose mission is to invite and involve others, to carry out the logistics, etc. Not one open space but many with a compelling overarching theme.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The start is a Why of doing this. What is at stake? </p>
<p dir="ltr">As the answers reveal themselves and if a decision to proceed is made then...</p>
<p dir="ltr">A small team and host could create a compelling theme that captures the context and mission of the co-creative vision they seek.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It would include questions, history and future. It would meet the criteria of a good theme and invitation that we know so well: urgent, complex, diverse, etc.</p>
<p dir="ltr">By doing the work themselves, it would would acknowledge the shared ownership with all stakeholders in the organization. It honors the wisdom, creativity, passion and responsibility that is there already. A deep knowing, a trust in the organization and its partners (clients and suppliers). </p>
<p dir="ltr">The planning work with others provides opportunities for shared learning around Open Space, the basic steps in a process that we know so well and the deeper thinking that invites action and transformation. With guiding principles and a law that also invite the wisdom within us.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I even imagine many future Open Space facilitators, opening space throughout the year, formally and informally.</p>
<p dir="ltr">As a facilitator, you have no attachment to outcome. Yet there is a deep trust in outcome, the outcomes of whatever is meant to happen by this company that is inviting so much by truly inviting all to be involved.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The same would be true of the planning work, sharing the tasks, doing the simple things, inviting, logistics, newsroom... Always involving from within and keeping it simple.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Together this small team would get a glimpse and a feel of the breadth and scope of the topics, the discussions and emergent convergence, intuiting it before it happens.</p>
<p dir="ltr">They would imagine colleagues, clients and suppliers engaged as never before, living the Law of Two Feet, conversing, documenting and activating what is waiting to emerge. A Vision and so much more. They would feel proud, excited and energized.</p>
<p dir="ltr">With this simple process of Open Space, the wisdom and will of an organization will discover itself.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A few years ago I was asked by a company celebrating their 10 years to facilitate an Open Space that would create their next 10 years. It was just a day and at first I was sad about this but by involving in the planning and trusting...much space opened and continues to open to this day. Their theme was: "The next 10 years. It's up to us!"</p>
<p dir="ltr">As I read your note, I could not help but think of Village Care in Africa. What they have done over the past 10 years is beyond words. Open Space at the heart of it though indeed it is so much more. Quietly with such human magnificence, they are teaching us the way! And I am so humbled by them.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://villagecare.com/">http://villagecare.com/</a><br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Christine, as a colleague and friend, I can imagine no better person than you to open space with this company.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Suzanne</p>
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<div dir="ltr">I was involved in a process of values definition, in a company of 4300 employees, in 30 countries, using a participatory approach with an Appreciative inquiry process. </div>
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I came across a potential client who wants to co-create a vision involving all collaborators (2500 people in 11 countries) and even more (clients, suppliers..) and is looking for someone to help them for this one-year process.<br>
They did it already about 10 years ago (they were of course less people at that time), with a process that, If I understand clearly, seems to me closed to what Doyle was doing.<br>
They want to do it again as, as you can imagine, the world has changed completely in 10 years and they are facing new kind of challenges and competitors.<br>
They also want it to be « modern », involving digital tools.. and lots of communication.<br>
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One possibility would be to stick to what they know and look to partner with someone who know the process they have in mind. This person would need to speak French.<br>
My question then to you is : is any of you/do you know anyone/ familiar with the deep visioning process of Michael Doyle ? I’d love to talk to you then.<br>
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Do you have stories of this kind of processes involving all stakeholders, especially all collaborators, a dozen of countries and getting to a Vision statement : purpose, mission, .. difference, values …<br>
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