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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD",sans-serif">For everyone, the Liberating Structures site has a handy “min specs” description of OST. Here’s the link:
</span><a href="http://www.liberatingstructures.com/25-open-space-technology/">http://www.liberatingstructures.com/25-open-space-technology/</a>.<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"> OSList <oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Nick Martin via OSList<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 05, 2019 2:33 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Marai Kiele <genuine-contact@joyful-together.com>; ost list international <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Nick Martin <nick@workshopbank.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] open message to Nick Martin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Thanks for your open letter Marai. I'm always excited and willing to receive feedback.<br>
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As you'll remember over a year ago I opened up the content of this article for comments and input from this list in the form of a Google Doc.
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Such was the passion exhibited in the original thread I was eager and excited to receive your inputs. Unfortunately only two people replied though. I'm very grateful to both you and Keith Blundell for taking the time.<br>
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I must admit life took over and in my wait for more input other priorities took over. I'm happy to revisit it now though as I can feel the energy is back and I'd like to the right thing in the eyes of this excellent community.<br>
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Here's the link - <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ufIsy0BQvIqlRUbW0FAyXHGV0IKw3VdDT8L91RIJJU8/edit?usp=sharing">
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ufIsy0BQvIqlRUbW0FAyXHGV0IKw3VdDT8L91RIJJU8/edit?usp=sharing</a><br>
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Please add your thoughts, comments and feedback and amend the article as best I can.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 05/06/2019 01:53, Marai Kiele wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You suggest that the reader lets you know what they think. I choose to do that.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I also choose to do that in the form of an open letter, as several months back you asked on the os-list for input to your description of the OST process for the Workshopbank.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You introduced your version of „OST with a twist“, and there was a somewhat heated discussion on this list about it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I participated in both, revising and giving you feedback on your description (as requested) and discussing about „is something with such a twist still OST?“<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>Your twist was about giving the leaders control about the topics. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Back then I used the analogy that you are mixing red wine with coca cola (which some people actually do and drink — I tried it out as a teenager).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And that calling such a beverage „red wine with a twist“ is an inaccurate representation of a) red wine and b) the taste that a consumer will experience.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(side note: usually, this mix is done with red wine of poor quality)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>In my analogy, OST is the red wine and controlling the process is the coke.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In your description, you early on distinguish between OST and OST with a twist. I first appreciated you for making that distinction so upfront. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Then I read what you wrote under:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>If you’re following the traditional Open Space Process...</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span class="tcb-numbered-list-index">1</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="tcb-no-delete">Gather your participants together and briefly explain how Open Space events work using Harrison Owen’s 1 Law and the Guiding Principles as appropriate. Traditionally you should
do this with everyone in a circle around you</span><span class="tcb-no-delete"><span style="color:#FF91FF"> but you don’t necessarily have to.</span></span><span class="tcb-no-delete"><span style="color:#8EFFFF"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span class="tcb-numbered-list-index">2</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="tcb-no-delete"><span style="color:#FF91FF">Ask participants to spend 10 minutes thinking through
</span></span><span class="tcb-no-delete">if they have any issues they’d like to raise.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span class="tcb-numbered-list-index">3</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="tcb-no-delete"><span style="color:#FF91FF">If there is a general agreement that the issue has enough support and passion behind it invite the issue owner to add the issue to the schedule.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="tcb-no-delete">Once all issues have been added invite the participants to sign-up for the sessions they’re planning on attending (they are free to change their mind later if they want to).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="tcb-no-delete">Your sessions start.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is much more on this page that, as I see it, is NOT "the traditional Open Space Process“. I am giving just some further examples:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://workshopbank.com/open-space-technology">https://workshopbank.com/open-space-technology</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h2>Process for a Session<o:p></o:p></h2>
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<p class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="tcb-no-delete">Each session should be a round group of chairs (no table in the middle)
</span><span class="tcb-no-delete"><span style="color:#FF91FF">with preferably one facilitator to lead the discussion and a scribe on the flip-chart.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="tcb-no-delete">A session starts with the issue owner welcoming and thanking the group for coming and then giving a description of the issue as they see it.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="tcb-no-delete"><span style="color:#FF91FF">The facilitator then leads the discussion</span></span><span class="tcb-no-delete"> inviting people to give their input at their request.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span class="tcb-numbered-list-index">4</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="tcb-no-delete"><span style="color:#FF91FF">The scribe records the discussion on flip chart paper making sure</span></span><span class="tcb-no-delete"> to mark Issues, Ideas, Questions (that
can’t be answered today) & Actions. </span><span class="tcb-no-delete"><span style="color:#FF91FF">When a flip is finished they should tear it off</span></span><span class="tcb-no-delete"> and put it in the center of the circle or on a nearby wall for people
in the group to see.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span class="tcb-numbered-list-index">5</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="tcb-no-delete">Allow people to leave and arrive as they see fit though
</span><span class="tcb-no-delete"><span style="color:#FF91FF">don’t allow them to interrupt or slow-down your progress.</span></span><span class="tcb-no-delete"> It is a new arrival’s responsibility to catch-up with the discussion using the flip chart outputs
no matter how high up or important they are.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="thrv-styled-list-item" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="tcb-no-delete"><span style="color:#FF91FF">When the issue looks like it has been covered and there are no more inputs coming from your group thank them for their time and invite them to
join other groups if the session time is not over.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To me, calling this description "the traditional Open Space Process“ I wonder if<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>- I am totally rigid and should just loosen up to the variations of OST<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>- You have never experienced a traditional Open Space Process<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>- You just don’t care about the originality and instead rather cater to business needs of controlled processes that limit self-organisation<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>- I misremember all my trainings with Harrison Owen, Michael M Pannwitz, Michael Pannwitz jr, Joe Töpfer, and last but not least Birgitt Williams. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>- or… ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I totally don’t get it. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t like what you are doing.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I also dislike that you market this description of „the traditional Open Space Process“ as „a popular WorkshopBank Tool“.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I feel sad when I imagine people following your description and spreading the word that „this is the traditional way of doing OST“.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Using my former analogy: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I imagine what you are doing is like a beverage shop introducing someone who has never tasted a good red wine to that beverage.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Because this person usually drink coke, they are being given red wine mixed with coke (to match their taste buds).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And then they are being told, „this is a traditional Cabernet Sauvignon“.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I want you to revise your description and move your adaptions away from "the original version" to „OST with a twist“.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are you willing to do that?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Probably even better: Call it „…………….. - a process partly inspired by Open Space Technology“ <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I look forward to your response,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Marai<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marai-kiele/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/marai-kiele/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://about.me/maraikiele">https://about.me/maraikiele</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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