<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Birgitt - we did a bit of serious discernment around the session times, given the numbers involved, the transitions between spaces (and paradigms), and the time we had available to open the space. <div class=""><br class=""><div class="">A couple of interesting variations to our usual practice emerged</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>we decided to put the starting times on the Agenda Wall and not nominate the finishing times (ie Session 1: 10:30, Session 2: 12noon, session 3: 1:30; reconvene for convergence: 2:45 - or something like that from memory)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>we then offered an invitation to Action Planning from 2:45-3:15’ish when participants could nominate the action areas they were interested in pursuing, the place where they could be found, and inviting others to join them around the grounds during afternoon break 3:15-3:50, before they all returned to the hall which by then had been reconfigured into the conventional Synod style - rows, microphones etc...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>we invited participants to continue having conversations throughout the remaining 1.5 days of the Synod and if they chose, to record these and submit for inclusion in the Book of Proceedings… an invitation to ‘keeping the space open’ for as long as they wished, in the context of their gathering. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All in all, we embraced a few challenging contextual concerns around time, space, numbers…..and as usual, collective intention and openness to co-create with willing sponsors enabled us to experience yet another complex adaptive system in motion….</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yippeeeeee :)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Brendan </div><div class=""> <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27 Aug 2019, at 8:08 am, Birgitt Williams via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Congratulations Michael and Brendan ,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Among the many aspects of this story that are just great, the one I am appreciating the most is that you did your OST design so that all sessions were given 90 minutes, using the gift of time within the space, time for meaningful conversations.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">in genuine contact,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Birgitt</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><b class="">Birgitt Williams</b></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><b class="">Supporting Next Level Leadership "Leading So People Will Lead"</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Author, Senior Consultant, President <a href="http://www.dalarinternational.com/" target="_blank" class="">Dalar International Consultancy, Inc</a></span><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Founder <a href="http://www.dalarinternational.com/genuine-contact" target="_blank" class="">Genuine Contact Program</a></div><div class="">Co-owner <a href="https://genuinecontact.net/about/co-owners/" target="_blank" class="">Genuine Contact Group, LLC</a></div><div class="">Founder<a href="http://www.extraordinaryleadershipnetwork.com/" target="_blank" class=""> Extraordinary Leadership Network</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#212121" face="sans-serif" class=""><b class="">Learn with us for your skill and capacity development for leading and working in the new leadership paradigm "Leading So People Will Lead"</b></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Upcoming learning module: <a href="https://www.dalarinternational.com/curriculum/open-space-technology/" target="_blank" class="">Working with Open Space Technology</a>. 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<div class="gmail-m_-5368455477475143178WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">A few weeks ago Brendan McKeague and Michael Wood co-facilitated what might be the largest ever Open Space in Australia (certainly with a church group) when the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane took the step of hosting most of the first day
of Synod (the annual large gathering of representatives of Anglican parishes, schools and other organisations) for 6 hours in Open Space. 450 people attended around a very spacious question, ‘what is God calling us to be and do at this time’. Three sessions
of 1.5 hours each led to the posting of 56 conversation topics and 14 action plans. One of the interesting pieces of feedback at the end of Synod is that the remainder of Synod (which is conducted in a traditional Westminster Parliament format) ‘felt’ more
calm and respectful that in previous years – no surprises there. Although it’s early days the whole thing felt to me like an opening up of new possibility about the way we meet in the church and I personally hope it might be part of a cultural shift starting
to happen. Time will tell.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Michael Wood. Perth, Western Australia.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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