Dear Patrice,
1 There are no "rules" in open space. There are some principles / facts
of life that are mentioned at the beginning. And the "Law of two feet"
is a tongue in cheek (in German: mit einem Augenzwinkern) by the Man
with the hat. It simply is a possible mechanism for honoring the group
with ones absence if you can neither contribute nor learn whatever.
2 Translation is something participants will take care of, so dont bother.
3 Code of conduct, hmm. Again, the crowd will take care of it. Its none
of the business of the facilitator. The facilitator should attempt to be
fully present and at the same time be invisible. (I have never been in
anything online, so there might be a bunch of technical challenges... in
a face to face event I usually would take a nap or go for a walk while
folks start with their breakout session and I would turn up again in the
closing circle).
Less is more, might be another "rule".
Greetings from Berlin
mmp
Am 06.10.2023 um 08:21 schrieb Patrice Pederson via OSList:
Hello everyone!
I'm a first time poster. I asked a couple questions in a facebook
group and was told about this group. I do have a couple of specific
questions, but honestly I mostly need a little reassurance that what I
am attempting to do is not completely insane. And if it is, then maybe
some ideas for how to mitigate the damage?
I've committed to literally everyone in my professional field to host
a Global Youth Summit for Freedom of Religion or Belief.
<http://email.mail.firstfreedomfoundation.org/c/eJwcybFqwzAQANCvOW0NJ8mxo0GDa2MChYbQ0KFLsa27yMWuhKQY-velXd7ynGXlWAqysjb1sdEKpfCWjHGIyPNELGVFrtbj3NDEI56ITigW27Wv55d0MbED3d-kP39-bLs2T7OMPl6PzdC3oJ5v5fL21b9XZucppLa7QoXbuKyH-79z2MRqfSkxg25BDaAGDmnK_CiPRIeQ7qAGkSztlH7CN0GFIa9LLn_1GwAA___SYTt7> I've
got a few dozen countries co-sponsoring the thing as well as several
NGOs. It's something I have had on the backburner for years, until the
UK Prime Minister's Special Envoy heard about it, lit a fire under me,
and now it is spreading like wildfire and I can hardly keep up.
So here are the questions:
1) So far we have young people from around 65 countries registered.
Instead of doing three eight hour days, I decided to do one 24 (well
25 really) hour day so that people can participate from wherever they
are in the world--during work, before or after school or work, etc. I
genuinely have no idea when people will participate or for how long,
and I know that this violates one of the rules of Open Space which is
that it is no good to pop in and out. But for this purpose I really
don't see an alternative.
So, insane? Any way to mitigate the damage? I did schedule the Opening
Circle for a time when people should at least be awake from LA to
Bangkok (and we don't have many Pacific Islanders registered yet
anyway). And for those who are working we will record that event for
later consumption.
2) Does anyone have experience with multilingual Open Space events? My
first instinct was that everyone needs to speak English. But the
result is that we have only three participants from Latin America. So
we are a "global" summit minus one entire continent. So then my second
thought is that, if we could get like 50 people, with enough bilingual
people to cross-pollinate, then we could have a sort of an event
within an event.
Again, crazy? Or totally fine because Open Space is Open?
Finally, this event is already going to be wild. We have a ton of
Nigerians coming, many of whom have personally seen their friends and
family members stabbed, burned, disappeared, etc., by Islamists. And
then we have Muslims whose friends and families are getting lynched by
Hindus in India, or genocided in Burma and China, and Hindus who are
being persecuted in Pakistan, and LGBTQ youth who are getting bullied
by so-called Christians, etc. etc. etc. Basically, everyone is a
victim somewhere, and everyone is an aggressor somewhere, and I'm
getting them all together in one big virtual room with 50+ breakout
sessions and just one me.
So, is co-facilitation a possibility? Would anybody be interested?
Also, I do need to sleep at some point. We're going to need mechanisms
to enforce a code of conduct (nonviolence at a minimum), but I think
that I shouldn't be the one to enforce it because I need to hold the
space, yes?
Basically I could just really use some support, and I read that this
group is good for that. It has been a minute since grad school when I
studied all of this stuff. And while I have taken liberties with the
OST model in the past, this time I'm worried that I might have gone
too far.
Thanks for any words.
Patrice
OSList mailing list [email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email [email protected]
See the archives here:https://oslist.org/empathy/list/everyone.oslist.org
Michael M Pannwitz
Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
+49 30 [email protected]
The annual Worldwide Open Space on Open Space
(WOSonOS) will gather in Berlin
from October 18 through 21, 2023.
Check the website
https://www.wosonos2023.berlin/
OSList mailing list -- [email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
See the archives here: https://oslist.org/empathy/list/everyone.oslist.org
