Hi Arno,
I have a background in mediation myself and my experience with OS is
more recent. As anyone on this list would tell you, OS would be a great
way to hold your conference. I'm just not sure why you would do
mediation during the conference. Even a mediators' conference. Do you
really have that big disputes to resolve? :)
While OS can be useful for resolving some disputes, it is an entirely
different process from mediation, at least as I know it. Mediation
involves significant intervention in the discourse, while OS is almost
trying to intervene as little as possible. In my practice, I consider
these to be the opposite extremes of what I do.
Apart from OS there are several other processes that you can use as
components of an otherwise conventional conference, such as World Cafe,
Conversation Cafe just to name a couple. But as with anything, it all
depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Decide on the purpose
first and then pick the tool.
Hope that is helpful.
Bui Petersen
On 12/11/2010 5:15 AM, Arno Baltin wrote:
Hi everybody!
I have seen on the list comments from listers with connections to
mediation. I am intersted in possible overlappings of these two methods.
After expressing once my skepsis on traditional conference arrangement
(on a mediatiors annual conference) I was encouraged to suggest
alternatives. I suggested OS. This idea developed into search for a
mix of mediation and OS. The min. program is still dividing annual
meeting between time for presentations and OS. The max. program could
be some arrangement including OS and mediation practice.
So, what you think?
Arno
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