Dear colleagues, thank you very much Florian for transmitting the message we left on your voice machine to the OS List serve. In the meantime we managed to solve the technical problems so that we can write to the List directly. Our training consists essentially of 3 parts. It starts with a thematic open space, including convertions, followed by on open space on the open space just experienced and closes in its 3 rd part with an open space on the role of the facilitator.
Today we began with part one. Fortunately we re framed the theme with the sponsor the night before. As we discovered, that they were very interested to work on the future of their own organization. Instead of "creating organizations that work" the theme now is: "The Future of Our INTERTRAINING". Here is a little more detail of our first day: We started today at 10:00 am with the sponsor opening the fourth annual meeting of INTERTRAINING (which lasts from June 1st true June 6th, the training taking place the first four days (2 minutes)). This was followed by an overview for the 4-days of the open space training (10 minutes). Immediately following the sponsor opened the space (7 minutes) and we were off and running. Michael did the traditional introduction and Jo translated simultaneously. For both of us it was the first experience of working the circle, focusing the group, stating the theme, introducing the process, creating the bulletin board and opening the market place as a pare. We greatly enjoyed it. The other tempo created a different atmosphere. In contrast the bulletin board was created in record time - 15 minutes. And the participants charged into the work groups. It's wunderful to have the chance to start the training with a real life issue. The 47 participants posted 22 issues, worked 17, recorded in 20 pages of proceedings that we just finished printing. We will start reading them tomorrow morning and than converge. Parallel to all this Jo is translating like crazy with the assistance of the Russian colleagues. Here is a sample: дНАПН ОНФЮКНБЮРЭ Б open space !!! оПХМЖХОШ ╥ оПХЬЕДЬХЕ ЯЧДЮ КЧДХ, ЩРН МЮХАНКЕЕ ОНУНДЪЫХЕ СВЮЯРМХЙХ ╥ рН, ВРН ОПНХЯУНДХР ЩРН ЕДХМЯРБЕММНЕ, ВРН ЛНФЕР ОПНХГНИРХ ╥ оПНЖЕЯЯ МЮВХМЮЕРЯЪ, ЙНЦДЮ ОПХУНДХР БПЕЛЪ ╥ еЯКХ ЙНМЕЖ РН ЙНМЕЖ / еЯКХ МЕ ЙНМЕЖ РНЦДЮ МЕ ЙНМЕЖ гЮЙНМ: гЮЙНМ ДБСУ МНЦ ЬЛЕКШ АЮАНВЙХ оПЕДСОПЕЬДЕМХЕ аСДЭРЕ ЦНРНБШ Й ЯЧПОПХГЮЛ яПНЙ ЯДЮВЮ ОПНРНЙНКНБ Б ..... We are both exhausted and exhillerated. Here are a couple of examples of what the Russians worked on today: Can organizations live eternally? How can fairy tails become reality? Values as an tool in a trainer's work Be prepared to get another report from Moscow tomorrow. And we are preparing ourselves to be surprised too on what will happen in the next view days. Jo and Michael -- Jochen Toepfer independent of location [email protected] http://www.socius.de Tel/Fax: +49-30-69088159
