After laying low for a long time to attend to family matters, I am happy to finally have an opportunity to rejoin the list and to ask for your help.
In October I will be opening space for two days as the last part of a four day event which will bring together paid and volunteer workers from throughout Ohio who work with the Ohio Coalition on Sexual Assault and the Ohio Domestic Violence Network. This will be the first time people from these groups will have met together. At the national and local level there are layers of differences that have made joining forces a challenge. This is a real opportunity for a major breakthrough! Here is the wrinkle that I need your input on: there is a real tension between the very low budgets and wages available to these organizations and workers (a reflection of a deeper American cultural issue) and the high value this work culture and funding environment place on professional development, licensing. and accreditation. The most common strategy for attending to this tension is finding ways to award CEUs (Continuing Education Units) that are approved by the various approving authorities for almost every gathering. CEUs will be awarded for most of the event in October. While giving CEUs is not a requirement or condition for doing the Open Space, it would be a real bonus and make it easier for some important voices to participate. I am clear that there is no intention to train people in the nature or operation of Open Space Technology. I am equally clear that there will be deep and valuable integration and application of other learning from other parts of the event and from their lives. I believe that such learning is worthy of CEUs, but obviously cannot predetermine who will learn what in a way that lends itself to writing the type of behavioral objectives that "approvers" of CEUs are familiar with. While I have some thoughts on how I might approach this challenge, I suspect some of you may have had experience addressing such a challenge. I would appreciate any suggestions, case studies or CEU applications you might have used. Thanks in advance. Chris Kloth * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== osl...@egroups.com To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed
