Dear Sharon, my very first training was a one-day event on October 31, 1997 just after returning from the Toronto OSonOS where I got a lot of good advice from the os-community and where I had received the talking stick that I keep with me since then. Just the other day I looked at pictures from that os-training and out of the 68 people that participated many are now os-practitioners, several are into open space fulltime and are into the training business themselves. We called the training "Von 10 bis 10" which means it lasted 12 hours from 10 am to 10pm. It started with a break at 10:00am and we opened the space at 10:30 around the theme "Moving into the third Millenium - the future of organizational development and organizational transformation" (most participants came from the od field). Three beginning times, 16 issues worked, newswall, documentation (had computers and copiers in the parish center where the training took place) and closing circle, the whole works. That os lastet from 10:30am till 3pm. After a 60 minute period of introducing a few theoretical thoughts, talking about convergence etc. and telling people about the materials and books around (we had also told them to read the "book" ahead of time) we moved into an open space on open space from 4:30pm to 9:00pm, 3 beginning times, 7 issues, documentation, closing circle. The training ended with cheese and wine people beginning to leave around 10pm. So almost all the time was spent in open space. The participants experienced two different styles of introducing os-t (myself and my colleague Fred Moeller) and from all I can observe it worked. There was one hitch: several people did not like to move into the OSonOS phase but would rather have had us tell them more from our experiences, give them examples, make more of a theoretical imput, discuss everything in the whole group (this came up in that 60 minute phase between the two open spaces). Afterwards people commented on that it had been the right choice to continue with the OSonOS. I remember that part of my activivity (yes, activity) was to let go at that point of my insatiable desire to tell stories and go on forever. The only thing I would do differently today (under the premise of a one day event) is to have learning spaces set up (an open space cinema with the 8 videos I have collected), an open space library and an open space "nuts and bolts"-room for people to go through, browse and view. What I really like in the regular 4-day trainings I now organize is the third open space which participants manage on their own under the title "I, the open space-facilitator"...I have no clue how to squeeze that into a one day event because I think the prerequisite for that is to have the experience as participant (first os) and the reflection as new os- facilitator in the second os on os. And also, I recommend to start with the open space very first thing so that everyone has the experience as quickly as possible that nothing happens here unless I do it...
Great success and fun michael On Tue, 8 May 2001 02:23:50 -0400, Sharon Quarrington wrote: >After much discussion my partner (Bruce Craig) and I have decided to >offer a one day "Intro to OST" training. We are both enamoured by >this thing called Open Space and want to increase it's presence in our >own lives and in the world. Michael M Pannwitz Draisweg 1 12209 Berlin, Germany FON +49 - 30-772 8000 FAX +49 - 30-773 92 464 www.michaelMpannwitz.de To subscribe to the oslist, send the following message (and nothing but the message): "SUBSCRIBE OSLIST" to [email protected] SUBJECT field should be left BLANK * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
