Datum: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:05:03 -0500 Antwort an: OSLIST <[email protected]> Von: Gilbert Brenson-Lazan <[email protected]> Betreff: Some suggestions please An: [email protected]
Hi Gilbert, if the campus is that huge - couldn´t you do an open air open space ? Depends on the weather ... but could work if the weather is fine - and would keep the campus presence together - and the spaces open. What do you think about that? Where will that event happen? best wishes and good luck Susanne, Germany > Hi, all: > > Even though I have not contributed much to the OSLIST, due to commitments > as moderator of several other lists y my collegial and profesional > responsabilities, I am an avid reader and learner from this important > cyberspace. > > Since there is no OSonOS in the next few days to help me with a big > challenge I am facing, as it did a few years ago en Monterey, I am turning > to the collective wisdom and experience of you all. > > I have been doing OS and training facilitators to do it for several years > now, not just in companies but also in community development and disaster > intervention. Now I feel almost like a victim of the success we have > shared with this approch and have been approached by a very desperate > university president. > > It is perhaps the most important and prestigious agriculture school in > Latin America. They have just had a BIG structural shakeup over their > up-until-now famous autocratic style. The 800 members of the student body > are chomping at the bit to make the student affairs policies more > participatory and relevant and the newer members of the faculty (yes, there > is a BIG generation gap both in the faculty and the administration) are in > agreement. Others are very fearful of the loss of absolute, hierarchical > power; some of them realize it and some of them don´t. A very strong and > influential alumni association also mirrors the same dynamic. They have > all spent more than two years "diagnosing" all the problems and now want to > do something. > > I have been called in as a consult to recommend changes, a role which I > immediately challenged, choosing instead to offer a startup with an a > one-day OS process with students, teachers and administrators all together, > to explore feasible strategies to make the processes por participative in > the school. I will then do a program of training and mentoring of the > internal facilitators (grad students) of the school to keep the ball > rolling. With fear and trembling, the powers that be have accepted this > approach. > > My question is on logistics: There are six, 130-student residences which > are microcosms of the school (the students live on a gorgeous 2000 acre > campus). There is no facility big enough to put all 900 (students, profs > and admins) together. Maximum > meeting capacity would be 400. I originally thought of choosing a critical > mass of 300-400 for the OS but the main sponsor and supporter of the > program would like to be able to close down the university that day and > invite ALL those that want to participate. > > My only idea so far is to organize mini-OSs in each of the Residences. My > colleagues and I would do the intro with two groups of 400 and then they > would go to their respective residences to do their OS thing, with the > support of a couple of previously-prepared facilitators to be on hand if > needed (I know that isn´t very kosher OS but in Latin America I have found > it to be an excellent strategy). Then they would return at the end of the > day (also in two groups) to share results and form a followup > commision. Everybody would get everybody´s results. > > What bright ideas do you all have? Any Spanish-speaking OSers out there > that want to help? > > Thanks a million. > > Warm regards, > > Gil > > > ************************************** > AMAUTA INTERNATIONAL, LLC > Gilbert Brenson-Lazan - Socio-Gerente > Tel: (+57-1) 345-2724 - Fax: 345-2072 > U.S. Voice Mail and Fax: (206) 888-4386 > e-mail: <[email protected]> > website: <http://amauta.org> > ********************************* > > * > * > ========================================================== > [email protected] > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of [email protected], > Visit: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html Dr. Susanne Weber Institut fuer Erziehungswissenschaft der Philipps-Universitaet Marburg Wilhelm-Roepke-Strasse 6B D-35032 Marburg Tel. 0049-642128-23589 Fax.0049-642128-28946 * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
