On 4/25/05, Raffi Aftandelian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I was wondering if this list of personal competencies would be > applicable to an OST facilitator. Would there be other ones? > > And, might the OST world have a need for developing such competencies? > This is not a sly end run for certification, Gawd forbid. > >
Interesting stuff... In terms of a need for such competencies, beyond whatever personal need people have to measure their own growth, I like Harrison's original list of OST facilitator competencies: anyone with a good heart and a good head can open space. I don't need anything more than that. I believe this to be true because I have seen it Some of the nicest OST facilitations I have seen have been done by people who have these two competencies in spades, but perhaps are lacking on the others. And although being an OST facilitator (and a facilitator in general) is hard work and a life long practice, I think the way to start into it is to just do it and see where the practice takes you from there. Speaking as one small part of the OST community, I think we don't need any competencies other than the good heart/head ones. I would be saddened if people felt that using Open Space was any harder than it is now, or that there were barriers to their taking it, using it and making it their own. I realize that this sometimes means that people stretch and break and abuse the process we know and love with unseen consequences that result in some people judging OST based only on "modified" experiences. But that's what makes this community and this process so rich: finding out what wecan learn by stumbling around in the journey and tripping on the serendipity that lies in wait. "Competencies" in my mind can sometimes be used to get a handle on serendipity, to remove all doubt from the certainty that THIS GUY RIGHT HERE is going to deliver a perfect facilitation. I'm more about playing in the fire...! Cheers, Chris -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology Weblog: http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot Site: http://www.chriscorrigan.com * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
