Running the News room can be anybody's job -- but it has to be SOMEBODY'S. And I find that setting all of this up can be a marvelous way of giving the client something to do. My major problem with clients is that they are sure that they have to do a LOT of things, and left to their own devices they will do a lot of things -- like planning etc. So I just make sure to give them something to do to keep them out of trouble. Setting up the News room is perfect. Just give them a copy of the book, and tell them to go for it. Always worked for me.
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 Skype hhowen Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website www.ho-image.com OSLIST: To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Zelle Nelson Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 11:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: USB-sticks and computer station during OST + some more.. Hi Diane, Lisa has eloquently answered your question with a similar answer to what I would provide. The most important thing is to designate a newsroom coordinator whether it is someone on the client side, or the facilitator side. I do all of my work with my wife Maureen McCarthy so we generally switch off who will be doing what, opening space, holding space, coordinating the newsroom, picking up cups. In the past, and some of our colleagues presently, sometimes bring a support/admin person who coordinates the newsroom if they are the only facilitator and the client is not able to provide a support person. (When the client is not in position to provide someone, this is usually because everyone wants to participate directly in the Open Space discussions). Whatever the situation we feel it is important that there is always someone to "hold space" during the event. There is something that happens when there is someone simply holding space vs. being lost in the details. That is not to say that some people are able to do both, or find that the details provide them with the presence to hold space. In any case, we are always mindful that holding the space is the most important part of facilitating OS. with grace and love, Zelle ************ Zelle Nelson Engaging the Soul at Work/Know Place Like Home/State of Grace Document www.stateofgracedocument.com [email protected] office - 001.828.693.0802 mobile - 001.847.951.7030 Isle of Skye 2021 Greenville Hwy Flat Rock, NC 28731 USA Lisa Heft wrote: >Hello, Diane - > >If I am not mistaken you are asking how one recruits someone to be the >Newsroom Coordinator? > >As others have mentioned - for me, there is always a core team - me and the >sponsor/host/client team. And on that team there is usually - if we decide >to have an electronic newsroom - someone who will be the Newsroom >Coordinator. > >I am in the room to help as well, but I find that having a Newsroom >Coordinator really helps as one person focuses on gathering, tracking, >printing (if a printer is available) and compiling transcribed notes for the >Book of Proceedings. > >And I find that this is a role of pride, as it is a very important role, and >the folks I have worked with as Newsroom Coordinators always have great >ideas for how to create user-friendly instructions and wonderful supportive >energy for the participants. > >In addition, it is a role that someone on the client/sponsor/host side can >take if they want to observe and support the Open Space but not participate >(because the issue is not their own but they believe in the process and the >people, for example). > >It is not to me a matter of being technically inclined (because a Newsroom >can be created with super-high-tech or simply be a place for hand-written >papers to be placed in a basket, and everything in between). It is, >however, a matter for someone who is incredibly detail-oriented while at the >same time welcoming of folks who find the technology new to them. > >Sometimes someone I know who has not done a lot of Open Space events wishes >to observe and support an OS - and I just ask the client if they can come >along. It is always welcome. > >In an Open Space that some colleagues are doing this month in San Antonio, >Texas, they have put out the word for any folks who want to be volunteer >scribes, and those scribes will be using flip charts at each discussion area >to document the conversations. I myself have volunteered at another >facilitator's event just to learn from them. > >In one particularly important community event, participants were quite moved >to find that the folks charting the conversations at the different >discussion areas were volunteering their time in support of the people and >their work together... > >Lisa > >___________________________ >L i s a H e f t >Consultant, Facilitator, Educator >O p e n i n g S p a c e >Berkeley, California, USA >[email protected] >www.openingspace.net > > >* >* >========================================================== >[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 > > > -- ÐÏࡱá * * ========================================================== [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 * * ========================================================== [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
