Dear Frank, The www.openspaceworld.org website has lots of materials on OST and on presenting it.
As has been said many times before, you probably can buy OST, but you can't sell it. I don't think developing yet more "selling" materials is absolutely necessary. Communicating OST's benefits is a good starting point. OST in many ways is counter-intuitive for many people (Harrison's Indonesia letter is a fine recent example). I am of the opinion that many who are OST facilitators don't quite understand it (which is a very different question from being able to do it competently; maybe we can do an excellent job of running an OST meeting without having a very deep understanding of the method?). Sometimes, I use as a point of reference, that if many OST facilitators do not necessarily understand OST, can we necessarily expect or hope that potential OST meeting participants to necessarily get it? When there is little openness to OST, the best we can do is just hold space for the potential of the situation (be in OS ourselves) and create spaces where people can have at least a small experience of OST, possibly with minimal risk. Can you open a little space there? If not, can you run an interactive presentation of OST (making it clear that this is a presentation?). A physical walk-through of an OST meeting could also be very powerful. I don't know if Geoph Kozeny is at the IC gathering, but I know that he and Alyson Ewald of Dancing Rabbit co-led an OST meeting. And in the meantime, I wish I were there! That must be an amazing gathering. Hope this helps, Raffi http://talesofatoy.blogspot.com _____________ --------------------------------------- Raffi Aftandelian consultant essenceworks consulting group organizational health and balance Moscow mailto:[email protected] * * ========================================================== [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
