Too much laughter, Raffi, dear. Are you coming to Kiev. We will miss you. Love,
Marina -----Original Message----- From: Raffi Aftandelian [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 11:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: How many OST facilitators does it take to screw in a lightbulb? [Read on at your own risk! Probably best to delete if you are thinking today that you are more than a speck of sand.] lightfully, raffi Q. How many OST facilitators does it take to screw in a light bulb? A. More than you would care to admit: One to ...assess the situation and determine that screwing in a lightbulb is a highly complex problem involving a diverse group of people with decision time being *now* Another to ...write the facilitation proposal ...bring together a planning group to prepare the OST meeting, tentatively titled "Screwing in a Light Bulb, Making it Happen: Issues and Opportunities." and to write an engaging, inspiring invitation to this new vortex-opening OST meeting. ...coach and mentor the facilitator working with the planning group ...shadow consult the one facilitator working with the planning group ...open space at the preparation stage to ensure that the diverse group will be able to successfully self-manage the translation and interpreting at the event and also to address disability access and literacy issues for the meeting. ...open and hold space for the event ...assist the spaceholder in napping ...assist at the event with heavy duty logistics like picking up coffee cups and drawing butterflies and posters with inscriptions like "Bee happy!" ...weigh in on the choice of post-event follow-up social collaboration platform, either a wiki or wordpress, typepad, so that stakeholders can most easily discuss the implementation of their action plans ...blog about it ...comment on the blog post ...post about it to the OSlist and 5 more to reply to the OSlist post and another 5 to write gushy, welcoming responses to the comment of a new OSlist poster ...post about it to OSW blog ...comment on the OSW blogpost ...write a case study about this ground-breaking event ...write an executive summary of the case study for a third edition of the Change Handbook keeping in mind those readers with a most skeptical attitude towards OST as the audience; writing the summary in such a way that the audience will understand that even though the light bulb was never screwed in 6 months on (and two skype conversations later) , what was really important and proof of OST efficacy was that people empowered themselves working in self-organized groups, there was high learning, breakthroughs in productivity, personal responsibility, leadership, etc.; also, the summary will have all the requisite references to Arrien, Wheatley, Bohm, Senge, Peters, Tillich, Beck, Wilbur, Cooperrider, and others. Summary will be also use appreciative language to frame the exciting opportunities for further follow-up OST work seeing as the light bulb was never screwed in, giving rise to a new iteration of emergent, wicked questions inviting further group reflections (at a special themed World Open Space on Open Space, "(More) Surfing the Waves of Transformation: the Case of the Light Bulb- the new co-evolutionary promise of emergent potential: "Wattever happens?..." * * ========================================================== [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
