Dear OS friends, Co-inciding with IAF Asia Conference in Seoul, we've been invited to offer a OS training program by Mr. Yun, Chairman of KFA (korea Facilitators Association), and are going to launch a one-day OS Practitioners Co-Learning Course from this occasion.
With advices from mmp, we came up with a one-day OS practitioners program for the one-day Post Conference on Sat., 28 August 2010 of IAF Asia in Seoul that willl be taking place from 25-28 August. We'd like to invite all your wisdom on staging events of this kind from your experience. Thanks a million to all my friends on our OSLIST community! Here it follows... Context ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Open Space Practitioners Learning Camp For many, the fearless courage to Open Space has been rewarded with fulfillment in all aspects of life. This often needs multiple tries in participating and experiencing Open Space before enough energy gets built up and gives self confidence to try Open Space. Open Space Practitioners Camp from the Open Space Institute of Korea is a learning course that triggers this natural self organizing process of learning and playing (Trying) with Open Space. And the practice gets deepened and enriched by sharing learnings with other OS practitioners. (Camp represents an entrance to an open space of knowing and doing where collective individual egos naturally self organize toward a holistic ego that lets needs of both individuals and the whole met.) The camp helps participants learn Open Space from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. with experience of self organizing mechanism of Open Space and steps of triggering it by individuals, teams, and the whole. Then on graduates are introduced to an opportunity to keep sharing their OS learnings with the co-participants and the community of Open Space practice at one's own pace throughout life anywhere across the world. Open Space Practitioners Camp Phase I Experiencing Open Space Theme: "Creating Organizations that Work" 9:00-10:00 Opening Space 10:00- Session 1 10:40- Session 2 11:20- Session 3 12:00-13:00 Lunch with casual reflection Phase II Practicing Open Space Theme: "?" (A real theme chosen by the group among topics from facilitation teams) 13:00-14:00 Intro to OST practice and facilitation teams formed and prepared 14:00-14:15 Select a team and get self prepared 14:15-15:00 Opening Space on the theme II practiced by the facilitation team 15:00- Session 1 15:45- Session 2 16:30-17:15 Session 3 17:15- Closing Space on Practicing OS 17:45-18:00 Group feedback on the OS practice & intro to ways to sustain future practices 18:00 OS Practitioner Certificate presented & the Camp closed Previous Advices from mmp~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear Spark, for your Process I suggest the following: -try to create a theme that supports action since OST is an action orienting planning method and involves the participant. I would suggest one but am puzzled by what "High Performance Sustainability" might mean. Perhaps: "Creating High Performance Sustainability"...but I think it is a bit too complex...you might try a theme that Harrison Owen regularly uses in his workshops on introducing OST and, thinking of it, it might means the same thing you have in mind "Creating Organisations that work" (this contains a nice play on the word "works" since it can mean both "function", as in "functions well" as also "produces" in the sense that there is an output). -you should have always at least three breakout sessions so that there is more variety of issues and that people have more than an either or choice...just reduce the time for each session. By stating only the beginning time and not the end time you emphasize the idea that the time a session will take is selforganized and follows the fact of life "When it is over it is over / when it is not over, it is not over. So here is my suggestion: 10:00 Break out session 1 10:45 Break out session 2 11:30 Break out session 3 -skip the reflection but suggest that during lunch would be a great time to sit together with the food and talk about what people experienced on their tables or the small groups that might form during lunch. -to support the selforganisation of time I suggest you have a phase where people can have a "reflective lunch" from 12:00 until 13:00...some will take lunch at 12 some at 12.15 some at 12:30 and some will even skip it because they are in a heated discussion in a breakout session...selforganized -at 13:00 create "facilitation teams" (if there are 25 participants, you might create 5 teams of 5 participants each) that have 45 minutes to prepare for running an os event. You dont make any input just give them a sheet of paper with their tasks: Formulate a theme for the os they will facilitate, decide who will be the facilitator, make a design for the introduction which they had just seen which will include 3 breakout sessions and a closing circle, here is what it might look like 13:00 Very short introduction for "Practicing OST" 13:05 Creating x number of Facilitation Teams, handing out instructions, 5 minutes to read and understand the instructions, 5 minutes for questions 13:15 Teams prepare for facilitation 14:00 Select one team that will actually do the faciliation 14:05 Open Space run by the selected team will be set up and starts at 14:15 and ends at 17:15 (same amount of time as for the os in the morning but the selected team decides on the time structure) 17:15 Closing Circle (this is to close the Open Space they just experienced) 17:45 Feed back for the active team by all the other participants on the OST they just experienced (thinsk we felt were great, things that could be improved, etc.) 18:00 Close In this fashion, everybody actively got ready for running an OST event and in that way can appreciate what the selected team does...serving for a base for the feedback at the very end. Also, since there is no input, participants really have to use their own ressources...which will give them a deep experience with the power of self-organisation. Curious to hear how you will run this challenging event!! Greetings from Berlin mmp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ S Spark Open Space Institute of Korea, Open Quest Squad 3rd Fl., Samkyung Bldg., 372-10, Seokyo-dong, Mapo-gu, 121-210, Seoul, Korea sp...@openspace.kr Phone: 02-353-6356 Mobile: 010-7247-0636 http://www.openspace.kr http://www.seri.org/fr/frIntro.html?fno=217692 http://www.openspaceworld.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology http://www.artofhosting.org "Liberate the leader in each of us" * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
