Hi and thanks for sharing Just got curious and want to ask you Artur if you always use Open Space Technology when you work with a group? I find more and more opportunities but still think that there are times when I need a more directed approach. For me, most of the times WPPF is the best complementary method although I usually separate them and use them according to when I find they fit best. When I use OST, (which is part of almost all of my assignments!) I consider myself to work pretty much by the book because I think that works best!
For example I have, so far, never used only OST all through a OST-process with a client (prework, main event and follow up). I am pretty sure I will try a full OST for a pre-meeting soon, probably with one of the free events I occasionally do with non-profits (as mentioned earlier we actually used Open Space for the pre-work for WOSonOS here, back in 2003). Other occasions when I find WPPF useful are when I facilitate learning during trainings and some workshops. One example is a workshop I facilitated a couple of weeks ago in a nearby University. A researcher had some findings that she was invited to share and we included her sharing into a powerful WPPF container which gave (I think) a completely different level of learning than would have happened in a more traditional way of sharing research findings. With the time constraints of 3,5 hours I did not find OST to be a good choice for this. Warm regards Thomas Från: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] För Artur Silva Skickat: den 14 november 2010 19:27 Till: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Ämne: Re: self-organization and "conscious" Open Space organizations [was OST and PD (Positive Deviance)] Hi Raffi: The Concepts of "Whole Person" and "Whole Person Approach" have been around for some time and are not new (for instance, see http://www.well.com/user/dooley/change.pdf, A Whole-Person/Systemic Approach to Organization Change Management, By Jeff Dooley, copyright 1998), and the same is true with other concepts like "left brain/right brain", "learning styles", etc. Of course, anyone can take a piece from here and another from there and give it a new name, and eventually even trademark it. My only experience attending a Whole Person session was that I was being directed to do this or that, because the facilitator was convinced that this or that would put my right brain at work (which is not needed because it is always at work...). But the point is that I don't like being "directed" neither to "direct others". For me, the magic of OST is that the facilitator does not need to direct people (except, eventually, as Harrison recalled, to justify the fee). Just open some space and the whole person will appear and real whole people will direct themselves and do the job. Abraços (this time in Portuguese) Artur _____ From: Raffi Aftandelian <raffi_1...@yahoo.com> To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Sent: Sun, November 14, 2010 3:23:20 AM Subject: Re: [OSLIST] self-organization and "conscious" Open Space organizations [was OST and PD (Positive Deviance)] Queridos Harrison, Artur, y todos- (...) Artur, I was intrigued in you talking about Whole Person Process Facilitation as a directive process. I see how you can call it that. And as someone who has been using WPPF the past 6 years, I'm excited that the four principles and the Law are invoked- at least the way I was taught- in a WPPF meeting...I don't know of any other meeting method that works within a pre-set agenda that does that. abrazos, Raffi * * ========================================================== 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 * * ========================================================== 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 * * ========================================================== 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
