Thank you, Lisa for these lovely questions. Eveyone of them reached some of my strings :)
With best, Arno On 17 May 2011 17:46, Lisa Heft <[email protected]> wrote: > Well my first answer is: > > "Just do what makes your heart sing." > > And then (of course, being me ;o) I'll go on. > > I'm an analyzer, among other things. > So I diagram the question, in a way. And of course, ask more questions to > see the patterns. > > Do you want to be around the juicy OS more? > Do you need more income or exposure for your work? > Are you trying to shift into more visibility as a facilitator / meeting > convenor from the way people see and hire you otherwise? > Are there particular issues around which your passions invite you to invite > others to join together about in dialogue? > > The answers / 'therefores' to these may be different, depending on what you > are like and what is important to you for this time in your life. > > And: is your skill-set and interest *both* those of a facilitator...and an > event producer? > For some people the answer is "yes!" and for others it is "absolutely my > passion and skills are to facilitate - my strengths and passions are not in > those many details of creating an event." > > And: I hear a good number of facilitators who try to host their own events > but 'nobody comes' - it is interesting to explore why that may be. Is it > because it was the facilitator's passion or sense of urgency and not the > participant group's highest item of urgency among the many issues calling > for their time and presence? Is it because they created an event without > being part of a community- / participant- / organization-driven interest or > need? > > What creates those successes such as Phelim describes in his growing > ongoing community of vibrant OS events? > I'm guessing you did not do these things as an individual, Phelim. Perhaps > you would like to share what you think were the ingredients for success from > the beginning event(s). What contributes to sustainability in the ongoing > nature, as well. > > Other questions for those of you exploring this... > > Do you have resources for being an event producer? > > - advance funding to secure a site and possibly also food? > - flexibility in those resources so that if less people come you still see > it as a 'go forward' and a success? > Can you really do all the tasks and roles - from outreach / invitation / > registrar to site and food arranger to answering everyone's questions about > local housing or resources to facilitation to finalizing the Book of > Proceedings post-event to whatever else you see as part of this event? > - Do you have to do it all on your own, or can you be part of a team? > > And what about... > > - inviting events that are OS in their design > - traveling around helping other people do their OS - such as offer to run > their Newsrooms - put all that on our resume / CV because it's real work > with real responsibilities (whether it pays or not), and grow your > visibility and your experience that way > - saying 'I do Open Space' instead of 'I would like to do more Open Space' > - growing your facilitator 'toolkit' to include some other fabulous methods > / tools (World Cafe comes to mind) so you have even more participant-focused > passion-driven offerings and be able to do those too, which often lead > clients and communities to saying 'more of this kind of stuff, please'? > - doing a reflection / analysis of how you got your other similar jobs over > let us say the past 5 years - and see where the pattern was. Was it because > someone saw you at work doing your marvelous thing? If so, where can you > choose to be when you choose where to be? For example - does it pay to > invest in attending an OS gathering - or does it pay to say when invited > that you yourself do Open Space and to help make that gathering happen and > offer your facilitation skills for future gatherings for this region as > well? Do you want to spend resources showing up at a peer conference (yes if > you can learn a lot) or do you want to save those particular resources to > use to get to / help on another OS event? > > Perhaps another question to invite you all to respond to is - think of your > work in facilitation / convening people in general. Not just about OS. > Maybe even your other work in past that was not facilitation but that you > loved at that time. > How did you get more jobs? Visibility? Experience that you could add to > your learning and your resume / CV? > > And then another series of questions for your reflection: > - when you had a dream, that was realized, what got you there? > > Just a bunch of questions ;o) > > Lisa > > > * > > Lisa Heft > * > Consultant, Facilitator, Educator > President, Open Space Institute US > Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution > *Opening Space* > [email protected] > www.openingspace.net > * > * > * > Ask me about these 2011 workshops for facilitators and others who convene > people: > - The Open Space Learning Workshop > - June and October - Santiago, Chile (en > español) > - July-August - Buenos Aires, Argentina (en > español) > - December 14-16 - San Francisco, USA > - The Power of Pre-Work - August 24-26 - San Francisco, USA > > * > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -- Arno Baltin Psühholoogia Instituut Tallinna Ülikool
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