Dear Claudia, Some of the Art of Hosting folks in Brussels developed the Pro Action Café years ago which is a monthly event and derives from OpenSpace, World Café and peer-to-peer coaching. Here you can find more information:
http://artofhosting.ning.com/video/proaction-cafe http://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/forum/topics/pro-action-cafe I will use it for example with colleagues at a city vision-process in northern Germany after an Open Space in February. Also to model a tool for the citizen participants that they can facilitate their working groups with after we leave the event. Best, Frauke On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Birgitt Williams < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Claudia,**** > > This depends a lot on what the purpose of the meeting is and the expected > outcomes, whether it is a decision making meeting or not, and whether the > decision makers are present.**** > > ** ** > > Many years ago, I developed Whole Person Process Facilitation as a method > that was to be complimentary to Open Space Technology in values including > the use of the Four Principles and One Law. However, it is a more guided > approach. When I learned OST, I was the senior staff of a non-profit health > and social service. We held a number of OST meetings, and then the staff > gave feedback on what was going wrong. We identified together the gaps in > daily organizational life when there was frequent use of OST meetings. One > gap was that we needed to fill was the one about identifying the ‘givens’ > prior to the OST meeting of what people could and could not expect to > happen following a meeting. Another gap was to have a meeting methodology > that was complimentary to OST that could be used for the in between times > when we needed to have meetings that could not be OST such as the action > planning. We have now been using the givens and WPPF for 18 years and have > learned a lot.**** > > ** ** > > Usually, we now do all of our meetings with a Whole Person Process > Facilitation platform…for however many days. The way we structure this > allows us to have an OST meeting embedded within this platform, and often > more than one depending on the assignment. This allows a wonderfully > cohesive feel for the participants that includes how we come together at > the beginning, any parts of the meeting that are to be more guided and > cannot be OST, a good often 2-3 day OST meeting, followed by at least one > action planning day. The seamless and nicely synergistic approach makes a > really big difference. A lot of our work is strategic planning with > organizations that have people geographically distant from each other. And > so we also use the WPPF platform for all of the on line meetings around a > big face to face one when the people all come together.**** > > ** ** > > Birgitt**** > > www.dalarinternational.com **** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Dr. Claudia Gross > *Sent:* Monday, January 16, 2012 4:22 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [OSList] follow-up of Next Steps**** > > ** ** > > *No 3: > Which training methods, exercises, energizers, etc. do you recommend > for the follow-up of the NEXT STEPS identified in Open Spaces? > > *(yes, this question IS related to Open Spaces... ;-)**** > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Frauke Godat --------------------------------------------------------------- Harvest from the Art of Hosting Training Berlin in November 2011 is online: http://aohberlin2011.posterous.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------- phone (mobile): +49 (0)176 50 47 88 06 Twitter: @futureatschool @fraukeatschool -------------------------------------------------------------------
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