Thank you for you for giving me something to chew on Harrison. I will let you know what I did and how it worked out.
Gijs On 2013-11-27, at 23:12, "Harrison Owen" <[email protected]> wrote: > Giijs -- What you propose could be an interesting experiment, but based on a > similar (not the same) situation, I am not sure you would really like the > results. By doing a little Open Space every day, I think there are two > likely outcomes. It could be that the OS experience is so dominant that it > essentially hijacks everything else (people don't get "out" of Open Space > which produces difficulties for other approaches). Alternatively, the Open > Space is so fractured, being like Gaul divided into three pieces, that it > never really gets off the ground. I think your original idea is the best -- > Open Space at the end for a whole day. This has been done lots of times > previously, although it does run the risk of producing comments like -- "OS > was wonderful, and exactly why did we waste all the other two days?" That's > happened. > > ho > > Harrison Owen > 7808 River Falls Dr. > Potomac, MD 20854 > USA > > 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) > Camden, Maine 04843 > > Phone 301-365-2093 > (summer) 207-763-3261 > > www.openspaceworld.com > www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST > Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gijs Mega > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 12:55 AM > To: World wide Open Space Technology email list > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OSList] OST Training > > Dear Michael, > > Thank you for raising this inspiring point. I recognize the danger of > limiting the time to absorb the spirit of self-organizing OST. For my next 3 > day event in the Philipines, the client has requested a hybrid program using > different modules every day. I figured to do OST on the third/last day. I > will change that program and reserve OST time parts of every day. I would > love to have a Skype call about this topic in order to find the right "wave" > > Gijs > Shanghai > > Ps also MMP provided nice input related to this topic. Thx > > > > Gijs van Wezel, Facilitator > Inspirational Business Group Meetings at lake side, 1 hr from shanghai city > www.megainternational.com.hk > > > On 2013-11-27, at 9:15, Michael Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My sense of OST training is that a min of 2 days, and preferably three is > best. It's not so much about tranferring knowledge about the > 'technicalities' but giving people an embodied experience of slowing down. > Because Open Space is such a paradigm shift from business as usual, we can > have people nodding vigously that they understant the mechanics of the > process but have not had sufficient time to absorb the Spirit of it. >> >> What this means is that at the first sign of group stress the new > facilitator is very likely going to become so anxious that they try to take > control. This is usually disastrous for the group and gives Open Space a > very bad name (whenever someone says that they've had a bad experience of > being in an OST meeting I ask what happened, and invariably it was a well > meaning 'consultant' trying to do a bit of Open Space but botching it up by > taking control of the group. So it wan't Open Space at all. >> >> So I would resists short 'trainings' unless you can develop a split >> design. i.e. say, 2 days followed by a further day in three months >> time, when people come back to share stories about what they've tried >> and what they're learning. I think this kind of 'action-learning' is >> the best design for OST >> >> Michael Wood >> Perth, Western Australia >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
