Dear Gail,
your report, including the comments from participants, made my day.
There simply is nothing better for spreading open space than having an
open space event... wish you a bunch more!
Wouldn't be surprised to see you in Belgrade!
If the Creeks dont rise and my creaky bones hold up I will be there!
Greetings from Berlin
mmp
PS: Did you ever see the Chinese Version of the Task Cards for Setting
up an OST event? It was produced by the colleagues in the Shining Stone
Community Action in Peking... as far as I know they "published" it and
it can be obtained from them (cc of this note goes to Hulu Chen and
Qinghua Song) .
You might also be interested in the Chinese (alongside French, Spanish,
Polish, English,German) version of "Practicing Open Space - Our First
Ten years". All 6 languages in one ebook (for some reason the Chinese
Version needs only two thirds of the space the other languages require).
It can be had herer:
http://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Practicing-Open-Space-Our-First-Ten-Years-E-Book
On 31.07.2014 10:37, Gail West wrote:
The time was right for a 3-day open space learning workshop in Shanghai
with diverse group of corporate, community, NGO, education folks. This
included a full day of open space with overnight time. Implementation
began on Day 2 including an NGO CEO calling her husband and a staff to
come to check out the OS room setup so they’re ready to do one in-house!
Surprises (especially for participants) included: Competitors in work
and professional lives fully engaged in deep dialogue together rather
than holding back and observing; Providing positive feedback to fellow
participants in the pre-work and practice; Open Space Technology was
perceived as yet another tool, yet through this OSLW, several of them
commented this is related to how to live their lives. What really moved
people is authentic participation not the facilitation technology.
Several participants went out and did Open Space within the first week
after the program
* Corporate CEO led an OS after a Zen trip with 20+ executives on /Life
and Wisdom/. Now looking to do other work for her companies.
* Open Space with a client in a tiny room. The OSLW members were
consulted (on line) as to how to make the room open spacy for the event.
* Open Space with school children in their summer camp.
Self-organized communities of practice started and continued after the
OSLW: Action learning; facilitator’s club; volunteering for NGO
education; Learning/Practice partnership for OST formed; discussions on
WeChat (like Facebook) were continued and co-facilitation opportunities
offered;
And 7 volunteered to translate Chris Corrigan’s book “The Tao of Holding
Space” into simplified Chinese!
Partcipant’s comments:
- Open Space is a meeting facilitation tool that evoke passion and
responsibility - the art of facilitation where you need to be fully
present and totally invisible
- Be aware of what is opening up and what is closing down in the process
- A meeting that breathes is a group with vitality
- Trust the inner wisdom of the group and shine because it is open
- The real space to open up may not be physical space but inner space.
Physical space is limited after all. Inner space is not bounded by time
or space. We own the freedom to open up in this respect.
- A good facilitator for Open Space should be able to do three things:
1. Brain losing a sense of judgement of what is good and what is bad
2. Minimum talking time
3. No intervention out of worry or control
- I experienced “Less is More”. The facilitator can achieve with
minimum intervention.
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