Gail, What an inspiring report! Thank you for sharing it on the list. Diana
Diana Larsen http://futureworksconsulting.com Sent from my iPad. Please excuse typos & other fumble fingered effects. > On Jul 31, 2014, at 4:37, Gail West <[email protected]> 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. > > > -- > Gail West, ICA > 3F, No. 12, Lane 5, Tien Mou W Rd > Taipei, Taiwan 111 > Ph) 8862) 2871-3150 > email) [email protected] > Skype) gwestica > www.icatw.com > _______________________________________________ > 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
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