Get our of the way, ya....
At the Agile Coach Camp pre-event happy-hour, I encountered someone who
experienced Open Space for the 1st time in a circle with seating for
about 350 people. I had actually facilitated that very event....it was
the biggest one I had done up to that time.
Here's how the conversation went:
Me: Mind if I sit down?
Them: By all means!
Me: Greetings, I am Daniel.
Them: Howdy. (introductions ensue...)
Me: Oh, you are all from [Company Name.] You guys did some big Open
Spaces recently right? In [City1] and [City2] ?
Them: Yes, we did.
Me: Yes, I enjoyed facilitating those events..."
Her: Really? That was a really great event. I don't actually remember
you...!
Mission accomplished, I reckon.
Here's the chairs: the night before...
On 8/17/15 4:15 PM, Harrison wrote:
Co-Facilitation? It has certainly been done before, but my question
would be: Why?
Michael Pannwitz and I did a duo with the 2108 German Psychiatrists –
and the reason was... I did English, and Michael did German, we each
did it our own way, and met each other in the middle (of the circle).
I think that made sense, but the more talking heads there are, by
definition, the more space is cluttered/shuttered/closed.
The point (for me) of opening space is to get folks
thinking/being/talking/working together as quickly a possible. Which
means that the sooner I, or anybody else, can get out of the way – so
much the better. I think.
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Hello All,
This is from my friend in France, PABLO PERNOT, a real, great, person.
He is a fine philosopher and a most excellent player of the
banjo...(see related video link below....)
Pablo was the first in Europe to use before/after Open Space, with
experimentation in the middle, using Open Space to frame an
enterprise-wide iteration of learning.....BEYOND Agile adoption. He
used it to introduce "other" non-Agile cultural change in an iterative
(www.OpenSpaceAgility.com <http://www.OpenSpaceAgility.com>) way .....
His work doing that, led to this: www.Prime-OS.com
<http://www.Prime-OS.com>
A man of action is he.
Now he is planning, with colleague ALEXIS MONVILLE, to facilitating
Open Space at this public Agile-conference event:
....wait, whoops... is co-facilitation a form of OST blasphemy?
http://ale2015.alenetwork.eu/
I wonder if you find the planned experiments with OST (listed below)
interesting....
.....is this blasphemy...or bold innovation? Check the "White Hair"
experiment .....
Regards,
Daniel
Related video link (Pablo-plays-banjo), 2 mins....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apAzGSLi2UY
================
ALE15 - Open Space
Facilitation
Pablo Pernot
Alexis Monville
================
Why adding experiments to the classic open space ?
We need fresh adventures /in the land of open space. We tasted the
enterprise open space /
/and we value what it brings. We would like to try some experiments to
benefit from that /
/experience and try something a bit different. We feel that it is
important and possible /
/especially here because of the willingness to learn and to share of
our community.//
/=======================/
/ALE 2015 Open Space Experiments/
/=======================/
/\/
/==================/
/Speed learning open space/
/==================/
/Opener and energizer 5mn: /
/●we form a large cycle standing up (no chairs in the room)//
/●2mn//
/ ask every people that already know open space to raise //
/their hand.//
/ ask people that doesn’t know openspace to pick someone//
/with a raised hand//
/●the person who knows has 2 mn to explain open space to his //
/partner (posters on the walls will display the way it works as a /
/reminder)/
/●1mn : we go back to the large circle/
/●2mn : another 2mn of Q&A but you need to pick someone /
/different. /
/
/
/==============//
/Babel tower/
/==============/
/Every topic proposed for the market place has to be made: /
/1.with our mothertongue /
/2. and in english /
/ps: for people with english as mother tongue they can, or not, repeat
or //
/rephrase, or use their mother tongue accent / pronunciation at first /
/why: to hear all the diversity and richness of ALE people. to
liberate the /
/non-verbal communication, to allow a different attitude (discover
people /
/when they are at ease to speak, not when they are struggling to find
their/
/words).//
/==============/
/Topic/Theme/
/==============/
/Adding a topic or a theme : every session should be related to this //
/theme. The idea is to gather the outcome and consolidate a booklet that /
/will help ale community to learn and share their learnings. /
/
/We propose the theme to be : //
/
/"What are the key changes in our culture and business?"/
/We should give people the theme one week at least before the //
/event, so they can think about it. Or be aware during the sessions./
/Why: a part of the power of open space, when we use it in
enterprises, is/
/coming from the common purpose of the people involved/
/
/====================================/
/Global restitution (report out) at the end of every session/
/====================================/
/Every session is one hour : split in two parts : 40mn brainstorming,
20mn//
/global restitution : every group has 1mn to restitute their
conversation. /
/
/==================================/
/“key change pitch”//
/Quick normalization of the outcome of every session//
/==================================/
/Each group will use one flipboard paper sheet to present their topic.//
/
/The guidelines proposed for the global restitution and for the
booklet are:/
/●140 characters to pitch of the “key change” (one line)/
/ why/how this “key change” happened // what’s the value of the
“key change”//
/
/This could/would/should of course evolve. /
/============================/
/PDF/Blog consolidation/
/============================/
/Every outcome (“key change pitch”) is consolidated in a booklet
and/or a//
/blog every day and is public (is it possible to use ale15 blog and to
have /
/some support to do that?)//
/===================/
/Visualisation/
/===================/
/As usual, visual helpers are provided, especially one explaining these //
/experiments./
/
/============/
/Message/
/============/
/These experiments could evolve during the 3 days./
/============/
/White hair/
/============/
/only white hair people can facilitate the open space//
/-/
/twitter account ? blog ale2015 ? hashtag ? //#ale15/
<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ale15>/ ? //#alenetwork/
<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23alenetwork>/ ? /
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