Dear Tricia,
in my experience as os-facilitator most of the stuff happens behind the
stage.
On stage, its been productive to do as little as necessary so that those
participating can do their stuff quickly and on their own without being
distracted by intro-exercises, ice breakers, warm ups, lengthy
introductions or explanations, etc. None of that is needed if I know
that its something completely different that is active: highly motivated
participants, already empowered and equipped to get down to what they
are passionate about.
To support me in being effective in that framework its grand to have
someone I call the assistant.
This is an arrangement for a certain situation for a certain period...
meaning that up front there is a facilitator for this situation and for
a certain period... this facilitator could be the assistant in a
different situation for a certain period and vice versa.
Both of the two, facilitator and assistant, need to be able to
completely fill the bill of the two positions but in a specific
situation they are either or.
In addition to facilitator and assistant there is, according to the
size, length and complexity of the event an extended team. In any
specific situation, the assistant assists the facilitator and the team
assists the assistant. This is a temporary structure with clear roles
over time. In other situations with other requirements the roles and
tasks change.
During a specific event there is a specific design regarding feedback
around the ongoing work to keep the specific structure and the actors in
the structure attuned AND to use the specific situation that everyone is
involved in as a platform for LEARNING and improving our practice. I
find that there is no better setting for this than in the ongoing practice.
The leading question during the feedback/learning/development phase is
"How is it going?".
This approach has always worked in my practice. It has also supported
everyone in the event (sponsor, other participants, all team members and
the technical support around facility management, catering,
documentation, etc.) to hold the space... without specifically being
congnisant of this function. And it has been a perfect training ground
and drawn hundreds of colleagues into this work.
I am pretty sure that there are zillions of ways for
managing/structuring/processing/etc. the facilitation of an open space
event. Its situational and can be honed by continuously asking "why do
we do it this way?"
In other words there is no prescription on the details that insure
expanding time and space for the forces of selforganisation to do their
stuff. What does help, is to have, every now and then or better yet,
continuously, situations where I can engage with other os-workers in an
exchange on the nuts and bolts of our craft. These can be all kinds of
situations. I especially like Stammtische, structured exchanges, local
and regional and worldwide OSonOS... so come and join the WOSonOS in
Krakow.
If the Creeks dont rise I will be there.
Greetings from Berlin
mmp
On 17.08.2015 22:39, Tricia Chirumbole via OSList wrote:
I really like the idea of co-facilitation, and really, of partner/team
dynamics for most things.
In my world/mind, this does not mean that each person has to be a
"talking head" walking around the circle, or named as facilitator. This
could mean that another person was working with you for: pre-work,
setting up the event, taking care of things like newsroom and coffee
cups, and most definitely, holding space.
Tricia Chirumbole
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Skype: tricia.chirumbole
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Harrison via OSList
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Co-Facilitation? It has certainly been done before, but my question
would be: Why? ____
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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. ____
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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
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ALE15 - Open Space
Facilitation
Pablo Pernot
Alexis Monville
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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. /
/
/
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/Babel tower/
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/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/
/
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/Global restitution (report out) at the end of every session/
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/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.//
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/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. /
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/PDF/Blog consolidation/
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/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./
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/Message/
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/These experiments could evolve during the 3 days./
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/White hair/
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/only white hair people can facilitate the open space//
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<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ale15>/ ? //#alenetwork/
<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23alenetwork>/ ? /
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