So the Masters would spend a year or two supporting the person develop their foundation for an artisanal life-long learning approach?
On 26 August 2016 at 17:56, Chris Corrigan via OSList < [email protected]> wrote: > The problem with a university level course in facilitation is that our > standard ideas of "facilitation" are usually the first things that needs to > be unlearned when learning how to do Dialogic works for emergence, self > organization and participation. Most facilitation program taught within > management schools for example, have a linear and predictive approach to > both the art of facilitation and the theory of strategy and collaboration. > > So the first imperitive would be disrupting that. > > The second thing is that the skills required to practice OST well are not > technical but artisanal. Knowledge needed to practice this work well comes > from mentorship, practice and artistic rigour. So if I was looking for a > model I would look in a high quality fine arts program. How are painters > and writers learning at their masters level. > > But that will only take us so far too because knowledge production and > practice in this field is more of a traditional artisanal approach. I N in > the process of designing a program in complexity and facilitation and I'm > thinking seriously about having participants visit and interview people who > are masterful practitioners of traditional arts: chefs, winemakers, > carpenters, potters, musicians, actors and dancers. It is important to > understand what a journey of artistic mastery looks like. > > It has been my experience that many people in our particular field of > experience and practice have an aversion to hierarchy and mastery of > practice. In some communities of practice this conversation about mastery > and hierarchy is all consuming and it misses the point. > > For me the way I have learned and grown as a practitioner is to learn from > real masters of the arts as an apprentice, and I continue to apprentice I > have learned both theory and practice from them, watching them work, > working alongside them. It turn I have played that role with others out of > a kind of obligation to pass on knowledge which was given to me. > > Some of this can go on in a university masters program but it's important > somehow to remember that formal school in these arts does not make you a > masterful practitioner. A person graduating from a Master of Arts program > in OST with high marks is not guaranteed to be good at it. Without space > for the lifelong development of the artisanal knowledge of the > practitioner, I feel like such a program would be like an MA in > anthropology of North American west coast indigenous cultures: you would be > very clear on why salmon are important to the cultures but no one is going > to assume you know how to catch and cook one, much less rely on you to feed > their family with your skills. > > Universities play a role in this work, but they are a small slice of the > ways in which humans share knowledge and develop quality. A program in OST > - and this conversation - highlights what some of those limits are. > > Chris. > > Chris > > ___________ > CHRIS CORRIGAN > www.chriscorrigan.com > > > > On Aug 25, 2016, at 10:27 AM, [email protected] via OSList < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > There is an opportunity, an opening, an invitation to make something > wonderful. > > > > What would a Master level University accredited training for Open Space > Technology look like? > > > > I posted a session in the last NOSONOS in Sweden at Två Skyttlar with > the title "10 ECTS" representing some 300 hours worth of training and > studies on the topic. > > > > An idea was born in the session, and many signed up for it, that we > should make a mentor program for the facilitation students in a course > where they would do find their own sponsors and a theme, organize with the > sponsors to invite to the event and document the proceedings, the student > would facilitate the event and later review with the sponsors post-event. > Naturally some compensation would be paid by the university to mentor for > coaching the student with his first sponsored facilitation event in the > program. > > > > The second idea was to invite other universities in the European Higher > Education Area and possibly other places to co-create a full program of one > years worth Masters diploma including the global mentor program and the > many professional trainings that are happening all over. many universities > where named, and it is exiting. > > > > This is an invitation to contact me or to reply with ideas or next steps > or connection and suggestions. > > > > Best greetings > > > > Kári Gunnarsson > > Hringbraut 46, IS-101 Reykjavík, Iceland > > Phone (+354) 864 5189 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/ > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Past archives can be viewed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/ > [email protected]
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