Community-based OS Leadership Program

Sun Sep 24 17:30:26 PDT 2000

Hello all

I think I'm onto something very exciting but I need the wisdom of this
group to help me, please.

I was recently asked to come up with a proposal for a community leadership
progream in a semi-rural area of Australia. The program started as
Leadership - but has evolved into something like 'building social
capacity'. The purpose of the program is to develop in the community the
skills and abilities to self-manage and lead community organisations - such
as play groups, environmental action groups, parents associations etc etc.
This is in response to a lot of community burn-out, lack of access to
training etc. A key element of the program (which incidently will run for
12 months) is a project that participants implement in their own community,
using and building on the skills they have learnt.

I have proposed that OS underpin the program. Instead of a committee
identifying the content of the program we have a one-day community OS where
the partiocipants themselves explore what they need to build capacity in
the community - and from that, hopefully, will emerge a corte group of
people willing to take this further (using OS as a basis but also
incorporating some specific skills training where its been identified as
impirtant).

I've said my role would be as a coach/mentor - opening spaces where
appropriate and supporting the participants with specifics, support etc.

Has anyone done anything like this before? I'd love to hear your insights.
I've also heard that the sponsor (a Local Govt) thinks this approach
wouldn't work in their community. I believe it will work, but do you have
any suggestions on how I could approach their concerns. I have a meeting
with the sponsor later this week to further discuss the proposal.

Cheers

Viv McWaters

Viv McWaters
Beyond the Edge Pty Ltd
PO Box 665, Torquay 3228
Victoria Australia
Ph/Fax: 61 3 5278 3864

"Thus the task is not so much to see what no-one yet has seen, but to think
what nobody yet has thought about that which everyone sees." Schopenhauer

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>From  Sun Sep 24 20:50:05 2000
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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:50:05 -0400
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Subject: Re: A Different Kind of Convergence
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Esther:   I have led a number of Open Space events where the results of an
Open Space were then reviewed by formal leadership with regard to moving
forward.  If it is one of the senior team's conditions or parameters for
going forward, it does limit the direct spirit coming out of the space.
However, if they were going to do it anyway, it is better to have it stated
up front so that the expectations of others are clear.

When that has happened, I have worked with the senior team at the follow-up
meeting going over the open space reports, and priorities if they were set,
helping them be very clear what came out of the meeting.  We have looked at
both the data that emerged and the spirit that was present in some detail.
The senior team then made clear decisions as to what was to go forward when,
and what role they would play in any of the initiatives.

This is clearly still the "pro-active" organization in motion, but for some
it is still a big step to discover what skills and talents their folks have.
Planning with them how to keep the momentum and energy going, including more
Open Space is critical.  Assisting them to "translate" their experience in
Open Space is a step toward the interactive organization.

Larry

Larry Peterson
Associates in Transformation
41 Appleton Ave., Toronto, ON,
Canada, M6E 3A4
Tel:/Fax: 416-653-4829

lpasoc at inforamp.net
http://www.inforamp.net/~lpasoc

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>From  Sun Sep 24 20:50:07 2000
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I led a three hour Open Space with 15 Ophthalmologists some time ago.  It
was powerful for them.  45 minute apart start times is as much attention
span as they have.  They got to a new vision for the department.  Other
whole hospitals have been willing to spend the day on merger issues.

Larry

Larry Peterson
Associates in Transformation
41 Appleton Ave., Toronto, ON,
Canada, M6E 3A4
Tel:/Fax: 416-653-4829

lpasoc at inforamp.net
http://www.inforamp.net/~lpasoc

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