OS with children: What are the unstated assumptions and aims of OS?

[Elena A. Marchuk]

Hi Harrison and Michael,

you gave me great quesstions to think about. and to try to understand myself, when I 'a sort of canceled' working with OS and moved to 'trainings',
though do feel a question inside: was I just too unpatient?

should I just leave everything like it was and gather children asking 'morning news' on the next day?

well, let me explain, a test it was just a joke, that 10 people worked when other was having party, may be I should not mention it , but I did.
10 people worked up to the end and came to the closing session. that's it.

I was not waiting for the results, but still on such meetings children are supposed to learn something. yes, some experienced people said OS is a great method, but in a thought what shall we do tomorrow, we decided that may be it is good to teach them to work with the projects, as there were no mentioning of them in answering questions: how to do our work in Rotaract interesting, effective and how to envolve new members...and so on.

as a facilitator of OS I just finished my work with the closing session

but still have some concerns

best wishes and 

your oppinions are appreciated

elena


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Harrison Owen 
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU 
  Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 8:16 PM
  Subject: Re: OS with children: What are the unstated assumptions and aims of OS?


  At 11:07 AM 10/21/2002 +0700, you wrote:

    so, yes, what ever happens, happens, but What to do?

    The people who were on Olkhon said, that it was much better, when
    concentrated, only 2 hours gave them best results.

    I don't think it is exactly so, as there were more motivated people, and
    here was half of the group 'having party' so some people thought: "why I
    should 'work?", though not all , as I saw, but without more exprienced
    people, no practice, they could not go to the project orientation..

    how do you think?

  Elena -- I find myself asking questions quite similar to Michael P. And it may just be a matter of my mis-understanding your words. But I can't quite imagine what an "OST Test" would be -- even less how you would pass or fail. But what I do know is that when people gather of their own free will around an issue of passionate, common concern, they always get on with the business and if "results or actions" are possible or appropriate, all of that seems to happen. I guess what I am missing here is some sense of what the focus is, a feeling that whatever it might have been, the people who came did not share it, and in any event the "results" the sponsors had in mind (whatever they might have been) were not important to a significant portion of the people in attendance. Sounds to me as if the Open Space worked just as always, but I would look very hard at the reasons for having the Open Space. And particularly the expectation of "results". 

  Harrison


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