storytelling/training/learning sessions in OST

[Zelle Nelson]

Joelle, Raffi,

My wife, Maureen and I facilitated an Open Space where we used special
post-its (tree and flower shaped) to indicate that certain sessions
would be in a story-telling or training format with one primary speaker.
We explained in the invitation and the opening circle that sometimes we
learn best from one-way communication as opposed to two way
communication, or multiple way communication that we focus on in OS. We
invited people to take what they learned from the storytelling sessions
and then post new topics based on the learning. The traditional OS
sessions ran concurrently with the storytelling sessions.

In this way each participant had the space to tell a story or
teach/explain an idea and each participant could choose to attend those
sessions they wished with a simple visual clue (those flower and tree
post-its) as to which ones were one-way communication. I noticed that
most of the one-way communication started with the story or explanation
of a new idea or way of seeing the world and then the session was opened
up so everyone could say what was sparked from the primary/opening
speaker. I would say about 1/4 to 1/3 were storytelling sessions.

It seemed to work very well. The participants liked the format and the
opportunity to do both styles of OS sessions.

With Grace and Love,

Zelle

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Joelle Lyons Everett wrote:

> Raffi--
>
> People do and will present lectures and trainings in Open Space, and
> some of these sessions will be effective.  If this is the intention,
> might be good to say so.  But I suspect that the elaborate
> boundary-setting that you suggested might rub people against the grain
> a bit, once they have been introduced to the principles of OST.
>
> I've been on both sides of this one as a participant.  I've offered a
> workshop that has been effective in other settings, and found it did
> not work out as well in Open Space.  I've convened sessions where I
> asked an honest question and had magnificent conversations.  I find I
> like that better; other people are more interesting when they have
> space to expand, explore, open to others, dance with ideas.  I've been
> in sessions convened by others which took me to places I could never
> have arrived at on my own.
>
> I don't think there is any one right answer for all situations.  I'm
> just discovering what it fun, and productive, for me.
>
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