personal and professional OST facilitator "competencies"

[Chris Corrigan]

On 4/25/05, Raffi Aftandelian <raffi at bk.ru> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I was wondering if this list of personal competencies would be
> applicable to an OST facilitator. Would there be other ones?
> 
> And, might the OST world have a need for developing such competencies?
> This is not a sly end run for certification, Gawd forbid.
> 
> 

Interesting stuff...

In terms of a need for such competencies, beyond whatever personal need 
people have to measure their own growth, I like Harrison's original list of 
OST facilitator competencies: anyone with a good heart and a good head can 
open space. I don't need anything more than that.

I believe this to be true because I have seen it Some of the nicest OST 
facilitations I have seen have been done by people who have these two 
competencies in spades, but perhaps are lacking on the others. And although 
being an OST facilitator (and a facilitator in general) is hard work and a 
life long practice, I think the way to start into it is to just do it and 
see where the practice takes you from there.

Speaking as one small part of the OST community, I think we don't need any 
competencies other than the good heart/head ones. I would be saddened if 
people felt that using Open Space was any harder than it is now, or that 
there were barriers to their taking it, using it and making it their own. I 
realize that this sometimes means that people stretch and break and abuse 
the process we know and love with unseen consequences that result in some 
people judging OST based only on "modified" experiences. But that's what 
makes this community and this process so rich: finding out what wecan learn 
by stumbling around in the journey and tripping on the serendipity that lies 
in wait. "Competencies" in my mind can sometimes be used to get a handle on 
serendipity, to remove all doubt from the certainty that THIS GUY RIGHT HERE 
is going to deliver a perfect facilitation. I'm more about playing in the 
fire...!

Cheers,

Chris
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CHRIS CORRIGAN
Consultation - Facilitation
Open Space Technology

Weblog: http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot
Site: http://www.chriscorrigan.com

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