Training Programs

[Harrison Owen]

Bravo!!!! And Lucas -- you are right, many of the programs offered are 3-4
days (my own programs included). But the majority of that time is devoted to
considering why Open Space works, and how to work with Open Space, as in
leveraging the results. However, if the focus is on the practicalities of
DOING an Open Space, the time required goes down considerably. After all,
how long can it take to tell folks about sitting in a circle, creating a
bulletin board, opening a market place, and getting to work? I am pretty
sure that in 3 hours you could cover the basics and even give folks a chance
to try it out. You could then have a little "homework" -- and ask everybody
to do an Open Space somewhere, even if it is just a gathering of neighboring
children, or a small group of fellow employees -- or even the local Football
Association. And then, several weeks later, invite everybody back for
another 3 hour session. At that point, the students will become the
teachers, and the shared experience (positive and negative) the curriculum.
And I am sure there are lots of other ways to go which have been tried
and/or thought about by members of OSLIST. I am even surer that it will be a
cold day in Hell before OSLISTERs refuse to share their experience.

Harrison

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-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lucas
Gonzalez
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 6:24 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Training Programs

 --- Harrison Owen <hhowen at comcast.net> escribió:
> Lastly, an effective program need not be a large one. Frankly I find
> that working with 4-8 people to be a really rich experience -- and
> one-on-one is just mind-blowing.

Ok.  I've read the book and googled for "open-space training".  All
training I've read of is conducted by experienced people and it takes
3-4 days.  So the "lack of solid time/lack of plausible explanation for
people without the experience"-for-all-(myself-included) problem
remains.

Let's say I have an evening per week which I can use.  I have no
experienced trainers available - at least none that I have heard of.
Has, in the LIST experience, anything useful been done with that?  Oh,
I guess the answer will be "yes" - but what and how?

I'll give it a try soon, btw, so I'll report on that - and I can use
all your advice.  I think I'll be able to invite some 20 people for 3
hours.  I may have to ask for some money so we can buy stuff (paper,
markers and tape) - or maybe I'll steal some from my own pocket money.
I hope/expect space will become wider with that group, but I wonder if
the seed might be so small as to be uncapable of growing further.

Lucas



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