Training Programs

[Chris Corrigan]

I'm hosting a two day Open Space "training" in Prince George, British
Columbia March 6-7.  It'll be cheap, something like $150 for most
folks, free for youth.

Email me for more details.

I find it hard to "train: people in Open Space.  Micheal Herman and I
have been offering a practice workshop around the world for the last
couple of years, but mostly I just open myself to mentoring people,  I
find that that has been the best way - to work with people who are
really interested using OST because it fits with their current
practice and ways of being in the world.  I don't like "teaching" OST
as a tool, because it needs to have integrity with people's practice.
 The two day workshop really take for people who are pre-disposed to
OST.  It was designed to follow on to a real life Open Space
experience, and where we have done that (such as in Alaska with Julie
Smith and Judi Richardson) we had a great deal of interest and
"uptake" in the process.  I've not had much success introducing people
to OST through trainings...it wants to be lived and THEN learned
about.  As Pannwitz and Harrison and others have noted that these
types of learning relationship tend to support sustainable learning
and practice of the process.

Chris


On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:12:16 +0100, Pannwitz, Michael M
<mmpanne at boscop.de> wrote:
> Dear Lucas,
> the most exciting and most successful training I have been involved
> in took place about a year ago with 60 people over 5 days (thats my
> "standard" design).
> Key was as far as I can tell that I did not organizse the training
> but people who wanted to get trained got together in a group of about
> 10 and did all the work, selforganizing. They succeeded in hiring me
> and Jo Töpfer for zero fee, so it also became quite possible for
> people with few ressources to attend.
> A couple of participants of that training (in their early twenties)
> who have gathered considerable os-experience are now organizing
> another training (same design) in September plus a gathering for
> people with ost facilitation experience for what they call "training
> 2", also a 5 day event.
> If I were in your neighborhood, I would love to work with you on the
> training your planning.
> I dont know where you are located
> check the world map for people near you
> http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/
> and, of course, include yourself, too.
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp
>
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:23:43 +0100, Lucas Gonzalez wrote:
>
> > --- 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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CHRIS CORRIGAN
Consultation - Facilitation
Open Space Technology

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