a tasty "taster" OST meeting

[Pannwitz, Michael M]

Dear Raffi,
I would have loved to see those expats stomp out,
especially at the moment when you talked about the Law.
Who was the sponsor of the event?
One thing that crossed my mind was a variation on the theme
something like
"Making money facilitating os-events".
Or
"Making a living facilitating os-events".
Why only one day?
What do you mean by "building a resonant energy field with the
participants"?
What kind of relation is that between you and the participants?

I did read the special issue of JABS.
(you asked how I got it in the mail to me, well I just ordered it via
the Internet)
There was something about os in the article by Susanne Weber who has
been researching the spread of LGIs in Germany.
But no article explicitly about os.
I think that many of my OD colleagues are scared of os,
and maybe the folks at JABS are, too. It defies much of the stuff
that is accepted in the OD world (which was my world, too, for many
years),
such as notions implicit in concepts such as "change management".
And then it is not a reliable "tool", you can never tell what will
happen when used.

One day soon, spring will break out in Moscow
its arriving in force in Berlin
mmp

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:24:54 +0300, Raffi Aftandelian wrote:

>Hi OSniks!
>
>I  just wanted to write and share a "proud". Thanks to mmp for nudging
>me on that score.
>
>My  Russian friend and colleague, Ludmila  Ivanova (who was trained in
>OST  thru  the  Genuine Contact program last year) and I conducted our
>first  public  OST  meeting  today in Moscow. Before my experience had
>been  doing  it  within  an  organization.  So, in that sense it was a
>little scary.
>
>A one  day workshop entitled "Making money doing the work you love." And
>it went very well! I had the best time ever in OS.
>
>Most   hilarious  moment:  two  English-speakers (we had intended this
>to be a bilingual event, marketing also to expats) --  the  only foreign
>participants  in  this  gathering  of  about 25 people-- stomp out and
>demand  their  money  back  a little after I talk about the law of two
>feet. Talk about be prepared to be surprised. Apparently, they had not
>read   the  invitation  carefully  and  expected  something  entirely
>different!
>
>Tastiest  moment:  lunch  time. People cooed about Ludmila's salad and
>the variety of goodies available.
>
>Most  satisfying  moment  for  me  personally:  the  opening.  I  have
>struggled with the opening for a while and have realized more and more
>how  correctly  (not  from  the heart) I do it. After listening to how
>Harrison  does  it  on a CD (Harrison you have such a great voice; you
>worked in radio I bet in a previous lifetime), I  finally got a much better idea of how to make it from my center and
>have fun with it. And it flowed, baby!
>
>Learnings:  up  the  wazoo.  I  can see a lot of my mistakes. And I am
>excited  about  addressing  them in the future. And these mistakes had
>more to do with the quality of my being as a facilitator.
>
>Why  was  it fun: It just flowed. And we organized it very well. And I
>just  love  our  posters! And people seemed to really enjoy themselves
>and got a lot our.
>
>Happy  to  share  fotos  from  the  gathering,  including  (if  I have
>Ludmila's   ok)   one  where Ludmila is conducting the closing circle.
>This was her first time doing OST. I loved  how  she  did it, simple, from the heart, with passion and with
>strength and center.
>
>Some of the topics:
>"I am fine where I am; I have enough money"
>"A psychologist's career: how to earn the amount you want?"
>"Personal presentation to potential clients"
>"What do we need money for"
>"What is "the work you love" and how would you recognize it?"
>"What am I willing to put up with for the sake of money"
>"Starting a private practice"
>
>One  of  the things I realized is just how complicated co-facilitation
>of an OST meeting is.
>
>What  is  good *co*-facilitation of an OST? What is good team work after
>the  opening?  What does it mean to build a resonant energy field with
>the participants as a two person team?
>
>Chewing on my licorice stick on this one...
>
>On  a  side  note,  thanks  Harrison for starting the talking stick on
>"What we have learned."   I will begin pondering that.
>
>One  of  my questions is what does it say about us as a community that
>nothing about OST was in JABS.
>
>Really enjoyed the elevator speech thread. Juicy.
>
>Or are we a community? I know this might be an
>old/tired OS listserv question. Might behoove me to check the listserv
>archives on that score to see where that convo ended.
>
>Yes,  Harrison, I've been lurking lately, haven't had the time to read
>everything as carefully...
>
>People  keep  on  expecting that since it's springtime that it'll warm
>up.  Well  it  ain't so, it keeps snowing, the snow piled so high that
>participants had troubled finding the door to our building!
>
>Warmly,
>Raffi
>
>
>
>--
>
> Raffi                          mailto:raffi at bk.ru
>
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