from Ukraine

[jotoepfer at boscop.de]

Dear colleagues,

day four of our training here in Ukraine took us into an open space facilitated
by a team of participants under the theme “I, Open Space facilitator”. The
group created 7 teams, all of them planning for the facilitation. One team won
the lottery and frantically organized itself: selecting the sponsor, selecting
the facilitator, setting up the break-out spaces, creating a report sheet,
drawing up the schedule, designing the bulletin board
 you know all the
details.

They ran it from 2 through 6 pm. The facilitator took 11 minutes for introducing
OST. Participants posted 15 issues in 11 minutes and worked in three 1-hour
time slots producing 14 reports.

Shortly after break-out sessions started the facilitation team met with us for a
first feedback and offered them more time later in the day if they wanted which
resulted in an invitation for us in the evening
 Which turned into a very
intensive 1-hour learning experience for all of us , parts of it they already
shared with the list.

Evening News was also used for sharing some ideas on how to continue their
journey after the training event: Ukrainian Listserv and Ukrainian OS website.

This morning all 7 teams for a feedback session. The chosen facilitation team
reflected on their collaboration the other 6 teams each prepared a feedback for
the facilitation team. In the plenary session each team shared one thing they
really liked and offered one recommendation. This session was characterized by
intensive listening.

After this “interruption” the teams gathered again and got into designing the
Action Planning and are busy doing that now giving us a little break to send
you this.

Greetings from a warm and sunny summer day in the Ukrainian forest
Michael and Jo

P.S.
Last night at the bar among heavy drinking and dancing plans took shape to have
the second part of the training (a three day learning exchange) in November on
the Crimean peninsula.

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