Introduction in an OS-meeting
Michael M Pannwitz
mmpanne at boscop.de
Wed Mar 29 13:48:35 PST 2006
Dear Eva, Thomas and trainees!
Great to hear of your training.
Giving us just 8 hours to respond and midnite approaching I will skip
kiss and do longhand:
I think it is essential that the sponsor (usually the person that pays
my fee) not only opens the space and then participate fully in the event
as participant but that that person has had a talk with me ahead of time
around his role in those 3 minutes of opening.
It should really be only three minutes (the main reason to signal that
this is everyones show and that it needs to get onto the road quickly).
The things the sponsor needs to cover are
-welcome, great you are here...
-the Theme is and three sentences to the theme...
-my expectation and hope and heartwish for our gathering is:....
-welcome to our facilitator xyz....
Any dialogue or exchange around the questions one of the participants
suggested (all great questions but not at this juncture and rather in
the preceeding coaching)will delay the start and will destract the
facilitator from his main job to "be fully present and invisible".
As far as first impression is concerned here is my experienc:
Even though ost works every time, the first impression does make a
considerable difference in the spirit. And here I think the second phase
(first being "Welcome" and I no longer say "Welcome to open space" as I
try to avoid to make any reference to open space)
namely
"Focusing the Group"
appears to me the most essential.
The point here is to make a contribution to the group focusing on
itself, that starts by asking everyone to have a look around and see who
is sitting to ones left, to ones right, across the room etc. and
pointing out the ressources and gifts in the room (400 years of life
experience in case of the participants in the training, 10 complete
treasure chests full of knowledge, skills, abilities, languages,
cultural backgrounds...) ....
It is the first expansion of space for selforganisation...if that is
done calmly, intensely, with a smile, from the heart...everything after
that is a breeze.
Have a great learning journey
greetings from Berlin
and feel invited to join the world map, of course!!!
Thomas Herrmann wrote:
> Dear friends in Open Space
> Today Eva P Svensson and myself facilitated the first day of our
> OS-training. 10 increadible participants with so much wisdom. We used OST
> for half of the day and I was lucky to get the chance to participate in the
> rich conversations and got many interesting gifts I´d like to share. If you
> have any experiences or ideas to share I´d love to hear them. I will bring
> them back tomorrow morning to share the value of this marvellous
> OS-list(that gives you 8 hours to respond;-)).
>
> In almost all OS-meetings I´ve facilitated the sponsor has started off
> welcoming the participants and addressing the theme etc. Not always it has
> been perfect. Today I received the idea from one of our participants to
> start off by having an open dialogue with the sponsor by asking each other
> some questions and talking openly in front of the participants. For example:
> What do you want with this day/days? Why did you choose OST as the meeting
> format? I think the idea is brilliant and I will try this asap.
> Did you try this? What do you think?? Do you have any ideas regarding this
> conversation?
>
> Another thing we talked about in that session was "first impression". How
> much of a difference can the opening make? Creating a climate of trust,
> openness gives motivation, energy, creativity which inspires action which
> creates effects. What and how I say things does matter! Any reflections
> regarding this will be highly appreciated too.
>
> Another important aspect we talked about in that session is the importance
> of how people are taken care of when they arrive on site.
> Warmest regards
> Thomas Herrmann Phone +46 (0)709-98 97 81
> Open Space Consulting Fax +46 (0)300-713 89
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> 434 46 Kungsbacka, Sweden
> Email: thomas at openspaceconsulting.com
> www.openspaceconsulting.com
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