OSLIST Digest - 30 Apr 2006 to 1 May 2006 (#2006-114)

Mon May 1 23:19:30 PDT 2006

Bewdy!

Lyn,

I'll make the corrections and get the final file to you on disk.

Best

David

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> Topics of the day:
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>  1. Survey on the language of facilitation (4)
>  2. Moscow Mentoring Circle April 29th
>  3. Open Space intro at Google Headquarters--I'm looking for intro ideas
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> Date:    Mon, 1 May 2006 17:19:39 +1000
> From:    Brian S Bainbridge <briansb at mira.net>
> Subject: Re: Survey on the language of facilitation
>
> Dear Andrew
> I have completed my version of the survey information and sent same.
> Have tried to do so a number of times, but this is the first time I have
> been able to access the site properly.
> Hope what I have written may have some use - though I reckon it would be
> very marginal.
> Cheers and blessings,   BRIAN
>
> Fr Brian S. Bainbridge
> 0412 111 525
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> Date:    Mon, 1 May 2006 12:53:25 +0200
> From:    Herman Kasselman <hermank at acenet.co.za>
> Subject: Re: Survey on the language of facilitation
>
> Andrew,
> Your survey made me think. Though we work on a global scale, our
> understanding of issues are very localised. By that I mean within our own
> cultures, habits and day-to-day happenings. I think that is why OS is so
> powerfull.
>
> Herman
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> From: "Andrew Rixon" <andrew at anecdote.com.au>
> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 5:08 AM
> Subject: Survey on the language of facilitation
>
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> At the beginning of this year Viv McWaters and I started a reflective
>> practice around the language of facilitation. Since then we have been 
>> able
>> to have some great discussions with facilitators such as Sandy Schuman,
>> Larry Peterson and Brian Bainbridge. (You can find more on our website)
>>
>> What has emerged from this has been a survey around the language of
>> facilitation. Our members of the reflective practice group on the 
>> language
>> of facilitation have finished taking the survey and we would like to 
>> offer
>> anyone else who is interested, the opportunity to take the survey.
>>
>> You can take the survey by clicking the link below:
>>
>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=970912086380
>>
>> The survey contains a mixture of qualitative and quantitative questions.
> It
>> appears the survey will take you between 15-20 minutes depending how much
>> effort you spend on the qualitative questions.
>>
>> We appreciate your time and effort. The results will be compiled and
> shared
>> for all interested.
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Andrew
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Rixon PhD
>> Director
>> Anecdote Pty Ltd
>> Skype: AndrewJRixon
>> Mobile: 0400 352 809
>> Fax: (03) 9383 6274
>> Email: andrew at anecdote.com.au
>> URL: http://www.anecdote.com.au
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> Date:    Mon, 1 May 2006 15:23:12 +0400
> From:    Raffi Aftandelian <raffi at bk.ru>
> Subject: Moscow Mentoring Circle April 29th
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I wanted to share a short report of the latest meeting of the Moscow
> Mentoring Circle (MMC), which in its current (and first) incarnation is
> devoted to experience sharing around OST/life practice of os and other
> methods consonant with OST.
>
> All together 8 or so people participated, including several corporate
> trainers, a training manager from a major Russian company, a Chechen
> cultural activist, and two children.
>
> I rather enjoyed having a four and five year old child there. It
> stretched the comfort zone for some when one of them ran off with the
> speaking object in the closing circle when we were reflecting on
> community archetype.
>
> As the only facilitator there with formal OST facilitation experience
> I chose not to experiment with facilitating and participating at the
> same time. After we closed we went on for coffee elsewhere and
> continued the conversation:
>
> Some of the topics discussed were:
> - "sellability" of OST
> - what you need to do to sell OS
> - pre and post-work with an OST meeting
> - use of OST for strategic planning of a new NGO, Goryanka ("Woman of
> the Mountains) (Roshni-Chu village, Urus Martan District, Chechnya), 
> dedicated to offering folk music
> and dance classes to talented children as a form of personal
> rehabilitation.
>
> The training manager present who'd had an experience of an enjoyable
> multi-day OST in the nonprofit sector had a very clear intuitive sense of 
> the
> value of OST and that the post-OST-meeting work (like the pre-work)
> was much more important and more key than the meeting itself.
>
> I find holding the MMC rather satisfying. And it has taken me to a
> deeper conversation with myself around what does the OST/os
> community/organization of practice want to become? Who can we learn
> from in doing what we do as a community/organization better? Who are
> our models? I look forward to reading and studying Anne Stadler's
> distillation of the Spirited Work community and seeing what from that
> we can take here.
>
> I see the air here is changing. On one level OST may indeed explode in
> the corporate world here in Moscow and other parts of Russia. Things
> have a funny way of taking off here very quickly. Galina Tsarkova
> speaks of the "granularity" of OST. I sense that springtime
> granularity right now.
>
> Frankly, talking about os as a life practice is new for me and I
> haven't have seen or heard much of such conversations yet. But, there
> is a right time for everything.
>
> Aside to Mark (Jones), I really enjoyed seeing your distillation on
> the innovative organizations thread. Looking forward to having it
> translated into Russian for a future "News from OS" issue. I hope
> that's ok!
>
> In the meantime, you can enjoy the pictures from MMC.
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/81882819@N00/138177994/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/81882819@N00/138177965/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/81882819@N00/138177904/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/81882819@N00/138177877/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/81882819@N00/138177861/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/81882819@N00/138177781/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/81882819@N00/138177756/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/81882819@N00/138177735/
>
> Best,
> Raffi
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Raffi Aftandelian
> consultant trainer facilitator
> essenceworks consulting group
> organizational health and balance
> Moscow
> raffi at essenceworks.ru, raffi at bk.ru
> +7 926 377 79 15
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> Date:    Mon, 1 May 2006 09:01:57 -0400
> From:    Jaime Pedreros <jpedrerosf at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Open Space intro at Google Headquarters--I'm looking for 
> intro ideas
>
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> Hola Melinda (Spanish speaking girl?)
>
> My main focus is on private companies (banks, insurance companies, hotels,
> communications related business and NGOs). As I work with a diversity of
> methods, am able to offer the right solution once I get an inside view of
> the organization. I have not been very active recently. Where do you work
> and live?
>
> I copied the link for you:
> http://www.up.edu.pe/_data/ageup/documentos/20040804111614_pedreros220604.p=
> ps
>
> Just tell me if you need anything else.
>
> Warm regards
>
> Jaime
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> <div>Hola Melinda (Spanish speaking girl?)</div>
> <div> </div>
> <div>My main focus is on private companies (banks, insurance companies, 
> hot=
> els, communications related business and NGOs). As I work with a diversity 
> =
> of methods, am able to offer the right solution once I get an inside view 
> o=
> f the organization. I have not been very active recently. Where do you 
> work=
> and live?
> </div>
> <div> </div>
> <div>I copied the link for you:</div>
> <div><a 
> href=3D"http://www.up.edu.pe/_data/ageup/documentos/20040804111614_=
> pedreros220604.pps">http://www.up.edu.pe/_data/ageup/documentos/20040804111=
> 614_pedreros220604.pps</a></div>
> <div> </div>
> <div>Just tell me if you need anything else.</div>
> <div> </div>
> <div>Warm regards</div>
> <div> </div>
> <div>Jaime</div>
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> Date:    Tue, 2 May 2006 08:19:30 +1000
> From:    Andrew Rixon <andrew at anecdote.com.au>
> Subject: Re: Survey on the language of facilitation
>
> Thanks Brian, muchly appreciated.
>
> Safe traveling!
>
> Warm regards,
> Andrew
>
> --
> Andrew Rixon PhD
> Director
> Anecdote Pty Ltd
> Skype: AndrewJRixon
> Mobile: 0400 352 809
> Fax: (03) 9383 6274
> Email: andrew at anecdote.com.au
> URL: http://www.anecdote.com.au
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian S Bainbridge [mailto:briansb at mira.net]
> Sent: Monday, 1 May 2006 5:20 PM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Re: Survey on the language of facilitation
>
> Dear Andrew
> I have completed my version of the survey information and sent same.
> Have tried to do so a number of times, but this is the first time I have
> been able to access the site properly.
> Hope what I have written may have some use - though I reckon it would be
> very marginal.
> Cheers and blessings,   BRIAN
>
> Fr Brian S. Bainbridge
> 0412 111 525
>
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> Date:    Tue, 2 May 2006 08:22:29 +1000
> From:    Andrew Rixon <andrew at anecdote.com.au>
> Subject: Re: Survey on the language of facilitation
>
> Thanks Herman, great to hear you got some value from our survey.
>
> Something I've been wondering lately is whether OS might be more
> 'empowering' than many other styles and processes of facilitation.
>
> I'd love to hear any thoughts, anecdotes, stories or reflections around
> this....
>
> Warm regards,
> Andrew
>
> --
> Andrew Rixon PhD
> Director
> Anecdote Pty Ltd
> Skype: AndrewJRixon
> Mobile: 0400 352 809
> Fax: (03) 9383 6274
> Email: andrew at anecdote.com.au
> URL: http://www.anecdote.com.au
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herman Kasselman [mailto:hermank at acenet.co.za]
> Sent: Monday, 1 May 2006 8:53 PM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Re: Survey on the language of facilitation
>
> Andrew,
> Your survey made me think. Though we work on a global scale, our
> understanding of issues are very localised. By that I mean within our own
> cultures, habits and day-to-day happenings. I think that is why OS is so
> powerfull.
>
> Herman
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Rixon" <andrew at anecdote.com.au>
> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 5:08 AM
> Subject: Survey on the language of facilitation
>
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> At the beginning of this year Viv McWaters and I started a reflective
>> practice around the language of facilitation. Since then we have been 
>> able
>> to have some great discussions with facilitators such as Sandy Schuman,
>> Larry Peterson and Brian Bainbridge. (You can find more on our website)
>>
>> What has emerged from this has been a survey around the language of
>> facilitation. Our members of the reflective practice group on the 
>> language
>> of facilitation have finished taking the survey and we would like to 
>> offer
>> anyone else who is interested, the opportunity to take the survey.
>>
>> You can take the survey by clicking the link below:
>>
>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=970912086380
>>
>> The survey contains a mixture of qualitative and quantitative questions.
> It
>> appears the survey will take you between 15-20 minutes depending how much
>> effort you spend on the qualitative questions.
>>
>> We appreciate your time and effort. The results will be compiled and
> shared
>> for all interested.
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Andrew
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Rixon PhD
>> Director
>> Anecdote Pty Ltd
>> Skype: AndrewJRixon
>> Mobile: 0400 352 809
>> Fax: (03) 9383 6274
>> Email: andrew at anecdote.com.au
>> URL: http://www.anecdote.com.au
>>
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