First open space training in Serbia

Tue Aug 14 13:39:54 PDT 2007

Dear osniks around the world,
this report warms my heart
greetings from Berlin
mmp

Dominik Ringler (AOL) wrote:
> Hello open space world!
> 
> Just coming back from running the first open space technology training in
> Serbia, Novi Sad ... Balkans, we would like to share some of our
> experiences. The training was held in a youth hostel in the centre of the
> city but not far from the river "Danube". We had 40 participants from
> Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Austria, Greece, Hungary, Germany, Poland and the
> Netherlands. Most of them share a common background in youth work. The
> training was supported and financed by the YOUTH programme of the European
> Union. The average age was 26 years. The trainers were Yaari Pannwitz and
> Dominik Ringler from Berlin and Werner Prinzjakowitsch from Vienna, but we
> had great local support from our partner organisation "ONO - Omladinska
> Nevladina Organizacija" from Novi Sad. The training design was more or less
> in the style of a popular European ost training design:
> 
> day 1: arrival; intro; planning meeting; voluntary set-up of the first open
> space
> 
> day2: open space (title found by the participants: "celebrating the
> differences - how can/do we activate potentials")
> 
> day 3: action planning and free afternoon
> 
> day 4: open space on open space; building teams and preparation of the 3rd
> open space "I, open space facilitator", planned, organized and facilitated
> by the trainees; feedback from the trainers
> 
> day 5: open space "I, open space facilitator"; building teams and
> preparation of the action planning, planned, organized and facilitated by
> the trainees; feedback from the trainers
> 
> day 6: action planning; feedback, questions and answers (in three groups),
> evaluation, last presentation by the reflection groups; fare-well party
> 
> day 7: departure
> 
> The whole training was accompanied by daily reflection groups (which wrote
> an open space training diary) and different learning spaces. By now there
> are already two concrete plans to run an open space in the near future
> (Hungary and Serbia). Before and during the training we faced some major
> challenges: the entire material (including pin walls, markers, all kinds of
> paper) was delivered 30 minutes before the start of the training (due to the
> negotiations with the Serbian customs), the average temperature was 40
> degrees Celsius (we provided three rubber paddling pools in the backyard on
> which the working groups could gather and cool down), a compound fracture
> due to a volleyball match, one participant quit on the second day.
> 
> Overall it was a great pleasure and tough work for us and we are looking
> forwards to see the open space seeds growing. We like to thank the sponsors
> of the training: especially Michael M Pannwitz for consulting in advance and
> him as well as www.openspaceworldmap.org <http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/>
> for sponsoring a "user's guide" for every participant and all the shipping
> costs; neuland AG for sponsoring a lot of materials, Stange Design for price
> reduction and the support for shipping the materials as well as memo AG for
> price reduction and last but not least voda voda from Serbia for 300 litres
> of bottled water.
> 
> Yaari and Dominik
> 
> 
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>From  Thu Aug 16 23:22:34 2007
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:22:34 +0200
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Organization: Open Space Consulting
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Today I came home from a very nice and intense week in Salzburg where we
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CU tomorrow!

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area.<o:p></o:p>

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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
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<p><font size=3D2 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>Thomas
Herrmann Phone +46 (0)709-98 97 81<br>
Open Space Consulting Fax +46 (0)300-713 89<br>
Pens=E9v=E4gen 4<br>
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Kungsbacka, <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
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Email: </span></font><font size=3D2><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'><a
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Vill </span></font><font size=3D2><span lang=3DSV =
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en v=E4lm=E5ende och effektiv organisation och ta tillvara hela dess =
potential?</span></font><span
lang=3DSV><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><font size=3D2 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span lang=3DSV =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>Open
Space Consulting erbjuder dig:<br>
* L=E4rtillf=E4llen kring h=E4lsa och balans i organisationer<br>
* Analyser av organisatorisk h=E4lsa och balans<br>
* Handledning av effektiva och kreativa m=F6ten och konferenser<br>
* Utbildning av m=F6tes- och processhandledare<br>
* Coaching f=F6r organisationer i f=F6r=E4ndring<br>
----------------------------------------------------<br>
V=E5rt antivirusskydd scannar alla utg=E5ende mail. </span></font><font =
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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt'>Infekterade mail stoppas =
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