First open space training in Serbia

Harrison Owen hhowen at verizon.net
Sat Aug 18 05:15:16 PDT 2007


Sounds like a great piece of work/play. Wish I could have been there! 

 

Harrison

 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Dominik
Ringler (AOL)
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:46 PM
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Subject: First open space training in Serbia

 

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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