Request for Ideas

Tenneson Woolf tenneson at berkana.org
Fri Jan 26 09:19:10 PST 2007


Hosting Friends,

 

I am shaping the design for a conference hosted by my university
organization, The Dyer Institute for Leading Organizational Change
(www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu <http://www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu/> ). The
conference, April 4-6, 2007 is focused on leading organizational change –
more specifically, on themes of leadership and engagement. In many ways,
this is a conference with traditional formats – couple of keynotes,
concurrent sessions, Q&A. The audience we expect is 100 – 200, (60%
practitioners, 25% MBA students, 15% university faculty). The conference is
offsite, at a resort hotel in a nice mountain setting.

 

I am working at the edges to add as much non-traditional formatting that
really cooks the learning possibilities. I’d welcome your suggestions.

 

What deepens relationships, learning, and capacity to act in a more
traditional conference format?

 

A few of my ideas:

- learning wall, self-organized for post-it note questions, learnings,
observations

- offerings wall, self-organized for people to name where they will be for
given topics outside of the conference program

- participant created resource table

- conference journal to encourage reflection and learning that happens in
hosting self

- learning cafés (you’ve heard a bunch of stuff, now let’s turn to each
other to make sense of these ideas)

- conference blog for people to harvest questions, insights, next steps for
them

- video recordings (Thanks Tatiana at WC Stewards), Dyer TV to harvest
stories, key challenges, endorsements

- support for each presenter to facilitate group work and interactive
presentation

- an open learning room, for those who want to self-organize (not open space
but open space)

 

Please, join me with your ideas, improvements, stories of hosting the middle
spaces in non-hosting environments.

 

Piece and peace in the middle
.

 

Tenneson

 

 

Tenneson Woolf

 

The Art of Hosting

tenneson at berkana.org

www.artofhosting.org <http://www.artofhosting.org/> 

801 376 2213

 

Dyer Institute for Leading Organizational Change

tenneson_woolf at byu.edu

www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu <http://www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu/> 

801 422 2665

 


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