Request for Ideas

[Chris Corrigan]

Building on Wendy's ideas a little...

I worked last year helping a small group design a conference.  They started
with a cafe around the question of "what did you come here looking for?" or
something like that, the idea being that everyone develop a key question for
themselves to open themselves up and ground their reason for being.  I think
after the cafe then everyone was invited to turn their name tags around and
write on the back of the name tag - the balnk side - what theoir question
was.  Then people just walked around for two days like that, going to
sessions, but displaying their questions instead of their names.  Every so
often two people would connect around an inquiry, and introduce themselves
(which is a far more civilized way of becoming acquainted).

Anyway, it worked well...could work nicely with Wendy's idea of making those
questiontags glow with art materials.
Chris

On 1/26/07, Wendy Farmer-O'Neil <wendy at xe.net> wrote:
>
>  Hi Tenneson!
>
>
>
> What a great list you have already generated.  What about also addressing
> some of the needs of learners with non-dominant styles—the emotional
> learners and the kinesthetic crowd.   Emotional learners can be challenging
> to accommodate in a traditional conference, but you could create a
> reflection room where folks could go to quietly reflect on how they feel
> about what they are learning and also to make notes in their journals.  If
> you provided some exercise balls as alternate seating for the regular
> settings, this can help the doers in the crowd. Also a toy or play table
> with some art supplies for drawing or painting or cutting.  Things like that
> which support non-dominant modes and left-right integration.
>
>
>
> And in terms of deepening relationships and learning from others, is there
> a way to introduce a random element? I have found that introducing a random
> element can really support folks in getting out of their usual patterns.
>  For example, generating random pairings of participants and inviting them
> to believe that they have something very important to learn from each other
> over the conference time.  They don't have to go around together or
> anything, but it can support folks in stretching their antennae a bit
> farther and noticing and wondering more.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wendy
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Tenneson
> Woolf
> *Sent:* Friday, January 26, 2007 9:19 AM
> *To:* OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> *Subject:* Request for Ideas
>
>
>
> *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). 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
>
> 801 376 2213
>
>
>
> Dyer Institute for Leading Organizational Change
>
> tenneson_woolf at byu.edu
>
> www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu
>
> 801 422 2665
>
>
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