Request for Ideas

Deborah Hartmann deborah at hartmann.net
Fri Jan 26 13:46:21 PST 2007


Here's how I'm trying to fit OS into our traditional conference...
http://qcon.infoq.com/qcon/tracks/show_track.jsp?trackOID=38

Diana Larsen will facilitate and help make it a success.
We'll let you know how it goes!

deb

Tenneson Woolf wrote:
>
> *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 <mailto: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 <mailto:tenneson_woolf at byu.edu>
>
> www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu <http://www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu/>
>
> 801 422 2665
>
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Deborah Hartmann
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