Request for Ideas

[filiz]

What comes to my mind is the meditative space, silence, deep
listening.space for being and non-doing.I bet you have full on agenda.
At one of Art of Hostings in Israel/Palestine last year, our friend Bob
Ziegler had led the group through 5 minute silent breaks throughout the
gathering. All you need is a bell :-) some breathing space and a simple
way to ground oneself back to core questions. Also a voluntary
meditation session (even sitting on chairs) early in the morning right
before the official meeting starts is refresher. 
 
Also maybe powerful questions about the topic can be integrated
playfully into the conference: at the end of each speech, session, day,
the beginning of the day, on the learning wall, etc.
 
Piece back in the middle :-)
filiz
 
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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
Tenneson Woolf
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 7:19 PM
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 <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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