How many OST facilitators does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Arno Baltin arno at tlu.ee
Sun May 13 21:50:01 PDT 2007


Raffi!

On the summary references. Do you mean Aron Beck?

with warm regards,

Arno


Raffi Aftandelian wrote:
> [Read on at your own risk! Probably best to delete if you are thinking 
> today that you are more than a speck of sand.]
>
> lightfully,
> raffi
>
>
> Q. How many OST facilitators does it take to screw in a light bulb?
>
> A. More than you would care to admit:
>
> One to 
>
> ...assess the situation and determine that screwing in a lightbulb is a 
> highly complex problem involving a diverse group of people with decision 
> time being *now*
>
> Another to
>
> ...write the facilitation proposal
>
> ...bring together a planning group to prepare the OST meeting, tentatively 
> titled "Screwing in a Light Bulb, Making it Happen: Issues and 
> Opportunities." and to write an engaging, inspiring invitation to this new 
> vortex-opening OST meeting.
>
> ...coach and mentor the facilitator working with the planning group
>
> ...shadow consult the one facilitator working with the planning group
>
> ...open space at the preparation stage to ensure that the diverse group 
> will be able to successfully self-manage the translation and interpreting 
> at the event and also to address disability access and literacy issues for 
> the meeting.
>
> ...open and hold space for the event
>
> ...assist the spaceholder in napping
>
> ...assist at the event with heavy duty logistics like picking up coffee 
> cups and drawing butterflies and posters with inscriptions like "Bee 
> happy!"
>
> ...weigh in on the choice of post-event follow-up social collaboration 
> platform, either a wiki or wordpress, typepad, so that stakeholders can 
> most easily discuss the implementation of their action plans
>
> ...blog about it
>
> ...comment on the blog post
>
> ...post about it to the OSlist
>
> and 5 more to reply to the OSlist post
>
> and another 5 to write gushy, welcoming responses to the comment of a new 
> OSlist poster
>
> ...post about it to OSW blog
>
> ...comment on the OSW blogpost
>
> ...write a case study about this ground-breaking event
>
> ...write an executive summary of the case study for a third edition of the 
> Change Handbook keeping in mind those readers with a most skeptical 
> attitude towards OST as the audience; writing the summary in such a way 
> that the audience will understand that even though the light bulb was 
> never screwed in 6 months on (and two skype conversations later) , what 
> was really important and proof of OST efficacy was that people empowered 
> themselves working in self-organized groups, there was high learning, 
> breakthroughs in productivity, personal responsibility, leadership, etc.; 
> also, the summary will have all the requisite references to Arrien, 
> Wheatley, Bohm, Senge, Peters, Tillich, Beck, Wilbur, Cooperrider, and 
> others. Summary will be also use appreciative language to frame the 
> exciting opportunities for further follow-up OST work seeing as the light 
> bulb was never screwed in, giving rise to a new iteration of emergent, 
> wicked questions inviting further group reflections (at a special themed 
> World Open Space on Open Space, "(More) Surfing the Waves of 
> Transformation: the Case of the Light Bulb- the new co-evolutionary 
> promise of emergent potential: "Wattever happens?..."
>
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