Practical Question & OST_book in Russian

[Elena Marchuk]

Hi Michael, I have a practical question - sorry, guys - were you looking for 
me? I didn't recieve an answer to my private letter, so decide to ask you 
through list.

for those who is interested, the Open Space Technology: user's guide by 
Harrison Owen IN RUSSIAN is promised to be published on the 10-th of 
February, you can order books on the address 015 at polybook.org the name of 
the publisher - Tatiana  Korobeinikova - for those in Russia the price will 
be 500 roubles, delivery -free, it could be sent with the payment on 
delivery,  for those who is outside Russia - please contact Tatiana for bank 
accounts numbers and so on.

I wish you all the best
Elena Marchuk
Novosibirsk


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael M Pannwitz" <mmpanne at boscop.org>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 3:44 AM
Subject: Re: Practical Question


> Dear Marty,
> looking in from the outside this looks and feels like a very tasty taster. 
> Isn't every open space event a taster for the participants? And isn't it a 
> great thing for people to get the taste of it, like it and want more?
> I just had the good fortune to facilitate a 3 day event with 130 folks 
> involved with the children of alcoholics, a "complete" open space, if you 
> like. Seems they got all the stuff you observed in your taster...just more 
> of it, but in essence, the same.
> I imagine the point is that they struggled with a real business issue and 
> found that with ost they really got amazing mileage out of it...and had a 
> glimpse into the strange world of selforgnisation.
> Keep delivering tasters, in fact, lets all do that!
> Greetings from Berlin
>
> mmp
>
>
>
> Martin Boroson wrote:
>>  Thank you all for your suggestions on my practical question.    I went 
>> with this structure:  45 minutes for intro and agenda, then 2 x 45
>> minute sessions, then 45 minutes for a closing circle.  It worked
>> brilliantly.  Perhaps calling this a 'taster' in my email was not quite 
>> right, however.
>> This event was the whole afternoon in a full-day seminar on leadership 
>> that
>> I presented to about 44 executives from 20 different corporations and one
>> large charity.  The morning consisted of meditation and laughter 
>> (presented as leadership
>> skills), plus a lecture on complexity, chaos, play, and newer leadership
>> styles.  At lunchtime, I did a very fast re-set for an Open Space (I had
>> made the signs the night before).  Thus the afternoon gave the 
>> participants
>> a chance to experience Open Space as a leadership technique and also to
>> explore any issues that were provoked by the morning session.  The theme 
>> for
>> the afternoon was "What is my cutting-edge as a leader?"  Despite the 
>> short amount of time, they took to the process and had very
>> meaningful discussions.  They posted about 12 topics and I had trouble
>> getting them to stop talking when it was time to close.  Several people 
>> got
>> significant help from their peers in solving organizational problems (or
>> discovered the answers for themselves).  Everyone seemed to get into the
>> spirit of peer-learning, and most importantly, learn the benefit of 
>> solving
>> problems by first asking other people for their ideas.  Despite the short 
>> amount of time, there was a definite sense of convergence,
>> in the closing circle, around one issue:  Many of these leaders had felt
>> quite isolated in their organizations, particularly in their attempts to
>> explore more expanded ways of working, and were truly relieved to learn 
>> that
>> other leaders in other organizations were also struggling with some of 
>> the
>> same challenges.  This Open Space gave them a chance to interact
>> inter-organizationally, and they loved it.
>>
>>  Although the event didn't demonstrate the full potential of Open Space, 
>> it
>> sure did give them a meaningful conversation, a lively afternoon, and the
>> opportunity to explore a different way of leading a group.  So, was that 
>> a taster?
>>
>>  Marty
>>
>>
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