OST in Indonesia

[Esther Matte]

Good morning Bhav!

 

Congratulations! Was anyone for the World Youth Alliance participating to
your event, by any chance?

 

It is so nice to read your message as I, too, will be running an OS in the
same context (Millenium Development Goals). It’ll be in Quebec City, in
French, mid-August. I’ve been preparing with a group of youth that are
really great and eager to experience OS. We too expect about 150
participants. Some will come from Africa, which is great as we’ll have youth
from both the North and South in the room. I’m really looking forward to it!

 

By the way, everyone, this event emerges from The Great Declaration project,
in which “a group of young people from Québec and around the world send out
a call for commitment. The Great Declaration proclaims the principles and
values they wish to promote on a global scale. Its aim is to instill the
desire for change and to stimulate involvement among citizens. Although
primarily proposed by young people, its message is addressed to all
generations. Original in its content, the Great Declaration invites each
signatory to personally commit to concrete action with a view to building a
world that is more just, more open and more united.” Please have a look at
the website  <http://www.moijesigne.org/> www.moijesigne.org and spread the
word! The Declaration is there, and you can sign it and make a personal
commitment.

 

Bhav, regarding the action planning, I like to give the participants a
little guide that was developed by Diane Gibeault. It asks the basic
questions of an action plan to help the discussion. For example, what do we
want to accomplish, why, how, whom should we bring on board, when will we
meet for next steps, etc. In a corporate context, Diane and I like to add a
question about how to integrate this action into the current workload –
anything that we can let go of, or put aside for a while, can tasks be
reorganized? It helps. But of course, once people are back in the day-to-day
stuff, it takes a lot of discipline and dedication to keep at what came out
of the OS. So I talk a bit about that in the opening of that action planning
portion, insisting on responsibility again. And then I let go. 

 

Having a communications consultancy background, I also suggest to the
client, during preparations, to plan for communications after the event -
e-mail, internal bulletin, informal gatherings. Just to bring back that OS
event regularly in the minds and hearts of participants. 

 

Hope this helps!  

 

Esther M.

 

-----Message d'origine-----
De : OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] De la part de Bhavesh
Patel
Envoyé : 24 juillet 2008 22:59
À : OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Objet : OST in Indonesia

 

Hey Friends, just wanted to let u know that I ran a one day open space for a
conference in Indonesia that had a 110 young people from 33 countries
exploring how to share experience and find common action on the MDGs. It was
my biggest so far and a huge circle, see attached.

One guy from Australia was there who said he had experienced open space
before and that it didn't really work. I asked him a few more questions to
find out his experience was of a pre-set agenda and he had to choose a group
! Anyway at the end of this open space, he was a changed man, and amazed at
how people got down to it without someone organising everything !

I am now working on taking open space more into corporates, and have
questions around the action planning part. My approach has been to continue
the action planning in open space. However once people come up with action
plans and steps, how is that then integrated back into the organisation and
the decision making processes, etc. How do others do action planning with
corporates ?

Smiles Bhav.........





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