Day 1 of Workshop on Democracy in Asia: Combining the Best of Different Worlds

[Diane Gibeault]

Hi Holger,

 

Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm and your process.

 

In your description of your process for activities taking place the day
prior to the OS, you used the OS question as the icebreaker. Good thinking
to build that natural link with the OS to come. I usually put the question
in participants kits when they have one but you made me think that in the
future I will make a poster of it and place it very visibly at the entrance
and near the coffee pot. 

 

I don’t usually do any form of ice breaker before the OS begins for reasons
previously discussed by many on this list (e.g. OS opening acts as
icebreaker as participants have often reported to me; informal intros with
the welcome coffee and in group discussions, with butterflies etc). 

 

This poster with the question is very respectful of the principles of
self-organization and does not take away time from the actual discussions
and the group’s time to self organize – a criticism that even participants
new at OS have made about structured icebreakers when some facilitators have
tried this.

 

The best to you in what is to come,

 

Diane

 

 

From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Holger
Nauheimer
Sent: 16 février 2009 10:44
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: [OSLIST] Day 1 of Workshop on Democracy in Asia: Combining the Best
of Different Worlds

 

.. the story continues...

I was excited and nervous, to tell the truth. There were so many
uncertainties:
- Would people follow the multiple complexities of the workshop approach?
- Would the folks be ready to accept the idea the change is a journey (hey,
these are people sponsored by a German political party!)
- Would participants use the virtual tools that we suggest? Would they be
able to handle the technology as suggested?
- Would the network of the hotel hold?

Well, we had a couple of technical issues but those were minor. The workshop
concept worked perfectly. These were the steps of today

1. Warming up - asking particpants to mingle and to talk about what they are
passionate about and what they want to take responsibilty for during the
workshop
2. Setting up the six reporting groups and asking them to define their
objectives and working procedures
3. Having short presentations to share the project work of the people from
different countries (my personal highlight: A documentary about Jakarta
garbage collectors, which was shown at the Berlin Film Festival: "The
Wanderers"). See all presentations at 
 <http://www.slideshare.net/changews> http://www.slideshare.net/changews.
See also the Podcasts of Friedrich Naumann Foundation Philippines at 
 <http://www.fnf.org.ph/podcast/index.html>
http://www.fnf.org.ph/podcast/index.html
4. I did a short presentation on Why Change Has Changed, which evoked a
great discussion about steerability of change processes: 
 <http://www.slideshare.net/changews/why-change-has-changed>
http://www.slideshare.net/changews/why-change-has-changed
5. At 16h00, people went into their reporter groups and produced photos: 
 <http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=fnasia>
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=fnasia, a podcast, a series of blog
postings, and a video which yet has to be uploaded.

Tomorrow is Open Space, all day long, on the theme

Increasing the impact of our work: Promoting freedom and responsibility in
Asia

Look at a photos of the workshop and a screenshot of our common platform
which is filled with articles continually (I still work on that it will be
made public):
http://www.change-management-blog.com/2009/02/day-1-of-workshop-on-democracy
-in-asia.html

 

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