SV: self-organization and "conscious" Open Space organizations [was OST and PD (Positive Deviance)]

[Thomas Herrmann]

Hi and thanks for sharing

Just got curious and want to ask you Artur if you always use Open Space
Technology when you work with a group? I find more and more opportunities
but still think that there are times when I need a more “directed” approach.
For me, most of the times WPPF is the best complementary method – although I
usually separate them and use them according to when I find they fit best.
When I use OST, (which is part of almost all of my assignments!) I consider
myself to work pretty much “by the book” – because I think that works best!

 

For example I have, so far, never used only OST all through a OST-process
with a client (prework, main event and follow up). I am pretty sure I will
try a full OST for a pre-meeting soon, probably with one of the “free”
events I occasionally do with non-profits (as mentioned earlier we actually
used Open Space for the pre-work for WOSonOS here, back in 2003).

 

Other occasions when I find WPPF useful are when I facilitate learning
during trainings and some workshops. One example is a workshop I facilitated
a couple of weeks ago in a nearby University. A researcher had some findings
that she was invited to share – and we included her sharing into a powerful
WPPF container which gave (I think) a completely different level of learning
than would have happened in a more traditional way of sharing research
findings. With the time constraints of 3,5 hours I did not find OST to be a
good choice for this.

Warm regards

Thomas

 

 

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Ämne: Re: self-organization and "conscious" Open Space organizations [was
OST and PD (Positive Deviance)]

 

Hi Raffi:

 

The Concepts of "Whole Person" and "Whole Person Approach" have been around
for some time and are not new (for instance, see
http://www.well.com/user/dooley/change.pdf, A Whole-Person/Systemic Approach
to Organization Change Management, By Jeff Dooley, copyright 1998), and the
same is true with other concepts like "left brain/right brain", "learning
styles", etc. Of course, anyone can take a piece from here and another from
there and give it a new name, and eventually even trademark it.

 

My only experience attending a Whole Person session was that I was being
directed to do this or that, because the facilitator was convinced that this
or that would put my right brain at work (which is not needed because it is
always at work...). But the point is that I don't like being "directed"
neither to "direct others".

 

For me, the magic of OST is that the facilitator does not need to direct
people (except, eventually, as Harrison recalled, to justify the fee). Just
open some space and the whole person will appear and real whole people will
direct themselves and do the job.

 

Abraços (this time in Portuguese)

 

Artur

   

 

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From: Raffi Aftandelian <raffi_1970 at YAHOO.COM>
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Sent: Sun, November 14, 2010 3:23:20 AM
Subject: Re: [OSLIST] self-organization and "conscious" Open Space
organizations [was OST and PD (Positive Deviance)]

Queridos Harrison, Artur, y todos-

(...)

Artur, I was intrigued in you talking about Whole Person Process
Facilitation as a directive process. I see how you can call it that. And as
someone who has been using WPPF the past 6 years, I'm excited that the four
principles and the Law are invoked- at least the way I was taught- in a WPPF
meeting...I don't know of any other meeting method that works within a
pre-set agenda that does that.

abrazos,
Raffi

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