[OSList] Poke the Open Space Box

[Arno Baltin]

Thank you, Lisa for these lovely questions.
Eveyone of them reached some of my strings :)

With best,

Arno

On 17 May 2011 17:46, Lisa Heft <lisaheft at openingspace.net> wrote:

> Well my first answer is:
>
> "Just do what makes your heart sing."
>
> And then (of course, being me ;o) I'll go on.
>
> I'm an analyzer, among other things.
> So I diagram the question, in a way. And of course, ask more questions to
> see the patterns.
>
> Do you want to be around the juicy OS more?
> Do you need more income or exposure for your work?
> Are you trying to shift into more visibility as a facilitator / meeting
> convenor from the way people see and hire you otherwise?
> Are there particular issues around which your passions invite you to invite
> others to join together about in dialogue?
>
> The answers / 'therefores' to these may be different, depending on what you
> are like and what is important to you for this time in your life.
>
> And: is your skill-set and interest *both* those of a facilitator...and an
> event producer?
> For some people the answer is "yes!" and for others it is "absolutely my
> passion and skills are to facilitate - my strengths and passions are not in
> those many details of creating an event."
>
> And: I hear a good number of facilitators who try to host their own events
> but 'nobody comes' - it is interesting to explore why that may be. Is it
> because it was the facilitator's passion or sense of urgency and not the
> participant group's highest item of urgency among the many issues calling
> for their time and presence? Is it because they created an event without
> being part of a community- / participant- / organization-driven interest or
> need?
>
> What creates those successes such as Phelim describes in his growing
> ongoing community of vibrant OS events?
> I'm guessing you did not do these things as an individual, Phelim. Perhaps
> you would like to share what you think were the ingredients for success from
> the beginning event(s). What contributes to sustainability in the ongoing
> nature, as well.
>
> Other questions for those of you exploring this...
>
> Do you have resources for being an event producer?
>
> - advance funding to secure a site and possibly also food?
> - flexibility in those resources so that if less people come you still see
> it as a 'go forward' and a success?
> Can you really do all the tasks and roles - from outreach / invitation /
> registrar to site and food arranger to answering everyone's questions about
> local housing or resources to facilitation to finalizing the Book of
> Proceedings post-event to whatever else you see as part of this event?
> - Do you have to do it all on your own, or can you be part of a team?
>
> And what about...
>
> - inviting events that are OS in their design
> - traveling around helping other people do their OS - such as offer to run
> their Newsrooms - put all that on our resume / CV because it's real work
> with real responsibilities (whether it pays or not), and grow your
> visibility and your experience that way
> - saying 'I do Open Space' instead of 'I would like to do more Open Space'
> - growing your facilitator 'toolkit' to include some other fabulous methods
> / tools (World Cafe comes to mind) so you have even more participant-focused
> passion-driven offerings and be able to do those too, which often lead
> clients and communities to saying 'more of this kind of stuff, please'?
> - doing a reflection / analysis of how you got your other similar jobs over
> let us say the past 5 years - and see where the pattern was. Was it because
> someone saw you at work doing your marvelous thing? If so, where can you
> choose to be when you choose where to be? For example - does it pay to
> invest in attending an OS gathering - or does it pay to say when invited
> that you yourself do Open Space and to help make that gathering happen and
> offer your facilitation skills for future gatherings for this region as
> well? Do you want to spend resources showing up at a peer conference (yes if
> you can learn a lot) or do you want to save those particular resources to
> use to get to / help on another OS event?
>
> Perhaps another question to invite you all to respond to is - think of your
> work in facilitation / convening people in general. Not just about OS.
> Maybe even your other work in past that was not facilitation but that you
> loved at that time.
> How did you get more jobs? Visibility? Experience that you could add to
> your learning and your resume / CV?
>
> And then another series of questions for your reflection:
> - when you had a dream, that was realized, what got you there?
>
> Just a bunch of questions ;o)
>
> Lisa
>
>
> *
>
> Lisa Heft
> *
> Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
> President, Open Space Institute US
> Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution
> *Opening Space*
> lisaheft at openingspace.net
> www.openingspace.net
> *
> *
> *
> Ask me about these 2011 workshops for facilitators and others who convene
> people:
>  - The Open Space Learning Workshop
>         - June and October - Santiago, Chile (en
> español)
>         - July-August - Buenos Aires, Argentina (en
> español)
>         - December 14-16 - San Francisco, USA
>  - The Power of Pre-Work - August 24-26 - San Francisco, USA
>
> *
>
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-- 
      Arno Baltin

Psühholoogia Instituut
    Tallinna Ülikool
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