[OSList] Designing an OS way

[Lisa Heft]

Hi, Doug -
Why don't you just do 'Birds of a Feather'?

Circles of chairs (or round tables) all around the room, with the  
ability to make a topic sign for each area.
The more chair circles / larger the room, the more possible topics.
To begin, people interested in hosting a conversation for feedback /  
sounding board sessions make a sign - these signs get distributed in  
the circles. Folks move wherever they want to to talk, for as long as  
they want.
It's not Open Space - but it has some sister self-organizational  
values, and works for short time zones (and if these are tables or  
people bring sack/box lunches, works for eating lunch at the same time).

In 2 hours (you say some will leave early) how would you do and teach  
Open Space in a way that holds together as Open Space, so they really  
get what it is and what it is not?
Is this the time to teach and do Open Space?
Is this the time to teach and do something different than Open Space  
that has some similar flexibility and values?

Seems to me I would teach them how to do Open Space also for times  
when they could do longer deeper richer work and that teaching - with  
time for their learning, offering feedback, exploring what is 'behind  
the scenes' of the facilitator role and the pre-work and such for this  
deceptively-simple process - might deserve its own different and much  
longer time, no?

Lisa



Open Space facilitators: I am going to WOSonOS in Chile this October.  
Will you be joining us?
Facilitadores de Espacio Abierto: Voy a WOSonOS en Chile este mes de  
octubre. ¿Va a unirse a nosotros?
http://www.wosonoschile.cl

Lisa Heft
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
Opening Space
lisaheft at openingspace.net

  - The Open Space Learning Workshop / el Taller de Aprendizaje de  
Espacio Abierto
        - October 17-18, 2011 - Santiago, Chile (en español)
        - December 14-16, 2011 - San Francisco, USA (en inglés)


On Sep 15, 2011, at 5:18 PM, douglas germann wrote:

> Friends--
>
> An opportunity has been dropped in my lap, and I need your help to
> noodle it through, please:
>
> A local college created a program for beginning entrepreneurs. They  
> now
> have a dozen graduates of this continuing education program, and they
> are doing follow-on sessions: once a month, from 9 to 10 am, local
> experts present and consult with them. For those who pay the fee for
> this continuing portion, this session is mandatory.
>
> Now they want to do something at these monthly meetings which will
> encourage them to consult and conspire with one another on the
> challenges they are facing as they start their businesses. This is
> voluntary.
>
> The sessions would run from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm. Many people may  
> have to
> get back to work by 1:00 so may leave early.
>
> They had a 3-hour OS session half way through their program before  
> they
> graduated, so most of them have had some experience with OS.
>
> My sense of what they need is to be sounding boards for each other, to
> engage one another in deep and meaningful conversation, to have some
> bonding or cohesiveness time.
>
> I would like to design some way that uses OS principles that becomes
> their way of being together. They would like me to help some of them
> learn how to do OST, and that might be part of it.
>
> How would you design an OS way of life for these women for their  
> once a
> month meeting?
>
> Thanks!
>
> 			:- Doug.
>
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