[OSList] follow-up of Next Steps

Birgitt Williams birgitt at dalarinternational.com
Mon Jan 16 15:57:49 PST 2012


Hi Claudia,

This depends a lot on what the purpose of the meeting is and the expected
outcomes, whether it is a decision making meeting or not, and whether the
decision makers are present.

 

Many years ago, I developed Whole Person Process Facilitation as a method
that was to be complimentary to Open Space Technology in values including
the use of the Four Principles and One Law. However, it is a more guided
approach. When I learned OST, I was the senior staff of a non-profit health
and social service. We held a number of OST meetings, and then the staff
gave feedback on what was going wrong. We identified together the gaps in
daily organizational life when there was frequent use of OST meetings. One
gap was that we needed to fill was the one about identifying the 'givens'
prior to the OST meeting of what people could and could not expect to happen
following a meeting. Another gap was to have a meeting methodology that was
complimentary to OST that could be used for the in between times when we
needed to have meetings that could not be OST such as the action planning.
We have now been using the givens and WPPF for 18 years and have learned a
lot.

 

Usually, we now do all of our meetings with a Whole Person Process
Facilitation platform.for however many days. The way we structure this
allows us to have an OST meeting embedded within this platform, and often
more than one depending on the assignment. This allows a wonderfully
cohesive feel for the participants that includes how we come together at the
beginning, any parts of the meeting that are to be more guided and cannot be
OST, a good often 2-3 day OST meeting, followed by at least one action
planning day. The seamless and nicely synergistic approach makes a really
big difference. A lot of our work is strategic planning with organizations
that have people geographically distant from each other. And so we also use
the WPPF platform for all of the on line meetings around a big face to face
one when the people all come together.

 

Birgitt

www.dalarinternational.com 

 

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[mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Claudia
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No 3:
Which training methods, exercises, energizers, etc. do you recommend
for the follow-up of the NEXT STEPS identified in Open Spaces?

(yes, this question IS related to Open Spaces... ;-)

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