[OSList] The Power of Pre-Work - August 8-10, San Francisco

Chris Corrigan chris at chriscorrigan.com
Tue Jul 3 09:44:38 PDT 2012


Hi Lisa and others...

great offering...I have been teaching OST and World Cafe within the
Certificate for Dialogue and Civic Engagement at Simon Fraser University in
a quick one day session and we spend the morning discussing pre-work.  For
me, the success of any participatory gathering in terms of energy,
engagement and the good use of creative time is directly related to the
quality and intensity iof the invitation. Designing the invitation process,
as well as all of the other pre-work that goes into detraining and
understanding the context of an OST meeting is something like 80% of the
work of running a good OST meeting.

In our session at SFU we spend some time in the morning talking about
pre-work and design and then engage in a World Cafe around the theme
"Invitation is a verb: discuss!"  That focuses people on the idea that
invitation is a process, not a thing you send out by email.

In the afternoon, we then use OST for people to bring their own projects
and questions to the group and we invite participants to help co-design
pre-work using OST as the learning methodology.  Ive run the course the
last three years and constantly trying to improve it...not a lot you can do
in one day, but if you learn anything new, would love to pick your brain.

Chris.

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