[OSList] Any experience with short OST

Sun Jun 10 10:20:20 PDT 2012

Dear Harrison
of course I'll trust you. You put the right words on my inner feelings  
and gave me strong arguments to tell the sponsor, if needed. Your  
point to do do it after and let emerge an opened discussion, is a  
perfect idea.

Thanks a lot,

Catherine

Le 10 juin 12 à 18:07, Harrison Owen a écrit :

Catherine – I know you have made your plans. And Plans can change.  
Here are some thoughts that might move the changes along… First – The  
best Presentation on Open Space is “Do it!” Nothing else comes even  
close. Second – Doing a Presentation about Open Space before an Open  
Space creates all sorts of difficulties, none of which you want. No  
matter what you say, no matter how good you are – whatever you say  
will just confuse people. If they have never experienced Open Space,  
they simply won’t believe you. And if they have had the experience,  
they don’t need the explanation. Even worse, a Presentation up front  
will inevitably put the people in a “head” mode, thinking about the  
process. They will be wondering about other processes, potential  
modifications, what “they” say in the literature. All good thoughts,  
but definitely not needed at the onset of an Open Space. Just get on  
with the business, do what comes naturally, and forget about the  
process. After all it works all by itself. No help needed. And don’t  
try doing “just a little bit of Open Space” It is always frustrating,  
because just about the time you get rolling, it is time to stop. If  
these people really want to Celebrate – Go for it and make sure they  
have plenty of time/space for the occasion!

And then if they really want a Presentation, do it at the end. I  
assume you will have a closing circle and after the people have shared  
their comments, ask them by way of summary “What did you notice  
particularly about our time together that was strange, new,  
surprising, different? I think you will find that the People as a  
whole will create a marvelous presentation, and of course you can  
comment if you care to.

Trust me. You won’t be disappointed.

Harrison

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From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org 
] On Behalf Of Catherine Corbaz
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 11:31 AM
To: World email list wide Open Space Technology
Subject: [OSList] Any experience with short OST

Dear OS-friends,
I’ve been invited to moderate an OST for the 10th birthday of a  
studying program of a high Engineering and business school. It is  
called Human System engineering.
The purpose is to celebrate the anniversary and to make an OST in  
order to collect ideas, projects of the students to allow this program  
to live further. The purpose is also to present OST as a method to  
work with collective intelligence , etc. Inviter people will be  
students and old students, the professorship will also be invited.

At the beginning we spoke of a one day OST. After a first meeting with  
the preparation group, they proposed me to do something shorter, with  
a presentation about OST. I agreed with their suggestion. But i'll  
make my presentation as short as possible, with the message: the best  
presentation is to experiment it.  So I might have 1/2 more, who knows?

But i've never do such a short OST. So presently the agenda (in may  
head) look like:

- a short introduction (sponsor + OST introduction : 15’),
- Market place&agenda (15’).
- Two break-out sessions of 35 min.
- closing circle (20')

We expect 30-50 people.

Anyone with a similar experience. I remender reading something about a  
1.5 hours OST?
Any comment, remark, welcome.

NB: this OST is a short of follow-up of the french publication of  
Christine Kohler.

Regards

Catherine Corbaz
Roseaux 20
CH-2503 Bienne
+41 32 323 38 43
+41 79 794 38 55
https://sites.google.com/site/catherinecorbaz/

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