[OSList] OS learning event in Melbourne
Viv McWaters
viv at mcwaters.com.au
Wed Jan 23 16:11:27 PST 2013
Hi all
Andrew Rixon and I are pleased to offer an open pace learning event in Melbourne on February 13. Early bird closes tomorrow, so better be quick :) There's more info on my web site vivmcwaters.com.au and also here http://bit.ly/VCEPiE
Cheers
Viv
Viv McWaters
flavors.me/vivmcwaters
+61 417 135 406
Bringing meetings to life. Doing work that matters. Connecting people and ideas.
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> 1. Re: New York, New York...indeed the place to be this weekend
> (Lisa Heft)
> 2. Open Space Learning Workshops - April, May and December, USA
> (Lisa Heft)
> 3. Re: Incorporating self-organized training/learning sessions
> into OST AND communicating OST to an uninitiated and distracted
> leadership (Harrison Owen)
> 4. Re: Incorporating self-organized training/learning sessions
> into OST AND communicating OST to an uninitiated and distracted
> leadership (Hege Steinsland)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:23:06 -0800
> From: Lisa Heft <lisaheft at openingspace.net>
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> Subject: Re: [OSList] New York, New York...indeed the place to be this
> weekend
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> Koos - I so delight in those opportunities to share thoughts and
> smiles with you and my other Open Space colleagues in any of these
> face-to-face gatherings around the world.
> I am still smiling from seeing you in London last October.
> Like a little wellness infusion.
>
> And I look forward to seeing those of you who I know - and those I
> have yet to meet - at the World Open Space on Open Space - which is
> happening this year in Florida USA.
>
> I truly appreciate how being in the worldwide community of Open Space
> facilitators, learners and enthusiasts is a connection to community,
> values and mutual learning.
>
> I will see some of you in Florida in May, and some of you in our
> workshop that happens directly before that.
>
> As Suzanne and Koos and others may know - my mothers' love (she is no
> longer in the physical world), and my father's love (going strong at
> age '89) goes with you. They love what we as a community are doing to
> help individuals, organizations and communities remember, notice,
> articulate, and do everything from designing airplane doors to sharing
> knowledge at industry conferences from a place of dialogue - as we
> trust the people and the process, come from a place of peace, and are
> continuously amazed at how incredible people are...
>
> Warmly,
> Lisa
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2013, at 11:02 PM, Koos de Heer wrote:
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>> Thank you for sharing this Suzanne. Having lost both my parents last
>> summer, the things you write about the longing for feeling connected
>> and the deep gratitude for those around us who offer this connection
>> resonate deeply inside of me. This is one of the reasons I just had
>> to go to WOSonOS in October. Indeed, Open Space is a great way of
>> making this connection (which is always there) ? how should I say
>> this ? tangible, palpable.
>>
>> Love
>>
>> Koos
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> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:17:03 -0800
> From: Lisa Heft <lisaheft at openingspace.net>
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> Subject: [OSList] Open Space Learning Workshops - April, May and
> December, USA
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> Hello, dear OSLIST colleagues: Thank you for sharing this with your
> friends and colleagues - through email, tweets, other social networks,
> or face-to-face over a good beverage. May this message find you well
> and may your work be rich with learning and discovery - Lisa
>
> - - - -
>
> Imagine using a dialogue process to...
>
> carry a conversation across a nation in twenty live events
> - enable soil, water, environmental and building scientists, engineers
> and researchers to share knowledge across disciplines and geographic
> regions in their passion for sustainability
> - help six governmental agencies and their Mozambique partners think
> about how to spend a billion dollars worth of HIV/AIDS funding in
> Mozambique
> - invite hundreds of tobacco control advocates, researchers and policy
> makers to share their conflicting points of view (is the end goal safe
> tobacco? elimination of tobacco?) without having to change each other
> or agree
> - involve every employee of a global Information Technology division
> in their company's strategic planning process - from the
> administrative assistant to the Chief Technology Officer
>
> Imagine a dialogue process you cannot break by someone standing up and
> going on and on, by someone leaving a discussion, by only one person
> arriving to a breakout session.
> But in which you can completely reduce productivity and innovation by
> helping participants during the process.
>
> Hear stories of...
>
> - a client hosting a youth event who wants to stop youth convening
> their own amazing sessions
> - 3,000 people engaged in dialogue - resulting in breakthrough
> thinking, intimate conversation and a full record of proceedings
> - conflict resolution work in world conflict zones with participants
> facilitating their own discussions
> - holding space when all the participants leave (will they return?),
> when the police are approaching to shut the event down, or in the
> middle of a war
>
> All of these are stories of Open Space.
> Join us to learn about this dialogue process used around the world.
>
> - - - -
>
> Open Space Learning Workshops 2013
> For people of all levels of experience
>
> San Francisco California USA: April 3-5 -and- December 11-13
> St. Petersburg Florida USA: May 14-16
> (just before this year's World Open Space on Open Space in St.
> Petersburg)
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> Other dates, cities and countries to be announced.
>
> Facilitated by Lisa Heft
> President Emerita, Open Space Institute US
> Fellow, Columbia University's Center for International Conflict
> Resolution
>
> - - - -
>
> You may have heard of Open Space or participated in something called
> Open Space or 'an unconference' and wondered why it did not work - or
> whether it was really this complete and effective form.
> Or you may have experienced something that sparked your interest as
> you watched a group self-organize in a highly productive process - and
> wondered if it was this thing called Open Space.
>
> Join me for 2.5 days of mutual learning about preparing for,
> facilitating and supporting productivity and effectiveness in Open
> Space.
> Together you will explore issues and opportunities in your own work
> with groups, experience an Open Space, and explore all the elements of
> pre-work that support the success of an Open Space event.
>
> Everything from developing a theme to exploring invitation and
> outreach, design, planning, materials, how site, food and other
> elements impact or enhance an Open Space event, why / why not to
> hybridize this particular method, how to include action planning if
> appropriate, 'what-ifs', 'when not to's', participant-driven forms of
> documentation, ideas for the sustainability of ideas, relationships
> and actions post-event, and more.
>
> Pricing - as with all of my workshops - is flexible - custom tailored
> to what you as an individual can contribute and afford.
>
> For more information on content, schedule and pricing overview and to
> register,
> Contact me directly at
> lisaheft [at] openingspace [dot] net
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> I look forward to learning with and from you, Lisa
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> From: "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net>
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> Tricia ? By all means, jump in the pool. The water is fine! And it seems to me that you are making life much too complicated. Two days in Open Space with a theme of something like: ?Building our collective competence: Issues and Opportunities? would probably allow the group to achieve all its objectives and more. No need for separate themes on the several days, that just adds to the noise in the air. In NYC we did in fact ?open the space? three different times, but that was only to allow as many people as possible to assume the role (or part of the role) of facilitator. So if your client is up for it, just open the space and keep going. Actually I would try for 2.5 days with the final day focused on actions for the future. The details on how to do all this are pretty clear in the book, I think. Just make it simple and the Folks will do what they need to do. It always happens.
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> From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Tricia Chirumbole
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> Hello all!
>
>
>
> I am an OST newbie who is hoping to facilitate an Open Space for my main client's annual meeting in a few weeks and I would like to get your thoughts on incorporating hands on skill transfer into an Open Space. I did do some book reading on OST and just attended the OST meeting in NYC this weekend, but have never hosted an Open Space.
>
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> Background on organization and situation:
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> I do not provide facilitation for this organization. I am one of a number of project managers who work on teams to conduct market research and strategy consulting projects for their clients in the life sciences arena.
>
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>
> They have agreed to my participation in the facilitation of the meetings and I have referenced OST, but we have not yet discussed details on meeting design and I am pretty sure they are not familiar with OST.
>
>
>
> This meeting will be a small group of only the US folks - 14 in total. We will be meeting for 2.5 days. On an ongoing basis, we are all remote workers across the US and in Europe and Japan and only see each other when we travel to a client's location.
>
>
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> The general theme identified is "collaboration and learning from one another". The stated intent, so far, was to have us all take turns teaching something to the group where we are the "expert", then to spend time just working in parallel and helping each other on current projects or generating learning moments.
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> I am encouraging shifting the focus from trying to model collaboration and getting all of our trainings under our belts in 2.5 days, to a focus on developing a system for ongoing collaboration and expertise sharing, to include discussions of where learning and teaching opportunities exist. I think this topic would be great for an Open Space.
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> I was thinking we could combine opportunities for hands on learning with discussion of an ongoing structure by having two sessions (maybe 1.5 days overall).
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> My thoughts for day 1 and day 2 "prompts"
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> 1) Sharing expertise and leveraging strengths across the organization
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> 2) What do we need right now for high performance individually and organizationally? Training, support, etc.
>
>
>
> My main question is, in the second prompt - "what do we need right now" - could we frame this as an opportunity for hands on learning where the sessions were either suggested by learners who knew of something specific that they wanted to learn, or not specific I guess, as well as by teachers, who felt that they had areas of expertise to share?
>
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> We would all then self-organize and convene into sessions where we are not just discussing topics/structures/etc, but we are actually engaging in information and skill transfer.
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>
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> Question 2: Also not sure which prompt should come first.
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>
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> I don't know yet if I will get them to buy into the Open Space process or if I do, if I can get the time for 2 prompts, BUT, I wanted to ask thoughts of the group before crafting my next communication with them.
>
>
>
> Thank you sooooooo much for reading through this long question and for any insights provided!
>
> --
> Tricia Chirumbole
> US: +1-571-232-0942
> Skype: tricia.chirumbole
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> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:35:51 +0100
> From: Hege Steinsland <steinslandhege at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [OSList] Incorporating self-organized training/learning
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> distracted leadership
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> Hello Tricia.
> Im also quite new to this approach, and I had some wonderful help from the list, just like you will receive now. Lisa and Harrison is so generous with advice and courage :-)
> And many others as well!
>
> My advice will also be, just go for it!
> And then I will say; do some prework! Have a meeting or two with a group that can share purpose, discuss a good theme and be ready along with you to let selforganization happen. Make sure the top management are in to this.
>
> And then, just dive in and enjoy!
>
> All the best
>
> Hege
>
>
>> Hello all!
>>
>> I am an OST newbie who is hoping to facilitate an Open Space for my main client's annual meeting in a few weeks and I would like to get your thoughts on incorporating hands on skill transfer into an Open Space. I did do some book reading on OST and just attended the OST meeting in NYC this weekend, but have never hosted an Open Space.
>>
>> Background on organization and situation:
>>
>> I do not provide facilitation for this organization. I am one of a number of project managers who work on teams to conduct market research and strategy consulting projects for their clients in the life sciences arena.
>>
>> They have agreed to my participation in the facilitation of the meetings and I have referenced OST, but we have not yet discussed details on meeting design and I am pretty sure they are not familiar with OST.
>>
>> This meeting will be a small group of only the US folks - 14 in total. We will be meeting for 2.5 days. On an ongoing basis, we are all remote workers across the US and in Europe and Japan and only see each other when we travel to a client's location.
>>
>> The general theme identified is "collaboration and learning from one another". The stated intent, so far, was to have us all take turns teaching something to the group where we are the "expert", then to spend time just working in parallel and helping each other on current projects or generating learning moments.
>>
>> I am encouraging shifting the focus from trying to model collaboration and getting all of our trainings under our belts in 2.5 days, to a focus on developing a system for ongoing collaboration and expertise sharing, to include discussions of where learning and teaching opportunities exist. I think this topic would be great for an Open Space.
>>
>> I was thinking we could combine opportunities for hands on learning with discussion of an ongoing structure by having two sessions (maybe 1.5 days overall).
>>
>> My thoughts for day 1 and day 2 "prompts"
>>
>> 1) Sharing expertise and leveraging strengths across the organization
>> 2) What do we need right now for high performance individually and organizationally? Training, support, etc.
>>
>> My main question is, in the second prompt - "what do we need right now" - could we frame this as an opportunity for hands on learning where the sessions were either suggested by learners who knew of something specific that they wanted to learn, or not specific I guess, as well as by teachers, who felt that they had areas of expertise to share?
>>
>> We would all then self-organize and convene into sessions where we are not just discussing topics/structures/etc, but we are actually engaging in information and skill transfer.
>>
>> Question 2: Also not sure which prompt should come first.
>>
>> I don't know yet if I will get them to buy into the Open Space process or if I do, if I can get the time for 2 prompts, BUT, I wanted to ask thoughts of the group before crafting my next communication with them.
>>
>> Thank you sooooooo much for reading through this long question and for any insights provided!
>> --
>> Tricia Chirumbole
>> US: +1-571-232-0942
>> Skype: tricia.chirumbole
>>
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