[OSList] OST Training

[Harrison Owen]

Giijs -- What you propose could be an interesting experiment, but based on a
similar (not the same) situation, I am not sure you would really like the
results. By doing a little Open Space every day, I think there are two
likely outcomes. It could be that the OS experience is so dominant that it
essentially hijacks everything else (people don't get "out" of Open Space
which produces difficulties for other approaches). Alternatively, the Open
Space is so fractured, being like Gaul divided into three pieces, that it
never really gets off the ground. I think your original idea is the best --
Open Space at the end for a whole day. This has been done lots of times
previously, although it does run the risk of producing comments like -- "OS
was wonderful, and exactly why did we waste all the other two days?" That's
happened.

ho

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[mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Gijs Mega
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 12:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [OSList] OST Training

Dear Michael,

Thank you for raising this inspiring point. I recognize the danger of
limiting the time to absorb the spirit of self-organizing OST. For my next 3
day event in the Philipines, the client has requested a hybrid program using
different modules every day. I figured to do OST on the third/last day. I
will change that program and reserve OST time parts of every day. I would
love to have a Skype call about this topic in order to find the right "wave"

Gijs
Shanghai

Ps also MMP provided nice input related to this topic. Thx



                                    Gijs van Wezel, Facilitator
Inspirational Business Group Meetings at lake side, 1 hr from shanghai city
                                   www.megainternational.com.hk


On 2013-11-27, at 9:15, Michael Wood <michael.wood at uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> My sense of OST training is that a min of 2 days, and preferably three is
best. It's not so much about tranferring knowledge about the
'technicalities' but giving people an embodied experience of slowing down.
Because Open Space is such a paradigm shift from business as usual, we can
have people nodding vigously that they understant the mechanics of the
process but have not had sufficient time to absorb the Spirit of it. 
> 
> What this means is that at the first sign of group stress the new
facilitator is very likely going to become so anxious that they try to take
control. This is usually disastrous for the group and gives Open Space a
very bad name (whenever someone says that they've had a bad experience of
being in an OST meeting I ask what happened, and invariably it was a well
meaning 'consultant' trying to do a bit of Open Space but botching it up by
taking control of the group. So it wan't Open Space at all.
> 
> So I would resists short 'trainings' unless you can develop a split 
> design. i.e. say, 2 days followed by a further day in three months 
> time, when people come back to share stories about what they've tried 
> and what they're learning. I think this kind of 'action-learning' is 
> the best design for OST
> 
> Michael Wood
> Perth, Western Australia
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