[OSList] OST Training

[Gijs Mega]

Thank you for you for giving me something to chew on Harrison. I will let you know what I did and how it worked out.

Gijs



On 2013-11-27, at 23:12, "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 
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> 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
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> 
> 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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