[OSList] Mixing self-organization with structured instruction

[Agustin Villena]

Hi Lisa!

Thanks for your thoughts.
We decide to embrace our uncertainty using agile techniques to
self-organize our AgileDay, since our discipline is exactly about embracing
it.
When we found the need to bring the inner thoughts of our partucipantes we
will open the OpenSpace.

Thanks & cuatro abrazos

Agustin


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Lisa Heft <lisaheft at openingspace.net>wrote:

> Dos abrazos!
>
> So I would need to know more about context and culture - why something is
> not well-addressed, what does that mean, what are the consequences of that,
> why cannot it be addressed in other ways before or after the meeting -
> things like that.
>
> Without knowing more - I would say that anything you curate, invite,
> select a topic for - do it the day before / not in relationship to the Open
> Space part. If there is more time / a larger event that this fits within,
> look at the overall design, not just the Open Space part.
> If you really truly feel that people will not know the essential things
> you need them to know by the end of the conference.
>
> Because once you recommend, pre-select, or invite pre-selected topics, you
> are affecting the human dynamics of the Open Space part.
> The way people hear in-person what someone is announcing as a topic, that
> propels them into the center with a new topic-idea-because-of-that.
> The power dynamics of how - if someone hears that x person will be
> presenting on a subject, that must mean that 'I am not the expert on that -
> even though I might have wanted to host a discussion around an
> un-answerable question about that subject, I will now self-select to not
> step forward with that different kind of thinking - expert will know all.'
>
> I think it is fine to curate some workshops for another time in your same
> workshop.
> But if you or funders or whoever it is feel you have to lead, fill in,
> ensure discussion about… specific topics, then often that is an indication
> that this is not a time for Open Space, but for something really delicious
> and interactive but not (as Open Space) completely participant-driven.
>
> To me, if your local OS is so very valuable and scarce time is available
> for it you want to maximize what OS can deliver that is different than
> 'here are some workshops we have selected / invited'.
>
> Other colleagues here have a practice of inviting participants to post
> topics they may want to talk about, in advance. I honor my colleagues but I
> have found that even when doing that, only some people do it, other people
> decide not to talk about something because x person will be doing so - it
> shifts things.
>
> All choices = thoughtful choices. For anything you do with a living
> system, the most important thing for me is not that you try something
> different or not, and observe whether it worked for you or not - all good.
> The most important thing for me personally and professionally when working
> with a living / human system is the *thought process* before making that
> adjustment about why, to what end, what will it deliver / affect
> differently, what will be gained / offset / changed by having done it, and
> so on. The conscious reflection and imagining of what would change when
> making a change in process. So I underline, that I know it will be fabulous
> no matter what you decide, and I am not saying 'bad! bad!'. I am just
> saying to think deeply about the why's, why nots', why now for this part of
> the meeting, and so on.
>
> I love that your local OS is very valuable.
>
> How can it not be? It is OS. And it is held so beautifully… by you, and by
> your wonderful colleagues…
>
> Probablamente tres abrazos by now…
>
> Lisa
>
>
>
> On Sep 18, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Agustin Villena <agustin.villena at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Lisa!
>
> My problem is the preparation that the talks/workshops need, that is not
> well addressed in the just-in-time organization
>
> Maybe we need to do a preparation some time before de OpenSpace
> researching some topics of interests that may need a structured
> talk/workshop
>
> Do you know any experiences that made any similar arrangements?
>
> Our local OS is a very valuable and scarce time and we really need to make
> the most of it
>
> Saludos desde Chile
>
> Un abrazo
>   Agustin
>
>
>
>
>
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