[OSList] University training for Open Space Technology?

[Bhavesh Patel via OSList]

So the Masters would spend a year or two supporting the person develop
their foundation for an artisanal life-long learning approach?


On 26 August 2016 at 17:56, Chris Corrigan via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> The problem with a university level course in facilitation is that our
> standard ideas of "facilitation" are usually the first things that needs to
> be unlearned when learning how to do Dialogic works for emergence, self
> organization and participation. Most facilitation program taught within
> management schools for example, have a linear and predictive approach to
> both the art of facilitation and the theory of strategy and collaboration.
>
> So the first imperitive would be disrupting that.
>
> The second thing is that the skills required to practice OST well are not
> technical but artisanal. Knowledge needed to practice this work well comes
> from mentorship, practice and artistic rigour. So if I was looking for a
> model I would look in a high quality fine arts program. How are painters
> and writers learning at their masters level.
>
> But that will only take us so far too because knowledge production and
> practice in this field is more of a traditional artisanal approach. I N in
> the process of designing a program in complexity and facilitation and I'm
> thinking seriously about having participants visit and interview people who
> are masterful practitioners of traditional arts: chefs, winemakers,
> carpenters, potters, musicians, actors and dancers. It is important to
> understand what a journey of artistic mastery looks like.
>
> It has been my experience that many people in our particular field of
> experience and practice have an aversion to hierarchy and mastery of
> practice. In some communities of practice this conversation about mastery
> and hierarchy is all consuming and it misses the point.
>
> For me the way I have learned and grown as a practitioner is to learn from
> real masters of the arts as an apprentice, and I continue to apprentice I
> have learned both theory and practice from them, watching them work,
> working alongside them. It turn I have played that role with others out of
> a kind of obligation to pass on knowledge which was given to me.
>
> Some of this can go on in a university masters program but it's important
> somehow to remember that formal school in these arts does not make you a
> masterful practitioner. A person graduating from a Master of Arts program
> in OST with high marks is not guaranteed to be good at it. Without space
> for the lifelong development of the artisanal knowledge of the
> practitioner, I feel like such a program would be like an MA in
> anthropology of North American west coast indigenous cultures: you would be
> very clear on why salmon are important to the cultures but no one is going
> to assume you know how to catch and cook one, much less rely on you to feed
> their family with your skills.
>
> Universities play a role in this work, but they are a small slice of the
> ways in which humans share knowledge and develop quality. A program in OST
> - and this conversation - highlights what some of those limits are.
>
> Chris.
>
> Chris
>
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>
>
> > On Aug 25, 2016, at 10:27 AM, l33t.79 at gmail.com via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> >
> > There is an opportunity, an opening, an invitation to make something
> wonderful.
> >
> > What would a Master level University accredited training for Open Space
> Technology look like?
> >
> > I posted a session in the last NOSONOS in Sweden at Två Skyttlar with
> the title "10 ECTS" representing some 300 hours worth of training and
> studies on the topic.
> >
> > An idea was born in the session, and many signed up for it, that we
> should make a mentor program for the facilitation students in a course
> where they would do find their own sponsors and a theme, organize with the
> sponsors to invite to the event and document the proceedings, the student
> would facilitate the event and later review with the sponsors post-event.
> Naturally some compensation would be paid by the university to mentor for
> coaching the student with his first sponsored facilitation event in the
> program.
> >
> > The second idea was to invite other universities in the European Higher
> Education Area and possibly other places to co-create a full program of one
> years worth Masters diploma including the global mentor program and the
> many professional trainings that are happening all over. many universities
> where named, and it is exiting.
> >
> > This is an invitation to contact me or to reply with ideas or next steps
> or connection and suggestions.
> >
> > Best greetings
> >
> > Kári Gunnarsson
> > Hringbraut 46, IS-101 Reykjavík, Iceland
> > Phone (+354) 864 5189
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