[OSList] Teaching OST

[Michael M Pannwitz]

Dear Anthi and you others out there,

as some of us have discovered, OST can not be taught in the traditional 
sense. In a way, I cant think of anything that can be taught in the 
traditional way. Especially when it comes to depth.
The mantra here is you can neither teach nor learn OST but if you are 
lucky, you can remember it.
Now the remembering process is not something that happens much in 
traditional learning. Even getting into OST is too complex for teaching 
and learning, but folks love to do it anyhow and have come up with 
entire programms. That might be one of the reasons why some of what is 
named OST or open space appears so far away from the real thing.

For remembering, if that is what will do the trick, its not teaching and 
learning but getting into such modes as "open space on open space". Here 
form and function are interwoven. An "event" is experienced by those 
that have followed an invitation to come to such an event and are 
physically at the event where time and space are open for spirit, 
selforganisation, high play, hilarious fun ...
Now, imagine you get certified for something that is remembered. 
Possible? I and some others that have been involved in "ost trainings" 
conducted totally in OST, the 3 to 5 day variety, simply issue 
participants a paper that certifies their attendance.

Some of the participants will later add to their cv that they have been 
to such an event and sometimes mention who invited to it. That has 
always puzzled me. Is that a cowtow to widely spread norms? An attempt 
to impress potential clients?

Greetings from Berlin on a sunny April morning...
mmp

Am 10.04.2019 um 07:04 schrieb ANTHI THEIOPOULOU via OSList:
> Hi Harrison,
> 
> We are also offering FREE a single-user account of the software to ALL. 
> I have learned from you so I couldn’t do it any differently than you.
> 
> The certification is NOT in OST, is in Organizational Learning (OL) and 
> Systems Thinking (ST). We are not teaching technologies that are already 
> widely taught very well like OST or AoH or SoL basic trainings. We 
> actually ask one of thee training to have been already taken in order to 
> take the exam for the certification.
> 
> I would deeply appreciate if you could use your free account of the 
> software and share your reflections. The innovation is the software that 
> allows scaling up of participatory leadership, the workshop is a spin off.
> 
> Warm greetings and best wishes,
> Anthi
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