[OSList] Teaching OST

[ANTHI THEIOPOULOU]

Dear Michael,

Thank you for the deep and valuable reflections!

About teaching OST I wouldn’t know as YES OST and WC were the technologies that attracted me into this field due to the in depth experience that I felt and I still remember this experience just as you describe it. But I never taught OST and when I want to use OST for my consulting projects, I reach out to this list and employ one of you who practice it in an expert way.

In this workshop I teach specific theory and practice technologies of Organizational Learning and evolution that I have been researching and practicing for 15 years now. And my co-facilitator Guus Geisen of SoL Netherlands teaches Systems Thinking on which he has been specialised during the last 40 years. We teach what is needed to use the software at its greatest potential.

About certification: I have been asking from SoL Global to offer certification in OL and ST since 2008! This is a gap in the market IF we want this approach (the participative one) to become mainstream. Thus, since SoL didn’t do it and then nobody else is doing it either, we decided to do it ourselves.

As I wrote to Harrison, the innovation is the software, not the teaching and certification.

Thank you once more and I would love any further feedback.

Warm greetings and best wishes to all,
Anthi










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On 10 Apr 2019, at 10:54, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org<mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:

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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