<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Lise,<DIV>You are right, it is a challenge for me.</DIV><DIV>I do enjoy variety and new opportunities.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In your email you said:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><DIV style=""><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">You have only 90 minutes: - the assumption is: The speaker transfer her knowledge to the participants by giving a paper and a speach</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV style=""><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">OST-assumption: We all (also participants) have lot of knowledge, what we need is to sort it out - meaning relating to our one knowledge, deciding our attitude.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>In fact, I have up to 10 minutes with each new group, so I need to say as little as possible and then get feedback from the group members.<BR><DIV>That may be good experience for me - to describe OST and open a new space all within maybe 3 or 4 minutes, to a mixed group... </DIV><DIV>then get feedback recorded in the remaining 5 minutes before one group leaves and the next group meanders in.</DIV><DIV>Cheers to you in clouded, cold Copenhagen,</DIV><DIV>from </DIV><DIV>Allison.</DIV><DIV>(Crisp dark evening now - 9pm)</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 22/11/2005, at 8:34 PM, Lise Damkjar wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Hello Allison and everybody on the list!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">You really put yourself into a challenge! And it is very interesting because everyone of us (my guess) meet these requirements for conferences and reservations about OST. It tells us something important about the possibilities in OST!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">If I found myself in that position (I hope not, but...) I would put up some assumptions/beliefs - some leading to the traditional conference (as the one, you are attending) and some leading to OST. I would find the beliefs from thinking about this actual conference: why do we do stuff like this? (and here the difficulty could be to be appreciative, but that's important!)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">I have tried a little here...</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">- Groups rotating... - the assumption: it is more important to hear a something about everything (and then you can always search more information afterwards) </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">OST-assumption: You learn the most from being in dialogue about what you are really passionated about</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">You have only 90 minutes: - the assumption is: The speaker transfer her knowledge to the participants by giving a paper and a speach</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">OST-assumption: We all (also participants) have lot of knowledge, what we need is to sort it out - meaning relating to our one knowledge, deciding our attitude.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Organizers assumption: Participants have tried OST before and already know about it</FONT> </SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">OST-assumption: The participant's who already tried OST would love to do it once more and the more they know about it, the more they know that they now have the possibility of learning even more.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Organizers: Some people don't want to speak in public</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">OST: You don't need to - and if you are passionated about something it's easier to talk about it</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">You can put up the different asssumptions at to different slides - presenting one way of seing the world - and another way.. - and then it is up to the participants to decide their attitude...</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Have a nice conferece!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Lise</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="666534508-22112005"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Clouded and cold Copenhagen..</FONT></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>*
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