Building on Wendy's ideas a little...<br><br>I worked last year helping a small group design a conference. They started with a cafe around the question of "what did you come here looking for?" or something like that, the idea being that everyone develop a key question for themselves to open themselves up and ground their reason for being. I think after the cafe then everyone was invited to turn their name tags around and write on the back of the name tag - the balnk side - what theoir question was. Then people just walked around for two days like that, going to sessions, but displaying their questions instead of their names. Every so often two people would connect around an inquiry, and introduce themselves (which is a far more civilized way of becoming acquainted).
<br><br>Anyway, it worked well...could work nicely with Wendy's idea of making those questiontags glow with art materials.<br>Chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
</b> <<a href="mailto:wendy@xe.net">wendy@xe.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Georgia" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia;">Hi Tenneson!</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia;">What a great list you have already generated. What about
also addressing some of the needs of learners with non-dominant styles—the
emotional learners and the kinesthetic crowd. Emotional learners can be
challenging to accommodate in a traditional conference, but you could create a
reflection room where folks could go to quietly reflect on how they feel about
what they are learning and also to make notes in their journals. If you
provided some exercise balls as alternate seating for the regular settings, this
can help the doers in the crowd. Also a toy or play table with some art
supplies for drawing or painting or cutting. Things like that which support non-dominant
modes and left-right integration.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia;">And in terms of deepening relationships and learning from others,
is there a way to introduce a random element? I have found that introducing a random
element can really support folks in getting out of their usual patterns. For example,
generating random pairings of participants and inviting them to believe that they
have something very important to learn from each other over the conference time.
They don't have to go around together or anything, but it can support folks
in stretching their antennae a bit farther and noticing and wondering more.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia;">Cheers,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia;">Wendy</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> OSLIST
[mailto:<a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On
Behalf Of </span></b>Tenneson Woolf<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 26, 2007
9:19 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Request for Ideas</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-weight: bold;">Hosting
Friends,</span></font></b></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I am shaping the design for a conference hosted by my
university organization, The Dyer Institute for Leading Organizational Change (<a href="http://www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu/" title="blocked::http://www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu</a>).
The conference, April 4-6, 2007 is focused on leading organizational change
– more specifically, on themes of leadership and engagement. In many
ways, this is a conference with traditional formats – couple of keynotes,
concurrent sessions, Q&A. The audience we expect is 100 – 200, (60%
practitioners, 25% MBA students, 15% university faculty). The conference is
offsite, at a resort hotel in a nice mountain setting.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I am working at the edges to add as much non-traditional
formatting that really cooks the learning possibilities. I'd welcome your
suggestions.</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-weight: bold;">What
deepens relationships, learning, and capacity to act in a more traditional
conference format?</span></font></b></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">A few of my ideas:</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- learning wall, self-organized for post-it note questions,
learnings, observations</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- offerings wall, self-organized for people to name where
they will be for given topics outside of the conference program</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- participant created resource table</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- conference journal to encourage reflection and learning
that happens in hosting self</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- learning cafés (you've heard a bunch of stuff, now
let's turn to each other to make sense of these ideas)</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- conference blog for people to harvest questions, insights,
next steps for them</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- video recordings (Thanks Tatiana at WC Stewards), Dyer TV
to harvest stories, key challenges, endorsements</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- support for each presenter to facilitate group work and
interactive presentation</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">- an open learning room, for those who want to self-organize
(not open space but open space)</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-weight: bold;">Please,
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middle spaces in non-hosting environments.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Piece and peace in the middle….</span></font></p>
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