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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Sounds like a great piece of work/play. Wish
I could have been there! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName> [mailto:<st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Dominik Ringler (AOL)<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 14, 2007
12:46 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> First open space training
in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Serbia</st1:place></st1:country-region></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hello open space world!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Just coming back from running the first open space
technology training in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Serbia</st1:country-region>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Novi Sad</st1:City></st1:place> ...
Balkans, we would like to share some of our experiences. The training was held
in a youth hostel in the centre of the city but not far from the river “<st1:place
w:st="on">Danube</st1:place>”. We had 40 participants from <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Serbia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Bosnia</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Macedonia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Austria</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Hungary</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region>
and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
Most of them share a common background in youth work. The training was
supported and financed by the YOUTH programme of the European Union. The
average age was 26 years. The trainers were Yaari Pannwitz and Dominik Ringler
from <st1:State w:st="on">Berlin</st1:State> and Werner Prinzjakowitsch from <st1:City
w:st="on">Vienna</st1:City>, but we had great local support from our partner organisation
“ONO – Omladinska Nevladina Organizacija” from <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Novi Sad</st1:City></st1:place>. The training
design was more or less in the style of a popular European ost training design:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>day 1: arrival; intro; planning meeting; voluntary
set-up of the first open space<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>day2: open space (title found by the participants:
“celebrating the differences – how can/do we activate
potentials”)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>day 3: action planning and free afternoon<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>day 4: open space on open space; building teams and
preparation of the 3<sup>rd</sup> open space “I, open space
facilitator”, planned, organized and facilitated by the trainees;
feedback from the trainers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>day 5: open space “I, open space
facilitator”; building teams and preparation of the action planning,
planned, organized and facilitated by the trainees; feedback from the trainers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>day 6: action planning; feedback, questions and
answers (in three groups), evaluation, last presentation by the reflection
groups; fare-well party<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>day 7: departure<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The whole training was accompanied by daily reflection
groups (which wrote an open space training diary) and different learning
spaces. By now there are already two concrete plans to run an open space in the
near future (<st1:country-region w:st="on">Hungary</st1:country-region> and <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Serbia</st1:country-region></st1:place>).
Before and during the training we faced some major challenges: the entire material
(including pin walls, markers, all kinds of paper) was delivered 30 minutes
before the start of the training (due to the negotiations with the Serbian
customs), the average temperature was 40 degrees Celsius (we provided three
rubber paddling pools in the backyard on which the working groups could gather
and cool down), a compound fracture due to a volleyball match, one participant
quit on the second day…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Overall it was a great pleasure and tough work for us
and we are looking forwards to see the open space seeds growing. We like to
thank the sponsors of the training: especially Michael M Pannwitz for
consulting in advance and him as well as <a
href="http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/">www.openspaceworldmap.org</a> for
sponsoring a “user’s guide” for every participant and all the
shipping costs; neuland AG for sponsoring a lot of materials, Stange Design for
price reduction and the support for shipping the materials as well as memo AG
for price reduction and last but not least voda voda from Serbia for 300 litres
of bottled water…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Yaari and Dominik<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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