<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist" target="_blank"><span><span></span></span></a>Hello, bright summer morning here in Bilbao. How are you?<br>I'm writing some lines now to report on my first OS experience (Monday, 2009/6/29). <br>
Thanks for your attention, beforehand.<br></div><br>Overall, the event ran ok, and first time is usually harder, isn't it?<br><br>I've realised some things to improve, though, and some doubts have also aroused. First I'll say that my first OS<br>
was, maybe, a bit artificial (nine people interested in creativity and not knowing each other before - 3 exceptions -<br>were invited to build some knowledge about it, with these questions:<br> <br> "CREATIVITY (ability to create). It is useful in education, anyone's life, the arts, enterprises,...<br>
* is there a way to improve it?<br> * are techniques really useful. Which ones and in which ways? "<br><br>I'll search the OST files about them, but here some of my thoughts:<br><br>1. Not too hot topic. No real deadline. RESULT: Tension was lacking.... but it worked as a tool. <br>
People got involved in real conversations and written reports were distributed in the afternoon.<br>The day after we commented on the experience itself, and people found it useful... <br>but next times I'll only use it in more real issues and more suitable conditions.<br>
<br>2. The law of two feet wasn't almost really used (although it was extensively explained at the beginnig).<br><br>Afterwards I was explained that they wouldn't feel comfortable doing so because of habits, believes,...<br>
It helped me understand this behaviour and realising that, next times, it'll have to be more stressed in the opening.<br><br>But, besides it, should the facilitator remind it to people DURING the OS is running?<br><br>
3. LUNCH TIME:<br>We had lunch together (unless one fellow that got home and back with us after lunch). How should the facilitator behave meanwhile?<br><br>Conversations were the typical of a learning group, not directly regarding the issues spoken in the OS. I suppose it is quite normal.<br>
Should/Could the facilitator, maybe, be apart at lunch time?<br><br>4. I read <i>"OST user's guide"</i> to try to visualise my behaviour after opening space and holding space during the meetings. <br>But still I felt sometimes uncomfortable not knowing how to behave. Trying to do nothing, not thinking, just being at hand,...<br>
<br>Would it be OK, for example, me just listening to a any group's conversation? <br><br>I was appart all the time but quite near, I sometimes felt they could be thinking <br>I was some kind of spy :-),... I went off... came back afterwards, I avoided<br>
to get in contact with the stuff people for other subjects I had to deal with,<br>I would then start thinking they were all thinking "what a witty guy, <br>he just put the people working, now he's just wandering and will be charging us for it!" :-)...<br>
<br>5. Would it be ok if I disappeared for a time to do something of my business?<br>(I guess not because this would involve being absent for a while)...<br><br>I'll reread the user's guide and the ost-list for this issue, no doubt,...<br>
<br>6. After proposing a discussion subject and having a group formed, being part of the agenda, the one who had called for it<br>said she wouldn't write the report (she wasn't good at it). I suggested she could have someone else of the group write it. <br>
<br>At last the group discussed about the specific subject ("creativity and physical movement") but no report was raised.<br>I let it be and pointed that due to it the people that weren't engaged in this discussion would not know much about it<br>
(the real aim of writing reports). <br><br>Next meetings finished with their reports written. <br><br>Any other ideas about how I could have behaved?<br><br>7. Another question (the answer of which I can guess :-):<br><br>
would it be ok if I had a small Mind-Map with the main points <br>I wouldn't anyway want to forget to explain in the opening?<br>I found myself realising having forgot to say something<br>and saying it afterwards,... although there was no big trouble about it.<br>
<br>8. An organisation issue. As the place would be open just one hour before beginning the OS,<br>I made the preparation in the hotel the day before, and was a bit uneasy this morning.<br>I suppose it would have been better leaving the main things prepared on Friday evening <br>
(the OS started on Monday morning and I wasn't let enter the place during the weekend).<br><br>Kind regards,<br><br><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Eleder Aurtenetxe Pildain</span><br> BILBAO<br> BM<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">31</span></b><br>
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