<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">As always, said most simply and eloquently.<div><br></div><div>I admit that I've wondered about Open Space training for facilitators. It's not that I don't think there's some value in learning from folks who've "been there and done that." I struggle with the idea that you can learn it in a classroom.</div><div><br></div><div>How do you teach the spirit of the facilitator in a classroom or a book? You don't. You learn it through experience.</div><div><br></div><div>I think much of the training/learning focuses on the logistics and organization, more than on the facilitation. But since I've never attended any training, I could be *very* wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>...Doc</div><div><br><div><div>On May 25, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Harrison Owen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Here we go again! Open Space is and always has been free. Of course if you want to pay somebody to train you in something that is yours by birthright, be my guest. That said, it can be very useful to do something like Lisa provides, as also Michael P and others (myself on occasion) – when a bunch of good folks collectively explore the wonderful world of Open Space. I am not sure I would call that training – maybe co-learning would be closer. However when it comes to “certification” I don’t have a clue how you would do that. Certainly you can “certify that X participated in a program”, but whether they have a clue what is going on – who can say? Frankly when I hear the word “certify” my immediate association is with mental aberrations. In American English, to say that “somebody is certifiable” means quite simply that they are nuts. But that might just fit, you know.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">J</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And certainly there was a time that if you said you were in Open Space people assumed you were smoking a controlled substance or had just plain lost it. Ah, The good old days!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Harrison <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> <br></o:p></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>*
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