<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Suzanne Daigle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdaigle4@gmail.com">sdaigle4@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Spark and mmp, I cannot offer wisdom on the design of this event; what I can offer however is the excitement I feel inside as I read this. I will save this email; I will read all the comments that people will submit knowing that some time in my future, I will be thanking you ever so much for having created this program, allowing others to co-create it with you. Last night I was thinking how lucky we are that Harrison chose to give Open Space away, not license it, not franchise it and I feel he has been paid back in kind with the thousands of people like us and the hundreds of thousands of participants who are finding themselves through that little "spark" that gets ignited for so many when they get to "experience" Open Space.<br>
<br>I love the theme "Creating Organizations that Work". Now I wish we could come up with an equally elegant and simple theme that conveys "Finding your Life and Living it" <br><br>And finally Spark, one thing I am discovering to anchor the experience after an Open Space is to do interviews with participants a few weeks later, asking them about how they felt "before", "during" and "after". I created a series of questions for each part as if I was a journalist interviewing them. It has taken me one hour per person (not practical to do with all but interesting nevertheless to do it with only a few). <br>
<br>To my amazement, I have found that they seem to relive their Open Space experience as if becoming more conscious of what happened and then what I'm struck by are the similar "patterns" of how people seem to feel at each stage. By talking it out loud almost like a non-leading coaching session, I feel it anchors their experience. You might want to do something like this though others may argue it goes against "self-organizing" , "letting go", etc. <br>
<br>I wish I had your name, cause Spark is certainly something that Open Space did for me in my life. Oooo what fun you are going to have! And mmp, you are absolutely brilliant and also generous!<br><br>Suzanne<div><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Spark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spark@openspace.kr" target="_blank">spark@openspace.kr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear OS friends,<br>
<br>
Co-inciding with IAF Asia Conference in Seoul, we've been invited to offer a<br>
OS training program by Mr. Yun, Chairman of KFA (korea Facilitators<br>
Association), and are going to launch a one-day OS Practitioners<br>
Co-Learning Course from this occasion.<br>
<br>
With advices from mmp, we came up with a one-day OS practitioners program<br>
for the one-day Post Conference on Sat., 28 August 2010 of IAF Asia in<br>
Seoul that willl be taking place from 25-28 August.<br>
<br>
We'd like to invite all your wisdom on staging events of this kind from your<br>
experience.<br>
<br>
Thanks a million to all my friends on our OSLIST community!<br>
<br>
Here it follows...<br>
<br>
Context ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
<br>
Open Space Practitioners Learning Camp<br>
<br>
For many, the fearless courage to Open Space has been rewarded with<br>
fulfillment in all aspects of life. This often needs multiple tries in<br>
participating and experiencing Open Space before enough energy gets built up<br>
and gives self confidence to try Open Space. Open Space Practitioners Camp<br>
from the Open Space Institute of Korea is a learning course that triggers<br>
this natural self organizing process of learning and playing (Trying) with<br>
Open Space. And the practice gets deepened and enriched by sharing learnings<br>
with other OS practitioners. (Camp represents an entrance to an open space<br>
of knowing and doing where collective individual egos naturally self<br>
organize toward a holistic ego that lets needs of both individuals and the<br>
whole met.)<br>
<br>
The camp helps participants learn Open Space from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. with<br>
experience of self organizing mechanism of Open Space and steps of<br>
triggering it by individuals, teams, and the whole. Then on graduates are<br>
introduced to an opportunity to keep sharing their OS learnings with the<br>
co-participants and the community of Open Space practice at one's own pace<br>
throughout life anywhere across the world.<br>
<br>
<br>
Open Space Practitioners Camp<br>
<br>
Phase I Experiencing Open Space<br>
<br>
Theme: "Creating Organizations that Work"<br>
<br>
9:00-10:00 Opening Space<br>
<br>
10:00- Session 1<br>
<br>
10:40- Session 2<br>
<br>
11:20- Session 3<br>
<br>
12:00-13:00 Lunch with casual reflection<br>
<br>
Phase II Practicing Open Space<br>
<br>
Theme: "?" (A real theme chosen by the group among<br>
topics from facilitation teams)<br>
<br>
13:00-14:00 Intro to OST practice and facilitation teams<br>
formed and prepared<br>
<br>
14:00-14:15 Select a team and get self prepared<br>
<br>
14:15-15:00 Opening Space on the theme II practiced by the<br>
facilitation team<br>
<br>
15:00- Session 1<br>
<br>
15:45- Session 2<br>
<br>
16:30-17:15 Session 3<br>
<br>
17:15- Closing Space on Practicing OS<br>
<br>
17:45-18:00 Group feedback on the OS practice & intro to<br>
ways to sustain future practices<br>
<br>
18:00 OS Practitioner Certificate presented & the<br>
Camp closed<br>
<br>
<br>
Previous Advices from mmp~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
<br>
Dear Spark,<br>
for your Process I suggest the following:<br>
<br>
-try to create a theme that supports action since OST is an action orienting<br>
planning method and involves the participant. I would suggest one but am<br>
puzzled by what "High Performance Sustainability" might mean.<br>
Perhaps: "Creating High Performance Sustainability"...but I think it is a<br>
bit too complex...you might try a theme that Harrison Owen regularly uses in<br>
his workshops on introducing OST and, thinking of it, it might means the<br>
same thing you have in mind "Creating Organisations that work" (this<br>
contains a nice play on the word "works" since it can mean both "function",<br>
as in "functions well" as also "produces" in the sense that there is an<br>
output).<br>
<br>
-you should have always at least three breakout sessions so that there is<br>
more variety of issues and that people have more than an either or<br>
choice...just reduce the time for each session. By stating only the<br>
beginning time and not the end time you emphasize the idea that the time a<br>
session will take is selforganized and follows the fact of life "When it is<br>
over it is over / when it is not over, it is not over. So here is my<br>
suggestion:<br>
<br>
10:00 Break out session 1<br>
10:45 Break out session 2<br>
11:30 Break out session 3<br>
<br>
-skip the reflection but suggest that during lunch would be a great time to<br>
sit together with the food and talk about what people experienced on their<br>
tables or the small groups that might form during lunch.<br>
<br>
-to support the selforganisation of time I suggest you have a phase where<br>
people can have a "reflective lunch" from 12:00 until 13:00...some will take<br>
lunch at 12 some at 12.15 some at 12:30 and some will even skip it because<br>
they are in a heated discussion in a breakout session...selforganized<br>
<br>
-at 13:00 create "facilitation teams" (if there are 25 participants, you<br>
might create 5 teams of 5 participants each) that have 45 minutes to prepare<br>
for running an os event. You dont make any input just give them a sheet of<br>
paper with their tasks: Formulate a theme for the os they will facilitate,<br>
decide who will be the facilitator, make a design for the introduction which<br>
they had just seen which will include 3 breakout sessions and a closing<br>
circle, here is what it might look like<br>
<br>
13:00 Very short introduction for "Practicing OST"<br>
13:05 Creating x number of Facilitation Teams, handing out instructions,<br>
5 minutes to read and understand the instructions, 5 minutes for questions<br>
13:15 Teams prepare for facilitation<br>
14:00 Select one team that will actually do the faciliation<br>
14:05 Open Space run by the selected team will be set up and starts at<br>
14:15 and ends at 17:15 (same amount of time as for the os in the morning<br>
but the selected team decides on the time structure)<br>
17:15 Closing Circle (this is to close the Open Space they just experienced)<br>
17:45 Feed back for the active team by all the other participants on the OST<br>
they just experienced (thinsk we felt were great, things that could be<br>
improved, etc.) 18:00 Close<br>
<br>
In this fashion, everybody actively got ready for running an OST event and<br>
in that way can appreciate what the selected team does...serving for a base<br>
for the feedback at the very end.<br>
Also, since there is no input, participants really have to use their own<br>
ressources...which will give them a deep experience with the power of<br>
self-organisation.<br>
<br>
Curious to hear how you will run this challenging event!!<br>
Greetings from Berlin<br>
mmp<br>
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<br>
S<br>
<br>
Spark<br>
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