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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:PT">Hi Thomas:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:PT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:PT">Answering your questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:PT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:PT">- In what concerns group facilitation I only use OST
(if the situation is adequate for that) or The World Cafe (if it is not
adequate for OST, but it is for TWC). If the situation is not suitable for any
one of these, I tell the (possible) client (for instance a manager that has
already "the solution" and wants to sell it to the staff, or if
he/she is a control type and wants a more controlled and directive method) that
they must find a different facilitator. (This is probably easier for me to than
for some others as facilitation is not my main job).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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mso-fareast-language:PT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:PT">In what concerns the pre-planning and de-briefing I
normally don't use OST and would only consider to use it if the customer had
already used OST in many previous events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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mso-fareast-language:PT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:PT">In what concerns education and training I normally use
un-traditional non-OST based methods, often followed by an OST session to
discuss the issues at hand. But I think I still use <b>the spirit of OST</b>.
Please read my contribution to the book initially called "A present for
Harrison" and later "Festschrift - 25 years of Open Space" to
see what I mean by that, how I arrived to OST and why I don't like directive
facilitation methods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:PT"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:
PT">Warm regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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PT">Artur<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div> </div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Thomas Herrmann <thomas@openspaceconsulting.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sun, November 14, 2010 8:13:46 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [OSLIST] SV: self-organization and "conscious" Open Space organizations [was OST and PD (Positive Deviance)]<br></font><br>
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Hi and thanks for sharing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Just got curious and want to ask you Artur if you always use Open Space Technology when you work with a group? I find more and more opportunities but still think that there are times when I need a more “directed” approach. For me, most of the times WPPF is the best complementary method – although I usually separate them and use them according to when I find they fit best. When I use OST, (which is part of almost all of my assignments!) I consider myself to work pretty much “by the book” – because I think that works best!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">For example I have, so far, never used only OST all through a OST-process with a client (prework, main event and follow up). I am pretty sure I will try a full OST for a pre-meeting soon, probably with one of the “free” events I occasionally do with non-profits (as mentioned earlier we actually used Open Space for the pre-work for WOSonOS here, back in 2003).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Other occasions when I find WPPF useful are when I facilitate learning during trainings and some workshops. One example is a workshop I facilitated a couple of weeks ago in a nearby University. A researcher had
some findings that she was invited to share – and we included her sharing into a powerful WPPF container which gave (I think) a completely different level of learning than would have happened in a more traditional way of sharing research findings. With the time constraints of 3,5 hours I did not find OST to be a good choice for this.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Warm regards</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Thomas</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm
0cm;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">Från:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"> OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b>För </b>Artur Silva<br><b>Skickat:</b> den 14 november 2010 19:27<br><b>Till:</b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br><b>Ämne:</b> Re: self-organization and "conscious" Open Space organizations [was OST and PD (Positive Deviance)]</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;">Hi Raffi:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"><span>The Concepts of "Whole Person" and "Whole Person Approach" have been around for some time and are not new (for instance, see <a target="_blank"
href="http://www.well.com/user/dooley/change.pdf">http://www.well.com/user/dooley/change.pdf</a>, A Whole-Person/Systemic Approach to Organization Change Management, By Jeff Dooley, copyright 1998), and the same is true with other concepts like "left brain/right brain", "learning styles", etc. Of course, anyone can take a piece from here and another from there and give it a new name, and eventually even trademark it.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;">My only experience attending a Whole Person session was that I was being directed to do this or that, because the facilitator was convinced that this or that would put my right brain at work (which is not needed<b> because it is always at work</b>...). But the point is that I don't like being "directed" neither to "direct others".</span></p><p
class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;">For me, the magic of OST is that the facilitator does not need to direct people (except, eventually, as Harrison recalled, to justify the fee). Just open some space and the whole person will appear and real whole people will direct themselves and do the job.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black;">Abraços (this time in Portuguese)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Artur</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";"><hr size="1" width="100%"
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