Hi Friends,<br><br>Below is a recent exchange between me and Diane that may have useful ideas for you.<br><br><br>Smiles Bhav....<br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------<br><br>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Bhavesh,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for giving us such good news about your OST
Learning workshop. Good for you for creating such an inspiring learning
opportunity for so many people! Thank you also for sharing your process. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Your timetable reflects a process that I have been moving
towards more and more ie starting the OS experience even before lunch - gives
more time after for participants to anchor and build their learning...which
makes learning more meaningful. I do keep a short convergence phase for
personal action the next morning. It allows participants to experience this
focussing process as well as living evening News the day before (as oppose
to only the closing) and Morning News. They can also feel the benefits of the
overnight reflection and incubation ( a valuable experience to help clients
understand the added value of more time) and the more relaxed transition to
convergence when the logistics are dealt with overnight. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The best to you in the new space and life you are moving
into.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Diane</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Brilliant, that is the bit that I was missing.... I did some
convergence and then closed..... but your idea makes more sense...... what if
we even put the action planning phase as the final part of Day 3, and so they
would reflect taking the learning from the whole workshop into action, and
finish with a closing circle.<br>
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So start with OST - then have a more workshop based approach - and then finish
with OST.... YES, that might work!<br>
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THANKS.............</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Bhavesh,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">About your idea of action planning at the end of the
workshop, here are the distinctions I make between the two moments of action
planning during the workshop: </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- I do action planning at the end of the workshop in
relations to their next steps for deepening their learning of OST - that is, an
individual reflection and some sharing in duos or with the group if time
permits. Doing action planning about the theme of the first day would not have
relevance for them at this point and would likely feel disconnected.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- At the end of convergence on the morning of day-2, the
action planning is related to discussions they just had related to the theme of
the live OS, as in any real OS event. This action planning is not about
the OST method. The theme of the experiential OST can be about a variety
of subjects..anything other than the Open Space method which is something they
will have more to say about after the experiential OS. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hope this is useful,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Diane</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Diane. I played about with the ideas you mention
below when I was designing the workshop. Let me share with you some of my
thoughts:</p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="">If I was running the OST
workshop for a single organisation, then I felt I could have an OST on a
real issue and so there would be plenty of possibilities for action
planning</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">However this workshop was
public and attracted a diverse bunch and so I assumed that the best goal
would be meaningful conversation, a touch of convergence in terms of
noticing patterns of interest and energy, and then stop there</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">I also decided the theme
for them, which worked quite well. In a past workshop I have worked with
participants on a theme, and then run the OST on that theme and found that
it lacked some energy</li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">However I think I will try your method next time. End Day 1
with some convergence and an evening circle, and then open Day 2 with action
planning and a closing circle, have a cup of tea and then get into workshop
format.<br>
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What do you think? Smiles Bhav.............</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Bhavesh,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What you described in your last email is familiar. For
public workshops, I also send out the theme a couple of weeks in advance so
they can prepare mentally as for any OS event. I keep the theme broad enough so
that participants can explore it from a personal perspective or an
organizational or societal perspective.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I plan to experiment with a shorter experiential OS all
completed on day 1 with convergence (OS on action) after lunch for a smooth
transition (with enought time to finish reports and set up the new logisitc).
This will give more time for exploring learning questions of interest. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For organizations who have recently help an OS, I offer a
2-day training (the experiential part being already covered). This way they
have addressed an issue they needed to address and they can add a less
expensive learning workshop.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Got to go - summer is calling. It's been nice exchanging
notes.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Diane</p>
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