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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Claudia,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This depends a lot on what the purpose of the meeting is and the expected outcomes, whether it is a decision making meeting or not, and whether the decision makers are present.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Many years ago, I developed Whole Person Process Facilitation as a method that was to be complimentary to Open Space Technology in values including the use of the Four Principles and One Law. However, it is a more guided approach. When I learned OST, I was the senior staff of a non-profit health and social service. We held a number of OST meetings, and then the staff gave feedback on what was going wrong. We identified together the gaps in daily organizational life when there was frequent use of OST meetings. One gap was that we needed to fill was the one about identifying the ‘givens’ prior to the OST meeting of what people could and could not expect to happen following a meeting. Another gap was to have a meeting methodology that was complimentary to OST that could be used for the in between times when we needed to have meetings that could not be OST such as the action planning. We have now been using the givens and WPPF for 18 years and have learned a lot.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Usually, we now do all of our meetings with a Whole Person Process Facilitation platform…for however many days. The way we structure this allows us to have an OST meeting embedded within this platform, and often more than one depending on the assignment. This allows a wonderfully cohesive feel for the participants that includes how we come together at the beginning, any parts of the meeting that are to be more guided and cannot be OST, a good often 2-3 day OST meeting, followed by at least one action planning day. The seamless and nicely synergistic approach makes a really big difference. A lot of our work is strategic planning with organizations that have people geographically distant from each other. And so we also use the WPPF platform for all of the on line meetings around a big face to face one when the people all come together.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Birgitt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.dalarinternational.com">www.dalarinternational.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dr. Claudia Gross<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 16, 2012 4:22 PM<br><b>To:</b> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] follow-up of Next Steps<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>No 3:<br>Which training methods, exercises, energizers, etc. do you recommend<br>for the follow-up of the NEXT STEPS identified in Open Spaces?<br><br></span></b><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>(yes, this question IS related to Open Spaces... ;-)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>