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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'>Thank you Raffi…I appreciate very much your kind words about the training we offer, and of course about this one coming up tomorrow. It is indeed a complimentary workshop to what people learn in OST: the User’s Guide which is very much about facilitating a well done OST meeting.<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'>I think that my perspective of how to work with OST was so deeply influenced not only by who I am, but by my position of responsibility at the time in 1992 when I first took OST training with Harrison. I knew it was powerful. I brought it back to my organization that I was the senior staff person for (hence responsible and accountable for the performance of the organization) and we had several OST meetings in a row. If I am correct, we were the first ones to take OST down to a four hour meeting. My staff, Board, volunteers, and other stakeholders loved the meeting format, and yet after four meetings, rebelled against ever using OST again in our organization. I loved the method, was deeply disappointed, and so my journey began to understand, in the life of an organization, how to make the best use of OST meetings in the organization. Together with the staff, we realized we needed to work with the ‘givens’ before the meeting so that they could understand what the space was open for and what it was not, for any given meeting. Then they could make informed consent of whether they wanted to participate and give of their passion. We would not have had the same challenge if this was only about brainstorming, but as you know, OST is about so much more than brainstorming…true, deep passion gets involved…and expectations thus get raised that are combined with passion/emotion/heart. We also realized we needed a meeting method complimentary to OST in values, the use of the 4 principles and 1 law, and that offered a more guided approach to deal with the planning meetings, the convergence/action planning, the debrief meetings, and more. Not everything could be achieved in OST. We also used what became known as our Whole Person Process Facilitation (the complimentary meeting method) to hold peer to peer accountability meetings for follow up on the results of the OST meeting some months after the meeting…so that the accountability could be in a peer to peer circle, and not only up through a hierarchy. We figured a lot out. Eventually, the Genuine Contact program got born out of all of this learning.<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'>And so, tomorrow, we offer a one day workshop, on line, for those interested in how to work with the sponsor ahead of the OST meeting, to have crucial conversations so that the meeting is set up to go beyond ‘having a good meeting’. OST, in my experience, always works as a meeting in which the closing circle is a great big expression of gratitude. However, it doesn’t always work in terms of the follow through with action planning and long term harvest in the organization. I am deeply passionate about planning for an OST meeting so that the conditions are created for the best possible follow up of the results. This one day workshop does not include how to facilitate OST…we assume participants will have some knowledge of that…and they can of course read the User’s Guide.<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'>Warmly,<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'><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'><img width=63 height=72 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CCE0DA.8F084D00" alt=tingsha>Birgitt Williams<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Author Genuine Contact Way<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Co-owner of the Genuine Contact program<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>President and Senior Consultant, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dalar International Consultancy, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.dalarinternational.com<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'>Note: picture of the bells that have journeyed to numerous countries with me for twenty-two years as an international consultant. During the closing circle of every meeting, everyone in the meeting has held these bells. They have now been held by thousands of people, all doing their part to create life nurturing conditions for humanity. The bells have also been held in blessing and in prayer by countless people, who bless all who ever hold them, with the journey of the bells uniting all of their energies to make a difference for humanity, one person at a time, one organization at a time, one business at a time, one community at a time.<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'><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><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>Raffi Aftandelian<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> OSlist<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] upcoming training to complement your knowledge and skills as a facilitator of OST<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>birgitt-jan, salam!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>I just want to say that I'm delighted that this workshop is being offered. And as a Genuine Contact trainer who has had the good fortune of taking a number of workshops with you, I think those who take this workshop with you and the rest of the Dalar team will be exceedingly fortunate. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>I've thought of the perspective you offer in working with OST and other participatory approaches as highly complementary to what is in the User's Guide. If Harrison is the storyteller, you are- in my mind- the doulah. Both are needed. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>We need the story to inspire and encourage and we need to access the doulah within to understand perhaps what is the container we are creating at all stages of the process and how to create that container.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>I've felt that even if one were- for whatever reason- to disagree with everything that is presented in the workshop it'll still be well worth the time. There are so many subtle questions that the User's Guide can only hint at (to be clear, i personally think the User's Guide is a brilliant book, much there to be emulated in how one presents a social technology). And what the GC approach offers, i believe, is a simple framework from which a facilitator can make wise and compassionate choices (i think without a workshop like the one you're offering we may not even realize the choices that we are making!) along the way in the course of planning, etc in service to the whole.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Having "taught" OST the GC way a number of times, I remember what one participant said of the workbook people received-- "How to do OST? It's all in there."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>my two kopecks/rials/drams...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>greetings from the southwest coast of obamastan!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>raffi<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>powered by ubuntu 10.4<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>