<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Thank you Diane , this conversation is very timely for me since I lately organized and led a training with 17 people . </span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">All the best from foggy NYC</span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Tova</span></div><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: right; direction: rtl;">נשלח מה-iPad שלי</div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; direction: rtl; text-align: right;"><br>ב-3 בדצמ 2013, בשעה 14:08, Diane Gibeault <<a href="mailto:diane.gibeault@rogers.com">diane.gibeault@rogers.com</a>> כתב/ה:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div id="yiv5803778321"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_10"><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_23">Hi Tova,</span></div><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_10" style="background-color:transparent;"><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_26"><br clear="none"></span></div><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_10" style="background-color:transparent;"><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_29">I so agree with the benefits you describe below, of the overnight OS experience - </span><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386021981618_3359" style="font-size:10pt;"> </span><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_81" style="font-size:10pt;">incubation, evening and morning news. </span><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386021981618_3360" style="background-color:transparent;">That
is the ideal way to experience OS for sure and that is how I have done it for over a decade until the last three years or so. </span></div><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_10" style="background-color:transparent;"><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_90" style="background-color:transparent;"><br clear="none" id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_92"></span></div><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_10" style="background-color:transparent;"><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_85" style="background-color:transparent;">The only reason I changed and started in the morning with a full day OS experience is to be able to start with OS at the very outset of the workshop so people don't confuse the training type of activities with what OS really is.</span></div><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_10" style="background-color:transparent;"><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_36"><br clear="none" id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_42"></span></div><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_10" style="background-color:transparent;"><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_68">I also didn't </span><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386021981618_3356" style="font-size:10pt;">start the workshop at 1 pm </span><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386021981618_3357" style="background-color:transparent;">for public workshops because organizations seem to have a lot of difficulty freeing people for 3 days. Seeing the event </span><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_51" style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;">spread over </span><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386021981618_2581" style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;">4 calendar days seemed to add to the challenge. The
same for outside participants coming only for the day-1 OS to join the theme discussions. I do think the equivalent of 3 days is important for the reasons you describe so well. </span></div><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_10" style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_10" style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">NOW you caused me to rethink another option. </span><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386021981618_3622" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">The challenge of the 4 days would not be as great for OS training done internally with an organization or an existing group. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">in that context, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">I will
certainly go back to starting the experiential OS mid-day, as well as the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">OS workshop itself. And</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;"> I will probably try out the 4-day spread for public workshops.</span></div><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_10" style="background-color:transparent;"><br clear="none" id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_48"></div><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_10" style="background-color:transparent;">Thank you for bringing this possibility to mind,</div><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_10" style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_10" style="background-color:transparent;">Diane</div><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_10" style="background-color:transparent;"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_7_1386021981618_8"><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_7_1386021981618_24"></span></div><div id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_6_1386021981618_16"><div class="yiv5803778321MsoNormal yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386021981618_2234" id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386021981618_2512" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span class="yiv5803778321Apple-style-span yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386021981618_2235" id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386021981618_2511" style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(0, 127, 64);font-weight:bold;"><b id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386021981618_2510"><span id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386021981618_2509" lang="EN-US"><font class="yiv5803778321Apple-style-span" id="yiv5803778321yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386021981618_2508" size="2" color="#007f40" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Co-auteure : </font></span></b></span><span class="yiv5803778321Apple-style-span
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day of training or at least initiating, planing and meeting with steering committee .</span></div><div style="direction:ltr;"><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div>On day one of the training I start with short introduction of OS , me, people, training , a short break and them a theme choice together. After lunch break we come back to a day of OS , from noon to noon.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Way?</div><div>-most importantly because I want people in training to experience an over night OS gathering. When there is a night in the OS the whole Dynamic is different, many times introducing not only slowing down but also some of the low,sad,energy accompanying OS that is connected to separation from old structures. This became important to me when I saw too many OS practitioners that hold the high energy part very well but seem to avoid two day event and heavy energies that need wading through. I want to invite the very different
energy and feel of evening and morning news.</div><div>- this is very similar to the flow of work with an OS gathering. There is some pre work before the event that is done in more traditional ways but carries the dialogic spirit and builds some of the readiness and atonement to radical openness, as Michael said I think we need both and the flow back and forth in the preparation of and in the convergence and support of initiatives after. </div><div>- lunch break helps transition from on mode to the other</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I believe the real challenge with training is the split presence: in regular OS most of the people come for the inspiring theme. In training , by defending, the attention is split between the theme ( assuming it is really inspiring for them) and the most fundamental motivation to become an OS practitioner. For many of them it is hard or impossible to hold both strong presence in both</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Thank you for this conversation everyone</div><div>And thanks for my jet leg in the us, it has been a while since I found some space to join in</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div style="direction:ltr;">Tova Averbuch</div><div style="direction:ltr;">Usually from Israel</div><div style="direction:ltr;">This time from NYC</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div style="text-align:right;direction:rtl;">נשלח מה-iPad שלי</div></div><div style="direction:rtl;text-align:right;"><div style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;"><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><span style="">ב-27 בנוב 2013, בשעה 20:51, Michael Wood <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:michael.wood@uwa.edu.au" target="_blank" href="mailto:michael.wood@uwa.edu.au">michael.wood@uwa.edu.au</a>> כתב/ה:</span><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5803778321yqt8467620384" id="yiv5803778321yqt71082"><blockquote type="cite" style=""><div><span>Hi Diane,</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>Very helpful suggestions - thankyou. All the reasons you propose make perfect sense to me and I'll think about trying your approach for the next program and see what happens. </span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>The modelling aspect is important. And yet I wonder if that is part of the ambiguity that the facilitator has to live within. i.e. we often take a more active facilitation role with the sponsor in helping the sponsor to come up with a clear question, and then have to change modality when we facilitate the actual OST event. But I can also understand the potential confusion for the group in a training context - and I think I've perhaps observed some of that confusion but wasn't quite sure of it source until you outlined why you now do it a different way - so many thanks for taking the
time to outline this with such clarity.</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>Cheers</span><br clear="none"><span>Michael Wood</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:47:55 -0800 (PST)</span><br clear="none"><span>From: Diane Gibeault <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:diane.gibeault@rogers.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:diane.gibeault@rogers.com">diane.gibeault@rogers.com</a>></span><br clear="none"><span>To: World wide Open Space Technology email list</span><br clear="none"><span> <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span><br clear="none"><span>Subject: Re: [OSList] waveriding in Oz / OST training</span><br clear="none"><span>Message-ID:</span><br clear="none"><span> <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:1385581675.19624.YahooMailNeo@web162705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:1385581675.19624.YahooMailNeo@web162705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com">1385581675.19624.YahooMailNeo@web162705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com</a>></span><br clear="none"><span>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>Hi Michael,</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>For two reasons, I modified day-1 training as you describe it. I now invite the group (an already existing group) to propose?in advance topics for a?theme, either at a meeting or by group emails. With the sponsor and a couple of volunteers (as would an organizing committee) the preferred subject is formulated in the form of a theme: short, broad in scope and inspiring. In the debrief later during the training we look at the experience and tips for theme formulation.?</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>The first most important reason the theme is formulated in advance is that it allows participants to arrive on day-1, straight into a real Open Space. They got a clear picture in their mind and their body memory was better at retaining it for their own facilitation.?</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>I found throughout the years that starting in a training mode before experiencing the OS confused people. Many afterwards thought that OS begins with everyone introducing themselves or with a check-in with a circle. They would report later on about their own experience of facilitating an OS: how these kind of intros slowed down the opening - especially with groups over 20 people - lowered the energy in the room and for a number of participants, increased the anxiety of this unknown OS thing to come.</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>The second reason for this approach is that it creates
more time-space to experience an OS, one that is not rushed thus allowing to "feel" the effect of time with the magical law of two feet, butterflies and all. This avoids replicating a fast pace OS which can then feel like many control types of facilitation methods if not speed-dating.?</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>For public workshops where people are from various organizations, I reverted to choosing a theme that is broad enough to capture the interest of the kind of participants that are joining and of interest to other people in the community who are invited to join for that one-day experience of OS. This diversity makes the OS day feel even more real to participants.?</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>Problems I encountered starting the first day with brainstorming on a theme with training participants of public workshops included:?</span><br clear="none"><span>-The
first contact participants have with the trainer begins with him or her modelling traditional facilitation and consensus building methods instead of modelling OS hands-off self-organization facilitation.</span><br clear="none"><span>- arduous process?at times especially for groups of over 20 people,?</span><br clear="none"><span>- often?consuming too much time thus frustrating people,?</span><br clear="none"><span>- preferences were polarized at times, some did not accept the compromise theme, felt rejected and ganged-up to not participate and even be obstructive in the training days that followed. We had created a group-think situation.?</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>No mistake when starting the day with OS. Everyone is on an equal footing. We are modelling what we are proposing. The following days people know what they're talking about, their questions are more relevant than if we started with describing the method - they
don't have to take my word for it, they experienced it.</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>Diane</span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>Diane Gibeault</span><br clear="none"><span>Co-author / Co-auteure :?Livre blanc?sur le Forum Ouvert?/?OPEN SPACE</span><br clear="none"><span>OT training - Formation?Forum Ouvert?:?Montreal?8-10?avril?2014</span><br clear="none"><span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.dianegibeault.com/">www.dianegibeault.com</a>? ? 2013 : Paris 19-21 nov.,?Marseille 3-5 dec.</span><br clear="none"><span>Diane Gibeault & <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://associe.es/">Associe.es</a>-Associates?Tel 613-744-2638, <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:diane.gibeault@rogers.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:diane.gibeault@rogers.com">diane.gibeault@rogers.com</a></span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span></span><br clear="none"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br clear="none"><span>OSList mailing list</span><br clear="none"><span>To post send emails to <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br clear="none"><span>To unsubscribe send an email to <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br clear="none"><span>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:</span><br clear="none"><span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><br clear="none"></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div class="yiv5803778321yqt8467620384" id="yiv5803778321yqt28062"><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>OSList mailing list</span><br><span>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:</span><br><span><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>