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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white 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'>Co-Facilitation? It has certainly been done before, but my question would be: Why? <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'>Michael Pannwitz and I did a duo with the 2108 German Psychiatrists – and the reason was... I did English, and Michael did German, we each did it our own way, and met each other in the middle (of the circle). I think that made sense, but the more talking heads there are, by definition, the more space is cluttered/shuttered/closed. <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'>The point (for me) of opening space is to get folks thinking/being/talking/working together as quickly a possible. Which means that the sooner I, or anybody else, can get out of the way – so much the better. I think.<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'>Harrison<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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Winter Address<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Drive<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>301-365-2093<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'>Summer Address<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>189 Beaucaire Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Camden, ME 04843<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>207-763-3261<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'>Websites<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="%20www.openspaceworld.com"> www.openspaceworld.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="www.ho-image.com">www.ho-image.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>OSLIST </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><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";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Daniel Mezick via OSList<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 17, 2015 2:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] Euro-Agile Folk & OST-Experiments<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hello All,<br><br>This is from my friend in France, PABLO PERNOT, a real, great, person. He is a fine philosopher and a most excellent player of the banjo...(see related video link below....)<br><br>Pablo was the first in Europe to use before/after Open Space, with experimentation in the middle, using Open Space to frame an enterprise-wide iteration of learning.....BEYOND Agile adoption. He used it to introduce "other" non-Agile cultural change in an iterative (<a href="http://www.OpenSpaceAgility.com">www.OpenSpaceAgility.com</a>) way .....<br><br>His work doing that, led to this: <a href="http://www.Prime-OS.com">www.Prime-OS.com</a><br><br>A man of action is he. <br><br>Now he is planning, with colleague ALEXIS MONVILLE, to facilitating Open Space at this public Agile-conference event: <br>....wait, whoops... is co-facilitation a form of OST blasphemy?<br><a href="http://ale2015.alenetwork.eu/">http://ale2015.alenetwork.eu/</a><br><br>I wonder if you find the planned experiments with OST (listed below) interesting....<br><br><br>.....is this blasphemy...or bold innovation? Check the "White Hair" experiment .....<br><br><br>Regards,<br>Daniel<br><br>Related video link (Pablo-plays-banjo), 2 mins....<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apAzGSLi2UY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apAzGSLi2UY</a><br><br><br><br>================<br>ALE15 - Open Space<br>Facilitation <br>Pablo Pernot<br>Alexis Monville<br>================<br><br>Why adding experiments to the classic open space ? <br><br>We need fresh adventures <em>in the land of open space. We tasted the enterprise open space </em><br><em>and we value what it brings. We would like to try some experiments to benefit from that </em><br><em>experience and try something a bit different. We feel that it is important and possible </em><br><em>especially here because of the willingness to learn and to share of our community.</em><i><br><br><em>=======================</em><br><em>ALE 2015 Open Space Experiments</em><br><em>=======================</em><br><em>\</em><br><br><em>==================</em><br><em>Speed learning open space</em><br><em>==================</em><br><em>Opener and energizer 5mn: </em><br><br><em>●we form a large cycle standing up (no chairs in the room)</em></i><br><em>●2mn</em><i><br><em> ask every people that already know open space to raise </em></i><br><em>their hand.</em><i><br><br><em> ask people that doesn’t know openspace to pick someone</em></i><br><em>with a raised hand</em><i><br><br><em>●the person who knows has 2 mn to explain open space to his </em></i><br><em>partner (posters on the walls will display the way it works as a </em><br><em>reminder)</em><br><em>●1mn : we go back to the large circle</em><br><em>●2mn : another 2mn of Q&A but you need to pick someone </em><br><em>different. </em><br><i><br></i><br><em>==============</em><i><br><em>Babel tower</em><br><em>==============</em><br><em>Every topic proposed for the market place has to be made: </em><br><br><em>1.with our mothertongue </em><br><br><em>2. and in english </em><br><br><em>ps: for people with english as mother tongue they can, or not, repeat or </em></i><br><em>rephrase, or use their mother tongue accent / pronunciation at first </em><br><em>why: to hear all the diversity and richness of ALE people. to liberate the </em><br><em>non-verbal communication, to allow a different attitude (discover people </em><br><em>when they are at ease to speak, not when they are struggling to find their</em><br><em>words).</em><i><br><br><em>==============</em><br><em>Topic/Theme</em><br><em>==============</em><br><em>Adding a topic or a theme : every session should be related to this </em></i><br><em>theme. The idea is to gather the outcome and consolidate a booklet that </em><br><em>will help ale community to learn and share their learnings. </em><br><i><br><em>We propose the theme to be : </em></i><br><i><br><em>"What are the key changes in our culture and business?"</em><br><br><em>We should give people the theme one week at least before the </em></i><br><em>event, so they can think about it. Or be aware during the sessions.</em><br><em>Why: a part of the power of open space, when we use it in enterprises, is</em><br><em>coming from the common purpose of the people involved</em><br><i><br><br><br><em>====================================</em><br><em>Global restitution (report out) at the end of every session</em><br><em>====================================</em><br><em>Every session is one hour : split in two parts : 40mn brainstorming, 20mn</em></i><br><em>global restitution : every group has 1mn to restitute their conversation. </em><br><i><br><br><br><em>==================================</em><br><em>“key change pitch”</em></i><br><em>Quick normalization of the outcome of every session</em><i><br><em>==================================</em><br><em>Each group will use one flipboard paper sheet to present their topic.</em></i><br><i><br><em>The guidelines proposed for the global restitution and for the booklet are:</em><br><br><em>●140 characters to pitch of the “key change” (one line)</em><br><br><em> why/how this “key change” happened // what’s the value of the “key change”</em></i><br><i><br><em>This could/would/should of course evolve. </em><br><br><br><br><em>============================</em><br><em>PDF/Blog consolidation</em><br><em>============================</em><br><br><em>Every outcome (“key change pitch”) is consolidated in a booklet and/or a</em></i><br><em>blog every day and is public (is it possible to use ale15 blog and to have </em><br><em>some support to do that?)</em><i><br><br><br><em>===================</em><br><em>Visualisation</em><br><em>===================</em><br><em>As usual, visual helpers are provided, especially one explaining these </em></i><br><em>experiments.</em><br><i><br><br><em>============</em><br><em>Message</em><br><em>============</em><br><em>These experiments could evolve during the 3 days.</em><br><br><br><em>============</em><br><em>White hair</em><br><em>============</em><br><em>only white hair people can facilitate the open space</em></i><br><em>-</em><br><em>twitter account ? blog ale2015 ? hashtag ? </em><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ale15"><em><s>#</s>ale15</em></a><em> ? </em><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23alenetwork"><em><s>#</s>alenetwork</em></a><em> ? </em><br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><p class=p1>Daniel Mezick, President<o:p></o:p></p><p class=p1>New Technology Solutions Inc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=p1>(203) 915 7248 (cell)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=p2><span class=s1><a href="http://newtechusa.net/dan-mezick/">Bio</a></span><span class=s2>. <a href="http://newtechusa.net/blog/"><span class=s1>Blog</span></a>. <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/danmezick/"><span class=s1>Twitter</span></a>.</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=p3><span class=s2>Examine my new book:</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=s2><a href="http://newtechusa.net/about/the-culture-game-book/"><span class=s1>The Culture Game </span></a></span><span class=s1>: Tools for the Agile Manager</span><span class=s2>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=p1>Explore Agile Team <a href="http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-scrum-training/"><span class=s3>Training</span></a> and <a href="http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-scrum-coaching/"><span class=s3>Coaching.</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=p1>Explore the <a href="http://newtechusa.net/user-groups/ma/"><span class=s3>Agile Boston </span></a>Community.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>