Thanks Michael for the description of your (& Fred's) 12-hour training. Most innovative - I have never imagined two distinct OSs in a single day, but I'll remember it - how better to spend 12 hours?!
Chris ---------- >From: Michael M Pannwitz <mmpa...@snafu.de> >To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu >Subject: Re: [OSLIST] One Day OS Training >Date: Wed, May 9, 2001, 5:12 AM > > Dear Sharon, > my very first training was a one-day event on October 31, 1997 just > after returning from the Toronto OSonOS where I got a lot of good > advice from the os-community and where I had received the talking > stick that I keep with me since then. > Just the other day I looked at pictures from that os-training and out > of the 68 people that participated many are now os-practitioners, > several are into open space fulltime and are into the training > business themselves. > We called the training "Von 10 bis 10" which means it lasted 12 hours > from 10 am to 10pm. > It started with a break at 10:00am and we opened the space at 10:30 > around the theme "Moving into the third Millenium - the future of > organizational development and organizational transformation" (most > participants came from the od field). Three beginning times, 16 > issues worked, newswall, documentation (had computers and copiers in > the parish center where the training took place) and closing circle, > the whole works. That os lastet from 10:30am till 3pm. > After a 60 minute period of introducing a few theoretical thoughts, > talking about convergence etc. and telling people about the materials > and books around (we had also told them to read the "book" ahead of > time) we moved into an open space on open space from 4:30pm to > 9:00pm, 3 beginning times, 7 issues, documentation, closing circle. > The training ended with cheese and wine people beginning to leave > around 10pm. > So almost all the time was spent in open space. The participants > experienced two different styles of introducing os-t (myself and my > colleague Fred Moeller) and from all I can observe it worked. > There was one hitch: several people did not like to move into the > OSonOS phase but would rather have had us tell them more from our > experiences, give them examples, make more of a theoretical imput, > discuss everything in the whole group (this came up in that 60 minute > phase between the two open spaces). Afterwards people commented on > that it had been the right choice to continue with the OSonOS. I > remember that part of my activivity (yes, activity) was to let go at > that point of my insatiable desire to tell stories and go on forever. > The only thing I would do differently today (under the premise of a > one day event) is to have learning spaces set up (an open space > cinema with the 8 videos I have collected), an open space library and > an open space "nuts and bolts"-room for people to go through, browse > and view. > What I really like in the regular 4-day trainings I now organize is > the third open space which participants manage on their own under the > title "I, the open space-facilitator"...I have no clue how to squeeze > that into a one day event because I think the prerequisite for that > is to have the experience as participant (first os) and the > reflection as new os- facilitator in the second os on os. > And also, I recommend to start with the open space very first thing > so that everyone has the experience as quickly as possible that > nothing happens here unless I do it... > > Great success and fun > michael > > On Tue, 8 May 2001 02:23:50 -0400, Sharon Quarrington wrote: > >>After much discussion my partner (Bruce Craig) and I have decided to >>offer a one day "Intro to OST" training. We are both enamoured by >>this thing called Open Space and want to increase it's presence in our >>own lives and in the world. > > > > > > Michael M Pannwitz > Draisweg 1 > 12209 Berlin, Germany > FON +49 - 30-772 8000 FAX +49 - 30-773 92 464 > www.michaelMpannwitz.de > > To subscribe to the oslist, send the following message (and nothing but the > message): > "SUBSCRIBE OSLIST" to lists...@listserv.boisestate.edu > SUBJECT field should be left BLANK > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, > Visit: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html