OK, dear folks, I'm back from the one more training with Rotaracts of West Siberia, which was held in the city Kemerovo, last weekend, they were also about 40 as on the Olkhon Island on the Baikal lake, but from 4 cities: Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo and Barnaul, but... half of them came just to see each other and were happy to seat somewhere and have some drinks and talks and about a half came next morning to the OST meeting.
well, whoever comes are the right people, and they started with 16 questions, which we posted for the 4 sessions, ... 3 - before lunch, and 1 after but as the questions were 'a sort of a close' , like "how we can make our club more effective?", "how to envolve new members?" , how can a new member 'realize' her/him self in a club, and so on, the reglaments and shedules, whether they should 'punish' people if the come not often... and so on... ... they a sort of died up to the end and as I said the OS test was successfully passed by 10 people, who made 13 reports and we made them in book of proceeding EVEN, so after dinner we congratulate them with the successful work and results.... but there were no projects so we decided that we will 'play' with them a little in the evening - there were about 15-20 people while doing an exercise on 'consensus' in organization (Rotaract) and decided with my collegue, that we will 'work' with them on projects, next morning. so there were again about 12-15 people (they moved around and go away and then come, joining some groups), but there were 4 projects worked on and the trainer promissed to send them to me and we both would watch the results of each other training in future, so (that was my previous experience with the group of the Open World Program) and the same here, that our people and children are not thinking in terms of goals and budgets and projects, just in the type of Chernishevsky Question "What to do?" but the problem is that russians are closer to the eastern way of thinking - the orientation on the process, not on the result... so it was the same again... we need to 'lead' our people to 'result-thinking' so, yes, what ever happens, happens, but What to do? The people who were on Olkhon said, that it was much better, when concentrated, only 2 hours gave them best results. I don't think it is exactly so, as there were more motivated people, and here was half of the group 'having party' so some people thought: "why I should 'work?", though not all , as I saw, but without more exprienced people, no practice, they could not go to the project orientation.. how do you think? OK best wishes to all elena marchuk novosibirsk, russia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas D. Germann, Sr." <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 8:38 AM Subject: What are the unstated assumptions and aims of OS? > Eiwor-- > > << So you might as well go on our principles, whatever happens is the only > << thing that could happen. When I did this I was very clear to the > sponsor > << about that we don't really know how many are coming next time, but we > can > << be sure that those who come are the right people. > > This is beautiful and an excellent way to handle it. Thanks, Eiwor! > > :-Doug. > > * > * > ========================================================== > [email protected] > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of [email protected], > Visit: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
