Bravo!!!! And Lucas -- you are right, many of the programs offered are 3-4 days (my own programs included). But the majority of that time is devoted to considering why Open Space works, and how to work with Open Space, as in leveraging the results. However, if the focus is on the practicalities of DOING an Open Space, the time required goes down considerably. After all, how long can it take to tell folks about sitting in a circle, creating a bulletin board, opening a market place, and getting to work? I am pretty sure that in 3 hours you could cover the basics and even give folks a chance to try it out. You could then have a little "homework" -- and ask everybody to do an Open Space somewhere, even if it is just a gathering of neighboring children, or a small group of fellow employees -- or even the local Football Association. And then, several weeks later, invite everybody back for another 3 hour session. At that point, the students will become the teachers, and the shared experience (positive and negative) the curriculum. And I am sure there are lots of other ways to go which have been tried and/or thought about by members of OSLIST. I am even surer that it will be a cold day in Hell before OSLISTERs refuse to share their experience.
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Lucas Gonzalez Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 6:24 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: Training Programs --- Harrison Owen <hho...@comcast.net> escribió: > Lastly, an effective program need not be a large one. Frankly I find > that working with 4-8 people to be a really rich experience -- and > one-on-one is just mind-blowing. Ok. I've read the book and googled for "open-space training". All training I've read of is conducted by experienced people and it takes 3-4 days. So the "lack of solid time/lack of plausible explanation for people without the experience"-for-all-(myself-included) problem remains. Let's say I have an evening per week which I can use. I have no experienced trainers available - at least none that I have heard of. Has, in the LIST experience, anything useful been done with that? Oh, I guess the answer will be "yes" - but what and how? I'll give it a try soon, btw, so I'll report on that - and I can use all your advice. I think I'll be able to invite some 20 people for 3 hours. I may have to ask for some money so we can buy stuff (paper, markers and tape) - or maybe I'll steal some from my own pocket money. I hope/expect space will become wider with that group, but I wonder if the seed might be so small as to be uncapable of growing further. Lucas ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ¡250 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist