Hi Tenneson!
What a great list you have already generated. What about also addressing some of the needs of learners with non-dominant stylesthe emotional learners and the kinesthetic crowd. Emotional learners can be challenging to accommodate in a traditional conference, but you could create a reflection room where folks could go to quietly reflect on how they feel about what they are learning and also to make notes in their journals. If you provided some exercise balls as alternate seating for the regular settings, this can help the doers in the crowd. Also a toy or play table with some art supplies for drawing or painting or cutting. Things like that which support non-dominant modes and left-right integration. And in terms of deepening relationships and learning from others, is there a way to introduce a random element? I have found that introducing a random element can really support folks in getting out of their usual patterns. For example, generating random pairings of participants and inviting them to believe that they have something very important to learn from each other over the conference time. They dont have to go around together or anything, but it can support folks in stretching their antennae a bit farther and noticing and wondering more. Cheers, Wendy _____ From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Tenneson Woolf Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 9:19 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Request for Ideas Hosting Friends, I am shaping the design for a conference hosted by my university organization, The Dyer Institute for Leading Organizational Change (www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu <http://www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu/> ). The conference, April 4-6, 2007 is focused on leading organizational change more specifically, on themes of leadership and engagement. In many ways, this is a conference with traditional formats couple of keynotes, concurrent sessions, Q&A. The audience we expect is 100 200, (60% practitioners, 25% MBA students, 15% university faculty). The conference is offsite, at a resort hotel in a nice mountain setting. I am working at the edges to add as much non-traditional formatting that really cooks the learning possibilities. Id welcome your suggestions. What deepens relationships, learning, and capacity to act in a more traditional conference format? A few of my ideas: - learning wall, self-organized for post-it note questions, learnings, observations - offerings wall, self-organized for people to name where they will be for given topics outside of the conference program - participant created resource table - conference journal to encourage reflection and learning that happens in hosting self - learning cafés (youve heard a bunch of stuff, now lets turn to each other to make sense of these ideas) - conference blog for people to harvest questions, insights, next steps for them - video recordings (Thanks Tatiana at WC Stewards), Dyer TV to harvest stories, key challenges, endorsements - support for each presenter to facilitate group work and interactive presentation - an open learning room, for those who want to self-organize (not open space but open space) Please, join me with your ideas, improvements, stories of hosting the middle spaces in non-hosting environments. Piece and peace in the middle . Tenneson Tenneson Woolf The Art of Hosting tenne...@berkana.org www.artofhosting.org <http://www.artofhosting.org/> 801 376 2213 Dyer Institute for Leading Organizational Change tenneson_wo...@byu.edu www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu <http://www.dyerinstitute.byu.edu/> 801 422 2665 * * ========================================================== 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
