Hola Patrício Interesante tesis!! I am reading Owen book Expanding Our Now: The Story of Open Space Technology
Strongly recommend. To consider OST as a 'technique' poses tremendous 'scientific' problems. The way science is produced today would be deserving Open Space. Question for you: In what way proving OST better than... advances scientific knowledge? From my iPhone El 31/05/2013, a las 14:27, Patricio Bastian <patricio.bast...@vallecentral.cl> escribió: > Dear Elder, > > to help answer your concern ............. “I specially like your starting > looking to the Day After....What is happening the day after the event? Which > perspectives do I see now? What has changed? This, I´ll try next time, yes! “ > > I mention that I'm developing my dissertation with that question. > > I enclose the approach: > > Problem Formulation > > The general question asks whether the Open Space is an effective technique to > produce sustainable organizational change and if it is superior to other > organizational intervention techniques, which are based on smaller groups and > a highly structured setting with a view of the objectives. This question can > generally be divided into the following questions: > > • Are individuals able to self-organize when subjected to an unstructured > context? > • Open Space Is capable of producing organizational responses that the > Organization needs? > • Do organizational change (to have occurred) sustainable over time? > • Do on these indicators than traditional techniques in terms of efficiency > and effectiveness? > > > Research Objectives > > General Purpose > > Evaluate the effectiveness of the technique of Open Space, representing > intervention techniques in large groups, to produce an organizational change > that accounts for internal and external demands of the Organization. > > Specific Objectives > > • Analyze the operation of the Open Space and organizational skill. > • Measure and analyze the impact that technology has on the organization. > • Compare the Open Space with other organizational intervention technique. > • Contribute empirical and theoretical analysis of intervention techniques in > large groups. > > > Of course, I appreciate your comments to the discussion in my thesis. Your > input is a valuable aid. > > Thank you, thank you very much. > > Sincerely, > > Patricio Bastian Duarte > > Note: My native language is Spanish. Please excuse typos > > > > > > > De: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org > [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] En nombre de Eleder_BuM > Enviado el: viernes, 31 de mayo de 2013 5:50 > Para: Michael M Pannwitz; World wide Open Space Technology email list > Asunto: Re: [OSList] What to do when a conflicted and important part is > missing? > > Hi Michael! > > I´ll say that till now, I used to hold much less detailed preparation > meetings. > > I would just come, say hello, and, more or less,... > 1. explain briefly OST for the ones that don´t know it: best conditions, how > the event will go on, what the resulsts are,... > 2. open a wide conversation to get to the core of their invitation. Then I > would write a draft and fix it with the core group during the days after. > 3. Spend dome time thinking on the invitation process: who&hows,... > 4. speak about all the logistics, place, food, materials, helped by a > mind-map in which I have organized all this info > And it has worked ok so far. > > Knowing that your more detailed and paused focus worked hundred of times > makes me open to try (some part of) it next time. > > I specially like your starting looking to the Day After....What is happening > the day after the event? Which perspectives do I see now? What has changed? > This, I´ll try next time, yes! > > It´s weird for me, anyway, to spend a 10:00-16:00 time slot in the > preparation,... and it really makes sense, the sponsors and the facilitator > start opening space in a calm and passionate way from the preparation meeting! > > Thanks so much for your wise advice and rich information pieces, > > best, > > Eleder > > > 2013/5/30 Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannw...@gmail.com> > Dear Eleder, > the core idea of the planning meeting is that its not me as facilitator to do > stuff that the sponsor of the event (and his planning group) can do > themselves. > So the first step is to find out who the sponsor is. This might sound silly, > but in real life it is often surprising that it is not clear at all. > If you find, that you yourself are the sponsor you can stop worrying and find > a facilitator for your event. > If you know you are not the sponsor and know who the sponsor is, tell him/her > that, after it is clear it is going to be an event using OST (which means the > prerequisites are in place, this must not be clear to you but the sponsor > needs to find out), that a planning group needs to gather. > This group should in some way mirror the organisation/community/group that is > expected to gather in the open space event. Usually, the planning group > consists of 5 to 20 people. > They need to be invited by the sponsor to the planning meeting. > > Ok, here is the design of the planning meeting which takes 3,5 hours either > before lunch or later in the morning with lunch as a break or in the > afternoon or early evening... preferrably in the space in which the os also > is planned > > 10:00 Break, Arriving, Coffee ….. > > > 10:30 Welcome by the sponsor who introduces the facilitator for the > following steps > > Introducing ourselves All > Introducing the agenda Facilitator > > 10:45 The Day After > What is happening on "Monday, June 17, 2013, the day after the event? > Which perspectives do I see now? What has changed? > > The group itself creates a Mindmap with their thoughts/inputs > > 11:15 My Theme for the Open Space event > Individually 3 minutes, > All announce their themes 2 minutes, > Work in subgroups 15 minutes > Reporting to the whole group 5 minutes > Weighing the Themes 10 minutes > > > Break beginning at noon > Time for a look at the large meeting room and lunch > > > 2:00 Our Theme / provisional > Characteristics of an action-orienting theme…. > A small group (3 to 5) of volunteers sit in front of the entire group > and designs the theme for the meeting, provide an extra chair for inputs > from the large group, fish-bowl style. > > 2:45 Who all needs to be at the conference? > So that the expectations expressed for the day after under the chosen > theme will actually be met > Brainstorm, identify participants essential for the process > Check the Theme, still ok? > > 3:15 Nuts and Bolts > Collect things to do > Who will take care of what? > > 3:45 How was it today > > > 4:00 End > > This design has been used hundreds of times and works with any group, even > teachers, lawyers, scientists and mixtures of them and especially well with > children and in neighborhood groups in all cultures around the globe. > > I will seperately send you a pdf documentation with pictures of a planning > meeting. > > Greetings from Berlin > mmp > > > > On 30.05.2013 16:56, Eleder_BuM wrote: > > > > Michael, you say,... > /"if they in fact meet and follow the simple design I have described on > this list."/ > / > /could you tell us more about this design? > > > Thanks so much for your attention, > > Eleder > > ____ > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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