Re: Facilitator training

2000-09-26 Thread Caroline Ehmann
As a participant in this training session and a "lurker" on this listserve for the last four months it is time to jump in to the discussion. I was very much aware during the power point presentation that the material had come from other sited sources. For this I am glad as it means that Laurel wa

Re: Community-based OS Leadership Program

2000-09-26 Thread Peggy Holman
>From Viv McWaters: > I have proposed that OS underpin the program. Instead of a committee > identifying the content of the program we have a one-day community OS where > the partiocipants themselves explore what they need to build capacity in > the community - and from that, hopefully, will emerge

Re: Givens

2000-09-26 Thread Peggy Holman
>From Larry Peterson: >The sponsors' intention is a critical part of focusing a space that can be powerful during and after the gathering, >particularly in ongoing organizations. A few years ago, I was working with a planning team who wished to transform their organization (a research lab) that

Re: Facilitator training

2000-09-26 Thread Peggy Holman
Laurel, Well said. Peggy - Original Message - From: "Doersam, Laurel" To: Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 5:35 PM Subject: Re: Facilitator training > Thanks for your input, Birgitt. The powerpoint demonstration was merely an > adjunct to the discussion. In fact, the givens, as you

Re: Givens

2000-09-26 Thread Larry Peterson
Birgitt did us all a real service in articulating and clarifying the role of "givens" in creating the conditions for an Open Space event and in ongoing processes in organizations. I work with every client for Open Space (or any other whole system intervention for that matter) to clarify what the s

Re: FW: Facilitator training

2000-09-26 Thread Esther .
By the way, the song that Harrison was quoting (plagiarise, plagiarise, don't shade your eyes) was written and sung by Tom Lehrer. Esther Ewing * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the ar

Re: FW: Facilitator training

2000-09-26 Thread Harrison Owen
At 05:43 PM 9/25/00 -0700, you wrote: "You have provided here an excellent example of what I was raising in my concerns of a few weeks ago of standards, ethics, and integrity...Or the lack of." I feel a certain caution about becoming too strident about OST, which is, I believe, an essentially pl