[OSList] OST Training Design

2013-11-27 Thread Michael Wood
Hi Diane, Very helpful suggestions - thankyou. All the reasons you propose make perfect sense to me and I'll think about trying your approach for the next program and see what happens. The modelling aspect is important. And yet I wonder if that is part of the ambiguity that the facilitator ha

Re: [OSList] OST Training

2013-11-27 Thread Gijs Mega
Thank you for you for giving me something to chew on Harrison. I will let you know what I did and how it worked out. Gijs On 2013-11-27, at 23:12, "Harrison Owen" wrote: > Giijs -- What you propose could be an interesting experiment, but based on a > similar (not the same) situation, I am n

Re: [OSList] OST Training

2013-11-27 Thread Lisa Heft
Hi, all - My workshop is a little different than some of yours because it visits a lot of elements in an arc of learning around the experience, the theme, examples of trusting the process and not intervening, using OS in different situations such as multiple-language or 3000+ person groups, explo

Re: [OSList] waveriding in Oz / OST training

2013-11-27 Thread Diane Gibeault
Hi Michael, For two reasons, I modified day-1 training as you describe it. I now invite the group (an already existing group) to propose in advance topics for a theme, either at a meeting or by group emails. With the sponsor and a couple of volunteers (as would an organizing committee) the pref

Re: [OSList] waveriding in Oz / Stories

2013-11-27 Thread Harrison Owen
Hege ... Stories are wonderful, and as I have remarked, We are the stories we tell. So telling stories and hearing the stories of others is critical to a deepened understanding of self and community. Not to bore you with a lot of reading, but if you want more on my understanding of the power of sto

Re: [OSList] OST Training

2013-11-27 Thread Harrison Owen
Giijs -- What you propose could be an interesting experiment, but based on a similar (not the same) situation, I am not sure you would really like the results. By doing a little Open Space every day, I think there are two likely outcomes. It could be that the OS experience is so dominant that it es

Re: [OSList] Anyone from Estonia here?

2013-11-27 Thread Ben Roberts
Hmmm… I’ve become interested in Estonia too of late, because of their amazing “Let’s Do It” campaign, which has launched a global movement: http://youtu.be/A5GryIDl0qY Peace, Ben Ben Roberts The Conversation Collaborative www. ConversationCollaborative.com <

Re: [OSList] waveriding in Oz

2013-11-27 Thread Hege Steinsland
Thank you so much Michael, for this long and detailed reply. It s a gift! You`ve given me another gift in your article about Christian leadership, Theology and emergence. I`ve really learnt a lot from that! In this article you describe Open space and dialog circle as two very helpful and rich way