Re: [OSList] metaphorum: a clean language one-day online gathering

i can think of two ways to spin grief and loss, paul. one is in the moment of realizing, when it occurs to someone that they've been in a box. the loss of what didn't happen. the second is when folks 'get it' right away and then have to deal with letting go or maybe choosing between this newly

Re: [OSList] metaphorum: a clean language one-day online gathering

Michael It isn't my experience nor the experience of an increasing number of people i am meeting. An emerging generation, loaded with hope and readiness. They don't unlearn. They remember gently and quickly what they always knew. They can be 80 or 90 years old. And they don't unlearn because

Re: [OSList] Accessibility concerns about bending down to pick up paper/pens

Hi, Harold! This is important. I've also encountered it as a gender bias issue--if you're wearing a short skirt or dress, you might not want to bend over in front of the group, and so you'll feel uncomfortable about fully participating. My easy solution: If it's a seated opening, I reserve one

Re: [OSList] metaphorum: a clean language one-day online gathering

Dear Paul, for myself, it was like a new lease on life opening up grand perspectives to unlearn my decades old OD-facilitation modes. Right, it should have been connected with grief but it was not. At the time, back in 1996, I did not consciously realize that I was unlearning anything... I

Re: [OSList] metaphorum: a clean language one-day online gathering

I've finally realised what's been bugging me. It's the idea that unlearning facilitation is often a step of huge grief. It somehow needs three days of facilitation Etc. I beg to differ. The human soul needs only to open space for its own unlearning. Do we not believe we can invite those who

Re: [OSList] metaphorum: a clean language one-day online gathering

Here are the first few lines of what Judy Rees says about Clean Language: "...if you’re interested in understanding people, how they think and how they change, you’ll want to know about Clean Language. It’s an impressively versatile tool for finding out out what people are really thinking and

Re: [OSList] metaphorum: a clean language one-day online gathering

that's pretty much the point of clean language, harrison... letting the native speaker(s) tell their story. or, said another way, it's the practice of finding one more thing to not say. it ain't the magic invitation bullet, but it is an interesting view. -- Michael Herman Michael Herman

Re: [OSList] metaphorum: a clean language one-day online gathering

Clean Language! Sounds a little suspect to me. But walking the talk, and talking the walk is definitely what it (real invitation) is all about. Doing all of that is not something you will learn in a “facilitation” class. Actually, don’t even try. Find a native speaker. ho Winter Address

[OSList] metaphorum: a clean language one-day online gathering

there's something interesting happening that some of us might want to join on september 9th. i don't think it's been mentioned here yet. i first heard about "clean language" from harold shinsato. it seems useful in our conversations with sponsors about invitations, to help us work with their

Re: [OSList] University training for Open Space Technology?

The problem with a university level course in facilitation is that our standard ideas of "facilitation" are usually the first things that needs to be unlearned when learning how to do Dialogic works for emergence, self organization and participation. Most facilitation program taught within

Re: [OSList] University training for Open Space Technology?

and at the end of the day, an invitation is issued, we sit in a circle, create an agenda and get to work. Alan Halford & Associates Open Space Technology Aficionados Mediation and Conflict Transformation Facilitators www.alanhalford.com.au 0421 475 252 skype:

Re: [OSList] University training for Open Space Technology?

I like Karl's idea of MA in Facilitation, or similar. I think there is space in the market place for this.I would imagine that OS would play a big part of this. Alongside there could also be elements of other OD/Change/Transformation processes such as World Café, Future Search, Appreciative

Re: [OSList] University training for Open Space Technology?

A masters in facilitation would be more specific I guess within which ost would be an element . It would fall more neatly into the requirements of formal masters study. With regard to more radical approaches I like the idea of ost for co construction of learning/ learning design or even

Re: [OSList] University training for Open Space Technology?

Sounds like a plan... Or a PhD :-) Sent by iPhone Karl Royle Head of Enterprise and Commercial Development Faculty of Education Health and Wellbeing University of Wolverhampton 01902323006 07815416698 @karlroyle. On Twitter Karlr61 Skype

Re: [OSList] University training for Open Space Technology?

What a great question! So if a Masters is one year of theory and practice, then the design would need to create the minimal structure needed to support their learning, unlearning, practice, etc... maybe the pre-Masters programme could be an OST on designing the programme! However a Masters in