more from you as it
unfolds.
Kindest regards,
Birgitt Bolton
-Original Message-
From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Ingrid
Olausson
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 4:54 AM
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Subject: A case for training
When
Who was it that said teaching is learning twice?
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Subject: Re: A case for training
Author: OSLIST at internet
Date:1/28/99 6:00 PM
When you do an Open Space there are always several participants who are so
delighted that they want to apply it themselves. Sometimes they tell you,
sometimes they just do it. You don't have a clue how good they are at holding
the space or whatever they are going to do.
I often tell the particip
Ingrid:
Great work Ingrid.
The other great thing that is happening a lot in Ontario is mentoring. My
learning has been enhanced by Birgitt supporting me (and many others) to
participate in open space meetings or to co-facilitate so that I can
consolidate my "theory" . She coaches me from the
At 10:53 AM 1/27/99 +0100, you wrote:
>When you do an Open Space there are always several participants who are so
>delighted that they want to apply it themselves. Sometimes they tell you,
>sometimes they just do it. You don't have a clue how good they are at
>holding the space or whatever they ar
It sounds like you have created a wonderful learning environment for your
group of 8 facilitators. When I did my first two Open Space events I engaged
a consultant to coach me through them. But I didn't think to have here come
to the event itself to coach me in the midst of the experience. That
Thanks to Birgitt for the clarification. In my effort to be obtuse about the
names and locations to protect the innocent and not-so-innocent, I realize that
my comments may have offended some of the many excellent OS practitioners in
the province of Ontario. My apologies if so.
I appreciat
Hello OS colleagues:
I want to share a story of my recent participation in a meeting that was billed
as open space, but was DEFINITELY a model case of not being open space. It is
an example of a person who participated in an open space event, thought it was
good, so picked and chose a couple o
