Bonjour Esther, My expericence with very small groups is very much the same as Tres. My worry is that the agenda seems crowded. In my experience, a conversation takes its time which is around 90 minutes to get to the heart of it. I understand that your group wants to have a action plan in the same meeting. I personnaly prefer that they sleep and dream on the conversation before they commit to a plan. It has a better chance to stick. Good Luck ! If you want, need, wish, you may contact me since we are neighbours Louise Brissette Ipsé, soi-même en latin +514.271.0318 leadershipcreateur.wordpress.com un leadership créateur pour une écologie du travail
Communications Esther Matte <ema...@excellence.ca> a écrit : Date : Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:29:27 -0400 De : Communications Esther Matte <ema...@excellence.ca> Objet: opening space with very small groups À : osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Hello everyone! First, let me say thank you for the wonderful learning I found in the OSList. Im new to Open Space, and even though I have yet to make my first big circle as Ted put it recently, I feel more confident thanks to you all. I may have two possible projects with very small groups (5-7 people) which is what worries me. I have participated to one OST in my experiential training with Diane Gibeault (fantastic!), and co-facilitated one with 45 people. But I simply cannot visualize how it works with as few as 5 people. How do you do this? Do you have several rounds of discussions? In separate rooms? Do people actually work by themselves and team up? Can you do it in approximately 3 hours ? (Maybe 20-30 minutes opening, 2 X 40-minutes rounds of discussion or 3 X 30-minutes, action planning and closing). I'm sure some of you have done this. I'll be meeting with the first possible group next week, and nothing is set in stone yet for the other. Any comments, suggestions, ideas or warnings will be very much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance for your time! Esther Matte Communications Esther Matte 1011, Marie-Victorin Verchères (Québec) J0L 2R0 www.excellence.ca "L'art de dire" Tél. : (450) 583-5849 Téléc. : (450) 583-3513 * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist --------------------------------- Lèche-vitrine ou lèche-écran ? Yahoo! Magasinage. * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
