Larry and the others with you! I can feel your excitement all across the pond! Greetings from Berlin mmp
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 11:52:33 -0500, Larry Peterson wrote: >Yesterday, March 6, a major non-profit housing provider in Toronto held >a one day session with 5 simultaneous OSTs in one large room. (May be a >record, I don't know.) The groups were 150, 85, 85, 45 and 45 >participants in size. There were 5 themes, 5 sets of "sponsors", 5 >circles and breakout areas, 5 OST facilitators, 5 convergence >processes. Judy Gast and I were the leads for Starfield consulting who >planned the "content" part and worked with their logistics teams under >the oversight of a broader Planning Committee. We all did the planning >in about 6 weeks. > >I won't tell the whole story here as it will take a while to digest but >here are a few points that might interest you. The March 6 event was a >follow-up OST after a previous event for 360 tenants and staff last >October. That was one event, one circle and one convergence in 1.5 >days. We did that convergence by voting and then people met in their >local units. These were Tenant representatives elected to each of 27 >new clusters of housing complexes. (There are 139,000 tenants in all.) >They were staff involved in managing and supporting the new local >housing clusters. They are moving toward more local management of the >housing clusters with active elected tenant councils and managers >accountable for the plan for each cluster. > >The October meeting produced six clear do-its for priority attention by >the organization. Substantial progress has been made on all six. It >also identified 5 key areas for further conversation: Safety, >Maintenance, Tenant & Staff Relations, Human Rights & Equity and Youth >Initiatives. There were top voted topics in those categories but the >"next steps" were not as clear as needed. > >So, after some planning struggles, the committee decided to engage us >again to help them have the next steps discussions - with about 6 weeks >to plan. > >So, we prepared the overall approach with the Planning Committee, and >then worked to develop 5 sets of background framing, givens, parameters >for action with the staff and tenant leads for each group. That also >meant working with their logistics committees for setting up the >previously booked room for 5 events in a previously determined one day >short time frame 10-3:30. > >Starfied found 3 other facilitators plus Judy and I - Sharon King (who >is Starfield), Meg Salter and Becky Peterson (who lives with me). We >got them up to speed on the background and into meetings with the leads >for their theme group. > >Even with some sound problems - each circle had its own sound system in >one huge room - I believe it went very well. Each of the 5 OST's had >great discussions on their theme, came up with some good ideas for going >further, set some priorities for attention and had volunteers ready lead >some ongoing initiatives. But, it was the conversations that were >exiting with tenant and staff working together to lead and record. It >was fun, hard work and the energy at the end was remarkable when we all >a came together for a quick thank you from the CEO (who was there for >the whole thing). > >Someday, the whole story will be put together - with video, digital >pictures, etc. - but I wanted to let you know that its possible to have >5 at one time in the same room. > >Larry > >Larry Peterson >Associates in Transformation >Toronto, ON, Canada >416.653.4829 > >[email protected] >www.spiritedorg.com > >* >* >========================================================== >[email protected] >------------------------------ >To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, >view the archives of [email protected], >Visit: > >http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html Michael M Pannwitz boscop Draisweg 1 12209 Berlin, Germany FON +49 - 30-772 8000 FAX +49 - 30-773 92 464 www.michaelmpannwitz.de www.openspace-landschaft.de An der E-Gruppe "openspacedeutsch" für deutschsprechende open space-PraktikerInnen interessiert? Enfach eine mail an mich. * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
