Martin - You wrote: <1 1/2 day OS coming up .... the client wants to prioritise and draw out concrete recommendations during that time. My thought was to have 4 sessions (on 'provision of health and social services to new communities'), browse the gallery and do a sticky-dot convergence, and then re-open for a 5th session on theme of drawing out specific recommendations (in this case on official policy and services regarding health and social services ). Do you think this can work in this short time? (3 hours day one and 6 hours day two)????>
So to my mind the length of time is okay, but as for the design - partly it depends on who the participants are and in what capacity they are sharing all of this good rich thinking. Are they an advisory group, or the group of people that holds the responsibility for getting things done post-event? If they are advising someone else on what are issues that matter to people like them, I suppose it would work to have them hold sessions, then 'sticky-dot converge' (to inform the sponsor of something you can rephrase and put to them for their dotting), then think of recommendations in groups and write those up for the sponsor. But if they are the people whose job it is to carry the actions forward, I would NOT converge - merely re-open the space for the last session (after some time for them all to read the 'gallery' of session notes posted on the wall) to ask them what actions and recommendations they want to work on and carry forth. Maybe with a little action planning worksheet to document topic, who's interested, what is their contact information and next time of meeting, who will invite whomever's needed for that meeting...whatever. No reason to 'prioritize' to see a pattern if you will really see what has energy by inviting people to champion what matters to them to carry forward. Thoughts from a cloudy afternoon in Berkeley, Lisa ___________________________ L i s a H e f t Consultant, Facilitator, Educator O p e n i n g S p a c e 2325 Oregon Berkeley, California 94705-1106 USA +01 510 548-8449 [email protected] www.openingspace.net * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
