Chris: Brilliant! It feels, to me, like it was directly channelled from open space itself... :-) Now I'm wondering... when / where might I try this too?
Thanks, Glory ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Corrigan To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 3:41 PM Subject: Action marketplace In my continuing quest to find ways to support action coming out of OST events, I put together a little thought for a client today which I thought I'd share with you folks... The conference we are doing is two days of talk and networking on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. A couple of hundred people will be coming together to discuss what they are doing and to find others interested in their work. It is a learning conference with no expectation for anything concrete, like a strategy opr a statement, but rather the importance is on maximizing face time between practitioners. Something like an OSonOS. Some of the folks on the planning committee though want to support action that does flow from the conference and they have asked for the container to hold some energy and intention for this without the conference becoming about 200 people trying to come up with one action plan. No need for prioritising or even a non-convergence type reopening of the space. I think this is a very real need and a very realistic expectation. So today we started playing with two ideas, one new and one old. The old one is to simply add to the small group summaries form a place for people to record next steps. The new idea is to create an action market place next to the news wall. This is no more complicated than a community bulletin board, in that people can feel free to post any bits and pieces of action that they want to invite others to join. The advantage of this system is that it allows a finer grain of action to come forward, so for example, while there may be some conversations that emerge in the event about what to do next, the action market place could hold much smaller pieces that would otherwise be lost. Action around a follow up conference would stand alongside an invitation to join one or two people in writing a new brochure, or meeting for coffee next week to continue a conversation. I think this approach could work in all OST gatherings, and might even be especially useful in gatherings where action planning is a part of the process. Then you end up with action planning taking the group in one large general direction, but the individual passion and responsibility for little things also in play. Cheers, Chris -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology Weblog: http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot Site: http://www.chriscorrigan.com * * * * ========================================================== [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
