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Skype: christinewhitneysanchez On Apr 10, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Chris Corrigan wrote: Michael...
One way to look at it is that there is a smell of control about the process, but when I read your note I immediately thought that the sponsor was actually opening him/herself up for more group ownership of the meaning of the event. IN other words, instead of the sponsor coming up with emergent themes, you are letting the group do that. IN my opinion,l this second level of conversation will probably create MORE ownership of the work, not less.
So I don't see a downside unless you have a time limitation. You could have the groups talk for 30 mins and come up collectively with a scheme of the major emerging themes, and then have the group sort the proceedings into these themes and have the group break up again into action planning clusters around each theme, taking an hour or so to come up with higher level learning and next steps on the themes and the topics within them.
That night be one way to go.
Chris
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Michael M Pannwitz <[email protected]> wrote: Dear Michael Wood,
why do I sense and smell control?
Is it because it does not feel like an Open Space (real business issue, decision time of yesterday, providing time and space for passion and responsibility to unfold in an environment of selforganisation, etc.)?
Is it that I as participant would want to have more of a say in what will happen rather than just passing on my ideas and then being put in a feedback-loop to see how my input was used to shape policy?
Is it that I wonder why I am invíted to make an input and not to actually be involved in shaping policy?
Is it that from my experience I know that convergence "old style" (voting, dots, Delphi, families of issues)is a low energy drag since it focuses on "themes" rather than "issues" or "projects" and does not allow the rich potential for action to unfold?
Is it that I feel that neither themes nor actions need converging but that there simply needs to be action planning on stuff people feel passionate about?
Sorry for not having an answer or thoughts on alternatives.
Greetings from Berlin
mmp Michael Wood wrote: I am doing an Open Space in a couple of weeks for about a hundred
people in Health Care around the issues of workforce flexibility and
structuring.
The output will not so much be action plans as the raising of key
themes and issues which need to be taken into account by policy
makers within the Health Department. This has been communicated in
the invitation and will be highlighted again in the Sponsor's
introduction/welcome. We have also discussed feedback-loop
communications after the event so that people can see how their input
was used to shape policy.
The sponsor believes (as do I) that it could be useful to invite the
group into some preliminary `first cut' analysis of emerging themes
as a 'convergence' activity. I am wondering how to do this is way
which is somewhat more conversational than the "red dot" system.
I quite like the World Cafe convergence question "what do you see as
being patterns, themes and emerging questions?", and was thinking of
a convergence process which would involve some individual reading
time of group reports, then asking people to self organise into
groups/circles of 4 people to discuss that question for half an hour
or so, then pass the indian talking stick/microphone around to invite
reflections from each group.
Could this `mixing' of processes (OST and World Cafe) have any
downsides I am not seeing? Any thoughts on this idea or alternative
ways of converging where it's themes rather than action that need
converging?
Michael Wood
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