Tanks a lot for this sharing. We can feel the dynamics inside the exercise.
I facilitate an open space with 200 people in a few days. I'll surely share on the list ! Sb Le 23 nov. 2011 06:07, "Rob van der Eyden" < [email protected]> a écrit : > Hello all,**** > > ** ** > > I still wanted to share some of my experiences in the Open Space I > facilitated a couple a weeks ago. The event was a ‘Veranderdiner’ > (Changediner) that we organize a couple a times a year for a network of > people interested in behavioral change. Topic this time was: ‘What can I do > to make the world a better place?’. About 20 people showed up.**** > > ** ** > > We had positive reactions on the event, lively conversations, new people > met. Valuable experience gained in facilitating an Open Space. All good. > About the Open Space ‘technique’:**** > > **· **We asked the participants to set up the circle of chairs > for them self. Worked really well.**** > > **· **The agenda we had lying on floor in the middle of the > circle. After a short introduction, I asked the participants for their > topics / sessions. Lot of (very diverse) topics were raised, each put an a > paper. Each paper was put somewhere at the agenda, but mostly not at a > specific location / timeslot. That was probably because I did not put > post-its on the agenda, that could be taken by everyone that wanted to host > a session (so will do that next time). So we ended with a stack of topics > suggested to be discussed, but no agenda yet…**** > > **· **So on to ‘signing up’: based on the discussion on the OS > List, I decided to ask the participants to sign up for the topics they were > interested in by putting their name on that paper. Result? Nobody did that, > but the buzz did certainly get going. And probably a bit different than it > should, because we did not have clear topics assigned to location/timeslot. > I ‘managed to’ leave it to the group to figure it out. There were some > participants that started trying to organize the whole thing (“let’s do it > like this…”), but in some way several groups formed about some topics > (which were probably all different from the ones posted in the first run) > and they got to work and have a good time.**** > > **· **I did feel some struggle within me during the event. Before > we got started one of the participants told me about a (to me very good and > clear) topic he wanted to discuss, but for some reason he did not raise it > in the group, but chose to raise another topic (to me very vague). I felt > some regret, decided to let it go, but when another topic related topic > came up, I did make a reference. That went nowhere, so probably I should > have stayed out in the first place. Later when I listened in to some of the > conversations, I got the feeling that some participants were more involved > than others, so I started wondering ‘why don’t they use their 2 feet?’ and > ‘should I remind them about that possibility?’ I did not. Any other > experiences on that? I had the idea that participants still feel it as not > done / not polite to leave a session… Guess I am still trying to find the > balance letting the group do it themselves and trying to influence / taking > care of the participants **** > > **· **We closed with a nice ‘talking stick’ closing circle with > warm reactions. **** > > ** ** > > So probably I did not do it all by the book, but still I look back to a > great event and am looking forward to try again ;-)**** > > ** ** > > Again: thank you all for sharing your thoughts on signing up earlier.**** > > ** ** > > Best regards, Rob **** > > ** ** > > *Van:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *Namens *Rob van der Eyden > *Verzonden**:* dinsdag 8 november 2011 21:30 > *Aan:* 'World wide Open Space Technology email list' > *Onderwerp:* Re: [OSList] Signing up for sessions**** > > ** ** > > Wow! How good to see how ‘alive’ this open space community is. Thank you > all for all your valuable thoughts on signing up. I will try to find my way > based on your suggestions and I will share my experiences with you > afterwards.**** > > ** ** > > Best regards, Rob**** > > De Veranderarchitect B.V.**** > > Rob A.I. van der Eyden > *"Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilerating when it is > done by us" (K. Moss Kanter)* > Parkietstraat 30, 1171 HV Badhoevedorp > *M*: +31 (0)6 512 72 127 > [email protected] > www.veranderarchitect.nl**** > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > >
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