Dear Jutta,
enjoyed reading your account!
I understand how not knowing the language helps to keep you out of the
subject and trouble!
Some of us older grumpies are blessed with horrible hearing, its about
the same effect.
Greetings to Portugal from icy Berlin
mmp
On 04.02.2012 23:16, Jutta Weimar wrote:
Dear friends and colleagues,
After two exciting Open Space days here in Lisbon we are now sitting in
the living-room near the fire (central Europe is in a real cold wave)
and rethinking our experience, drinking tea and red-wine and enjoying.....
Thanks a lot for your stories and support, we appreciated it a lot and
it helped to calm down....
And here is our little report:
Finally 16 people showed up, they formulated 19 issues and worked in 3
breakout-sessions. 12 Reports were produced. Today 14 people came and
they filled-in with 16 augmentation-forms giving commends and fresh
ideas to the reports from yesterday.
In action planning, 22 actions were proposed and 18 were retained and
planned further. There will be a follow-up meeting on April 13 th.
So the group did, what people are doing when they work and meet in Open
Space. For all but two people this was their first experience in Open
Space. During the closing. for me a as a facilitator not speaking
Portuguese it was a wonderful experience in letting go, as I was not at
all concerned about what people said (and I discovered how much I am
into the subject when facilitating in a language I understand).
In the closing circle I could feel a lot of appreciation among the group
and there was laughter and tears..... Very touching......
I am happy to have been here
Greetings to all!
Junta Weimar, Berlin
Am 31.01.2012 um 17:43 schrieb Eva P Svensson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Hi,
Yesterday I had a bigger group - around 170 people for a short OS,
there where several topics that where similar -and of course the
question came up - "shall we not combine those"... I said what I use
to say - more or less exactly what you says below Diane about my
recomendation to keep them apart, to big groups, different people have
different ideas about the same word etc - but you decide what to do.
And i guess that they decided to combine some because after a while a
man came up and said " that was not a good idea to combine those
issues..."
well well :-)
:o)
Eva
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31 jan 2012 kl. 18.23 skrev Diane Gibeault:
Hi,
One of the points of discussion I want to address is: very small
groups, people may want to combine everything that is similar and
also address all topics with everyone there in a sequential fashion.
To help the group come out of the linear paradigm and experience the
benefits of OS at least once, before they got up to go to the market
place, I make one comment that is a variation of what I generally say.
Usually I say: yes you can combine topics and yes initiators can
decide not to combine, advantages being : more air time in a smaller
group, more choice by offering same topic at a different time,...).
Then people do what they choose to do. No intervention from me as a
facilitator.
With very small groups (eg. 5 people) I add : some may be tempted to
combine everything similar and do one topic after the other. I
encourage you to first try the OS way, at least for the first round
and then each one of you can see what feels better.
It does make a difference. If they ignore that suggestion, I let go
and do nothing.
Diane
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*From:* Michael M Pannwitz <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*To:* World wide Open Space Technology email list
<[email protected]
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*Sent:* Tuesday, January 31, 2012 5:44:34 AM
*Subject:* Re: [OSList] Open Space on private Mediation in
Portugal on 3. /4. Febr. - coming soon!....
Not doing anything is mostly the most effective way to expand
time and
space for selforganisation to do its thing.
Marv and Sandra give lots of room to this stance of facilitation in
their "Don' Just Do Something, Stand There!" which has also made
its way
into German as "Einfach mal Nichts tun!"... it turns a lot of the
stuff
I used to do in my former life as an "OD consultant" upside down.
If German is your thing, grab a copy, you will find a list of
names that
gave a hand in the birthing process, among them Jutta...
Here the link to the online store of the publisher (Westkreuz)
>
http://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Kommunikation?xb9b67=b577c6d0ae9df9e49359be77c624ad89
cheers
mmp
On 30.01.2012 22:35, Birgitt Williams wrote:
> Dear Jutta,
> I will add two things to Michael's conclusions below.
> 1. when facilitating an OST meeting for a small group, be
prepared that they
> might choose to look at all the topic titles in session one,
find a creative
> way to merge them into one topic at the agenda wall, and then
stay together.
> Should this happen, don't do anything. Just stay out of the way.
> 2. they might do the same thing for the second session of the
day. What
> should you do about this? Again, nothing at all. Usually by the
third
> session, this tendency of small groups straightens itself out
if you do
> nothing.
> 3. when facilitating small groups, because it is more
challenging to be
> invisible, create the conditions for yourself as the
facilitator where you
> are not in the same room as them ie: go off to a different room
and do
> whatever you need to do to be a 'resonant energy field
generator' for their
> joyful and successful process.
>
> Birgitt Williams
> www.dalarinternational.com <http://www.dalarinternational.com>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of
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> Pannwitz
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 3:48 PM
> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
> Subject: Re: [OSList] Open Space on private Mediation in
Portugal on 3. /4.
> Febr. - coming soon!....
>
> Dear Jutta,
> on April 22, 1999 ten ladies aged 57 to 82 engaged as
volunteers in the
> work with groups of old people in protestant parishes in a
district of
> Berlin met in open space for a full day to reflect on "Issues
in my work
> with old people".
> They had never heard of open space before.
> Meeting in a venue that would have held an os for 60 people,
this event
> was facilitated and ran itself as any other event I ever was
part of.
> Participants managed their day, met in break out sessions (it
was neat
> to have a large space with all breakout sessions possible in
the corners
> of the large room) ... continuous buffet and news wall taking
place in
> the adjoining hall way...and there was action planning...
>
> on March 28, 2001 the eleven-member team for strategic planning
of the
> German Railroad Corporation met for a day to improve their
ability to
> find solutions to some pressing issues. They had never heard of
open
> space before but were desperate since other stuff they had
tried didn't
> work for them. They had a large number of issues and wanted to
deal with
> all of them as a committee of the whole. After lunch, they
restarted and
> decided to work in differently sized breakout groups, a big
step for
> them in the direction of letting go of control and trusting
each other more.
> A month later they met again to reflect on their progress and
further
> plans, all in os.
>
> On July 17 and 18, 2007 nine staff members of a small NGO with
a focus
> on adult education in Magdeburg met for 2 days in os to think
through
> their program and activities. Some of them had miserable
memories of an
> os event they were part of but most of them had never
experienced os.
> Again, it worked similarly as in the os with the ten ladies
eight years
> earlier.
>
> Looking back at these 3 events and others of similar sizue, I
find it
> worked well not to make any adjustments to the procedure.
> At the same time, your "presence" in a group of around ten
people is
> considerably larger than with 100 or even a couple of thousand
folks.
> In other words, staying "invisible" is more work and not
interfering
> with the forces of selforganisation is tougher to handle...and the
> tendency for the individuals in the group to reflect on the group
> process is larger (when a group becomes "large", which I think
starts
> with 34, it is very complex and unpredictable so that the
tendency to
> work at the level of trying to figure out the dynamics of the group
> diminishes and the focus on the issues increases).
>
> Have a great time and lets hear how it went!
>
> Cheers
> mmp
>
> On 30.01.2012 20:47, Jutta Weimar wrote:
>> Dear Open Space friends,
>>
>> Sitting at the kitchen table in our partners house in Estoril,
near
>> Lisbon / Portugal we just talked about the Open Space event
that will
>> happen here on friday and Saturday this week.
>> We met in Berlin last October, when Katian and Jose
(www.mediarcom.com <http://www.mediarcom.com>
>> <http://www.mediarcom.com <http://www.mediarcom.com/>>) came
to be part of a boscop team and
>> experienced Open Space. And here is our concern:
>> Sofar about 12 people have registered for the event and in a
way it
>> feels as this will be little. And to make a long story short:
It will be
>> very helpful, if you share stories of small-scale Open Space
events with
>> us (especially with groups unfamiliar with Open Space).
>>
>> Love to hear from you
>> thanx in advance
>>
>> Junta Weimar
>>
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