Dear Eleder,
great you asked, I did not report on my procedere clear enough.
Here it goes:
For the contact meeting where you assist the sponsor in finding out
whether prerequisites for Open Space are met it is important to have the
sponsor(s) (decider(s)) present (all the people that have a say in
whether this approach should be followed)...
When it is clear that OST is the way to go the sponsor installs a
Planning Group which decides on Theme, Invitation etc. and it should be
composed of people that the sponsor is interested in having at the event
(this in a way will represent the system but only at that point in time,
the Planning Group will come up with a more complete picture of the
whole system which is important for the invitation). For healthcare you
might try to have people from hospitals, the insurance business,
patients, doctors, nurses, midwives, outreach people, people from local
government, scientists, pharmacies,... the list can become very
long...in my experience there have been Planning Groups of 6 all the way
up to 35.
At the contact meeting there might be 3 to 8 people, usually around 5...
this is not a contract meeting just a service for the sponsor to find
out (and for me as facilitator also to find out) whether he wants to go
with ost. Even if I am approached by a sponsor with the clear message
that he wants OST, I suggest/insists on a contact meeting (usually 1,5
hours) to get the prerequisites discussion (in a way the sponsor has to
convince me that the prerequisites are in place or how they can be met).
I charge no fee for the contact meeting (just reimbursment for travel
etc.) and suggest that no decision is taken at the meeting itself but
that both sponsor and I sleep twice and then have the next contact...
Good luck with the healthcare project!
Cheers
mmp
On 28.06.2012 14:23, Eleder_BuM wrote:
Hi, I´m liking to follow this conversation. Thanks all!
I share Robyn´s concern with /Under-representation of women/ (and
probably other collectives if we refine our observation)...
Another issue: I just received an invitation to facilitate an Open Space
on healthcare and this conversation makes me doubt..
...do we really need to meet a "small group that would represent the
whole system" for the first meeting or
...would the meeting with the sponsor(s)/the one(s) who cares be enough
to decide if Open Space suits, fix the theme and draft the invitation
(and sure, then try through the invitation process to attract the
participation of the whole system)?
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*Eleder
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2012/6/27 Michael M Pannwitz <mmpa...@boscop.org
<mailto:mmpa...@boscop.org>>
I would ask that powerful sponsor to invite me to a contact meeting
with a small group that would represent the whole system he is
inviting (an actress, a statesman, an artist, a criminal, someone
dead for a long time, someone recently died, a scientist...) to see
whether the 5 preconditions for an open space are in place.
Once that were clear and they still want me as facilitator, I would
ask the sponsor to convene a planning meeting to come to an
agreement on such important matters as the "theme" (I certainly
would not propose one as I never do) and to draft an invitation
(which I certainly would not offer to draft myself as I never do).
About my fee? 0,0001% of the damage or good the participants were
responsible for in their lives.
cheers
mmp
On 26.06.2012 21:51, JL Walker wrote:
And since I have been taking flight with my participation in
this list,
let me now invite everyone to participate in the following playful
exercise (which I think could be interesting).
First of all please go to the following page:
http://cliptank.com/ab/__PeoplePainting2.htm
<http://cliptank.com/ab/PeoplePainting2.htm>
(Take note that you can place the cursor on each person for
knowing who
is, and that if you want you can make click on it for being
redirected
to its biography in Wikipedia).
Imagine now that you are contacted by a magical and powerful sponsor
that can makes all these people to be alive again and that ask
it to you
to facilitate an open space with all them.
First, you would accept to do it?
Second, how do you think the invitation and the theme (or
question) for
this incredible event should be?
I'm eager to hear your responses.
Juan Luis
www.cdic.cl <http://www.cdic.cl> <http://www.cdic.cl>
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