What if when participants co-created the Agenda in the morning you
said 'and now we are about to start our sessions - if you have a topic
that comes up for you, you can certainly post it - but realize it will
not get this same kind of focus as it will at this moment.' (same
thought as Harrison) - then to me, all is solved. Occasionally someone
will put up a new topic sign for later in the day (so more people can
see it) and otherwise they carry these sudden new ideas into their
conversations later in the day without making a specific topic on the
wall. In addition it is to me essential not to squish or rush the time
for Agenda creation / opening, so that the reflective thinkers get to
come forward with topics - not just the quick-responders.
Consider if your wanting to bring the focus back to full group after
lunch - to have them do an afternoon Agenda or ask them if they want
to add anything to the Agenda - everyone listening at once - is...
- an intervention (intervening ... why?)
- an interruption into the layering of their thinking across the day
- your 'helping' when no help is needed - when they are perfectly
capable of doing what they need to do / posting some sessions,
carrying the idea for new thoughts inside them throughout other sessions
- a projection of your or your client's anxiety that they won't do
'enough'
- taking the responsibility for their productivity away from them
Just some thoughts. I am not saying 'don't do it!' - I am saying for
any single thing you do in a participant-driven dialogue environment -
Open Space or any other method - think not just of what something you
are thinking of doing / changing / adapting / adding will bring. Think
about what it will shift, move, offset. It is a living system so the
things we do or do not do have seen and unseen affects. In some cases
increasing productivity, thought, and communication, in some cases
impacting / decreasing productivity, thought and communication.
The best part: if you feel clearly that something would help, and you
have asked yourself why you are adding this, and thinking it through,
and you still feel strongly that you should do it - try it! And share
the story with us of what you saw / noticed / felt / observed. And
through your passion and through your exploration, we all learn.
Lisa
Register now for the Fabulous Facilitation Conference!
March 6-8, 2013 - San Francisco
On Feb 21, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Kári Gunnarsson wrote:
I was talking with a client one time, and he suggested that we open
the marketplace in the morning for discussion that were to happen only
the first half of that morning, then after lunch we open the
marketplace again and then only for the discussion that were to happen
for the rest of that day, this repeated for the following day as well.
I talked him out of it, and we did one marketplace
event at the start of day one for all the time we ad and little to
none new material was added in the morning of the second day.
Now in retrospect I would like to experience the energy of having a
new marketplace after lunch, opening the time after lunch for that
market only.
with love from Iceland,
Kári
On 21 February 2013 11:51, paul levy <[email protected]> wrote:
This also brings to mind one aspect of Open Space that might be worth
reflecting on.
Open Space Events begin with a marketplace - a wonderful rush of
self-organising energy that results in a "programme" - often a
packed one,
set up for the whole day ahead (if it is a one-dayer). Often this
programme
remains fairly fixed and little if any new sessions are added to it
over the
day(even when there is a coming back together, say after lunch to
re-open
the market place).
Yet what happens over the day is that the sessions evolve. The day
emerges.
The process develops. The content morphs.
So, why not keep the market place open all day? (It often kind of
is at some
of the OS events I have participated in though often there is a
feeling in
the room that the programme bit was done at the start and there it
is ). Why
not allow that flow to flow wherever it does? Why Open and Close the
marketplace at all? One less thing to do? - keep it open! I'm sure
the
self-organising spirit will find good ways to announce new and
emerging
sessions throughout the day without too much tinkering from the
facilitator.
Many of these new sessions will evolve out of earlier ones, many
may start
to focus on action, and some may be magically tangential.
I've seen it done well and facilitated it a few times.
Then we get to this magical place called END where we find out what
the
agenda WAS! That agenda then tends to feel more alive, still
living, and can
often have a "what next" feel about it.
That, for me, is the perfect Open Space agenda - the one that only
reveals
itself at the end - as the thing that happened out of opening the
space for
self-organisation.
warm wishes
Paul Levy
On 21 February 2013 05:12, Raffi Aftandelian <[email protected]>
wrote:
Dearest Open Space and Genuine Contact friends-
I wanted to share a blog post written by Rosa Zubizarreta. It is a
fresh
take- to me, at least- at the idea of a meeting agenda. I believe
the post
has interesting implications and sparks new questions whatever our
practice
is as a facilitator.
I really enjoy Rosa's take on process arts. As a longtime
practitioner of
Focusing and Dynamic Facilitation (along with being a
psychotherapist), she
has brought together both theory and practice in her writing on
group
dynamics. I also admire that she explores the intersections- the
space
between- the different process arts communities of practice.
(interestingly her last name means "House on a Bridge")
here is the post:
http://rosaz.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/easing-shifts-in-group-dynamics-with-a-new-twist-on-the-conventional-agenda
much warmth,
raffi
_______________________________________________
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
_______________________________________________
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
--
Kári Gunnarsson
[email protected]
gsm: +354 8645189
_______________________________________________
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
_______________________________________________
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
